feat: reconcile enrichment coverage instead of hoping events cover it (ENG-2376) - #128
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The first half of the reconciler: a query for the pending set, per enrichment, newest first. Every predicate is reused from the status query rather than rewritten, and that is the whole point. ENG-2375's endpoint reports eligible - done - failed as work that is scheduled; this is what schedules it. If the two definitions of "pending" could drift, the endpoint would report a remainder nothing ever picks up, which is precisely the complaint this work exists to answer. Worth noting the predicates deliberately do NOT match the one-off backfill commands: those trim only spaces where the status query trims the full ASCII whitespace set, and agreeing with the status query is what matters here. Terminal failures are excluded. Without that the sweep re-enqueues a content-filtered record on every tick forever, at a provider call each time, and never terminates — which is why the taxonomy in ENG-2375 had to land before this could be built at all. Newest first, so a backlog drains from the top of the feedback table and the records someone is most likely to be looking at fill in first. Each query declares only the parameters it uses. Sentiment and emotions have no target language, and Postgres rejects a statement with an unreferenced parameter whose type it cannot infer, so their limit is $1 while translation's is $2. Found by running it, not by reading it. The sweep is cross-tenant by design: a provider outage is deployment-wide, so the work it stranded is too. Records carry their own tenant through to the job and the worker re-checks the per-tenant gate, so a global sweep still cannot enrich a tenant that switched the enrichment off.
ENG-2375 grew a second non-terminal reason after this branch was cut. A record whose enrichment classified fine but could never be persisted now carries `write_failed`, and it is just as un-enriched as one the provider refused, so the sweep owes it the same retry. The query already does the right thing -- it excludes on `terminal`, not on the reason -- but nothing said so. Keying the exclusion on the reason instead is a plausible-looking change that would quietly strand every write failure forever, and until now the suite stayed green through it. Verified by making exactly that change and watching this go red.
The second half of the reconciler's foundation: where swept work goes, and how much of it is allowed to be in flight. A backfill queue per enrichment, separate from the live queue the event path feeds. Separation is the rate control -- the two lanes draw from different MaxWorkers budgets, so a sweep of a large backlog cannot make a record submitted a moment ago wait behind it. The alternative, pacing inserts onto the live queue, means guessing a rate that matches drain speed, and guessing low is indistinguishable from the reconciler not running. It also fixes something older: the one-off backfill commands enqueue onto the LIVE queues today, so running one already starves live enrichment. The sweep tops each queue up TO a target depth rather than adding a fixed number. That makes it self-regulating: a tick can only add what the workers have already drained, so river_job stays bounded whether the backlog is a thousand records or fifty million. Uniqueness is across the in-flight states, and both halves of that set are load-bearing in opposite directions. `completed` must stay OUT -- River's default includes it, and with no ByPeriod the window is unbounded, so the first sweep of a record would be the only one that ever ran. `retryable` must stay IN -- a job waiting out its backoff runs again by itself, and re-enqueueing it doubles the provider calls for a record already being handled. The purge declared the same set for the same reasons, so the two are now one helper rather than two lists that can drift. The queue-depth query excludes `retryable` for a different reason worth not conflating: a job waiting out a backoff is not occupying a worker, so counting it would have the sweep see a full queue while nothing drains. JobKindSpec gained a BackfillQueue, so the API's depth gauge covers both lanes and the worker parity test fails if a lane is declared without a worker -- the reconciler inserting onto an unregistered queue would look exactly like enqueued work and never run. Still to come: the periodic schedule that drives the sweep, and the retry endpoint.
River's periodic scheduler rather than a ticker in this process, and that is the whole reason for the choice: periodic jobs run from the elected leader only, so several hub-workers deployed side by side sweep once between them instead of once each. The scheduler keeps its state in memory, so a restart or a leader change starts the cycle over. That costs nothing here because the sweep is level-triggered: a missed tick is invisible, since the next one sees the same backlog plus whatever arrived, and an extra tick finds the queue already at depth and does nothing. RunOnStart is on for the same reason -- after a deploy, converging sooner beats waiting out a full interval, and there is no harm in an idempotent sweep running early. The service is built before the River client exists, because River needs the worker registry, the registry needs the sweeper, and the sweeper needs the client to enqueue. Same knot the embedding inserter already ties, untied the same way -- with the difference that a missed SetInserter here would silently enqueue nothing forever, so Sweep refuses rather than reporting a successful zero. Nil handling is deliberate in two places. A disabled kill switch or a deployment with no enrichment provider leaves the worker and its queue unregistered rather than registered-and-idle, and the conversion goes through a helper because handing the registry a typed nil would produce a non-nil interface holding a nil pointer -- registered, and panicking on the first sweep. Tests pin the arithmetic the rate control rests on: the sweep asks for exactly the remaining room, skips a queue already at depth without even querying the pending set, never asks for a negative limit when a queue is past the target, counts only work River actually inserted rather than duplicates it skipped, and keeps sweeping the other enrichments when one query fails -- a provider outage strands several pipelines at once, which is when abandoning the rest would hurt most. Each verified by injection.
The reconciler deliberately skips terminal failures: the provider refused
that text, so re-running it costs a call and fails identically. That is
correct right up until the premise changes -- the text was edited, or the
provider changed its policy -- and then there is no way back. This is the
override.
POST /v1/tenants/{tenant_id}/enrichments/retry clears the terminal markers
for a tenant so the next sweep picks those records up again. Under
/v1/tenants/ rather than /v1/feedback-records/, and not by preference: the
gateway publicly routes the feedback-records prefix and injects Hub
credentials into it, so an endpoint there is internet-reachable and
defended only by the ext_authz allowlist. A bulk operation that spends
provider money on records already known to fail does not belong on the
public side of that line. Both tenant purges live there for the same reason.
The cooldown is a security control, not a nicety, and it is why migration
024 exists. Clearing is a request to spend a provider call on every
permanently-failed record, so without a bound the endpoint is
call -> clear -> sweep -> all fail -> call again, at one invocation per
record per cycle from a single authenticated caller, and the Hub has no
rate limiting anywhere else. One row per (tenant, enrichment) bounds that
to (terminal set / cooldown). The window is written in the same statement
as the delete, so a caller cannot take a clear and dodge the stamp.
A refused call says so, with the remaining wait. Silently doing nothing
would leave a caller unable to tell "there was nothing to clear" from "you
are being rate limited", and they would simply call again -- the behaviour
the cooldown exists to stop.
A disabled enrichment is refused BEFORE the cooldown is spent. Clearing
markers for a pipeline the tenant switched off queues work the worker's own
gate skips, so the records get re-marked and the caller has burned an hour
for nothing. The refusal reuses the status endpoint's disabled_reason
vocabulary, so a consumer needs one set of values rather than two.
Every requested enrichment gets its own outcome: a tenant can have one
cleared, one cooling down and one switched off in the same call, and a
single status code would lose the two they can act on. An unknown name is
rejected rather than ignored, because answering a typo with a cheerful 202
and an empty result list reads as "nothing to retry".
Five integration tests against real Postgres, each verified by injection:
removing the cooldown check, spending the cooldown on a refused retry, and
clearing non-terminal markers alongside terminal ones all turn the suite
red. The cooldown test also proves the window EXPIRES rather than latching,
which would be a worse bug than having no cooldown at all.
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…376) Review findings, all addressed. The theme running through them: the reconciler made three promises in comments that the code did not keep. THE PENDING SET NOW EXCLUDES IN-FLIGHT WORK. The sweep's uniqueness options claimed to stop re-enqueueing "a record the event path already queued" -- they cannot: the event path deliberately inserts with no unique options, so its jobs carry no key to collide with, and the backfill commands hash their args differently. Worse, newest-first ordering preferentially selected exactly the records most likely to have a live job. The pending query now anti-joins the in-flight jobs of the enrichment's kind (a hash build over a set bounded by queue depth, served by River's own state index), which also fixes two neighbours in one move: an in-backoff head no longer starves the tail (excluded records don't consume the LIMIT), and a tenant target-change no longer has the fan-out and the sweep enqueueing the same corpus twice. The uniqueness stays as the belt for the read-to-insert race, with a comment that now tells the truth about what it can and cannot see. The kind literals live in the repository (which cannot import service) and a parity test pins them to the args types' Kind(). THE RETRY ENDPOINT NO LONGER PROMISES A SWEEP THAT MAY BE OFF. Its 202 means "the next sweep picks these up"; with ENRICHMENT_RECONCILE_ENABLED false it would delete the markers, burn the cooldown, drop the failures from the status counts, and re-enqueue nothing -- coverage looking better because nothing happened. It now refuses with a conflict before validating anything. THE COOLDOWN IS NOW DECIDED ATOMICALLY WITH THE CLEAR, UNDER THE TENANT WRITE LOCK. The read-then-clear shape let concurrent requests all observe an expired window and all proceed; the claim is now the conditional upsert itself, taken inside the cooldown row's lock, and the delete is gated on the claim -- raced by eight concurrent requests in a test, exactly one wins. The statement also acquires the shared tenant write lock the way every other tenant-owned mutation in this repo does (AGENTS.md; the OTHER repository writing this same table already gated), closing the purge/write race, and the victims join gains the marker-side tenant predicate so idx_enrichment_failures_tenant_enrichment applies -- additional, never instead of fr.tenant_id, per migration 022's rule. A cross-tenant test seeds a foreign tenant and a lying stamp and proves neither is touched. THE FAILING-SWEEP BACKOFF NO LONGER SILENCES THE SCHEDULE. The periodic insert carried River's default 25 attempts, and a retryable sweep job holds the unique key -- so after a few failures its growing backoff absorbed every subsequent tick as a duplicate, stretching a DB blip into hours of dead reconciliation. MaxAttempts is now 1: a failed sweep dies, and the next tick -- which sees the same backlog -- is the retry, exactly as the worker's comment always claimed. Smaller, from the same review: sweep config collapsed into one EnrichmentSweepSpec (the parallel enabled-list + attempts-map handed River MaxAttempts 0 = its default 25 if they drifted); an enrichment missing from the queue mapping now fails loudly instead of being silently dropped; RetryAfterSeconds is ceiled, not rounded, so a caller sleeping exactly the reported wait is not refused again; the reconcile queues renamed *_reconcile because "translations_backfill" was one transposition from the pre-existing "translation_backfills" and a swap compiles; migration 025 adds partial pending indexes for sentiment and emotions so a tick walks the index instead of sorting the whole pending set (translation documented as deliberately unindexable); TargetDepth gains a ceiling; the retry body reader uses the house MaxBytesReader idiom (413, not a bespoke 400); the gate mapping is one shared enrichmentGates.disabledReasonFor used by both the status and retry services; Translation gains the Enabled() its two siblings had, replacing four inline copies; and the six new env vars are documented in .env.example, which AGENTS.md declares the full set.
Deleting the gate from clearTerminalMarkersSQL left the suite green: the tenant-scope and atomicity tests never contend with a purge, so the one predicate protecting the purge/write race was enforced by nothing. The test holds the tenant's lock exclusively the way a running purge does and asserts the clear is refused with a 409, nothing deleted, no cooldown stamped. Verified by replacing the gate with a tautology — the suite went red on exactly this test.
…NG-2376) The reconciler excludes terminally-failed records because a provider that refused a text on structural grounds will refuse it again. The per-tenant translation backfill -- the fan-out a target-language change enqueues -- shared none of that: it re-listed every untranslated record, terminal markers included, so each settings change bought one guaranteed refusal per permanently-failing record. Measured at 1517 wasted jobs in a 3000-record run. The sweep skips the record, the next settings change un-skips it, and the exclusion is worth nothing. "Still needs translating" now means the same thing in both places. Non-terminal markers stay targets -- those failed for reasons a retry can fix, which is the distinction the taxonomy exists to draw -- and the join is per (record, enrichment), so a record the sentiment provider refuses is still translatable. The same fan-out also enqueued onto the live translations queue, where a tenant's whole re-translated history sits in front of records arriving now. That is the starvation the reconcile lanes exist to prevent, and this is bulk catch-up work by any definition, so it moves into the lane sized for it. The lane is registered under the same condition as the fan-out worker itself, so it exists whenever the fan-out can run -- independent of the reconciler's kill switch.
WalkthroughThis PR adds configurable enrichment reconciliation with periodic River sweeps and separate queues for translation, sentiment, and emotions. The reconciler queries pending records, excludes terminal failures and in-flight jobs, and batch-enqueues missing work. A tenant-scoped retry endpoint clears terminal failure markers with cooldown and purge-lock protection. The API includes request and response schemas for per-enrichment outcomes. Worker wiring, migrations, queue isolation, configuration helpers, and unit and integration tests are included. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5✅ Passed checks (5 passed)
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In `@internal/repository/enrichment_reconcile_repository.go`:
- Around line 82-101: Make event and reconciliation enqueueing mutually
exclusive per feedback record by implementing a shared cross-lane uniqueness key
or per-record Work-time lock, covering
internal/repository/enrichment_reconcile_repository.go:82-101 and
internal/service/enrichment_reconcile.go:199-216 so the
ListPendingEnrichment-to-InsertMany race with enrichmentProvider.PublishEvent
cannot create concurrent jobs; add an integration test under tests/ that
reproduces this interleaving and verifies enrichmentWorker invokes the provider
only once.
In `@internal/service/enrichment_retry_service.go`:
- Around line 160-167: Update Retry’s enrichment loop to preserve
response.Results accumulated from earlier successful retryOne calls when a later
call fails; return the partial response together with the error instead of
discarding completed outcomes, while keeping the existing successful-path
behavior unchanged.
In `@internal/workers/enrichment_reconcile.go`:
- Around line 48-52: Define a five-minute Timeout method on
EnrichmentReconcileWorker so River’s job timeout matches the
enrichmentReconcileTimeout used by Work and does not rely on the client default.
Keep the existing child-context timeout and Work behavior unchanged.
In `@openapi.yaml`:
- Around line 1628-1634: The OpenAPI response definition for the retry endpoint
currently documents only 202; add a 413 response for oversized request bodies,
using application/problem+json content that references the ErrorModel schema.
Preserve the existing 202 EnrichmentRetryOutputBody response.
In `@tests/enrichment_retry_test.go`:
- Around line 235-252: Update pendingIDs to scope the pending-enrichment query
to the supplied tenant before applying the result limit, or use a tenant-scoped
SQL count, so assertions do not depend on unrelated rows in the shared database.
Preserve the existing UUID set returned for that tenant and keep the change
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…cannot do (ENG-2376) Five findings from the automated review; four were real. The sweep's 5-minute bound was decorative. WorkerDefaults.Timeout returns zero, River reads zero as "use Config.JobTimeout", RIVER_JOB_TIMEOUT_SECONDS defaults to 0, and River reads that as its own one-minute default -- so the sweep was cancelled at a minute, the context.WithTimeout inside Work could not extend it, and MaxAttempts 1 turned the cancellation into a discarded job and an error log every tick. The peer backfill worker already declares Timeout; this one now does too, with tests, including one that fails if the method is deleted. A multi-enrichment retry that failed part-way returned only the error, while the clears that had already succeeded kept their deleted markers and their burned cooldowns. The next call then answered cooling_down with nothing anywhere explaining why. It now logs what was already cleared before returning. The partial results are still not returned alongside the error -- a partial success under a failure status is worse to consume than a log line is to read. The retry endpoint documented only 202, though it can answer 400, 401, 409 and 413. All four are in the spec now, so generated clients can model them. The pending-set test helper read 500 records across all tenants and filtered in Go, which was fine only as long as the shared database stayed small. It was not: adding a truncation guard turned the assertion red immediately on a database that had been used for other work. The limit is now far above what the suite creates, and the guard stays, so the failure names truncation instead of blaming a record that was simply pushed off the end. The fifth finding -- that the in-flight anti-join is a read rather than a lock, so an event landing between the SELECT and the InsertMany still yields two jobs -- is correct, and stays. Its suggested fix, a shared cross-lane unique key, is the bug enrichment_provider.go documents at length: the completed state sits unremovably in River's default state set and swallows legitimate re-enrichment. A per-record Work-time lock buys back one wasted provider call on a record that changed during the milliseconds of one sweep, and when the racing event is a content change the supersession guards already drop the stale result. The comment now says all of this rather than claiming the anti-join closes the window.
The six new variables were in .env.example but nowhere a self-hoster actually reads. AGENTS.md treats .env.example as the full documented set of runtime options; the published reference is what somebody deciding whether to turn the sweep off consults, and it had no idea the sweep existed. Adds the three ENRICHMENT_RECONCILE_* rows and puts each *_RECONCILE_MAX_CONCURRENT next to the live *_MAX_CONCURRENT it shadows, so the two budgets are read together rather than discovered separately. The prose is the part that matters. It says why the reconciler exists (the event path is fast, not complete), why terminal failures are excluded (a sweep that retried them would never terminate), that clearing them is what the retry endpoint is for, and why topping up to a depth rather than enqueueing at a rate keeps the job table bounded. Someone reaching for the kill switch should be able to see from here what they are turning off.
Both spend provider money with nobody watching a request. The sweep runs
unattended on the elected leader; the retry endpoint is called by another
service. Neither shows up in request dashboards, so until now the only
evidence either had run was a log line, and the only way to notice sweeps
had stopped converging was to notice their absence.
Four metrics, carrying the enrichment as a label rather than in the name, so
they are already in the shape the pending per-type consolidation is heading
for:
hub_enrichment_reconcile_sweeps_total{outcome}
hub_enrichment_reconcile_duration_seconds{outcome}
hub_enrichment_reconcile_enqueued_total{enrichment}
hub_enrichment_retry_requests_total{enrichment,outcome}
Enqueued and duration together answer the question that actually matters
after a deploy: is the backlog draining, and is a sweep still finishing
inside its own interval — a duration approaching
ENRICHMENT_RECONCILE_INTERVAL_SECONDS means ticks are about to overlap and
be silently coalesced by the job's uniqueness.
The sweep records on BOTH paths and before the error return: a sweep that
failed part-way still enqueued what it enqueued, and a failing sweep is
precisely when someone needs its duration. A test fails if that is narrowed
back to the success path.
The retry counter uses the API's own outcome values rather than a generic
success/error, because "cleared" turning into "cooling_down" is the cost
bound working and is the thing worth watching. observability cannot import
models, so those three strings are re-declared there -- and since the
normalizer rewrites anything unrecognised to "error", a rename would not
break the build, would not fail a test, and would just make that outcome
report as an error forever. A parity test binds the two sets.
Also covers EnrichmentReconcileConfig.Interval and .Depth, which were both
at 0%. They exist only to survive misconfiguration, and the ceiling I added
during review -- the one stopping an operator who reads TargetDepth as
"records to process" from materialising ten million rows into river_job --
had nothing proving it.
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Correctness-focused pass over the diff. Build, go vet and go test ./internal/... ./cmd/... are green locally (integration tests need a DB, not run).
I checked and could not fault: the retry SQL's atomic claim (the gate CTE holds a volatile function so Postgres materializes it once; the data-modifying claim CTE is always materialized so the EXISTS ordering is deterministic; fr.tenant_id stays the boundary and the PK makes the unqualified DELETE safe), the in-flight anti-join (no row fan-out survives IS NULL, and fr.id::text matches Go's UUID marshalling), River 0.39 genuinely honouring UniqueOpts on InsertMany (the unique key is computed in insertManyShared, and InFlightUniqueStates() satisfies requiredV3states), migration 025's partial predicates being provably implied by the queries (negate_clause De-Morgans the emotions NOT (… OR …) into the index's IS NULL AND IS NULL), pgx v5's interval ↔ time.Duration mapping, and the reconcile-lane queue registration conditions matching the sweep's spec conditions in all three cases.
Four comments below — one config-reachable bound, one cross-process config coupling, one dropped error, one order-dependent test. None block on their own.
Unrelated nit: the description's config section still says {TRANSLATION,SENTIMENT,EMOTIONS}_BACKFILL_MAX_CONCURRENT; the code and .env.example both use *_RECONCILE_MAX_CONCURRENT.
main gained its own reconciler for embeddings (#133), which collided with this branch in four ways beyond the migration number. Both sides independently introduced a batch-insert seam. main named it RiverBatchInserter and deleted WebhookDispatchInserter outright; this branch had kept the old name as an alias. Took main's shape -- the alias bought nothing -- and kept this branch's doc note about InsertMany over InsertManyFast, which is the part that is easy to get wrong. Both sides also added a second-lane field to JobKindSpec, and happened to converge on the same name. Merged the entries so embeddings, translation, sentiment and emotions all declare their reconcile lane, and both reconcile kinds are registered. The parity test caught the consequence immediately: probedKinds was still 8 with nine kinds present, which is exactly the drift it exists to fail on. The periodic-job registration was the one place a careless resolution would have shipped a silent regression. main appends to riverCfg.PeriodicJobs; this branch assigned to it. Keeping either side verbatim would have dropped the other's sweep with nothing failing -- no build error, no test, just one reconciler quietly never running. Both now append. main's embedding sweep also inlined the five in-flight job states that InFlightUniqueStates() already provides. With both sweeps now in one file that was two copies of a set whose doc explains why getting it wrong is silent in both directions, so the embedding sweep uses the helper too. Migrations renumbered past main's 024: retry cooldowns 024 -> 025, pending indexes 025 -> 026. Verified goose applies all three in order on a fresh database.
Merging main's embedding reconciler alongside this branch's enrichment one left two independent sweeps appended to the same PeriodicJobs slice, and nothing anywhere asserted both were there. That shape loses work silently. Assign instead of append, or resolve the merge conflict by keeping one side -- which is what the conflict literally offered, since main appends and this branch assigned -- and one reconciler is never scheduled. It builds, the suite stays green, and the only symptom is coverage quietly not converging, discovered weeks later by someone wondering why records are stuck. Extracts reconcileSweepSchedules, a pure function over (cfg, two bools), so the selection can be asserted without a River client or a database, and adds the test. Verified by injection: disabling the enrichment sweep fails with "both sweeps must be scheduled; one missing means it never runs". The test also pins what each schedule carries -- MaxAttempts 1, ByArgs, and the shared in-flight state set -- since those are the settings whose loss is equally quiet. reconcilePeriodicJobs only converts schedules into River jobs. The converted jobs are opaque (river.PeriodicJob keeps its constructor unexported), so the count is all that can be checked on that side; the loop-variable capture that would otherwise be worth testing cannot happen on Go 1.26, where each iteration gets its own variable.
…g errors (ENG-2376) Four findings from the review of the merge. All four were real. The depth control was not bounding anything once retries were involved. countRunnableByQueueSQL excluded `retryable` while the pending set excludes those records as in-flight, so a job backing off was invisible to BOTH: the sweep saw an empty lane and topped it up to TargetDepth with different records, on top of the ones already retrying. Whenever the retry window exceeds the sweep interval -- reachable by raising *_MAX_ATTEMPTS, since River backs off by roughly attempt^4 seconds -- that repeats every tick and the queue grows without limit, which is the exact unbounded river_job growth TargetDepth exists to prevent. The two now share one state set. The comment defending the exclusion argued that counting retryable would let a stuck backoff stall the sweep. It would not: retryable is bounded, since a job either succeeds or exhausts MaxAttempts and leaves for discarded/cancelled. And pausing is the correct behaviour while a lane is full of backing-off work -- the provider is failing, and enqueueing another TargetDepth of records against a failing provider spends money to make the backlog worse. Sweep's early return on a failed depth query discarded the errs collected just above it, so an enrichment enabled but missing from ReconcileQueueFor -- permanent, and silently never swept -- was hidden behind whatever transient database error happened to occur. The operator retries the connection reset and never learns the real problem. Both errors now survive. ENRICHMENT_RECONCILE_ENABLED is read by hub-api to refuse retries that nothing would act on, but the sweep it describes runs in hub-worker, and nothing correlates the two. Disabling it on the worker alone -- the natural move for a worker-only feature, and what worker.extraEnv makes easy -- leaves the API clearing markers and burning cooldowns for a sweep that will never run. Documented on the env-vars reference and in .env.example, matching the "configure identically" note the translation vars already carry. The truncation guard added for the retry tests was never applied to the reconcile tests, which read the same capped cross-tenant query. Same guard, same limit, now on both -- the PR description claimed this was handled, and it was, for one of the two files. Each fix is verified by injection: reverting it turns the new test red with the message that names the failure.
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Thanks Dhru — all four are fixed in 2608e44, and the description nit is corrected (it now reads Two notes on the replies in the threads. The depth-count one is the finding of the round. I had reasoned about each state set on its own and never put them side by side, so the interaction was invisible to me. Worth flagging that fixing it meant reversing a decision the code explicitly defended: the old comment claimed counting I also resolved the four threads after replying. If you would rather check the fixes yourself first, say so and I will reopen them — I should probably have left that to you. Thanks too for the "could not fault" list. Several of those (the |
Follow-up from re-reviewing 2608e44, which fixed the four findings but added two smaller problems of its own. CountRunnableByQueue now counts retryable jobs, so "runnable" is wrong: a job waiting out its backoff is not runnable, it just occupies the lane. Renamed to CountInFlightByQueue, matching pendingInFlightStates, because the two sharing one state set is the invariant that makes TargetDepth mean anything and the names should say so. The doc comment said "queues with nothing runnable" and was stale for the same reason. The truncation guard also arrived as two constants -- reconcilePageLimit and pendingLimit, same value, same purpose, same package -- which is the duplication the finding was about, reintroduced one level up. One pendingPageLimit in helpers.go now, since the limit and its guard only work as a pair and two copies drift. No behaviour change. The injection check still binds: restoring the four-state list turns TestQueueDepthCountsRetryableJobs red.
What does this PR do?
Stacked on #125— #125 merged, and this branch is rebased ontomain, so the diff is the reconciler alone. One rebase casualty worth knowing: the cooldown migration renumbered from 023 to 024, because #130 took 023 on main while this was in flight.ENG-2375 made enrichment coverage reportable:
eligible,done,failed,failed_terminal, and a terminal-vs-transient taxonomy so the two kinds of failure are told apart. This makes it self-healing.Enrichment coverage becomes a level-triggered invariant — every eligible record ends up enriched, or classified as something the provider will never accept. The event path stays exactly as it is and keeps enrichment fast; a periodic sweep finds what that path missed and is what makes it eventually complete. Events are the optimisation, reconciliation is the guarantee.
That subsumes four problems that currently look separate: records stranded because credentials were unset when they arrived (Dhru's repro on ENG-2375), transient failures that used up their retry budget, jobs lost to a crash between enqueue and work, and ENG-2243's emotions phantom-pending records, which are exactly the pending set.
The pieces
The pending set reuses the status endpoint's own predicate constants rather than restating them. That is deliberate and load-bearing: the endpoint reports
eligible - done - failedas work that is scheduled, and this is what schedules it, so the two definitions of "pending" cannot be allowed to drift. Terminal failures are excluded — without that the sweep re-runs a content-filtered record on every tick forever, at a provider call each time, and never terminates. This is why the taxonomy in #125 had to land first.A backfill queue per enrichment, separate from the live queue the event path feeds. Separation is the rate control: the two lanes draw from different
MaxWorkersbudgets, so a sweep of a large backlog cannot make a record submitted a moment ago wait behind it. The alternative — pacing inserts onto the live queue — means guessing a rate that matches drain speed, and guessing low is indistinguishable from the reconciler not running. It also fixes something older:backfill-classifyenqueues onto the live queues today, so running one already starves live enrichment.Top up to a target depth, not at a rate. Each tick adds only what the workers have already drained, so
river_jobstays bounded whether the backlog is a thousand records or fifty million.Uniqueness across the in-flight states, where both halves matter in opposite directions.
completedmust stay out — River's default set includes it, and with noByPeriodthe window is unbounded, so the first sweep of a record would be the only one that ever ran.retryablemust stay in — a job waiting out its backoff runs again by itself, and re-enqueueing it doubles the provider calls for a record already being handled. The tenant purge declared the same set for the same reasons, so they are one helper now rather than two lists that can drift.Worth not conflating: the queue-depth query excludes
retryable, because a job waiting out a backoff is not occupying a worker — counting it would have the sweep see a full queue while nothing drains.Scheduled by River's periodic scheduler, which runs from the elected leader only. That is the reason for the choice: with several hub-workers deployed, a ticker in each process would have every replica sweeping at once. The scheduler's state is in memory, so a restart or leader change restarts the cycle — which costs nothing, because the sweep is level-triggered: a missed tick is invisible and an extra one finds the queue at depth and does nothing.
Config
ENRICHMENT_RECONCILE_ENABLED(kill switch, on by default),_INTERVAL_SECONDS(300),_TARGET_DEPTH(1000), and{TRANSLATION,SENTIMENT,EMOTIONS}_RECONCILE_MAX_CONCURRENT(2). Interval and depth fall back to their defaults when misconfigured, because a zero interval makes River reject the job outright and a zero depth makes the sweep enqueue nothing — both take the reconciler silently offline, which is the failure this feature exists to prevent.The retry endpoint
The sweep deliberately never revives a terminal record — the provider refused that text, so re-running it costs a call and fails identically. Correct, right up until the premise changes (the text was edited, the provider changed its policy), and then there is no way back.
POST /v1/tenants/{tenant_id}/enrichments/retryis the override: it clears the terminal markers so the next sweep picks those records up.Under
/v1/tenants/, and not by preference. The gateway publicly routes the/v1/feedback-recordsprefix and injects Hub credentials into it, so an endpoint there is internet-reachable and defended only by the ext_authz allowlist. A bulk operation that spends provider money on records already known to fail does not belong on the public side of that line — both tenant purges live under/v1/tenants/for the same reason.The cooldown (migration 024) is a security control, not a nicety. Clearing is a request to spend a provider call on every permanently-failed record, so with no bound the endpoint is call → clear → sweep → all fail → call again, at one invocation per record per cycle from a single authenticated caller, and the Hub has no rate limiting anywhere else. One row per (tenant, enrichment) bounds it to (terminal set / cooldown), and the window is stamped in the same statement as the delete so a caller cannot take a clear and dodge it.
Three behaviours worth reviewing specifically:
Linear: https://linear.app/formbricks/issue/ENG-2376/auto-re-queue-failed-jobs
Post-review hardening (95714dc / 2367927)
A full review + security pass over this diff fixed 10 findings before any human read it. The ones a reviewer should know changed the design:
ENRICHMENT_RECONCILE_ENABLED=false— its 202 means "the next sweep picks these up", and with the kill switch off it would otherwise delete markers, burn the cooldown, and improve the failure counts while doing nothing.MaxAttempts: 1— a failed sweep dies and the next tick is the retry; with River's default 25, a failing sweep's backoff held the unique key and silently absorbed every subsequent tick.*_reconcile(not*_backfill) becausetranslations_backfillwas one transposition from the pre-existingtranslation_backfills; migration 025 adds partial pending indexes for sentiment/emotions (translation documented as deliberately unindexable); sweep config is oneEnrichmentSweepSpec;RetryAfterSecondsis ceiled; the retry body uses the houseMaxBytesReaderidiom; the gate mapping is shared with the status service; the six env vars are documented in.env.example.Smoke-tested end to end (real stack, real browser)
Against a Hub database carrying 801 genuinely stranded records (discarded jobs, zero runnable — the exact state ENG-2375's PR left behind as a fixture), with the PR-8845 banner watching from a real formbricks web app:
failedwent 400/401 → 0 for both enrichments and both directories,unaccounted=0throughout; terminal records correctly untouched. Steady-state sweeps: ~7–10ms.disabled), immediate second callcooling_downwithretry_after_seconds: 3600, the next sweep enqueued exactly the 197 cleared, and the tenant reached 1151/1151 done, zero failures of any kind.One definition of pending, everywhere (5c68634)
The reconciler skips terminally-failed records because a provider that refused a text structurally
will refuse it again. The settings-triggered per-tenant translation fan-out shared none of that
reasoning: it re-listed every untranslated record, terminal markers included. So the sweep would
carefully skip a record and the next target-language change would hand it another provider call —
1517 wasted jobs in a measured 3000-record run, and the terminal exclusion worth nothing in
practice.
translationBackfillSelectSQLnow carries the same exclusion the pending set does.Non-terminal markers stay targets (those failed for reasons a retry can fix, which is the whole
distinction the taxonomy draws), and the join is per (record, enrichment), so a record the
sentiment provider refuses is still translatable. Both are pinned by test.
That same fan-out also enqueued onto the live
translationsqueue, where a tenant's re-translatedhistory sits in front of records arriving right now — the starvation the reconcile lanes exist to
prevent. It moves to
translations_reconcile, which is registered under the same condition as thefan-out worker itself, so the lane exists whenever the fan-out can run, independent of the
reconciler's kill switch.
The three operator-run CLI backfill commands have the same two problems and are deliberately left
alone here — filed as ENG-2744, since retiring them may be the better answer than fixing them.
Automated review round (6ebbb29)
Four fixes. The sweep's 5-minute timeout was decorative —
WorkerDefaults.Timeoutreturns zero,River reads that as "use
Config.JobTimeout",RIVER_JOB_TIMEOUT_SECONDSdefaults to 0, and Riverreads that as its own one-minute default, so sweeps were cut at 60s and
MaxAttempts: 1turnedeach one into a discarded job and an error log per tick. A multi-enrichment retry that failed
part-way discarded the record of clears that had already burned their cooldowns. The endpoint
documented only 202 despite answering 400/401/409/413. And the pending-set test helper read a
capped cross-tenant page — adding a truncation guard turned it red immediately on a database that
had been used for other work, so it was passing on the accident of newest-first ordering.
One finding is knowingly left open. The in-flight anti-join is a read, not a lock, so an event
landing between the
SELECTand theInsertManystill produces two jobs for one record. Thesuggested fix — a shared cross-lane unique key — is the bug
enrichment_provider.godocuments atlength:
completedsits unremovably in River's default unique-state set and swallows legitimatere-enrichment on
A→cleared→A. The alternative is a per-record lock at Work time, to buy back oneduplicate provider call on a record that happened to change during the milliseconds of one sweep —
and when the racing event is a content change, the supersession guards already drop the stale
result, so what survives is a wasted call rather than a wrong answer. The comment now states the
residual window instead of claiming the anti-join closes it.
Metrics (e47a8d0)
The sweep runs unattended on the elected leader and the retry endpoint is called by another
service, so neither appears in request dashboards — until this commit the only evidence either had
run was a log line, and the only way to notice sweeps had stopped converging was to notice their
absence. The plan named these under PR5, which shipped with ENG-2375 before the reconciler existed,
so they fell between the two PRs.
Enqueued and duration together are the post-deploy question: is the backlog draining, and is a
sweep still finishing inside its own interval — a duration approaching
ENRICHMENT_RECONCILE_INTERVAL_SECONDSmeans ticks are about to overlap and be coalesced by thejob's uniqueness. The sweep records on both paths and before the error return, because a sweep
that failed part-way still enqueued what it enqueued; a test fails if that is narrowed back to the
success path. The retry counter uses the API's own outcome values rather than a generic
success/error, since
clearedturning intocooling_downis the cost bound working — and becauseobservabilitycannot importmodels, a parity test binds the two enums (the normalizer rewritesanything unrecognised to
error, so a rename would otherwise silently mislabel that outcomeforever).
Also brings
EnrichmentReconcileConfig.Intervaland.Depthfrom 0% to full coverage. Both existonly to survive misconfiguration, including the
TargetDepthceiling added during review.Second smoke run, on the final head (e47a8d0)
The first smoke run predated the lane change and the metrics, so both were re-verified live against
a real stack — Postgres, both binaries, a synthetic provider, and an OTLP sink capturing exported
telemetry.
The lane move. Setting
target_languageon a 60-record tenant fanned out 59 jobs ontotranslations_reconcileand zero onto the livetranslationsqueue — 59 not 60 because onerecord carried a terminal marker and was correctly skipped. All 59 drained (58 completed, 1
cancelled), which is the part a unit test cannot show: the queue jobs are now inserted onto has
workers assigned, so they are not sitting there looking enqueued forever.
The reconciler's own exclusion. With 5 records matching a naive "not translated" count but 2 of
them terminal, the sweep enqueued exactly 3. That is what makes convergence terminate.
The terminal taxonomy, end to end. The 1 cancelled job was a provider refusal: the worker
classified it terminal, cancelled rather than burning the retry budget, and wrote a durable marker
with
reason=refusal.POST /enrichments/retrythen cleared 2 markers (202 cleared), a secondcall correctly refused (
cooling_down,retry_after_seconds: 3600), and the next sweep re-pickedexactly those 2. Tenant finished at 60 eligible / 60 translated / 0 terminal — also a live
demonstration that a terminal marker is not a life sentence. 64 jobs for 64 units of work; no
duplicate enqueueing.
Metrics. All four confirmed in exported OTLP payloads with correct labels —
sweeps_total{outcome=success},duration_seconds,enqueued_total{enrichment=translation}, andretry_requests_totalcarrying bothclearedandcooling_down. The cardinality rule was checkedagainst the wire, not the source: no
tenant_idlabel key and no tenant id values appearanywhere in the exported telemetry.
How should this be tested?
The sweep's arithmetic is the part worth attacking, since the whole rate-control story rests on it.
internal/service/enrichment_reconcile_test.gopins: asks for exactly the remaining room (1000 target − 400 runnable = 600), skips a queue already at depth without even querying the pending set, never asks for a negative limit when a queue is past target, counts only what River actually inserted rather than duplicates it skipped, refuses to sweep with no inserter attached, and keeps sweeping the other enrichments when one query fails. Each was verified by breaking it and watching the suite go red — e.g. replacing the top-up with a fixed batch fails on "1000 target minus 400 already runnable", and dropping the explicitByStatefails the uniqueness assertion.tests/enrichment_reconcile_test.goruns the pending set against real Postgres: a never-attempted record is pending, a retryable failure comes back, awrite_failedcomes back, a terminal one is excluded, and an enriched one is not pending. Verified by making the exclusion key on the reason instead ofterminal— which strands every write failure — and by removing it entirely.The parity tests are the ones that caught real mistakes here. Declaring a job kind without registering a worker, or declaring a backfill lane no worker is assigned to, both look exactly like enqueued work that never runs. Both now fail loudly.
The retry endpoint has five integration tests against real Postgres, each verified by injection: removing the cooldown check, spending the cooldown on a refused retry, and clearing non-terminal markers alongside terminal ones all turn the suite red. The cooldown test also proves the window expires rather than latching — a cooldown that never released would be a worse bug than none.
By hand, for Dhru's original repro: create a record with
SENTIMENT_PROVIDER/SENTIMENT_MODELunset, set them, and wait one interval. The record should enrich with no manualbackfill-classifyrun. I have not yet automated this — see below.Checklist
Required
make buildmake tests(integration tests intests/)make fmtandmake lint; no new warningsgit pull origin main024_enrichment_retry_cooldowns.sql, goose annotations,make migrate-validaterunAppreciated
openapi.yamlupdated for the retry endpoint; contract tests rundocs/if changes were necessarymake tests-coveragefor meaningful logic changes