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fix(relay): stop delivery attempts from growing the database forever - #26141
The relay database (PS-80, 1 vCPU) is at 100% CPU for 8–9 hours every US working day. Most of its write load comes from relay_delivery_attempts, which takes 1.35M inserts and 1.35M updates a day and is never pruned. PlanetScale Insights puts its insert at 28.5% of all database time: it takes 1.2ms typically, about 15× the other queries, and only 16% of that is CPU. Every insert also updates idx_relay_delivery_attempts_environment, which no query reads and which carries 3 GB of bloat. The table is also why the disk grew from 59% to 70% in a week.
This PR:
Retention: rows untouched for 7 days are deleted from the existing 5-minute cleanup cron. Deletes run in batches of 5,000, at most 4 per run, so draining the backlog adds a bounded load to a database that's already busy. Claims and completions both refresh created_at, so the cutoff is measured from a row's last write. The only reader looks a row up by source_job_id within a 10-minute claim lease, so 7 days leaves plenty of margin.
Indexes: a single-column created_at index replaces the unused 3-column index, so the prune can find old rows without scanning the table.
Two more drops: Insights flags these as never read.
idx_relay_agent_activity_rows_updated (99% bloat). Every one of the 4.3M upserts a day changes updated_at, so while this index exists Postgres can't update those rows in place. The prune on that table doesn't use the index.
Alchemy runs each migration inside a transaction, so the migration can't use CONCURRENTLY. A plain CREATE INDEX on this table would block delivery writes for the whole build. The migration therefore uses IF EXISTS / IF NOT EXISTS. Run these in the PlanetScale console first, one at a time, and the migration becomes a no-op:
CREATEINDEXCONCURRENTLY IF NOT EXISTS "idx_relay_delivery_attempts_created"ON"relay_delivery_attempts" ("created_at");
DROPINDEX CONCURRENTLY IF EXISTS "idx_relay_delivery_attempts_environment";
DROPINDEX CONCURRENTLY IF EXISTS "idx_relay_agent_activity_rows_updated";
DROPINDEX CONCURRENTLY IF EXISTS "idx_relay_environment_credentials_environment";
-- Not part of this migration; Insights recommends it (96% bloat):
REINDEX INDEX CONCURRENTLY "relay_dpop_proofs_pkey";
Deleted rows don't shrink the files on disk. Postgres reuses the freed space, so the disk stops growing rather than getting smaller.
After deploying, check the relay.delivery_attempts.prune_expired span: each run should delete 20,000 rows until the backlog is gone, then about 4,700 per run in steady state. Compare primary CPU at peak afterwards before deciding whether to move to PS-160.
The new tests cover the batching (pruning stops at a short batch, and each run is capped at 4 batches) and the SQL itself. The Worker's db is Alchemy's proxyChain, and a db.select() sub-query renders as nothing inside another query. The first version of this PR hit that on a rehearsal stage: it sent id in returning id and failed on every run. The sub-query is now built with QueryBuilder, the same way EnvironmentCredentials does it. A test runs the prune against the same proxied db the Worker uses; it fails without the fix and passes with it.
relay_delivery_attempts gained 1.35M rows a day and was never pruned; its
insert was 28.5% of database time. Prune rows older than 7 days from the
five-minute cron in bounded batches, index created_at for that, and drop
three indexes Insights shows are never read.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Macroscope's review found this PR requires human approval — This introduces automatic seven-day retention and bounded cleanup of delivery attempts. Human review is needed for the retention-default change, the unanswered concern that earlier cleanup failures can skip pruning, and confirmation of concurrent index preparation before deployment.
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Adds seven-day retention pruning for delivery attempts and invokes it from the five-minute worker cron. Updates test fixtures and coverage, and changes PostgreSQL indexes with a matching migration snapshot.
Changes: Delivery attempt retention
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Schema indexes and migration infra/relay/src/persistence/schema.ts, infra/relay/migrations/postgres/...
Replaces the delivery-attempts composite index with a created_at index, removes two indexes, and adds the migration snapshot.
Pruning implementation and scheduling infra/relay/src/agentActivity/DeliveryAttempts.ts, infra/relay/src/agentActivity/*.test.ts, infra/relay/src/worker.ts
Adds bounded seven-day pruning, persistence error handling, tests for batch behavior, fixture implementations, and the worker cron invocation.
pingdotgg/t3code#14861: Adds APNs jobs that record attempts in the table affected by this retention change.
Suggested labels:bugfix
Suggested reviewers:t3dotgg, macroscopeapp
Merge Risk: Moderate · up to 7145d
The retention change can leave expired rows accumulating, block database traffic during deployment, and occasionally delete refreshed attempts; resolve these risks before merging.
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Confirm the impact of dropping idx_relay_agent_activity_rows_updated.
The five-minute cron calls pruneTerminal, which deletes completed or failed rows with updatedAt < updatedBefore. This migration removes the repository-defined index on updated_at, so the delete can require a broader scan. Compare the query plan and expected row count before dropping the index. Retain the index if the scan is material.
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@infra/relay/migrations/postgres/20261027210820_delivery_attempts_retention/migration.sql
at line 4:
Assess the impact of dropping idx_relay_agent_activity_rows_updated on the
pruneTerminal query’s updated_at filtering by comparing its query plan and
expected row count; retain the index in the migration if the resulting scan is
material.
Document the concurrent drops in the migration header.
The PR description includes this instruction, but the checked-in migration header does not. Pre-creating idx_relay_delivery_attempts_created avoids the long index build, but the three ordinary DROP INDEX statements can still block access while they execute. Repeat the concurrent-drop instruction beside the migration.
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-- Alchemy runs migrations in a transaction, so CONCURRENTLY is unavailable here. Build
--- idx_relay_delivery_attempts_created concurrently before deploying so this is a no-op.+-- idx_relay_delivery_attempts_created and drop the three indexes concurrently before+-- deploying so these statements are no-ops.
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Update the migration header comment to state that the three indexes must also be
dropped concurrently before deployment, so the migration’s ordinary DROP INDEX
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Review comments at @infra/relay/src/worker.ts:
- Around line 484-488: Update the pruning chain around
DeliveryAttempts.DeliveryAttempts so recoverable failures in DPoP-proof or
terminal-activity pruning are logged and do not skip delivery-attempt pruning;
preserve interruption propagation. Ensure DeliveryAttempts.pruneExpired still
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- Line 4: Assess the impact of dropping idx_relay_agent_activity_rows_updated on
the pruneTerminal query’s updated_at filtering by comparing its query plan and
expected row count; retain the index in the migration if the resulting scan is
material.
- Around line 1-2: Update the migration header comment to state that the three
indexes must also be dropped concurrently before deployment, so the migration’s
ordinary DROP INDEX statements are no-ops.
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set -eu
printf'%s\n''--- DPoP pruning implementation ---'
nl -ba infra/relay/src/auth/DpopProofs.ts | sed -n '145,185p'printf'%s\n''--- terminal activity pruning implementation ---'
nl -ba infra/relay/src/agentActivity/AgentActivityRows.ts | sed -n '55,100p;175,205p;270,292p'printf'%s\n''--- delivery attempt contract and pruning implementation ---'
nl -ba infra/relay/src/agentActivity/DeliveryAttempts.ts | sed -n '55,80p;250,305p'printf'%s\n''--- Effect andThen references or local contract ---'
rg -n -F --glob '*.{ts,md,json}' -e 'Effect.andThen' -e 'andThen' .repos packages infra docs 2>/dev/null | head -120 ||trueprintf'%s\n''--- dependency version and available Effect source ---'
rg -n -F --glob 'pnpm-lock.yaml' -e 'effect@' -e 'effect:'.||true
find . -path '*/effect/Effect.ts' -o -path '*/effect/Effect.d.ts'2>/dev/null | head -20
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Contain delivery-attempt pruning from earlier pruning failures.
When DPoP-proof pruning or terminal-activity pruning fails, Effect.andThen skips the delivery-attempt step. The outer Effect.catchCause only logs the failure and does not resume the skipped step. A persistent earlier failure can therefore leave delivery-attempt rows beyond the seven-day retention period.
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Review comment at @infra/relay/src/worker.ts around lines 484 - 488:
Update the pruning chain around DeliveryAttempts.DeliveryAttempts so recoverable
failures in DPoP-proof or terminal-activity pruning are logged and do not skip
delivery-attempt pruning; preserve interruption propagation. Ensure
DeliveryAttempts.pruneExpired still runs after either earlier step fails.
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…xied db
The Worker's db is Alchemy's proxyChain, so db.select() inside inArray()
rendered as nothing and every prune failed with `id in returning id`.
Build the subquery with QueryBuilder, as EnvironmentCredentials does, and
test the prune against the same proxied db the Worker uses.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Review comments at @infra/relay/src/agentActivity/DeliveryAttempts.ts:
- Line 274: Update the outer delete condition in pruneExpired to combine the
existing ID subquery match with a createdAt cutoff using the same before value.
Preserve the cutoff in the subquery and the existing batch limit so refreshed
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# Locate the relevant symbols in the file before reading.
rg -n -F -e 'claimSourceJob' -e 'pruneExpired' -e 'QueryBuilder' -e 'createdAt' -e 'inArray' -e 'DELIVERY_ATTEMPT_RETENTION_DAYS' -- infra/relay/src/agentActivity/DeliveryAttempts.ts ||test"$?" -eq 1
# Outline the file to map declarations and members.
ast-grep outline infra/relay/src/agentActivity/DeliveryAttempts.ts --view expanded
# Read the complete file with line numbers so the claimed query and claim update can be checked.
wc -l infra/relay/src/agentActivity/DeliveryAttempts.ts
cat -n infra/relay/src/agentActivity/DeliveryAttempts.ts
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Add the cutoff condition to the prune delete.
pruneExpired filters the outer DELETE only by id IN (subquery). If claimSourceJob refreshes an expired row after the subquery snapshot is taken, the delete can still remove that row. PostgreSQL re-evaluates the WHERE clause on the updated row version, but the IN condition still matches the selected ID. The refreshed claim is then deleted. A retry can insert a new row for the same sourceJobId and claim the job again, which can duplicate delivery. Repeating the createdAt cutoff in the outer WHERE makes the re-check reject the refreshed row.
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--- "a/infra/relay/src/agentActivity/DeliveryAttempts.ts"+++ "b/infra/relay/src/agentActivity/DeliveryAttempts.ts"@@ -267,17 +267,20 @@
for (let batch = 0; batch < DELIVERY_ATTEMPT_PRUNE_MAX_BATCHES; batch += 1) {
const rows = yield* db
.delete(relayDeliveryAttempts)
.where(
- inArray(- relayDeliveryAttempts.id,- // The Worker's db is a proxy whose builders render as nothing inside another query.- new QueryBuilder()- .select({ id: relayDeliveryAttempts.id })- .from(relayDeliveryAttempts)- .where(lt(relayDeliveryAttempts.createdAt, before))- .limit(DELIVERY_ATTEMPT_PRUNE_BATCH_SIZE),- ),+ and(+ inArray(+ relayDeliveryAttempts.id,+ // The Worker's db is a proxy whose builders render as nothing inside another query.+ new QueryBuilder()+ .select({ id: relayDeliveryAttempts.id })+ .from(relayDeliveryAttempts)+ .where(lt(relayDeliveryAttempts.createdAt, before))+ .limit(DELIVERY_ATTEMPT_PRUNE_BATCH_SIZE),+ ),+ lt(relayDeliveryAttempts.createdAt, before),+ ),
)
.returning({ id: relayDeliveryAttempts.id });
deleted += rows.length;
if (rows.length < DELIVERY_ATTEMPT_PRUNE_BATCH_SIZE) break;
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Update the outer delete condition in pruneExpired to combine the existing ID
subquery match with a createdAt cutoff using the same before value. Preserve the
cutoff in the subquery and the existing batch limit so refreshed rows no longer
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The relay database (PS-80, 1 vCPU) is at 100% CPU for 8–9 hours every US working day. Most of its write load comes from
relay_delivery_attempts, which takes 1.35M inserts and 1.35M updates a day and is never pruned. PlanetScale Insights puts its insert at 28.5% of all database time: it takes 1.2ms typically, about 15× the other queries, and only 16% of that is CPU. Every insert also updatesidx_relay_delivery_attempts_environment, which no query reads and which carries 3 GB of bloat. The table is also why the disk grew from 59% to 70% in a week.This PR:
created_at, so the cutoff is measured from a row's last write. The only reader looks a row up bysource_job_idwithin a 10-minute claim lease, so 7 days leaves plenty of margin.created_atindex replaces the unused 3-column index, so the prune can find old rows without scanning the table.idx_relay_agent_activity_rows_updated(99% bloat). Every one of the 4.3M upserts a day changesupdated_at, so while this index exists Postgres can't update those rows in place. The prune on that table doesn't use the index.idx_relay_environment_credentials_environment. Revocation usesidx_relay_environment_credentials_environment_key.Before deploying
Alchemy runs each migration inside a transaction, so the migration can't use
CONCURRENTLY. A plainCREATE INDEXon this table would block delivery writes for the whole build. The migration therefore usesIF EXISTS/IF NOT EXISTS. Run these in the PlanetScale console first, one at a time, and the migration becomes a no-op:Deleted rows don't shrink the files on disk. Postgres reuses the freed space, so the disk stops growing rather than getting smaller.
After deploying, check the
relay.delivery_attempts.prune_expiredspan: each run should delete 20,000 rows until the backlog is gone, then about 4,700 per run in steady state. Compare primary CPU at peak afterwards before deciding whether to move to PS-160.The new tests cover the batching (pruning stops at a short batch, and each run is capped at 4 batches) and the SQL itself. The Worker's db is Alchemy's
proxyChain, and adb.select()sub-query renders as nothing inside another query. The first version of this PR hit that on a rehearsal stage: it sentid in returning idand failed on every run. The sub-query is now built withQueryBuilder, the same wayEnvironmentCredentialsdoes it. A test runs the prune against the same proxied db the Worker uses; it fails without the fix and passes with it.🤖 Generated with Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5)