Make the slug backfill's chunk width configurable - #2004
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Caught on the first prod run of #2002's backfill. The chunk is an id RANGE, and jobs' ids are spread over 1.59 BILLION values for 7.4M live rows — the sequence has run far ahead of the row count through pruning. At the hardcoded 50k that is 31,900 statements, most of them sweeping empty stretches, and the 200ms pacing pause alone sums to 1.8h. Measured projection: ~8h against the 6h I had given the unit. BACKFILL_SLUG_CHUNK sets the width; the default is unchanged. Re-run on prod at 2,000,000 it is 798 statements and ~3h, comfortably inside the timeout. A knob rather than a bigger constant because the two forces pull in opposite directions and only one is knowable from here: wider means fewer statements, but also a longer single transaction in the DENSE id stretches, and a long transaction holds back autovacuum exactly while the pass is generating the dead rows it needs cleaned. How the ids are actually distributed is a property of the table, not of the code. Zero, negative, and unparseable all fall back to the default — a zero would make `from += step` never advance and a negative would walk backwards, so "not configured" is the only safe reading of a bad value. Tested. The interrupted first run confirmed the resume path works end to end: it logged "cancelled after 654573 filled, resume by re-running" on SIGTERM, and the restart skipped every already-filled chunk for free thanks to the IS DISTINCT FROM guard.
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe backfill command now supports positive integer chunk sizes through ChangesSlug backfill chunking
Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The new chunk-size setting can overflow cursor arithmetic for extreme values, causing the backfill to loop indefinitely instead of completing. Checked arithmetic and a regression test should be added before merge. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5✅ Passed checks (5 passed)
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In `@cmd/backfill-slug-folded/main.go`:
- Around line 42-46: Update BackfillCompanySlugFoldedChunk’s cursor advancement
to use checked int64 arithmetic for both cursor additions, handling
math.MaxInt64 without wrapping or looping indefinitely while preserving the
half-open [FromID, ToID) bounds. Add a regression test covering the maximum
chunk size and an upper bound near math.MaxInt64.
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| func chunkSize() int64 { | ||
| if v, err := strconv.ParseInt(os.Getenv("BACKFILL_SLUG_CHUNK"), 10, 64); err == nil && v > 0 { | ||
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printf '%s\n' '--- query contract ---'
rg -n -A12 -B4 'BackfillCompanySlugFoldedChunk|FromID|ToID' internal/db/jobs.sql.go internal/db cmd/backfill-slug-folded
printf '%s\n' '--- related tests ---'
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rg -n -A15 -B5 'BackfillCompanySlugFoldedChunk|FromID|ToID' internal/db
printf '%s\n' '--- tests and call sites ---'
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rg -n -A25 -B8 'bounds|MaxID|MinID' cmd/backfill-slug-folded internal
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rg -n -A18 -B8 'CompanySlugFoldedBackfillBounds' internal/db/queries/jobs.sql internal/db/jobs.sql.go
printf '%s\n' '--- standalone signed-int64 loop probe ---'
python3 - <<'PY'
MIN = -(1 << 63)
MAX = (1 << 63) - 1
MASK = (1 << 64) - 1
def i64(x):
x &= MASK
return x - (1 << 64) if x >= (1 << 63) else x
def trace(start, bound, step, limit=12):
values = []
seen = set()
from_id = start
for _ in range(limit):
if from_id > bound:
return values, "terminates"
if from_id in seen:
return values, "cycles"
seen.add(from_id)
values.append(from_id)
from_id = i64(from_id + step)
return values, "not settled"
for bound in [1_000_000_000, MAX - 2, MAX - 1, MAX]:
values, result = trace(1, bound, MAX, 12)
print(f"step=MaxInt64 bound={bound}: {result}; from={values}")
print("half-open ranges for step=50000:")
for from_id in [0, 50000, 100000]:
print(f"[{from_id}, {from_id + 50000}) has {from_id + 50000 - from_id} ids; next from={from_id + 50000}")
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Guard the int64 cursor against overflow.
BackfillCompanySlugFoldedChunk uses half-open [FromID, ToID) bounds, so the current step does not repeat IDs. However, BACKFILL_SLUG_CHUNK=9223372036854775807 overflows both cursor additions. If bounds.MaxID is near math.MaxInt64, the loop can run indefinitely. Use checked arithmetic and preserve the half-open contract. Add a regression test for the maximum step and bound.
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In `@cmd/backfill-slug-folded/main.go` around lines 42 - 46, Update
BackfillCompanySlugFoldedChunk’s cursor advancement to use checked int64
arithmetic for both cursor additions, handling math.MaxInt64 without wrapping or
looping indefinitely while preserving the half-open [FromID, ToID) bounds. Add a
regression test covering the maximum chunk size and an upper bound near
math.MaxInt64.
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Caught on the first prod run of #2002's backfill, and fixed while it was running.
The problem
The chunk is an id range, and
jobsids are spread over 1.59 billion values for 7.4M live rows — the sequence has run far ahead of the row count through pruning. At the hardcoded 50k:The fix
BACKFILL_SLUG_CHUNKsets the width; the default is unchanged. Re-run on prod at2000000:A knob rather than a bigger constant, because the two forces pull opposite ways and only one is knowable from the code: wider means fewer statements, but also a longer single transaction in the dense id stretches — and a long transaction holds back autovacuum exactly while this pass generates the dead rows it needs cleaned. How the ids are actually distributed is a property of the table.
Zero, negative and unparseable all fall back to the default: a zero makes
from += stepnever advance, a negative walks backwards forever. Tested.Bonus: the resume path is confirmed working
Interrupting the first run to swap binaries exercised it end to end, unplanned:
The restart then skipped every already-filled chunk for free — the
IS DISTINCT FROMguard means a re-run over done work writes nothing and creates no dead rows. That is what makes this pass safe to stop whenever the host is busy.Summary by CodeRabbit
New Features
BACKFILL_SLUG_CHUNKsetting.Tests