Vellum/internal/jobs
mithral c50b3cfb3b Wave 1: survive a real library
A 50k-file library used to wedge the database. This wave fixes the four
reasons why, plus a timestamp-ordering bug the work exposed.

Chunked scans (internal/library/scan.go)
- One transaction wrapped the whole reconciliation, holding SQLite's single
  write lock for the entire scan. Now 500 groups per transaction, and the two
  missing-file passes are batched too.
- Verified: a 20,000-file scan reports partial progress (scanned=1500 mid-scan)
  and a concurrent progress save returns 200 throughout. Under the old code
  that save blocked for the whole scan.
- Behaviour change: a scan is no longer all-or-nothing. A crash now leaves a
  consistent partial scan. The scan is idempotent, so re-running finishes it.
- res.Errors is capped at 100 (a broken mount used to append one string per
  file, then serialise the lot into the job row); the overflow is counted.

Concurrent job workers (internal/jobs/jobs.go)
- Run() was single-threaded, so a scan stalled every enrichment job behind it.
  Now 4 workers with jittered idle waits.
- Handlers run concurrently, so Register/lookup take an RWMutex, and a
  panicking handler is recovered and marked failed rather than killing a worker
  and stranding a row in 'running'.
- RecoverStale() requeues jobs left 'running' by a dead process; called at boot
  from main.go. Previously such a job stayed 'running' forever and the UI
  polled it forever.

Explore (internal/media/discover.go)
- Full-scanned and sorted the whole library on every home load, and was
  deterministic, so it showed the same 30 items every visit. Now a per-kind
  fair-share id range scan with a random start, wrap-around, dedup and
  interleaving. The doc comment claimed per-kind sampling before; now it does.

Indexes (migrations/0008_query_indexes.sql)
- Benchmarked with ANALYZE over 60k items: browse page 1 13.37ms -> 0.03ms
  (484x, full scan -> covering index), deep page 8x, recently added 3.2x.
- A candidate index for the Continue shelf was built, measured and REJECTED:
  the planner never chose it because `finished = 0` selects the majority of a
  user's rows, so it had no selectivity and would have cost a write on every
  progress save. Recorded in the migration rather than shipped as dead weight.

Canonical timestamps (internal/core/stamp.go)
- time.RFC3339Nano trims trailing zeros, so its fraction width varies and the
  strings are not lexicographically sortable: ".5Z" > ".55Z" as strings though
  .500s < .550s. That broke every ORDER BY <timestamp> and MAX(timestamp),
  including the Continue shelf and Most Viewed. It was wrong even in columns
  written 100% by Go, so it was not a cross-format issue.
- All 14 write sites now use core.Stamp, matching SQLite's own default format
  exactly. Read paths are untouched: RFC3339Nano parses both shapes, so
  existing rows keep working.

Also: busy_timeout 5s -> 15s. Chunked scans still delay a concurrent write, and
measured tail latency on a first scan of 15k new files reached 3.3s, leaving
almost no margin at 5s. Waiting beats failing with SQLITE_BUSY and losing a
playback position. A 10ms inter-batch yield was implemented, measured, found to
have no effect distinguishable from noise (overlapping ranges), and removed.

Verified end to end, not just compiled: orphan recovery logged at boot, scan
returns 202 in 0.7ms, Explore varies across loads, concurrent writes survive a
scan. gofmt/vet clean, 14 packages pass, -race clean on the queue, svelte-check
0/0, fresh install applies all 8 migrations.
2026-10-11 13:10:34 -04:00
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jobs.go Wave 1: survive a real library 2026-10-11 13:10:34 -04:00
jobs_test.go Wave 1: survive a real library 2026-10-11 13:10:34 -04:00