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@JustYannicc JustYannicc commented Aug 24, 2026

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Problem

SQLite recovery can leave WAL, shared-memory, rollback-journal, or master-journal files beside the source or replacement database. Installing the recovered file with those sidecars present can attach stale state. A glob built from the database name can also treat wildcard characters in the filename as pattern syntax.

What this fixes

Recovery removes the fixed SQLite sidecars around dump import and source replacement. Master-journal matching treats the database basename literally, including wildcard characters.

What is now possible

A recovered SQLite file can replace the source without inheriting stale journal state or deleting another database's files through an accidental glob match.

Summary

This focused beta.4 PR extracts only recovery-sidecar cleanup. It is rebuilt directly on b311aea760aa639fd96f63bd118f775e9b4a89f9; it does not depend on the SQLite clean-shutdown PR.

Type of change

  • fix: — bug fix
  • feat:
  • refactor:
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  • chore: / ci: / build:
  • test:
  • Breaking change

OpenSpec

  • This PR includes / updates an OpenSpec change
  • Not applicable — bug fix that matches the existing spec
  • Not applicable — docs / CI / chore only
  • This PR touches a codex-faithful path

Change directory: openspec/changes/clean-recovery-sqlite-sidecars/

Changes

  • Remove fixed SQLite recovery sidecars before and after replacement.
  • Match master-journal filenames literally.
  • Add regression coverage for recovery cleanup and wildcard-bearing database names.
  • Document that the focused PR has no dependency beyond beta.4 main.

Simplicity

No new setting, setup step, README section, dashboard navigation, migration, or default change.

Test plan

  • 17 focused tests passed on the original reviewed delta.
  • 5 focused maintenance tests passed on this exact independent rebuild.
  • Ruff, formatting, ty, architecture, and git diff --check pass.
  • The implementation is byte-identical to the reviewed stacked candidate.
  • OpenSpec files are present and all tasks are checked. The local openspec executable was unavailable for this worktree.

Screenshots / output

No dashboard-visible change.

Checklist

  • Title uses Conventional Commits format.
  • Added or updated tests covering the change.
  • Ran the relevant local CI subsets.
  • Executable strict OpenSpec validation was unavailable in this worktree.
  • Simplicity gates reviewed.
  • CHANGELOG is not edited by hand.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved SQLite recovery by removing stale write-ahead logs, shared-memory files, and journal files before and after database replacement.
    • Prevented outdated sidecar data from being applied to recovered databases.
    • Ensured database names containing wildcard characters do not affect cleanup of unrelated journal files.
    • Recovery now safely stops when cleanup encounters an ambiguous failure or an active write prevents the replacement lock.
    • Preserved the original database and recovery output when replacement cannot safely proceed.
  • Tests

    • Added regression coverage for sidecar cleanup, wildcard-safe journal handling, and concurrent writes during replacement.

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SQLite recovery now removes SQLite sidecars and holds an exclusive source transaction across dump installation and database replacement. Recovery fails with RuntimeError when it cannot acquire the lock. Tests cover concurrent writes and literal wildcard handling.

Changes

SQLite recovery locking and sidecar cleanup

Layer / File(s) Summary
Recovery contract and cleanup behavior
openspec/changes/clean-recovery-sqlite-sidecars/...
The proposal and specification define fixed sidecar removal, literal master-journal matching, exclusive locking, and fail-closed replacement behavior.
Exclusive replacement locking
app/db/recover.py
Replace-mode recovery acquires BEGIN EXCLUSIVE, performs cleanup, backup, and replacement under the lock, and reliably releases the transaction. Non-replace mode retains dump writing and output cleanup outside the lock.
Replacement-boundary verification
tests/unit/test_db_sqlite_maintenance.py, openspec/changes/clean-recovery-sqlite-sidecars/tasks.md
Tests verify blocked concurrent writes, successful post-recovery writes, final database contents, and literal wildcard handling. The task checklist records the completed locking work.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to abe65

This focused change cleans stale SQLite recovery sidecars and hardens literal filename matching; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks and review.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Recovery
  participant Source SQLite
  participant Recovery Output
  participant Filesystem
  Recovery->>Source SQLite: BEGIN EXCLUSIVE
  Recovery->>Recovery Output: write recovery dump
  Recovery->>Filesystem: remove SQLite sidecars
  Recovery->>Filesystem: backup and replace source database
  Source SQLite-->>Recovery: release transaction
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In `@app/db/recover.py`:
- Around line 99-100: Update recover_sqlite_db to enforce database quiescence or
hold an exclusive recovery lock across _remove_sqlite_sidecars and the
subsequent source replacement, preventing active connections from writing to the
renamed old database. Add a regression test that attempts a write during this
boundary and verifies it targets the installed replacement.
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Soju06 commented Aug 26, 2026

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Thanks — this is a clean, well-scoped fix and the review verified it end to end: the fail-closed ordering in recover_sqlite_db (all sidecar removals and the dump install happen before options.source.replace(backup), and _remove_sqlite_sidecars aggregates failures into a hard error) means any cleanup error aborts with the source untouched, the glob.escape master-journal match is correct and covered by the wildcard test, and the BEGIN EXCLUSIVE + timeout=0 lock added in abe6520 properly closes the write race CodeRabbit flagged, with a regression test that exercises the exact boundary.

One mechanical blocker remains: the required "Contributors attribution" check fails because your GitHub login isn't in .all-contributorsrc yet (the checker in .github/scripts/check_all_contributors.py includes the PR author in the expected set), and that alone reds the "CI Required" rollup. Could you run npx all-contributors add JustYannicc code (it updates both .all-contributorsrc and the README contributors table) and push the result to this branch? Since this affects all six of your open PRs, whichever merges first will unblock the rest after a branch update.

Two non-blocking observations, take or leave: (1) _sqlite_recovery_lock only catches sqlite3.OperationalError on BEGIN EXCLUSIVE; a corrupt source can surface sqlite3.DatabaseError there, which still fails closed but without the wrapped "could not acquire exclusive SQLite recovery lock" message — broadening the except to sqlite3.Error would keep the diagnostics uniform. (2) In WAL mode (prod uses PRAGMA journal_mode=WAL), BEGIN EXCLUSIVE blocks writers but not readers, and deleting the source -shm under the lock leaves a microsecond window before the rename where a brand-new connection could re-create it; that's far narrower than the previous total absence of locking and fine for an operator-run CLI, just worth a sentence in the docstring.

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