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perf(server): hourly outbox pruning no longer scans every retained effect - #28751
Every hour the server prunes settled outbox effects older than 7 days. No index covers completed_at, so SQLite picks the claim index on status alone. It walks every succeeded or cancelled effect still inside the 7-day window and reads each row to check its completion time. Nearly all of those rows are kept, so the work grows with retained history. Because the scan runs inside the prune DELETE, it holds the database write lock the whole time.
Change
A new migration adds a partial index on (status, completed_at) limited to status IN ('succeeded', 'cancelled'), matching the prune query's filter. The prune now seeks straight to the expired rows through a covering index. The query, retention window, batch size and statuses are unchanged, and no shipped migration is edited.
Alternatives I measured and rejected:
A partial index on completed_at alone: SQLite still picks the claim index, so it adds cost with no gain.
A full (status, completed_at) index: it is chosen, but it also captures the status IN ('pending', 'running') recovery query and is written on every pending and running transition.
The partial index changes no other query plan: claim, next-claimable, recovery and thread-deletion cleanup keep their current indexes.
Scope and approval
This is a focused performance fix with no behavior change. It only adds an index for an existing reader, the hourly prune, so I submitted it without a prior issue or discussion. Finished-outbox pruning came from #16247; this PR leaves its policy untouched.
Verification
The existing prune test in FoundationPersistence.test.ts runs EXPLAIN QUERY PLAN on the prune statement it actually executes and requires USING COVERING INDEX orchestration_v2_effect_outbox_settled_completed_idx (status=? AND completed_at<?). At bffd87d without migration 83 it fails with USING INDEX orchestration_v2_effect_outbox_claim_idx (status=?); with it, it passes.
vp test run on that file, reconcileV2PreviewMigration.test.ts and src/persistence/Migrations: 100 tests passed. vp run check:changed 21a9aa1d79 at bffd87d passed.
Real server run. Main started on an empty data directory; I added a new git project, ran two Replay (dev) turns with t3 thread start --wait and stopped it. This branch then opened a copy of that database and applied only 83_SettledEffectPruneIndex. Each server's trace records the prune running at startup. The plan is the prune's source SQL, unchanged, with a new seven-day cutoff and limit 500, read-only on each stopped database.
-- last migration
82 | TurnItemConversationIndex
-- prune statements in the server trace: 1
at 2026-11-11T21:30:04.055Z: Success
-- EXPLAIN QUERY PLAN (cutoff now-7d, LIMIT 500)
SEARCH orchestration_v2_effect_outbox USING INTEGER PRIMARY KEY (rowid=?)
LIST SUBQUERY 1
SEARCH orchestration_v2_effect_outbox USING INDEX orchestration_v2_effect_outbox_claim_idx (status=?)
CREATE BLOOM FILTER
-- last migration
83 | SettledEffectPruneIndex
-- prune statements in the server trace: 1
at 2026-11-11T21:30:47.432Z: Success
-- EXPLAIN QUERY PLAN (cutoff now-7d, LIMIT 500)
SEARCH orchestration_v2_effect_outbox USING INTEGER PRIMARY KEY (rowid=?)
LIST SUBQUERY 1
SEARCH orchestration_v2_effect_outbox USING COVERING INDEX orchestration_v2_effect_outbox_settled_completed_idx (status=? AND completed_at<?)
CREATE BLOOM FILTER
On an empty data directory, bffd87d applied migrations 1 to 83 and gives the same plan.
Synthetic benchmark, outside the server: a file database in WAL mode with the shipped outbox schema and its three indexes. It has no sqlite_stat1, since Sqlite.ts deletes it. Rows went through the real insert, claim and settle sequence. Main and this branch ran in the same process on one machine (Apple Silicon, Node 26.13, SQLite 3.54). The first row is the median of 51 runs of the prune's expired-row selection; the backlog and migration timings are single runs.
Retained settled effects
10k (main → PR)
100k (main → PR)
Expired-row selection with nothing expired
1.36 ms → 0.002 ms
16.9 ms → 0.002 ms
Prune of one hour of expired rows (58 / 583)
2.10 ms → 0.42 ms
21.9 ms → 2.75 ms
Database size
8.85 MB → 9.34 MB (+5.5%)
88.9 MB → 93.6 MB (+5.4%)
Each effect's insert, claim and succeed cost a median 112.5 µs on main and 118.6 µs with the index, about 6 µs more. At 100k effects a week, that adds about 3.6 ms of writes per hour and removes about 19 ms of write-locked prune work per hour.
The migration builds the index once at startup, taking 6.6 ms at 10k rows and 83 ms at 100k.
Not checked:
Timings on Windows, Linux or slower disks.
The migration on a copy of a real user database. It ran on fresh, V2-preview and current-main databases.
No UI is affected: this changes only an index the hourly server prune reads.
Prior PRs
#16247 by @juliusmarminge introduced finished-outbox pruning. This PR preserves its retention policy and indexes the existing prune query.
The hourly prune of settled effects walked every retained succeeded or
cancelled row through the claim index and read completed_at from the table.
A partial (status, completed_at) index lets the cutoff seek directly.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — Adds a partial index to speed up hourly outbox pruning while preserving existing retention and deletion rules. The change is additive, with limited startup and storage overhead and no customer-data transformation.
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Walkthrough
Migration 83 adds and registers a partial index for settled effects. Migration tests include it in upgrade expectations. A pruning test checks the deletion count and verifies that the query plan uses the index.
Changes: Settled Effect Pruning Index
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Summary
Add and verify the settled-effects index apps/server/src/persistence/Migrations/083_SettledEffectPruneIndex.ts, apps/server/src/persistence/Migrations.ts, apps/server/src/persistence/reconcileV2PreviewMigration.test.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/FoundationPersistence.test.ts
Migration 83 creates a partial index on status and completed_at for succeeded and cancelled rows. The migration registry and preview-upgrade expectations include it. The pruning test checks that 1,203 rows are deleted and that the query plan uses the index.
This adds an index that speeds up pruning of settled effects without changing pruning behavior. No merge-blocking risk is evident.
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The description follows the template well. It has a Problem section that explains the slow hourly prune, a Change section that describes the partial index and rejected alternatives, and a Scope sectio…
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The title names the main change: the hourly outbox prune no longer scans every retained effect, which matches the new partial covering index on (status, completed_at) described in the summary and objectives. It uses the conventional perf(server) prefix and is one sentence, though it is somewhat long at 73 characters.
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The description follows the template well. It has a Problem section that explains the slow hourly prune, a Change section that describes the partial index and rejected alternatives, and a Scope section that explains why no issue was linked. The Verification section is detailed. It lists the focused tests, the observed plan before and after, a real server run, and a synthetic benchmark. It also lists what was not checked. The description has a model attribution line at the end, which the template requests. The description does not link an issue. It explains why none was needed, which the template allows for small fixes of an obvious bug. The title is missing from the provided text, so its conventional-commit form cannot be checked.
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The current plan seeks with status=? AND completed_at<?. The test checks only the index name, so it would not catch a plan that uses the index without seeking by completed_at.
Suggested fix
assert.include(
plan.map((row) => row.detail).join("\n"),
- "orchestration_v2_effect_outbox_settled_completed_idx",+ "SEARCH orchestration_v2_effect_outbox USING COVERING INDEX " ++ "orchestration_v2_effect_outbox_settled_completed_idx " ++ "(status=? AND completed_at<?)",
);
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Review comment at
@apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/FoundationPersistence.test.ts around lines
2264 - 2283:
Update the EXPLAIN QUERY PLAN assertion in the `pruneSettled` test to verify the
search uses the `orchestration_v2_effect_outbox_settled_completed_idx` with both
`status` and the `completed_at` cutoff as search bounds, rather than checking
only the index name.
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Review comments at
@apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/FoundationPersistence.test.ts:
- Around line 2264-2283: Update the EXPLAIN QUERY PLAN assertion in the
`pruneSettled` test to verify the search uses the
`orchestration_v2_effect_outbox_settled_completed_idx` with both `status` and
the `completed_at` cutoff as search bounds, rather than checking only the index
name.
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verified as-is at 7be0fd63e0f94390b52d2ffc1dd665ebef8f2d2e on this linux boat vm. no source changes or pushes.
reproduced on current github/main (0a9abddaee) in a separate worktree. installed each checkout with vp i and ran one background dev server at a time. repository playwright and /usr/bin/google-chrome added a real git project through the web client and ran codex gpt-6.1-sol shell turns. no mocks, fixtures, or demo data.
the actual EffectOutboxV2.pruneSettled service on main's app-created database used orchestration_v2_effect_outbox_claim_idx (status=?). captured its executed statement and explained that exact SQL with its bound parameters.
stopped main and copied its isolated state. the exact pr head applied migration 81, preserved the conversation and effects, and changed the same service's plan to USING COVERING INDEX orchestration_v2_effect_outbox_settled_completed_idx (status=? AND completed_at<?).
through the web client, completed a follow-up shell turn, interrupted a running printf/sleep command, restarted the pr server, and completed another shell turn. persisted run models are all gpt-6.1-sol. start, interrupt, title, and checkpoint effects succeeded. pruning retained all ten recent effects; database integrity returned ok.
vp run check:changed 20bb685e68fda77f60f9324f0db96d4ef06902d2 passed through blacksmith-check: format, lint, knip, graphql, affected typechecks, and 73 tests in four files. the existing prune test covers 1,203 expired succeeded/cancelled rows, batching, and retention of recent/failed/pending/running rows. the worker was stopped afterward.
large-history timings were not measured; this verifies the query plan without claiming an elapsed-time improvement. there were no seven-day-old app-created effects, so expired-row deletion and batching have automated-test evidence rather than a seven-day live run. the full hourly cadence, in-flight crash recovery, native desktop/mobile clients, windows/macos, remote/tunnel connections, and other providers were not exercised.
setup correction: an initial root-checkout startup defaulted to ~/.t3 and was stopped. the verification above used the explicit isolated home /home/user/t3code/.t3; the initial run is excluded from evidence.
🤖 Opus 5.5 and Sol 6.1 replying on behalf of Victor.
Re this review: done in 8267b4b. The prune test now requires the exact plan row SEARCH orchestration_v2_effect_outbox USING COVERING INDEX orchestration_v2_effect_outbox_settled_completed_idx (status=? AND completed_at<?) in the EXPLAIN QUERY PLAN output. With the index narrowed to (status), the old assertion still passed. The new one fails on USING INDEX orchestration_v2_effect_outbox_settled_completed_idx (status=?), and it passes with the shipped index.
Thank you for taking this over and carrying it through. Renumbering the migration to 81 after main took 77-80, and checking the query plan on a real app-created database before and after, covers what the description left open.
@maria-rcks Since your verified head 7be0fd6, I pushed bffd87d: a merge of current main plus renaming the migration from 81 to 83, because main now uses 81 and 82. Nothing else in the fix changed.
Closing this: it is not a bug fix, and this repository now takes only bug fixes from outside contributors. The branch stays on my fork if it is useful.
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Problem
Every hour the server prunes settled outbox effects older than 7 days. No index covers
completed_at, so SQLite picks the claim index onstatusalone. It walks every succeeded or cancelled effect still inside the 7-day window and reads each row to check its completion time. Nearly all of those rows are kept, so the work grows with retained history. Because the scan runs inside the pruneDELETE, it holds the database write lock the whole time.Change
A new migration adds a partial index on
(status, completed_at)limited tostatus IN ('succeeded', 'cancelled'), matching the prune query's filter. The prune now seeks straight to the expired rows through a covering index. The query, retention window, batch size and statuses are unchanged, and no shipped migration is edited.Alternatives I measured and rejected:
completed_atalone: SQLite still picks the claim index, so it adds cost with no gain.(status, completed_at)index: it is chosen, but it also captures thestatus IN ('pending', 'running')recovery query and is written on every pending and running transition.The partial index changes no other query plan: claim, next-claimable, recovery and thread-deletion cleanup keep their current indexes.
Scope and approval
This is a focused performance fix with no behavior change. It only adds an index for an existing reader, the hourly prune, so I submitted it without a prior issue or discussion. Finished-outbox pruning came from #16247; this PR leaves its policy untouched.
Verification
FoundationPersistence.test.tsrunsEXPLAIN QUERY PLANon the prune statement it actually executes and requiresUSING COVERING INDEX orchestration_v2_effect_outbox_settled_completed_idx (status=? AND completed_at<?). At bffd87d without migration 83 it fails withUSING INDEX orchestration_v2_effect_outbox_claim_idx (status=?); with it, it passes.vp test runon that file,reconcileV2PreviewMigration.test.tsandsrc/persistence/Migrations: 100 tests passed.vp run check:changed 21a9aa1d79at bffd87d passed.Real server run. Main started on an empty data directory; I added a new git project, ran two Replay (dev) turns with
t3 thread start --waitand stopped it. This branch then opened a copy of that database and applied only83_SettledEffectPruneIndex. Each server's trace records the prune running at startup. The plan is the prune's source SQL, unchanged, with a new seven-day cutoff and limit 500, read-only on each stopped database.Before, main at 21a9aa1:
After, this branch at bffd87d on that database:
On an empty data directory, bffd87d applied migrations 1 to 83 and gives the same plan.
Synthetic benchmark, outside the server: a file database in WAL mode with the shipped outbox schema and its three indexes. It has no
sqlite_stat1, sinceSqlite.tsdeletes it. Rows went through the real insert, claim and settle sequence. Main and this branch ran in the same process on one machine (Apple Silicon, Node 26.13, SQLite 3.54). The first row is the median of 51 runs of the prune's expired-row selection; the backlog and migration timings are single runs.Each effect's insert, claim and succeed cost a median 112.5 µs on main and 118.6 µs with the index, about 6 µs more. At 100k effects a week, that adds about 3.6 ms of writes per hour and removes about 19 ms of write-locked prune work per hour.
The migration builds the index once at startup, taking 6.6 ms at 10k rows and 83 ms at 100k.
Not checked:
Prior PRs
#16247 by @juliusmarminge introduced finished-outbox pruning. This PR preserves its retention policy and indexes the existing prune query.
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