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/sitemap.xml returns 500 on prod. It is only reachable at all because nginx keeps serving a stale cached copy (x-cache-status: UPDATING); a cache-busted request answers 500 in 10.7s.

Building the sitemap index needs the boundary between chunks, and both boundary queries numbered every eligible row with row_number() — a walk that cannot stop early. Measured on prod 2026-08-16:

job boundaries:   64s over 3.4M rows   (SSR fetch timeout is 10s)
Heap Fetches:     762,341              ("index-only" in name only — autovacuum trails the ingest)

The migration that introduced the job query sized it for ~1.1M rows. The open, non-duplicate set is now 3.4M.

What changed

Both sitemaps page a Meilisearch index by offset instead. The engine reports its document count on every response, so chunk boundaries become arithmetic — no query at all — and it addresses any offset directly:

offset 0        → 0.06s
offset 1.2M     → 0.19s
full 25k page   → ~2.5s

The index also holds a better set than the table did — open, non-duplicate, non-private, categorized. The table's equivalent scope is 2.7x larger and includes 2.1M postings the site's own search cannot find, plus 10 private ones that were leaking into the sitemap.

CompanyDocument gains updated_at, solely to emit <lastmod>. It is deliberately not searchable, filterable, or sortable.

Deploy order

Safe in either order, but the sitemap is better after both:

  1. Deploy this. The job sitemap is correct immediately. Company URLs ship without <lastmod> until step 2 — the read path treats a missing lastmod as normal, so nothing breaks.
  2. Run reindex-companies to backfill updated_at into the companies index. Then company <lastmod> appears.

jobs_sitemap_idx (migration 0107) is now orphaned in code — nothing queries it. Left in place on purpose: dropping a partial index over 3.4M rows is an ops call, and it may still serve other reads with the same predicate. Worth a separate look.

Verification

Against the live prod indexes over a read-only tunnel:

jobs companies
documents 1,263,112 292,271
chunks 51 30
tail page 13,112 docs 2,271 docs
offset past end empty, 209ms empty, 212ms

Also: go test ./..., go vet -tags=integration ./..., gofmt, golangci-lint (clean on the changed files), eslint on the changed web files.

Tests

The job and company sitemap tests no longer need Postgres — they run against a stub index. What still needed a real router (that /jobs/sitemap is not swallowed by /jobs/:slug) is now a unit test asserting through the handler's own register(), so it pins the real route order. Both integration test files are deleted; the SQL they covered is gone.

New coverage worth naming:

  • omitzero, not omitempty on the lastmod. omitempty does nothing to a time.Time (a struct is never "empty"), so a company without one would have shipped <lastmod>0001-01-01T00:00:00Z</lastmod> to every crawler. There is a test on exactly that.
  • Each half reads its own index — nothing else in their shared shape would catch them being wired to the same one.
  • A stale or junk offset (including past int32) serves an empty page, never an error.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Sitemap pages now load from search indexes for improved offset-based pagination.
    • Job and company sitemap URLs now use numeric offset parameters.
    • Sitemap entries can omit modification dates when unavailable.
    • Missing search indexes return a service-unavailable response.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Invalid, negative, or stale offsets are handled safely without errors.
    • Sitemap routes are protected from conflicts with other URL routes.

/sitemap.xml has been returning 500 on prod. Building the index needs the
boundary between every 25,000-job chunk, and the query finding them numbered
every sitemap-eligible row with row_number() — a walk of the whole set, which
cannot stop early. Measured on prod 2026-08-16: 64s over 3.4M rows (762k of the
"index-only" scan's fetches went to the heap; autovacuum trails the ingest), well
past the SSR fetch timeout of 10s. Only nginx serving a stale cached copy kept
the sitemap reachable at all — a cache-busted request answered 500 in 10.7s.

Page the Meilisearch index instead. It reports its document count for free, so
the chunk boundaries become arithmetic — no query at all — and it addresses any
offset directly rather than walking to it: offset 0 and offset 1.2M both answer
in under 0.25s, a full 25k page in ~2.5s.

The index also holds a better set than the table did. It carries open,
non-duplicate, non-private, categorized postings; the table's equivalent scope is
2.7x larger and includes 2.1M postings the site's own search cannot find, plus 10
private ones that were leaking into the sitemap. 51 full files replace ~137, and
a crawler asking for an offset past the end gets an empty file, never an error.

Verified against the live prod index over a read-only tunnel: 51 chunks, a 13,112
-document tail, and an out-of-range offset answering empty in 209ms.

Drops ListJobSitemapChunk and JobSitemapBoundaries, whose SQL has no other
caller. The job sitemap's paging tests no longer need Postgres, so they move from
internal/db's integration suite to a unit test over a stub index; the integration
test keeps only what still needs a real router — that /jobs/sitemap is not
swallowed by /jobs/:slug.
Finishes what the previous commit started for jobs. The company boundary query
had the same shape — row_number() over every hiring company, ~292k rows, to find
the slug ending each 10k chunk — so it was on the same trajectory as the job one
that reached 64s. Both halves now page a Meilisearch index by offset, and neither
sitemap touches Postgres at all.

The companies index carries no updated_at, so CompanyDocument gains one, solely
to emit <lastmod>. It is deliberately not searchable, filterable, or sortable: a
crawler hint, not a query surface.

That attribute only reaches the index on the next reindex-companies, so the read
path treats a missing lastmod as normal — such a URL ships without the tag rather
than dropping out of the sitemap, which is what makes this safe to deploy ahead
of the reindex. The wire field is `omitzero`, NOT `omitempty`: omitempty does
nothing to a time.Time (a struct is never "empty"), so the zero instant would
have shipped as <lastmod>0001-01-01T00:00:00Z</lastmod> to every crawler. There
is a test on exactly that.

Verified against the live prod companies index over a read-only tunnel: 292,271
documents, 30 chunks, an 851ms first page, a 2,271-document tail, and an
out-of-range offset answering empty rather than erroring.

Both sitemap integration tests are deleted, not ported: the SQL they covered is
gone, and what remained — that /jobs/sitemap and /companies/sitemap are not
swallowed by the :slug catch-alls — is now a unit test that asserts through the
handler's own register(), so it pins the real route order without Postgres.
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Sitemap generation moved from PostgreSQL keyset queries to Meilisearch offset pagination. Backend handlers, search documents, web routes, API types, and database contracts now use the new flow.

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Sitemap migration

Layer / File(s) Summary
Search sitemap access
internal/search/sitemap.go, internal/search/company.go, internal/search/AGENTS.md
Search indexes provide paged sitemap documents and document counts. Company documents include an optional UpdatedAt value for <lastmod>.
Handler search wiring and serving
internal/handler/handler.go, internal/handler/sitemap.go, internal/handler/sitemap_test.go, internal/handler/sitemap_integration_test.go
Handlers use separate optional job and company indexes. Shared helpers serve bounded offset pages and count-derived boundaries. Tests cover pagination, errors, timestamps, index separation, and route ordering.
Web offset pagination
web/src/lib/api.ts, web/src/lib/sitemap.ts, web/src/routes/sitemap-companies.xml/+server.ts, web/src/routes/sitemap-jobs.xml/+server.ts, web/src/routes/sitemap.xml/+server.ts
Web clients and sitemap routes replace after cursors with numeric offsets. Missing updated_at values are allowed.
PostgreSQL sitemap contract removal
internal/db/queries/*.sql, internal/db/companies.sql.go, internal/db/jobs.sql.go, internal/db/querier.go, internal/db/sitemap_integration_test.go
Sitemap SQL queries, generated methods and types, Querier methods, and database sitemap integration tests were removed.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to df9a5

The sitemap pagination change still allows a public request to generate an offset list proportional to the entire index, potentially consuming substantial memory and CPU and making the endpoint unavailable. Merge should wait until the request is capped or the chunk size is bounded.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant WebSitemapRoute
  participant SitemapHandler
  participant SearchClient
  participant MeilisearchIndex
  WebSitemapRoute->>SitemapHandler: request sitemap page with offset
  SitemapHandler->>SearchClient: request page or document count
  SearchClient->>MeilisearchIndex: read sitemap fields
  MeilisearchIndex-->>SearchClient: documents and total count
  SearchClient-->>SitemapHandler: sitemap documents or count
  SitemapHandler-->>WebSitemapRoute: sitemap XML or HTTP error
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internal/handler/sitemap_test.go (1)

242-254: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Replace if ...; true { with a plain block.

The condition is a constant. The statement only exists to scope the decode. A bare assignment followed by a block reads the same and removes the always-true condition.

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-	if _, body = sitemapGet(t, app, "/api/v1/companies/sitemap?offset=8"); true {
-		var d struct {
-			Data []struct {
-				Slug string `json:"slug"`
-			} `json:"data"`
-		}
-		if err := json.Unmarshal(body, &d); err != nil {
-			t.Fatalf("decode %s: %v", body, err)
-		}
-		if len(d.Data) != 1 {
-			t.Fatalf("company tail page = %+v, want the single 9th document", d.Data)
-		}
-	}
+	_, body = sitemapGet(t, app, "/api/v1/companies/sitemap?offset=8")
+	var tail struct {
+		Data []struct {
+			Slug string `json:"slug"`
+		} `json:"data"`
+	}
+	if err := json.Unmarshal(body, &tail); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("decode %s: %v", body, err)
+	}
+	if len(tail.Data) != 1 {
+		t.Fatalf("company tail page = %+v, want the single 9th document", tail.Data)
+	}
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In `@internal/handler/sitemap_test.go` around lines 242 - 254, Replace the
constant-condition wrapper around the sitemap tail-page assertions with a plain
scoped block, preserving the sitemapGet assignment, JSON decoding, and
single-document length check unchanged.
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Inline comments:
In `@internal/handler/sitemap.go`:
- Around line 133-147: Bound the offsets produced by serveBoundaries so the
public response cannot exceed the sitemap index limit of 50,000 entries. Apply
the cap while sizing the offsets slice and generating offsets, while preserving
normal chunk-based boundaries for results within the limit.

In `@web/src/lib/api.ts`:
- Around line 642-645: Update the Sitemap section header above the sitemap
functions to describe both jobs and companies as offset-paged, and state that
their boundary endpoints return the opening offset for each chunk, including 0.
Remove the obsolete “freshest slice,” keyset-pagination, and cursor-ending
descriptions while keeping the four function implementations unchanged.

Apply the same fix in `@internal/search/sitemap.go` around lines 11 - 15: The same
documentation update covers the inaccurate description of slug lookup.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@internal/handler/sitemap_test.go`:
- Around line 242-254: Replace the constant-condition wrapper around the sitemap
tail-page assertions with a plain scoped block, preserving the sitemapGet
assignment, JSON decoding, and single-document length check unchanged.
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Comment thread internal/handler/sitemap.go
Comment thread web/src/lib/api.ts
CodeRabbit review on #1990, both findings valid.

sitemapChunk floored ?chunk= at 1, and the boundary list's length is total/chunk
— so an unauthenticated ?chunk=1 asked the server to allocate and serialize one
int64 per indexed document: 1.26M today, growing with the catalogue, on a public
route. Floored at 1000, the same request yields ~1.3k offsets and still covers
the whole index. It is below both chunk sizes we serve (10k companies, 25k
jobs), so it only ever binds a hand-crafted request. The new test asserts the
floor clamps rather than truncates — the last offset must still open the final
page.

The existing boundary tests moved to multiples of the floor: at ?chunk=2 they
were about to be answered for 1000 and prove nothing.

Also fixes two comments that described the code as it was before this branch:
api.ts still claimed jobs ship a freshest slice and companies are keyset-paged,
and the SitemapDocument doc said the slug is read by position in the requested
fields when it is read by its per-index map key.
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CodeRabbit Autofix Review Complete

Reviewed 2 CodeRabbit feedback items, both applied in dd703a43.

Files modified:

  • internal/handler/sitemap.go — floored ?chunk= at 1000
  • internal/handler/sitemap_test.go — boundary tests moved to multiples of the floor; new test that the floor clamps rather than truncates
  • internal/search/sitemap.go — corrected the SitemapDocument projection comment
  • web/src/lib/api.ts — corrected the Sitemap section comment

Validated: go test ./..., go vet -tags=integration ./..., golangci-lint (clean on changed files), eslint.

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Measured on prod after #1990 shipped: a 25k page is ~2.5s warm, but 8s on the
deepest offset with the host under load — against this route's 10s fetch timeout.
That is a file which renders fine until the box is busy and then 500s, which is
the same shape of latent failure /sitemap.xml itself was in before #1990 (it
answered 200 from a stale nginx cache while every uncached request errored).

10k puts a page at ~1-3s. The cost is 127 sub-sitemaps instead of 51, which a
sitemap index carries for free — its own cap is 50,000 entries.

Cheap files beat a narrow deadline here because there is no partial credit: the
crawler either gets a file or gets an error, so the failure mode of being slightly
too slow is losing 25,000 URLs rather than delivering them late.
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