QuestDB modified-history reads dropped every still-pending trail row that was
not the latest at its source time, so V0->V1 (applied marker never written)
followed by V1->V2 hid the V0->V1 change for good. A pending row below the
latest is now served when the NEXT trail row at that time recorded a different
prior value (kind, value, status or the prior's server_ts) - the next change saw
what this one wrote; an orphan of a change that never landed leaves the same
prior for the next row and stays hidden. QuestDB window functions reject
VARCHAR, so the next row's prior comes from a LEFT JOIN on (ts, lead(id)).
The updater's comment and marker-failure log no longer claim modified reads
"still serve it" unconditionally.
Regression tests (QuestDB 10.0.1 throwaway container): marker lost then a
replace / delete at the same time; an orphan followed by a marker-lost retry
then a later change (orphan still dropped); the random marker-mix fuzz now
varies the recorded priors. All four fail on the old filter.
NITs:
- SqlServerHistorianValueWriter: a SqlException raised while the token is
cancelled (SqlClient's "Operation cancelled by user") is rethrown as
OperationCanceledException instead of booked as a failed write. Integration
test holds a TABLOCKX on Sample and cancels mid-INSERT; it returned false before.
- SqlServerHistorianDataUpdater.DeleteRawBatches is an Interlocked counter.
- HistoryReadEvents: an event filter whose SDK validation throws (unknown
operator) failed with the generic BadUnexpectedError; the node manager now
re-throws any failed event-filter validation as BadEventFilterInvalid.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GT67AEHd2Acv1YPwGfXEoV
The batched-alarm-history test came from the lane-H2 branch, which predates
the xUnit1051 sweep on master (lmxopcua#725). Two no-token calls broke the
Release build under TreatWarningsAsErrors after the rebase.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GT67AEHd2Acv1YPwGfXEoV
HistoryReadEvents projected only EventId / SourceName / Time / ReceiveTime /
Message / Severity: a select clause asking for EventType, ConditionName or
SourceNode (what most generic alarm viewers ask for) got nulls, and the
event filter's where-clause (an OfType) was ignored.
- HistoricalEvent gains optional EventTypeName, ConditionName and AlarmId.
SqlServer, QuestDB and Gateway event reads fill them from what their
alarm writers already store (AlarmTypeName / AlarmName / AlarmId; the
gateway event Type and its AlarmName / AlarmId properties).
- The node manager maps the type name to its Part 9 event type (unknown or
non-event => AlarmConditionType), projects ConditionName, and resolves
SourceNode to the materialised condition the alarm id names (the live
events' SourceNode), else null.
- The where-clause is evaluated per event with the SDK content filter
through an IFilterTarget (OfType via the type tree; other operators
against the projected fields), after the page's cursor is taken, so
paging is unchanged.
Tested in the node manager, over a real client session (the Client.CLI has
no `historyread --events` mode yet; filed as a follow-up), and by alarm
writer -> event read round trips on SqlServer and QuestDB.
Rebased from the unpushed remed/lane-H2 branch (originally authored 2026-10-22
in session_01Ub9hGmYLQvn9XETzw7CMsT) onto current master.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GT67AEHd2Acv1YPwGfXEoV
DeleteRaw deleted an unbounded range in one statement and transaction with
OUTPUT INTO the modification trail. Over years of a 1 Hz tag that is tens of
millions of rows deleted and audited at once: lock escalation on Sample
(blocking the live writer), transaction-log growth, and a 30 s
CommandTimeout that rolled the whole thing back.
It now runs DELETE TOP (4000) batches, each its own transaction with its
trail rows in the same statement (every deleted row is still audited),
cancellable between batches. A failure part-way leaves the committed batches
deleted and reports the failure; re-issuing completes it (documented, same
as QuestDB's paged tombstoning). The existing atomicity tests still hold per
batch.
Rebased from the unpushed remed/lane-H2 branch (originally authored 2026-10-22
in session_01Ub9hGmYLQvn9XETzw7CMsT) onto current master.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GT67AEHd2Acv1YPwGfXEoV
The SqlServer purge read every TagId and issued at least one DELETE TOP per
table per tag on every pass, even when nothing was eligible: 50000 tags made
100000 statements per hourly purge, serialised on one connection under the
applock.
One pre-filter query per table (EXISTS seek on the clustered key) now picks
the tags holding a row older than the cutoff; only those get deletes. A pass
with nothing eligible sends just the Event delete. The mid-command
cancellation test now accepts the pre-filter SELECT as the blocked command,
since it is the first statement to touch Sample.
Rebased from the unpushed remed/lane-H2 branch (originally authored 2026-10-22
in session_01Ub9hGmYLQvn9XETzw7CMsT) onto current master.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GT67AEHd2Acv1YPwGfXEoV
All three alarm-history writers inserted one event per round trip, serially
(SqlServer also opened a pooled connection per event), so a 10000-event
alarm storm drained at 10000 x RTT while the backlog sat in LocalDb.
- Sql.Common.AlarmBatchWrite: one statement per chunk; a chunk that fails
PermanentFail-class is re-sent event by event so only the poison event
dead-letters; a transient failure retries the chunk; a cancellation never
dead-letters.
- SqlServer: multi-row insert-if-absent over a VALUES set (150 events per
statement, under the 2100-parameter limit), duplicate ids in a batch
written once; a duplicate-key race isolates per event, where it is Ack.
No new table type, so no schema migration (the review suggested a TVP;
the VALUES form gets the same one-round-trip-per-chunk without one).
- QuestDb: multi-row INSERTs of 500 events; pre-1970 events still
dead-letter unsent.
- Gateway: no batch RPC exists, so sends are pipelined, at most 8 in
flight, outcomes kept in input order.
Rebased from the unpushed remed/lane-H2 branch (originally authored 2026-10-22
in session_01Ub9hGmYLQvn9XETzw7CMsT) onto current master.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GT67AEHd2Acv1YPwGfXEoV
Review R08:1.1: an uncapped HistoryRead-Raw (NumValuesPerNode = 0) read a
tag's whole window into memory on every backend (SQL TOP(int.MaxValue),
QuestDB LIMIT, Gateway max_values = int.MaxValue + a second snapshot copy).
New ServerHistorian:MaxRawValuesPerRead (default 10 000; <= 0 unbounded with
a Validate() warning; 1 raised to 2). Each backend data source takes it,
reports it as IHistorianDataSource.MaxRawValuesPerRead (the Gateway: min
with a strict gateway's learned ceiling), so the node manager's existing
RawPageLimit paging serves N = 0 and N > cap as pages of at most the cap
with a continuation point. Independently, a backend raw read asking for 0
or more than the cap reads cap + 1 rows and is REFUSED
(HistoryReadLimitExceededException => BadTooManyOperations) when the window
holds more - never answered truncated, since the server's paging reads a
short answer as the last page. Bound through the Host registry, the
SqlServer/QuestDb providers and GatewayHistorian.CreateDataSource.
Tests: options (default/binding/warnings), provider binding, Gateway unit +
through a real SDK node manager (uncapped -> 999/998/998/605 + CPs), and a
conformance case for the SQL backends.
Refs #736
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ub9hGmYLQvn9XETzw7CMsT
The node manager composes the start/end bounds from each backend's existing raw
reads (one authority, HistoryBounds): at-or-before = a capped reverse read
(native, or ReverseRawReader's walk-back on a forward-only backend — never
AVEVA's synthetic boundary row), at-or-after = a capped forward read. Bounds
count toward NumValuesPerNode, the start bound leads the first page, the end
bound ends the last (carried in the continuation point). Missing bound =
Bad_BoundNotFound (null, at the bound time; one-sided reads ±1 s from the
previous value, Table 1 footnotes a/b). A modified read with ReturnBounds is
Bad_InvalidArgument (Part 11 6.5.3.3).
The .NET SDK's ReadRawModifiedDetails defaults ReturnBounds to TRUE; the
existing tests built details without setting it and now set it false.
Oracle: every row of Part 11 Table 1 over three backend shapes, plus paging
concatenation, ties, Bad bounds, microsecond truncation; conformance pins the
lookup primitives on SqlServer + QuestDB.
The window-bounded pick joins (4a3b1256) let the optimizer choose, under
understated statistics, a nested-loops RANGE seek over the window with the pick
time as a residual, once per bucket (O(buckets x window rows)); the cached plan
was then reused for wide reads: gate 9 1d@1min 20 s, here 47 s / 3.6M reads.
Each pick join now carries WITH (FORCESEEK (PK_Sample (TagId, SourceTimeUtc))):
an exact-key seek on both columns per bucket under any statistics, and no
hash/merge join over the tag's history can exist (forcing one is error 8622), so
the window bound is dropped from the join. Output identical (EXCEPT both ways,
fwd/rev, incl. a mixed Double/Int64/Boolean/String/DateTime/outage tag).
Measured (6M-row tag + 86k mixed-kinds tag; ms / logical reads), understated
stats: 1d@1min 47,223/3.6M -> 253/25.6k; mixed 1d@1min 20,164/1.66M -> 137/24k;
accurate stats: 1d@1min 121 -> 160 ms, 1d@1h 79 -> 117 ms. Rejected: OUTER
APPLY TOP(1) FORCESEEK (identical), OPTION (RECOMPILE) (still 20 s under the bad
stats, and a compile per read).
StartEndJoinBackTests rewritten: understated statistics + compile-small/reuse-wide
(18,645 reads; the merged query read 1,645,845 / 23 s and failed it), accurate
statistics with 300k history rows either side (22,616), forced HASH/MERGE
refused (8622 — also failed against the merged query).
Docs: perf table + explanation; SDK-parity N2 (*ActualTime Calculated bit) and
N3 (Good String => BadAggregateInvalidInputs, SDK skips it).
- SqlServer StartEnd join-back: every pick join also carries the window predicate
(forward >= @start AND < @end, reverse > @start AND <= @end). Keyed on the pick
time alone a hash/merge/adaptive join read the tag's whole history (review:
43,657 vs 361 logical reads), and parameter sniffing reused that plan for every
tag. Forced OPTION (HASH JOIN), 1d@1h on 6M rows: 152,524 -> 6,756 reads.
- Usable picks (x/y) re-check the exact u predicate in the join, so a concurrent
HistoryUpdate Replace that turned the picked sample Bad/Empty reads as absent
(BadNoData), never a Bad row's value under Delta.
- StartEndJoinBackTests (integration): 300k history rows either side of a 1 h
window, forced HASH and MERGE joins, results identical to the unhinted plan and
Start/End correct, session logical reads < 1,000 (183 bounded; 8,055 with the
bound removed — the test fails then).
- TagIndexTests: the refused-ADD-INDEX test asserts the Warning naming the ALTER.
- Historian.md: re-measured table incl. long-history windows (output identical by
EXCEPT both ways in all 7 cases) and the forced-join read counts.
- HistoryUpdate Primary gate now reads IHistoryUpdateRoleView (PrimaryGatePolicy.ShouldServeHistoryUpdate):
the data-plane verdict but CLOSED until this node's first redundancy snapshot, so both pair nodes cannot
accept in the pre-join boot window. Single nodes open on their own singleton's first snapshot; admin-only
nodes register no view => no gate. DriverHostActor publishes it at every Primary-verdict publish point.
- SqlServer v1: the updater throws NotSupportedException on every arm; the node manager maps it to a
node-level BadHistoryOperationUnsupported (was per-item under a Good node for UpdateData/DeleteAtTime).
HistoryWrite bit still advertised on v1 (not knowable at materialise time) — documented.
- The update plan is evaluated before the Primary gate: an unservable request (Remove, IsDeleteModified,
not historized, no updater) is BadHistoryOperationUnsupported off-Primary, not BadInvalidState.
- Local-kind SourceTimestamp converted to UTC before the future-skew compare and sent as UTC.
- Hosted-service wiring extracted to BuildHistoryUpdatePosture and tested (gate source, skew, clock).
- Docs: Historian.md (boot window, ordering, node-level v1, HistoryWrite bit), CLAUDE.md.
Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
- BucketPlan: reverse processed reads anchored at the later time for every
aggregate: window (end, start], partial interval earliest, results stamped
with the later edge, latest first (SDK CreateSlice/GetTimestamp/backward
GetValues). SqlServer adds @bucketAdjustTicks + flips the window predicate;
QuestDB binds BucketBaseUnixTicks. IndexOf is the C# statement of the math.
- Partial bit on the interval the tag's data starts inside (SDK m_startOfData),
every aggregate but Average; per-sample reads fetch the earliest sample.
- Node manager: non-default client AggregateConfiguration =>
BadAggregateConfigurationRejected per node (ServerAggregateConfiguration,
pinned to the SDK AggregateManager defaults).
- GatewayTagProvisioner sends IntegralDivisor = 1.
- SDK parity oracle (Opc.Ua.Server calculators) in unit + both backends'
conformance suites, forward and reverse; remaining divergences documented.
- docs/Historian.md + CLAUDE.md release note (client-visible).
- IHistorianDataSource.ReadEventsAsync(..., bool reverse, ...) overload: reverse = Part 11 window (lo, hi]
newest-first by (time, id) DESC. Default forwards forward reads and throws NotSupportedException for
reverse (Null); Gateway refuses explicitly (ascending-only stream). Server answers
BadHistoryOperationUnsupported instead of silently returning the earliest N ascending.
- SqlServer / QuestDB serve reverse natively (ORDER BY time DESC, id DESC + TOP/LIMIT).
- Node manager: reverse event reads page with continuation points; direction stored in the cursor
(HistoryContinuationState.Reverse) so a resume continues in the cursor's direction; reverse tie clusters
over-fetched forward and sliced from the newest end (SliceTieCluster(reverse:)); end-only reads with a
cap page backward from EndTime (mirrors raw).
- Resumed event pages over-fetch by the boundary skip, so every non-final page is a full cap page.
- Tests: node-manager reverse paging (ties, clusters, coarse resolution, overfetch bound, resume
direction both ways, end-only, unsupported backend); shared EventReadConformance on SqlServer +
QuestDB; over-the-wire reverse paging; offline Gateway pin of the UTC DateTime.MaxValue bound through
the published client's proto conversion (in-process gRPC capture) and FILETIME.
- docs/Historian.md event paging section.
- HistoryUpdate items with SourceTimestamp > now + ServerHistorian:HistoryUpdateMaxFutureSkew
(default 1 day, <=0 disables) => BadOutOfRange in the node manager (every backend, never sent);
clock injected via OtOpcUaNodeManager.Clock (host TimeProvider).
- HistoryUpdate is Primary-only: off-Primary => BadInvalidState per node, after authorization,
same IDriverPrimaryRoleSource verdict as the native-ack gate; HistoryRead ungated.
- SqlServer: base schema requirement back to v1; SupportsModifiedTrail (v>=2). On v1 with
AutoCreateSchema=false: writes/reads/events/retention work, modified reads + HistoryUpdate =>
BadHistoryOperationUnsupported with nothing sent, retention skips SampleModified, one Warning per boot.
- QuestDB integration test pinning wall-clock TTL (far-future row evicts only partitions older
than the TTL by the wall clock), with a positive control.
- Docs: Historian.md, Configuration.md, security.md, CLAUDE.md (incl. QuestDB retry duplicates,
#674.4 anonymous-readable trail with ACL off, #674.5 not implemented).
Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Every HistoryUpdate a SQL backend applies now leaves a modification trail
(prior value, principal, Part 11 update type, modification time), and
HistoryReadRaw with IsReadModified=true serves it as HistoryModifiedData.
- Core: HistoryUpdateContext threaded into all three IHistorianDataUpdater
methods; IHistorianDataSource.ReadModifiedAsync (default NotSupported =>
BadHistoryOperationUnsupported on Gateway/Null); HistoryModified* contracts.
- SqlServer: schema v2 (002_sample_modified.sql, RequiredVersion=2, docs copy);
trail written by OUTPUT ... INTO on the same MERGE/DELETE statement, so a
failed update leaves no audit row; retention purges SampleModified per tag on
the source-time cutoff; ReadModifiedAsync keyed on (SourceTimeUtc, ModifiedId).
- QuestDB: append-only {prefix}sample_modified (TTL like samples), trail row
written BEFORE the change (orphan-on-crash, never an untracked change);
existence reads now carry the prior value; ReadModifiedAsync.
- Node manager: modified reads dispatch + page via the #669 continuation store
(HistoryContinuationState gains HistoryCursorKind + LastModifiedId), gated by
the existing HistoryRead decision; session principal / key id passed to the
updater. IsDeleteModified stays unsupported.
- Client.CLI: historyread --modified.
- Tests: node-manager dispatch/paging/cursor binding/principal threading,
over-the-wire HistoryModifiedData, shared ModifiedValueConformance on both
backends, SqlServer atomicity (forced trail failure => no change) + v1->v2
upgrade + retention trail purge.
- Docs: Historian.md (Modified-value history section, schema v2 upgrade note),
security.md, Client.CLI.md, CLAUDE.md.
M1: the time-weighted family (incl. Total, formerly a pushed-down SUM) streams
raw window rows into the C# evaluator. New shared knob
ServerHistorian:MaxTimeWeightedRawRows (default 1,000,000; <=0 unbounded with a
Validate warning) flows through HistorianBackendRegistry into both providers.
The window query is capped at cap+1 (SQL Server TOP (@maxRows), QuestDB LIMIT $4);
one row past the cap throws the new Core.Abstractions
HistoryReadLimitExceededException, which the node manager maps to
BadTooManyOperations for that node. Not counted as a backend health failure;
bound rows are not counted; per-sample aggregates are not capped.
M2: reverse Interpolative is anchored at the later time (Part 13): points at
End - i*interval, emitted latest first. 10:00->09:00 @1h yields 10:00.
L1: Partial bit (0x4, = Opc.Ua.AggregateBits.Partial) on non-Bad results of a
truncated last interval (time-weighted family; per-sample family is a follow-up).
L2/L3: aligned with the SDK AggregateCalculator.GetTimeBasedStatusCode
(decompiled from Opc.Ua.Server 1.5.378.106): TreatUncertainAsBad=false counts
Uncertain time (Uncertain samples, held-into-outage, extrapolation) as Good
time; data but no non-Bad time => generic Bad (0x80000000); BadNoData only
when there is no data at all. Consequence: a live tag's latest interval reads
Good (documented).
L5: release note no longer claims Total matches the Gateway Integral exactly
(AVEVA's divisor is unverified); it notes Total is now evaluated in C# and
subject to the cap.
Tests: unit (reverse Interpolative x3, Partial, Bad vs BadNoData incl. an
open-ended outage, cap helpers, SDK bit oracles); conformance (reverse
Interpolative, raw-row cap at/over/0, bounds not counted, health unaffected);
node manager BadTooManyOperations; options default + warning. Each new
behaviour falsified by mutation (aggregator x9, data-source cap checks on
both backends against the real DBs, node-manager catch).
Moves the database-independent logic of the SQL Server historian backend into a new
shared library for the upcoming QuestDB backend (#666): status codes and bits, value/column
mapping, StoredSample + quality clamp, the AtTime and aggregate evaluators, BucketPlan,
LiveWritePreparer and HistoryUpdatePlanner (both with a resolutionTicks parameter, default 1),
tag-name rules, the bootstrap failure cache, health counters, alarm event ids, the event
continuation and severity clamp. The SQL Server backend now calls it; its T-SQL, TVP
builders, connection, bootstrapper and catalog stay.
Tests: StatusCodeOracleTests, ValueWriterPrepareTests, the column half of SampleRowMapperTests
and ProcessedReadTests.Every_enum_member_is_either_served_or_refused move to the new
Sql.Common.Tests under the same names. SqlServer integration tests get mechanical renames
only. Test-name set across the three projects is identical to the baseline (160 tests).
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ef2ozxS7QPanGT8uoATbTe
- Historian.md: Empty samples always Bad (writer/updater/read clamp),
long-name refusal, 5 s bootstrap failure cache, AtTime after now, info-bit
masking, HistoryUpdate does NOT type-check (M-1 decision), DeleteRaw
needs both bounds, reverse Raw paging, the historian/historization metric
prefixes, and provisioning numeric-only lines qualified as Gateway.
- CLAUDE.md numeric-only lines qualified as Gateway backend.
- Stale 'sole historian' lines in DriverLifecycle, ServiceHosting and the
retired Wonderware stub; Client.CLI exit-code contract.
- ServerHistorianOptions: Endpoint/Backend XML docs untangled, Validate()
indented; Program.cs comments are backend-neutral; T10 week-test day count.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ef2ozxS7QPanGT8uoATbTe
- I-1: an Empty sample is always Bad. The writer stores a non-Bad NaN/Inf as
Empty+BadOutOfRange and any other non-Bad Empty as BadNoData; the updater
refuses a non-Bad Empty with BadInvalidArgument; reads clamp a legacy
non-Bad Empty row to BadNoData (Raw and AtTime).
- Tag/source names over 400 chars are refused, never truncated: writer
per-tag failure, updater BadInvalidArgument, reads not-found, events none.
- HistorianInfoBits masks the historian bits before setting one.
- AtTime past now, stepped from the last sample => UncertainDataSubNormal.
- Bootstrapper: logger, 5 s negative cache, ClearPool + Warning when
sp_releaseapplock fails.
- Provider builds its shared state lazily (an invalid Schema no longer
throws at Resolve); Kinds is a FrozenSet; Gateway reuses the recorder's
DefaultSupportedKinds.
- Cleanup: SqlHistorianDataTypes in its own file (updater dup removed),
dead Invalidate and unused status consts deleted, named severity masks,
alarm writer brace.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ef2ozxS7QPanGT8uoATbTe
Important 1: bucket offsets are now 100 ns ticks as bigint
(DATEDIFF_BIG(microsecond)*10 plus the sub-microsecond tick digits), so a
1601→9999 window no longer overflows (SQL 535) and nothing scales the interval
to nanoseconds in C#. Interval wider than the window clamps to one bucket and
the ceiling division cannot overflow. Exactness to the tick is unchanged.
Important 2 (spec §4 ruling d6afb394): a Bad previous neighbour means the time
is inside an outage — null value with that neighbour's Bad code, never
Uncertain. Usable previous + Bad next still holds the previous value Uncertain.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ef2ozxS7QPanGT8uoATbTe
SqlServerHistorianDataSource implements IHistorianDataSource over the T8 schema:
raw forward/reverse/point with the 0 = unbounded sentinel; AtTime in one statement
(TimeRow TVP + two OUTER APPLYs) with linear/stepped/no-prior rules and no
interpolation across a Bad neighbour or Empty outage marker; events with a
maxEvents+1 truncation probe and a non-null continuation point; processed
aggregates pushed down to T-SQL (SqlAggregateQueries) with nanosecond-exact
bucket edges, Calculated bits on every result, Uncertain on any non-Good input,
BadAggregateInvalidInputs for numeric aggregates over String/DateTime, a
100 000-bucket cap and HistoryAggregateNotSupportedException for the rest.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ef2ozxS7QPanGT8uoATbTe
Joseph Doherty