1. Uncapped reverse raw read on a forward-only backend = ONE forward read of the
window, filtered and reversed in memory (was a segment-by-segment walk).
2. Segment width is aimed at ~half the row budget from the density just observed
(overflow: from the truncated read's own sample span) and carried page to page
in HistoryContinuationState.SegmentWidthTicks.
3. The walk starts no later than now + 1 day and never reads before the epoch.
4. Request bounds are rounded outward to the millisecond, so a row AVEVA
fabricates at a rounded-up query start cannot land inside the segment.
5. Budget M = max(1, MaxTieClusterOverfetch); reads ask M + 2 rows, completeness is
'short OR last row past the segment', and a read crowded by rows before the
segment is re-read once (<= 2M + 4). A cluster of exactly M, neighbouring
clusters each within M, and M <= 1 are all served; only one timestamp over M
is refused. ServerHistorianOptions text updated.
6. The raw and events tie-path oversized-cluster refusal is BadTooManyOperations
(was BadHistoryOperationUnsupported), consistent with the walk.
7. GatewayHistorianDataSource.ReadRawAsync: a caller cancellation is not a backend
failure; NumValuesPerNode = 0 is sent as int.MaxValue (the client package and
the gateway reject max_values <= 0, so every uncapped Gateway raw read failed);
a MaxValuesCeiling refusal is a HistoryReadLimitExceededException.
8. Tests: upper-edge filter, epoch floor, look-ahead, ms alignment, exact/adjacent
clusters, minimal budget, carried density, and the walk over the real Gateway
source + FakeHistorianGatewayClient (OpcUaServer internals visible to it).
#669 turned an end-only capped HistoryRead-Raw into a reverse read (start > end)
for every backend; the gateway rejects start > end (InvalidArgument), so on the
default Gateway backend every end-only capped and every explicit reverse raw read
failed the node and was counted as a backend health failure.
- IHistorianDataSource.SupportsReverseRaw (default false; SqlServer/QuestDB/Null
true, Gateway false; guard test pins that every production backend declares it).
- OtOpcUaNodeManager sends a reverse window only to a backend that declares it;
otherwise ReverseRawReader walks (lo, hi] back in bounded forward segment reads
(1 min, x4 while sparse; each <= MaxTieClusterOverfetch + 1 rows; a full read is
re-read narrower, never answered truncated; filtered on sample timestamps, which
also drops AVEVA's fabricated query-start rows; stops at the Unix epoch). A
one-timestamp tie cluster over the bound => BadTooManyOperations.
- ServeRawPagedAsync maps HistoryReadLimitExceededException to BadTooManyOperations.
- GatewayHistorianDataSource.ReadRawAsync refuses start > end unsent, without
recording a health failure.
Joseph Doherty