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Fixes ENG-1161

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• Bug Fixes
  • Corrected how dictionary identifiers are read from compressed data, improving the handling of dictionary-based compression.
  • Updated compressed-data header formatting to include consistent padding and field ordering. This changes the public header layout, so integrations that rely on its exact byte structure may need to account for the updated format.

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Preserve decoding of existing headers.
Discriminate the new header from plain blobs.

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Review comments at @sqlite-compress/src/functions/header.rs:
- Line 34: Update header decoding so byte 1 is interpreted according to the
header layout, preserving support for existing blobs with codec value 0; assign
a distinct version to the new layout and keep its decoding behavior intact. Add
a test that reads a blob produced by the previous implementation, covering
persisted compressed data.
- Line 34: Add a format discriminator to the new header layout and validate it
in the header-parsing path before `decompress` treats data as framed. Keep plain
blobs that lack the discriminator on the existing plain-data path.

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Walkthrough

The PR changes the public Header field layout by adding a padding byte and reordering fields. It also updates the dictionary ID test helper to read bytes 4–7.

Changes: Header format update

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Header field layout sqlite-compress/src/functions/header.rs	Header places header_len before codec and adds a padding field. Header::new initializes padding to zero.
Dictionary ID test helper sqlite-compress/tests/dict_train.rs	header_dict_id reads the dictionary ID from bytes 4–7.

Priority: Low

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~8 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Possibly related PRs

• caido/sqlite-rs#30: Adds compressed_dict_id, which reads the dictionary ID from the compressed blob Header.
• caido/sqlite-rs#14: Adds search_blob, which parses Header and uses header_len to locate the compressed payload.

Merge Risk: High · up to 23a86

This change alters the stored blob header format without any compatibility path. Compressed values already stored in SQLite would be returned still compressed instead of decoded, and some plain binary values would cause decompression errors on read. Add legacy-layout decoding and a format discriminator, or explicitly accept the break, before merging.

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Title check		The title clearly describes the main change: the header layout changes by swapping codec and header_len and optimizing header size. It is concise and related to the changeset.
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Inline comments:
Review comments at @sqlite-compress/src/functions/header.rs:
- Line 34: Update header decoding so byte 1 is interpreted according to the
header layout, preserving support for existing blobs with codec value 0; assign
a distinct version to the new layout and keep its decoding behavior intact. Add
a test that reads a blob produced by the previous implementation, covering
persisted compressed data.
- Line 34: Add a format discriminator to the new header layout and validate it
in the header-parsing path before `decompress` treats data as framed. Keep plain
blobs that lack the discriminator on the existing plain-data path.

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Major · Data Integrity & Integration · Heavy lift

Preserve decoding of existing headers.

Existing blobs store the Zstd codec value 0 at byte 1. The new parser reads that byte as header_len, rejects the header, and decompress returns the compressed blob as plain data. This affects both raw and dictionary-compressed values already stored in SQLite. (github.com)

Support the previous layout when reading existing blobs, and use a distinct version for the new layout. Add a test that reads a blob written by the previous implementation.

Based on learnings: verify backward compatibility for persisted serialization formats.

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Review comment at @sqlite-compress/src/functions/header.rs at line 34:
Update header decoding so byte 1 is interpreted according to the header layout,
preserving support for existing blobs with codec value 0; assign a distinct
version to the new layout and keep its decoding behavior intact. Add a test that
reads a blob produced by the previous implementation, covering persisted
compressed data.

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Major · Data Integrity & Integration · Heavy lift

Discriminate the new header from plain blobs.

The reordered fields make some previously plain blobs look framed. For example, X'010C00000000000000000000FF' now passes the header checks, so decompress attempts to decode FF as Zstandard and returns an error. The previous layout rejected this blob as plain data. This can break decoded-view reads for existing binary values. (github.com)

Add a format discriminator and validate it before treating the new layout as framed.

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Review comment at @sqlite-compress/src/functions/header.rs at line 34:
Add a format discriminator to the new header layout and validate it in the
header-parsing path before `decompress` treats data as framed. Keep plain blobs
that lack the discriminator on the existing plain-data path.

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