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fix(persistence): open every tokio --shards 1 AOF generation with MOON.COLDCUT (moon#914) - #1017

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Refs #914. This PR closes quadrants (a) and (c). Quadrant (b) stays open and is escalated below.

Depends on #1011 and #1008. The first two commits carry their diffs verbatim, because #914 had to be judged with them applied. Review only the last commit. Merge this after both, then rebase to drop the carried commits. Squash-merging this first would also land #1011 and #1008.

Is #914 still exploitable after #1011? Yes.

#1011 fixed the end-of-replay resolution. It did not touch replay-time read visibility. Setup: tokio --shards 1, origin/main + #1011 + #1008, binary pinned with MOON_BIN.

quadrant scenario unfixed fixed
(a) fresh boot moon#902 families, kill -9 ×3 79–82 / 216 probes double-applied on the first cycle 0
(a) after BGREWRITEAOF moon#912's exact SET-only shape 13–14 / 24 acknowledged v2 came back v1. Log: reconcile (gated=false): 13 hot shadow(s) demoted 24 / 24 v2, gated=true
(a) after BGREWRITEAOF post-rewrite values spilled again, then kill -9 18–20 double-applied 0
(c) --wal-kv-log on spill, then kill -9 DBSIZE 248 → 103 when a WAL copy of a marker landed before the kill; otherwise AOF fallback and doubles 248 → 248, 0 doubled

#1011 only rescues a generation that happens to carry a MOON.SPILLED marker. A post-rewrite generation often carries none, which is why #912 is still live.

(a) Root cause and fix

runtime-tokio + --shards 1 is the one configuration with no AofManifest. Creating one there wipes the v2-loaded state on the next boot. That is the empty-manifest replay regression, #96 / 14ca4f0c (test_txn_commit_wal_crash_recovery). So seed_cold_cut never ran. The tokio TopLevel BGREWRITEAOF (rewrite_aof_sharded_sync) also wrote a bare RDB preamble. It ignored the cold_file_watermark that AofFoldSnapshot already carries for the monoio fold.

option verdict
A. MOON.COLDCUT head inside the legacy appendonly.aof: at fresh boot when the file holds no record, and after each rewrite's preamble, before the rename chosen. Same record and same meaning as the monoio incr head, and no manifest, so #96 can't recur. Pre-#911 binaries replay an unknown MOON.* record as an ignored error, as they already do for the MOON.SPILLED this file has carried since #911. Reversible by removing two writes.
B. sidecar watermark file rejected: the AOF rename and the sidecar update can't be atomic, and a new on-disk artifact is an escalation
C. minimal manifest just to carry the cut rejected: reintroduces #96 unless the loader learns a "cut-only" manifest, which changes manifest semantics
D. infer the watermark rejected: a lost marker leaves a cold-only key invisible, and a later write then loses it

The empty-manifest regression isn't reintroduced: no manifest is created on tokio --shards 1. txn_kv_wiring (#96's own guard) passes on the tokio leg below.

(c) The WAL-authority path

It is reachable only on tokio --shards 1: every other configuration has a manifest, and kv_authority_elsewhere skips WAL KV records there. Connection-local writes never reach that WAL, so the WAL cannot double-apply a client write. The failure is something else. ColdMarkerSink mirrors MOON.SPILLED into the WAL, and Phase 4 counted the marker as a KV command. One marker made the WAL the "authority", so Phase 4b skipped the AOF and lost its entire history. The fix excludes cold-plane records from that count, the same class as the FileCreate exclusion.

Also fixed on the same path

  • Phase 4b closed the replay generation on db 0 only, but MOON.COLDCUT gates every database. A gate that outlives replay hides every later spill. New close_replay_generation closes every open generation; pre-Cold-tier key + kill -9: AOF replay re-applies non-idempotent writes on top of the restored cold copy (RPUSH silently duplicates every element) #902 logs are untouched, so no new cold-wins demote. It is also called by the v2 replay path and the non-sharded listener. main.rs warns and closes any gate still open before serving.
  • Two test instruments used "appendonly.aof is non-empty" to mean "the rewrite / the first flush landed", which is no longer true once a fresh AOF opens with its head. txn_kv_wiring now waits for the MOON preamble. wire_reachability_red now waits for the last fixture's bytes.

Red/green proof

Same test binary for every side, binary pinned via MOON_BIN.

  • Unfixed: tests/cold_cut_single_shard_914.rs 3/4 RED, each for its own reason. The WAL leg is timing-dependent; its deterministic guard is a unit test.
  • Only the rewrite head reverted: both post-rewrite legs RED and the fresh leg green, so each head is independently necessary.
  • Fixed: 4/4 green, 3 consecutive runs.
  • Unit tests cold_plane_records_in_the_wal_do_not_suppress_the_aof_fallback and phase_4b_closes_the_replay_generation_on_every_database are RED with only their fix reverted, and GREEN once restored.
  • Clippy -D warnings --all-targets is clean on both runtimes, and fmt is clean.

ESCALATION — quadrant (b), not implemented

An AOF generation written before this change has no head. That covers every existing tokio --shards 1 appendonly.aof, plus monoio incr generations from before #911. This fix deliberately leaves them alone, because a head appended at the tail gates only what follows it. I measured it with the fixed binary on a headless AOF written by the unfixed one. The first boot doubled 24/24 lists, and later boots compounded to lengths 15 and 20, with no head ever added.

  • The first replay of a headless log can't be cut. Nothing records which records precede which spill.
  • Everything after that can be stopped by starting a new generation.
option effect cost
B1. automatic BGREWRITEAOF at boot when a headless generation is replayed over a non-empty cold plane closes exposure after the first post-upgrade boot one rewrite per upgrade, IO ~ hot dataset + fsync. Unmeasured.
B2. append MOON.COLDCUT at the tail does not help: the headless prefix still replays ungated and can promote from later re-spills
B3. loud WARN + documented "run BGREWRITEAOF after upgrading" relies on operators none

Recommendation: B1 + B3. The persona rules require a stop here because B1 adds a boot-time rewrite whose cost is unmeasured. The CHANGELOG entry states the upgrade step.

Follow-ups (read in code, not fixed here)

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved recovery for single-shard deployments using append-only persistence and disk offload.
    • Prevented spill markers from being miscounted as key-value history during recovery.
    • Ensured replayed writes are preserved correctly after restart, including across multiple databases.
    • Fixed recovery gates that could otherwise hide cold-stored keys after startup or rewrites.
  • Tests

    • Expanded coverage for crash recovery, cold-key overwrites, AOF replay, and WAL scenarios.
    • Re-enabled cold-shadow integration testing across runtime configurations.

… applied

Verbatim `gh pr diff 1011` applied on origin/main. moon#914's
exploitability had to be measured with #1011 present — #1011 closes the
end-of-replay RESOLUTION half of the tokio --shards 1 gap, and the question
was whether the replay-time READ half was still live. It was.

Not for review in this PR. Drop on rebase once #1011 merges.

author: Tin Dang
… run

`gh pr diff 1008` applied without its CHANGELOG hunk (it conflicts with
#1011's entry at the same position). Without #1008 the tokio --shards 1
RDB-preamble load wipes the cold index after any BGREWRITEAOF (moon#1007),
so the post-rewrite legs of tests/cold_cut_single_shard_914.rs would
measure #1007 instead of #914.

Not for review in this PR. Drop on rebase once #1008 merges.

author: Tin Dang
…N.COLDCUT (moon#914)

runtime-tokio + --shards 1 is the one configuration with no AofManifest (a
manifest there wipes the v2-loaded state on the next boot — #96, 14ca4f0),
so neither AofManifest::seed_cold_cut nor the rewrite's cut head ever ran,
and the tokio TopLevel BGREWRITEAOF wrote a bare RDB preamble. Replay read
every cold file ungated. With PR #1011 (moon#965) applied, both defects the
cut exists for were still live on that configuration:

- moon#902 double-apply: 79-82 of 216 probes came back with their write
  applied twice on the first kill -9, compounding per restart.
- moon#912 lost acknowledged write: 13-14 of 24 post-BGREWRITEAOF SETs came
  back holding the pre-rewrite value ("13 hot shadow(s) demoted"). #1011
  only rescues a generation that happens to carry a MOON.SPILLED marker.

Fix (brings the path to parity with the monoio TopLevel sibling; same
record, same semantics, no manifest):
- main.rs: under tokio --shards 1, seed MOON.COLDCUT into appendonly.aof
  when it holds no record yet (cold_records::seed_cold_cut_if_fresh,
  fsynced before any client write can be acked).
- rewrite_aof_sharded_sync: write the head right after the RDB preamble,
  into the tmp file BEFORE the rename, from the fold snapshot's existing
  cold_file_watermark (the monoio fold already used it; tokio ignored it).

Two defects found on the same path, fixed with it:
- Phase 4 counted a WAL copy of a MOON.SPILLED marker (ColdMarkerSink
  mirrors markers into the WAL under --wal-kv-log on) as KV history, so one
  marker made the WAL — which never holds a connection-local write here —
  the recovery authority and the AOF was skipped wholesale (DBSIZE 248 ->
  103). Cold-plane records no longer count (same class as FileCreate).
- Phase 4b closed the replay generation on db 0 only; MOON.COLDCUT gates
  every db. New close_replay_generation closes every OPEN generation
  (gated or marker-bearing) and leaves a pre-#902 db untouched, so no new
  task #56 cold-wins demote appears where none ran before; db 0 keeps its
  unconditional reconcile. Also called by the v2 replay path and the
  non-sharded listener. main.rs warns and closes any gate still open
  before serving (backstop).

Test instruments that used "appendonly.aof is non-empty" as a proxy for
"the rewrite / the first flush landed" now look for what they mean
(txn_kv_wiring: the MOON preamble magic; wire_reachability_red: the last
fixture's bytes), since a fresh tokio AOF now opens with its head.

Red/green on tokio --shards 1 (tests/cold_cut_single_shard_914.rs, binary
pinned via MOON_BIN; same test binary both sides):
- unfixed (origin/main + #1011 + #1008): fresh-boot leg RED (79 doubled),
  post-rewrite SET leg RED (14 lost), post-rewrite respill leg RED (20
  doubled); WAL leg timing-dependent.
- rewrite head alone reverted: both post-rewrite legs RED (10 lost / 12
  doubled), fresh-boot leg green — each head is independently necessary.
- fixed: 4/4 green, three consecutive runs.
Unit tests (recovery) RED with only their fix reverted, GREEN restored.

Not covered (escalated, not implemented): an AOF generation written before
this change (every existing tokio --shards 1 appendonly.aof, and monoio
incr generations from before #911) has no head and replays ungated until its
first rewrite — measured compounding across restarts. Closing it needs a
boot-time rewrite with an unmeasured cost; decision left to the maintainer.

Refs: #914 (quadrants a and c; b remains open)
Depends-on: #1011, #1008

author: Tin Dang
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Walkthrough

The change adds cold-cut heads to single-shard Tokio AOF generations, preserves cold-tier state during replay, excludes cold-plane WAL markers from KV history, closes replay generations across databases, and adds crash-recovery and Tokio integration coverage.

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Cold replay recovery

Layer / File(s) Summary
Cold-plane records and replay reconciliation
src/persistence/cold_records.rs, src/storage/db/cold_replay_gate.rs, src/storage/db/mod.rs
Cold-plane records are recognized case-insensitively. Marker-only generations use hot-wins reconciliation. A helper closes open replay generations across databases.
AOF generation and recovery wiring
src/main.rs, src/persistence/aof/..., src/persistence/recovery.rs, src/server/listener.rs, src/shard/mod.rs
Single-shard Tokio AOF boot and rewrite paths write MOON.COLDCUT. Replay preserves cold indexes, ignores cold-plane WAL markers when selecting KV history, and closes replay generations on all databases.
Crash recovery and test validation
tests/cold_cut_single_shard_914.rs, tests/cold_shadow_single_shard_tokio.rs, tests/txn_kv_wiring.rs, tests/wire_reachability_red.rs
Tests cover kill-and-restart recovery, post-rewrite writes, WAL marker handling, RESP-based Tokio execution, and AOF readiness.
Release documentation
CHANGELOG.md
The changelog documents the single-shard AOF, replay, WAL marker, and test changes.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Suggested reviewers: pilotspacex-byte

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- **`runtime-tokio` with `--shards 1` now opens every AOF generation with a
`MOON.COLDCUT`, so a `kill -9` no longer double-applies writes to spilled
keys or drops acknowledged post-rewrite writes** (moon#914). This is the one
configuration with no `AofManifest` (creating one there wipes state on the
next boot, #96), so neither `seed_cold_cut` nor the rewrite's head ever ran.

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Correct the temporal scope of the AOF-history bullets.

The bullets mix pre-change legacy behavior with the post-change behavior. Fresh and rewritten generations now carry MOON.COLDCUT, while existing headless generations remain unchanged.

  • CHANGELOG.md#L11-L15: replace “every AOF generation” with “fresh and rewritten AOF generations” and retain the legacy-upgrade limitation.
  • CHANGELOG.md#L35-L38: mark the no-head description as pre-change behavior and limit it to pre-existing headless generations.
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