Every IHistorianValueWriter caught Exception and returned false, including
OperationCanceledException from the drain's own token. The recorder's guard
("a cancelled pass is not a tag failure") was therefore dead code: at shutdown
mid-pass each cancelled group could be booked as a consecutive failure and,
with a sibling that already wrote, tip a healthy tag toward quarantine.
SqlServer, QuestDb and Gateway writers now rethrow a cancellation of the
caller's token; a cancellation-shaped error on a live token is still an
ordinary failed write.
The Gateway writer relabelled a Local-kind timestamp as UTC instead of
converting it, so the same value could land at two different times on two
backends. Stamped samples now go through LiveWritePreparer (Local -> UTC,
non-finite doubles not sent, duplicate timestamps keep the first); unstamped
samples are still left for the gateway to stamp, in batch 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
Joseph Doherty
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