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Toward a green nightly rehearsal (#434, #427, #383): one production fix at the flip boundary plus two rehearsal-harness changes.

Context

The nightly has been red since Aug 23. Aug 23–29 was the v044 assertion staleness #478 fixed (all five cells, left: 44, right: 43 — confirmed in run 33252304665's logs). The Aug 30 run (33314091717), the first past those assertions, failed test_migrate_first_deadline_rescue_resumes_with_current_leader at the pre-handoff assert: the expired compact claim was already Retryable ~1s after expiry, before the cell started any current runtime.

What this PR does

1. storage::flip_ring_authority retries when it loses a deadlock race (production; review feedback).
Under scripts/repro-rehearsal-contention.sh (1 of 15 full-suite iterations), the flip died with SQLSTATE 40P01: flip_ring_authority's claim_ring_slots write deadlocked against a concurrent claim_ready_runtime call. The flip runs under live traffic by design; PostgreSQL picks a victim, the flip's single atomic transaction rolls back whole, and re-running re-evaluates the refusal gate from scratch. The wrapper — behind awa storage flip-ring-authority and the maintenance auto-flip — now retries only 40P01, bounded with the same backoff shape migrations::run adopted at its atomic boundary (#433). Refusals and every other error still return immediately. The signature narrows from a generic executor to &PgPool (every in-repo caller already passed a pool; the retry needs a re-executable connection source). Per review discussion, the test-only 3-arg freshness override stays out of the public API — in operator hands it would flip past a live pre-flip fleet, the exact thing the gate refuses — so the rehearsal's stale-heartbeat helper keeps its raw-SQL variant and applies the same bounded retry around it.

2. The rehearsal's stale-heartbeat flip helper retries the same race.
Same policy around the freshness-window variant the tests use; refusals and other errors still fail the cell.

3. Preserve rescue-writer evidence when the deadline cell fails (Aug 30 mode, not yet reproduced).
The failing assert destroyed the evidence of which path rescued the claim. What can be established: load_job reports Retryable over an open compact claim only once a deferred_jobs row exists for the same run_lease, so the writer had read the claim ledger — and the released 0.6.3 worker's own sweeps provably cannot (its receipt rescue scans only the row-local lease_claims children per the v0.6.3 source; its canonical UPDATE awa.jobs sweep raises 0A000 under active queue storage). Before failing, the cell now dumps the deferred row (errors/attempt/run_lease), row-local closures, and batch closure outcomes — covering the attempt invariant too, per CodeRabbit — so a recurrence names its writer in the job log. The dump queries were validated against a live schema.

Validation

  • 12/12 filtered iterations of the deadline cell under 2-core pinning (pre-change baseline).
  • 15 full five-cell iterations: 14 pass, 1 reproduces the flip deadlock above.
  • 12/12 full five-cell iterations with the harness changes in place.
  • Wrapper change: cargo build --workspace, cargo clippy --workspace, cargo fmt --check clean; test_flip_reconciles_ledgers_and_fences_old_cursor_updates and test_flip_gate_blocks_on_fresh_null_version_runtime pass (refusal/force semantics unchanged); a further 8-iteration full-suite contention soak is running and I'll report its result on this PR.
  • All rehearsal runs against the released awa-pg==0.6.3 wheel, matching the release gate's pinned N-1.

https://claude.ai/code/session_019qZh23q9cPPXUtAoPhpfgc

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…ll fails

The migrate-first deadline cell failed once in CI (nightly run 33314091717,
#434) with the expired compact claim already Retryable at the pre-handoff
assert — something rescued it before the current leader existed, and the
bare assert_eq destroyed the evidence of which path did. load_job only
reports Retryable for a job whose open compact claim is superseded by a
deferred_jobs row carrying the same run_lease, so the writer had read the
claim ledger; its identity is recoverable from the deferred row's errors
and attempt plus any closure outcome. Dump those rows before panicking so
the next occurrence is self-diagnosing. No behavior change on the passing
path.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019qZh23q9cPPXUtAoPhpfgc
…ock race

Reproduced under scripts/repro-rehearsal-contention.sh (1 of 15 full-suite
iterations): the binary-first cell's flip_after_released_heartbeats_stale
died with SQLSTATE 40P01 — flip_ring_authority's claim_ring_slots update
deadlocked against a live claim_ready_runtime call. The cell runs the flip
under current traffic on purpose, so losing this race is a designed
possibility: PostgreSQL picks a victim, the flip's transaction rolls back
whole, and re-running it re-evaluates the refusal gate from scratch.
Retry bounded on exactly 40P01 with the same backoff shape migrations::run
uses at its atomic boundary (#433); refusals and every other error still
fail the cell.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019qZh23q9cPPXUtAoPhpfgc
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The rolling upgrade rehearsal tests now retry transient deadlocks during authority flips. The deadline-rescue test also reports related job and lease-closure database rows before asserting the claim state.

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Rolling upgrade rehearsal tests

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Test retry and rescue diagnostics
awa/tests/rolling_upgrade_rehearsal_test.rs
flip_after_released_heartbeats_stale retries SQLSTATE 40P01 failures with exponential backoff. The deadline-rescue test prints deferred job and lease-closure data when the claim is not Running.

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And taught five tries before they stop.
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Comment thread awa/tests/rolling_upgrade_rehearsal_test.rs
claude added 2 commits August 31, 2026 16:10
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The guard fired only on the state mismatch, so a failure of the very next
assertion (attempt == 1 while still Running) would panic without the
deferred/closure dump. Cover both invariants.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019qZh23q9cPPXUtAoPhpfgc
…race

The flip runs while the current fleet keeps claiming — by design — so
awa.flip_ring_authority's claim_ring_slots writes can lose a PostgreSQL
deadlock cycle (SQLSTATE 40P01) against a concurrent claim_ready_runtime
call; the release-gate rehearsal reproduced exactly this under 2-core
contention. The server-side function is one atomic transaction, so the
detected deadlock rolls back whole and re-running re-evaluates the refusal
gate from scratch. storage::flip_ring_authority — behind
`awa storage flip-ring-authority` and the maintenance auto-flip — now
retries only that error, bounded with the same backoff shape
migrations::run uses at its own atomic boundary. Refusals and every other
error still return immediately. The signature narrows from a generic
executor to &PgPool: every in-repo caller already passed a pool, and the
retry needs a re-executable connection source.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019qZh23q9cPPXUtAoPhpfgc
@hardbyte hardbyte changed the title test(rehearsal): harden the release-gate rehearsal against lost concurrency races Harden the ring-authority flip and release-gate rehearsal against lost concurrency races Aug 31, 2026
@hardbyte hardbyte added the full-ci Run the full CI matrix (Python build+test, E2E) on this PR label Aug 31, 2026 — with Claude

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Validation complete on the widened scope: the 8-iteration full-suite contention soak (all five rehearsal cells, 2-core pinning, released awa-pg==0.6.3 wheel) passed 8/8 on 124d38f with the production flip_ring_authority retry in place. Cumulative rehearsal evidence this investigation: 12/12 filtered deadline-cell iterations, 15 full iterations reproducing the flip deadlock once pre-fix, 12/12 with the harness fixes, and now 8/8 with the wrapper change.

One CI note for the merge decision: the sharded Rust suite runs on PRs only with the full-ci label. I've added the label, but GitHub doesn't re-deliver the event for an already-completed run, so it takes effect on the next push to this branch — otherwise the full suite runs on main immediately after merge (push event), as this repo is configured to do. The directly-affected tests (test_flip_reconciles_ledgers_and_fences_old_cursor_updates, test_flip_gate_blocks_on_fresh_null_version_runtime) pass locally against the new signature, alongside a clean workspace build, clippy, and fmt.


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