The Phase 2 soak's "LocalDb fails under load" blocker is NOT a product defect.
Root cause: host-side (macOS) sqlite3 reads of the live, bind-mounted WAL
databases. POSIX advisory locks do not propagate across the virtiofs boundary,
so the host reader believes it is the only connection, checkpoints on close and
resets the WAL to 0 bytes under the container. The container's still-mapped
WAL index then references frames that no longer exist and every subsequent
statement fails SQLITE_IOERR_SHORT_READ (522) -> primary code 10, permanently
until the process reopens the database.
Reproduced on demand both on the rig (one sqlite3 SELECT reset a 4.6 MiB WAL and
produced the first error one second later) and in a minimal python:3.12-alpine
repro with no LocalDb or .NET involved. Refuted the converse: a freshly-reopened
node sustained the full soak load 10+ minutes with zero errors.
The original brief's isolation was confounded - both nodes had been poisoned by
the same sampling pass, and a poisoned standby looks healthy only because it
issues almost no statements. Corrections annotated in place.
Hardening shipped alongside:
- SqliteErrorCodes.Describe: log SQLite primary AND extended codes at the
LocalDb-adjacent catch sites (the missing extended code is what made the
original diagnosis so slow).
- SiteAuditTelemetryActor: stop touching ActorContext across an await
(NotSupportedException), with regression coverage.
- infra/reseed.sh: apply the MSSQL init scripts explicitly. The official
mssql/server image does not implement /docker-entrypoint-initdb.d, so a fresh
volume hung the reseed forever; compose mounts annotated as informational.
Deliberately NOT done: detect-and-reopen self-heal in SqliteLocalDb. It defends
only against external interference, which is now prevented at the source, and
same-kernel production readers see the locks correctly.
Build 0 warnings; SiteAuditTelemetryActorTests 9/9, SiteEventLogging 70/70.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BL2Vu1ESDQ9SCN4gVKkdts
Three verification sweeps over SiteRuntime, StoreAndForward, and Host/rig/docs
plus the LocalDb library source. Load-bearing corrections: D1 (the guarded write
has a second surviving caller, SiteReconciliationActor), D3 (the active node
already purges — Task 12 becomes a pin), D6 (new: the 4 MB gRPC cap vs
row-count-only batching), Task 1 (rewritten method — the Phase 2 tables are not
in the Phase 1 oplog), and Task 14 (do not register the notification/SMTP tables).
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BL2Vu1ESDQ9SCN4gVKkdts
Moves scadabridge.db's 9 config tables + sf_messages into the consolidated
LocalDb file and deletes SiteReplicationActor + StoreAndForward's
ReplicationService.
Resolves the phase 2 gate's five open questions from code recon (D1-D5):
D1 notify-and-fetch is DELETED, not preserved. It exists only because the
config blob exceeds Akka's 128KB frame; LocalDb sync is gRPC. The
deployed_at version guard protected against a stale fetch racing, so it
dies with the fetch. Do not reproduce it on LWW - different clocks.
D2 ReplaceAllAsync is deleted and the N1 directional guard becomes
unnecessary: LocalDb's snapshot resync merges per-row LWW and never
deletes (SnapshotApplier has no DELETE; LwwApplier.cs:69-78 discards a
lower-HLC incoming row). Semantic change - the standby is convergent,
no longer byte-identical.
D3 The SMTP purge (plaintext passwords) rides the replication path and is
re-homed to the active node BEFORE any deletion.
D4 native_alarm_state volume is measured by a rig soak, not assumed. Task 1
gates the plan and stops it if the oplog cannot absorb the churn.
D5 No dual-mechanism period forecloses rolling site upgrades - both nodes
must stop and start together.
Recon also found the gate doc's "two test files are the spec" undercounts:
the real specification is five files, including the N1 Critical regression
test and the only Requeue coverage.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BL2Vu1ESDQ9SCN4gVKkdts
Joseph Doherty