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Jakob Wennberg 1a5d205bd6 fix(webhooks): derive the stuck-in_flight window from the cycle bound and charge the stall an attempt (#1311)
* fix(webhooks): derive the stuck-in_flight window from the cycle bound and charge the stall an attempt

recoverStuckInFlight re-armed any in_flight row older than 2x
REQUEST_TIMEOUT_MS (20 s), but a cron cycle claims 50 rows and attempts
them serially, stamping updated_at once at claim time. From row 3 onward
every row was past the threshold before its own attempt started, so each
cycle recovered and re-claimed the rows the previous cycle was still
working through: duplicate POSTs of the same X-Gnubok-Delivery, and a
terminal status decided by a race whose loser was swallowed by
enforce_webhook_delivery_immutability as a log.warn.

Both halves of #1257 are fixed:

1. The window is derived, not guessed. The attempt loop is now bounded by
   an explicit CYCLE_BUDGET_MS (120 s) instead of relying on the platform
   to kill it, and the sweep window is that bound plus one receiver
   timeout plus slack (160 s), floored at the cron's own batch size so
   the 5-row emit kick cannot re-arm rows the 50-row cron still owns.
   Each row is also re-stamped immediately before its own attempt, so a
   row's in_flight age measures the attempt rather than the claim. The
   same write doubles as an ownership check: a zero-row result means
   another cycle took the row, and the POST is dropped instead of
   duplicated.

2. The sweep charges an attempt, so MAX_ATTEMPTS is a real cap again.
   The predicate moves into a SECURITY DEFINER RPC because PostgREST can
   express neither `attempts = attempts + 1` nor the conditional flip at
   the cap, and a read-then-write loop would reopen a TOCTOU against the
   immutability trigger. A row recovered past the cap lands on exactly
   the terminal state the normal retry path produces: status 'dead',
   attempts = MAX_ATTEMPTS, error prefixed 'attempts_exhausted'. The
   trigger is neither weakened nor bypassed: the outer UPDATE keeps
   status = 'in_flight' in its own WHERE, so a row that raced to a
   terminal status fails re-evaluation under READ COMMITTED and is
   skipped rather than aborting the statement.

Rows the cycle claimed but will not reach are handed back as re-claimable
instead of being stranded in in_flight, without charging an attempt they
never made. Adds the partial index the sweep needs (idx_webhook_deliveries_due
is partial on pending/failed and structurally excludes in_flight).

No retention or pruning cron: webhook_deliveries still has no cleanup
path, which is a separate decision and stays a follow-up.

Fixes #1257

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(webhooks): back the cycle budget with maxDuration and give the stall the normal retry backoff

Review follow-up on the #1257 fix. Two of the findings were blocking and
compound each other: the fix made stranding likely and destructive at the
same time.

1. The 160 s sweep window was derived from CYCLE_BUDGET_MS, but nothing
   granted a dispatch cycle 120 s: the cron route declared no
   maxDuration. If the platform killed the invocation before the budget
   check fired, releaseUnattempted never ran and the claimed-but-
   unattempted rows stayed in in_flight carrying their claim-time
   updated_at, which is exactly the invariant the window depends on.
   The route now declares maxDuration = 300, the way the stripe
   transactions and documents verify crons pair a budget with one, and a
   route test asserts both the literal and its relation to
   CYCLE_BUDGET_MS. The kick path can never be given a maxDuration
   (after() runs inside an arbitrary route), so dispatch-kick.ts now
   states why it does not need one: KICK_BATCH_SIZE x REQUEST_TIMEOUT_MS
   is 50 s, so the dispatcher's budget check never fires there.

2. The sweep charged an attempt but re-armed at p_now, i.e. no backoff,
   while the normal failure path waits RETRY_BACKOFF_SECONDS. A row that
   kept getting stranded (deploy, instance recycle, any cycle that
   outlives its invocation) was re-claimable on the next per-minute tick
   and could burn all 8 attempts in roughly 20 minutes, landing in the
   terminal, immutable 'dead' state without its receiver ever being
   contacted. Pre-fix that loop was infinite but harmless, so this was a
   net-new way to lose a delivery. recover_stuck_webhook_deliveries now
   takes p_backoff int[] (RETRY_BACKOFF_SECONDS, still single-sourced in
   TS) and sets next_attempt_at with the same clamped index lookup
   markFailedForRetry uses, so a stall costs an attempt AND the same wait
   a 500 costs. A non-positive or empty schedule is rejected rather than
   silently degrading to p_now. The migration has not been applied to any
   deployed environment, so it is amended in place rather than superseded;
   it drops the old 3-argument signature so no ambiguous overload can
   survive in a dev or CI database.

Also from the review:

- stuckInFlightAfterMs(batchSize) was dead code whose Math.min clamp made
  every input return 120_000, so the documented DEFAULT_BATCH_SIZE floor
  never fired and the test that pinned it (stuckInFlightAfterMs(5) ===
  stuckInFlightAfterMs(50)) was a tautology. It is now the plain constant
  STUCK_IN_FLIGHT_AFTER_MS with a comment that credits the budget, and
  the test drives the window through dispatchDueDeliveries at batch sizes
  5, 50 and 500, which fails if the window ever becomes batch-derived
  again.
- The sweep's outcome reaches the operator: recovered / recoveredDead are
  on DispatchSummary and in the cron's structured log, so a tick that
  takes deliveries terminal is visible without grepping helper-level warn
  lines.
- releaseUnattempted no longer writes 'failed' onto a never-attempted
  row. claim_due_webhook_deliveries does not return the pre-claim status,
  but it does return attempts, and every path that writes 'failed' also
  writes attempts >= 1, so attempts = 0 identifies a row that was
  'pending' and it is restored as such. webhook_deliveries is
  customer-visible behandlingshistorik; a delivery that was claimed and
  handed back without a single POST must not read as a failure there.

The two deferred hygiene items (no retention path for webhook_deliveries,
and the sweep still being an unbounded tenant-global UPDATE) are reported
as a comment on #1257 and noted in the migration.

Fixes #1257

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-30 18:51:41 +02:00
Jakob Wennberg 49ff234954 feat(webhooks): dispatch on emit instead of waiting for the next cron tick (#1256)
* feat(webhooks): dispatch on emit instead of waiting for the next cron tick

The webhook dispatcher ran only on a per-minute cron, so the floor on
delivery latency was up to 60 seconds plus the request. An external consumer
that wanted to react as a transaction landed had only one alternative:
polling /api/events, which the 100 rpm per-key limit makes expensive and
which still cannot beat the tick interval.

Schedules one dispatch cycle as soon as deliveries are enqueued. The cron is
unchanged and remains the retry and sweep path; this only moves the first
attempt forward. Wired into the event-bus fanout plus the two routes that
enqueue a delivery directly: the :test verb, whose entire purpose is telling
someone whether their receiver works, and the manual delivery retry.

Three properties are load-bearing and covered by tests. The kick is never
awaited, because eventBus.emit is awaited at ~99 call sites including
journal_entry.committed and each delivery can burn a 10 s receiver timeout.
It coalesces per function instance, so a bulk booking that emits once per row
does not schedule one claim round trip per row. It claims 5 rows rather than
the cron's 50, because it runs on the tail of a user-facing request.

Double delivery is not a risk: claim_due_webhook_deliveries already claims
FOR UPDATE SKIP LOCKED and flips rows to in_flight in the same statement, so
a kick racing the cron sees disjoint rows.

Does not close #1201, which asks for a realtime stream for API consumers.
This is the cheap half.

Refs #1201

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs(webhooks): stop claiming the kick makes double delivery impossible

Adversarial review of the previous commit caught an overstatement in its own
comments. SKIP LOCKED keeps a kick and the cron from claiming the same row at
the same moment, but claim_due_webhook_deliveries autocommits before any POST
is issued, so from then on ownership is only status='in_flight' and a later
cycle's recoverStuckInFlight sweep can re-arm a row still queued behind an
earlier cycle's serial loop.

Delivery is at-least-once, which is what the public docs already tell
receivers ("the same delivery id may arrive more than once ... idempotency is
on you"). The comments contradicted that.

No behaviour change. The kick does not create this window: the cron claims 50
rows serially against the same 20 s stuck threshold, which is wider than what
a batch of 5 can open.

Refs #1201

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-28 18:08:24 +02:00