- `Wide` text-heavy reference shape beside Int-only `Item`
- `growth N int|text`: per-decile RSS read from own /proc/self/status
- `growth-verify`: survivor of a crash must be a contiguous intact prefix
- four footprint legs under a rootless cgroup v2 cap, swap on/off
- `ceiling` leg: die at the cap, then replay must come back intact
- footprint read as median-of-marginals; doublings a separate metric
- 121 checks, 0 failures; footprint gated ±10%, kill-timing ±100%
Measured, and it inverted two of the iteration's own predictions:
- footprint 96.5-100 B/row Int vs 320.6-324 B/row text = 3.3x, NOT the
"order of magnitude" three docs asserted
- table storage has NO checked ceiling: SIGKILL signal 9, not a catchable
WO_T_OOM. overcommit lets malloc succeed; kernel kills on page touch
- swap is NOT latency collapse: 900k rows 148s capped-with-swap vs 150s
uncapped. Append-mostly never re-touches cold pages
- ack-after-fsync survives an OOM kill: ~40k rows, no holes, no corruption
- iteration 2's budget dependency is REMOVED not satisfied — there is no
"swap onset" to derive a fraction from
- fix: subprocess returncode -9 was labelled a "checked refusal"; 137 is
the shell spelling of the same signal
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Flagged by the developer: the iteration still described the pre-brainstorm
three-mode design behind a "superseded in part" banner while four tasks had
landed against it.
- iteration 2 rewritten around the shape as built: two keys
(`durable: true|false`, `resident: all|keys`), not a `mode:` enum with
`cold`. status refine -> in-progress
- added a task-by-task progress table with commit hashes, and split the
acceptance criteria into MET (each with how it was verified, not just that
it passed — e.g. the goldens-unchanged claim is `git diff` over golden/
being empty after a WOC_BLESS run, since blessing rewrites all of them) and
OUTSTANDING with the task that owns each
- kept the history rather than deleting it: the three-mode replacement, the
"one real rewrite" that was fiction, and the opposite half that turned out
genuinely deep. An iteration file is where that record belongs
- board row rewritten to agree; the track index's "the lever" section, its
principle-7 paragraph and its sequence rationale all still taught the dead
three-mode design
ITERATION 6 IS NOW LARGELY SUPERSEDED, and bannered as such rather than
quietly gutted. `resident: keys` is the ceiling-raiser and it lives in
iteration 2 (tasks 5c/5d). More than relocated: 6's premise — a user-space
resident working set with faulting and 5's eviction policy — was specifically
REJECTED by the spec in favour of the kernel page cache, since a pread against
a cached page is a memcpy. What may still be left is recorded honestly: revisit
only with a measurement showing the page cache insufficient. Its fork list
survives, especially "does the language surface the fault cost at the use
site", which is still open and still the largest question about what writeonce
is. The sequence rationale is amended too — it had 6 as the ceiling-raiser and
5 as a prerequisite on the critical path; neither holds.
Docs only. linkcheck 0 broken / 0 anchors.
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- docs/stories/databasev2/, numbered from 1. Six PENDING database iterations
moved from the language track and renumbered, keeping the old id in
`was_language_iteration:` so a search for "iteration 32" still finds it:
32 -> 3 WAL checkpoint, 23 -> 4 io_uring commit, 33 -> 7 single-file store,
27 -> 8 query grammar, 20 -> 9 cross-program, 21 -> 10 keypair auth.
Done work (9, 9b, 22) stays as v1 history; language 18 left whole
- the problem, read off the engine not guessed: rows are malloc'd slabs with
addresses stable forever, NO eviction/spill/paging anywhere in database/src,
the WAL never checkpoints so boot replays all history, and durability is one
process-global WO_DATA so no table can say it matters more than another.
An allocation failure IS a clean catchable WO_T_OOM — but swap thrash
arrives first and carries no error signal at all, which is the real hazard
- four new iterations:
1 measure the ceiling FIRST (curve not cliff; the three exits; kill -9 at
exhaustion) — every later default should follow from a number
2 `@table(mode: ram | durable | cold)` — the grammar ask. Small surface
(Ast.table_cfg gains a key, the parser already rejects unknown args), big
semantics: `durable` defaults so nothing changes silently, and the
compiler refuses a durable row holding a `ref` into a ram table
5 bounded tables + refuse/evict/back-pressure, shedding BEFORE the OS acts
6 cold tiering — mostly forks, incl. whether the language surfaces the
fault cost and whether @unique on cold is refused outright. A paged
B-tree stays rejected: if tiering needs one, reject tiering
- 39 links repointed, link TEXT renumbered to track-local ids; arc gains one
pointer row replacing the six moved; board + board-views cover three tracks
- linkcheck 0 broken / 0 anchors; no code blocks in any story
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