feat: snapshot-pinned read transactions - #831
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RocksDB optimistic transactions read the LATEST committed state on every operation - the snapshot requested at creation is not consulted unless injected into each read's options - so a multi-operation read under one transaction (or under None) can observe two committed states when a commit lands between its operations. The branched axis read is the acute case: its per-branch absence probes and axis walks could merge branch pages that never coexisted in any committed state. start_snapshot_read_transaction() (GroveDb + RocksDbStorage) begins a transaction with the snapshot requested, and both prefixed transaction contexts now route every get and raw iterator through read options carrying the transaction's snapshot. A plain transaction's snapshot handle is null, which RocksDB documents as leaving reads on latest committed state, so existing callers are byte-for-byte unaffected - pinning activates only through the new constructor. Read-only by intent: set_snapshot also arms commit-time conflict detection, so writes through a snapshot transaction may fail to commit where a plain transaction's would not. Pinned by a test that runs the branched axis read under a snapshot transaction while a commit creates a new branch and changes an existing page: the snapshot read returns the creation-time state (absence included), while a plain transaction and a None read see the new state. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Included review availability: Your plan provides up to 1 included review per hour; 0 remain after this review. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughGroveDB now exposes snapshot-pinned read transactions. RocksDB storage applies transaction snapshots to reads and iterators. Proof generation reuses one snapshot transaction across recursive operations. Tests cover branched reads and concurrent proof generation. ChangesSnapshot read transactions
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Snapshot-pinned reads are not propagated through V1 reference resolution, allowing proof operations during concurrent commits to combine data from different committed states. The PR is not merge-ready until these reads use the shared transaction or the behavior is explicitly accepted. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Caller
participant GroveDb
participant RocksDbStorage
participant ProofGenerator
participant StorageContext
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Caller->>GroveDb: start_snapshot_read_transaction()
GroveDb->>RocksDbStorage: create snapshot-enabled transaction
RocksDbStorage->>RocksDB: pin committed snapshot
RocksDB-->>RocksDbStorage: return transaction
RocksDbStorage-->>GroveDb: return transaction
GroveDb->>ProofGenerator: generate V0 or V1 proof
ProofGenerator->>StorageContext: read recursive proof inputs
StorageContext->>RocksDB: use snapshot-aware read options
RocksDB-->>StorageContext: return consistent snapshot data
StorageContext-->>ProofGenerator: return tree and indexed-tree state
ProofGenerator-->>GroveDb: return proof
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The root-hash bracket could not prove its own premise: platform state bytes persist via put_aux OUTSIDE the authenticated root, so an A->B->A window (a commit and its exact revert inside the read) keeps the endpoint hashes equal while the branches were read from B. The bracket, its retry budget, and DriveError::ConcurrentStateChurn are deleted. In their place, grovedb (pin ad012ded, dashpay/grovedb#831) gains snapshot-pinned read transactions: start_snapshot_read_transaction() begins an optimistic transaction with a snapshot requested, and the prefixed transaction contexts route every get and raw iterator through read options carrying that snapshot (a plain transaction's null snapshot handle leaves reads on latest committed state, so existing callers are unaffected). Both branched executors now run their single branched call under such a transaction whenever the caller supplies none, so every per-branch absence probe and axis walk reads ONE RocksDB snapshot - the storage-level guarantee, not a validation of it. A caller transaction is still used as-is. Regression test a_branched_read_is_pinned_to_one_committed_state commits a new branch and a new group between snapshot and read: the snapshot read returns the pre-commit union (absence included), the committed read the post-commit union. grovedb-side pinning is tested at the pin (snapshot_read_transaction_pins_a_branched_read_to_one_committed_state). Also per review: detect_ranked_mode_v0's public contract and the prefix-pin helper intro now describe the bounded IN, branch merge and non-zero-offset rejection, and the having executor's doc distinguishes deep absence on branched reads from the single-pin missing-path error. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The recursive provers (prove_subqueries, prove_subqueries_v1, and the count-offset target check) each opened a fresh ordinary transaction per layer, and ordinary transactions read the latest committed state - so a commit landing between two layers could combine reads from states that never coexisted, producing a proof whose layers do not hash-chain and which every verifier rejects. Under normal block traffic that made proof generation spuriously fail. Both prove_query entry points (V0 and V1) now begin ONE snapshot read transaction and thread it through the entire recursive generation, so every layer - shared ancestors, the branching level, and each branch's axis descent alike - reads the same committed state. Proof BYTES for any single committed state are unchanged; only the read view is now consistent across layers. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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In `@grovedb/src/operations/proof/generate.rs`:
- Around line 563-565: Remove the snapshot transaction creation from the V0
proof-generation path and revert propagation of that transaction through its V0
recursive calls, restoring the original V0 behavior. Keep the snapshot-based
behavior only in the V1 proof-generation path.
- Line 1762: Update both V1 rewrite branches in the proof-generation flow to
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| // ONE snapshot for the entire recursive generation — see the V1 | ||
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| let snapshot_transaction = self.start_snapshot_read_transaction(); |
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Restore the unchanged V0 proof path.
This creates a snapshot transaction for V0 proof generation. It changes which committed state a V0 proof can observe during concurrent commits.
Revert the V0 snapshot creation and its V0 transaction propagation. Keep this behavior change in V1 only.
As per coding guidelines, “V0 proofs are frozen historical artifacts retained for posterity only” and “Never propose modifying V0 proof generation or verification.”
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In `@grovedb/src/operations/proof/generate.rs` around lines 563 - 565, Remove the
snapshot transaction creation from the V0 proof-generation path and revert
propagation of that transaction through its V0 recursive calls, restoring the
original V0 behavior. Keep the snapshot-based behavior only in the V1
proof-generation path.
Source: Coding guidelines
| /// MmrTree/BulkAppendTree elements with type-specific proofs. | ||
| pub(crate) fn prove_subqueries_v1( | ||
| &self, | ||
| transaction: &Transaction, |
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Pass the snapshot transaction to V1 reference resolution.
follow_reference(..., None, ...) creates a new transaction through TxRef::new, while V1 proof generation uses the shared snapshot transaction. A concurrent commit can therefore make reference resolution read newer data than the proof layers. Pass Some(transaction) in both V1 rewrite branches and add a regression test.
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In `@grovedb/src/operations/proof/generate.rs` at line 1762, Update both V1
rewrite branches in the proof-generation flow to pass Some(transaction) to
follow_reference instead of None, ensuring reference resolution uses the shared
snapshot transaction; add a regression test covering consistency during a
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…tions on branched reads Two snapshot-consistency gaps from review, closed at their sources: Proof generation: grovedb's recursive provers opened a fresh ordinary transaction per layer, so a commit landing mid-generation combined layers from states that never coexisted - the hash chain then fails every verifier, making proof generation spuriously fail under normal block traffic. grovedb (pin cbcb3b59, dashpay/grovedb#831) now begins ONE snapshot read transaction at each prove_query entry (V0 and V1) and threads it through the entire recursion, so every layer - shared ancestors, the branching level, each branch's axis descent - reads one committed state. Proof bytes for any single state are unchanged. Unproved branched reads: a caller-supplied ordinary transaction reads the latest committed state on every operation, so forwarding it through the multi-operation branched arm could tear the union - and an ordinary transaction cannot be told apart from a snapshot-pinned one at this boundary. Branched reads under a caller transaction now fail closed (mirroring the branched provers); per-element reads keep the transactional capability exactly (a single-pin read is one grovedb operation), pinned by the rewritten rejection test. The one-committed-state regression now exercises the production None path itself: a test-only seam fires after the executor takes its internal snapshot, a scoped writer thread lands the commit inside the window, and the None read must return the pre-commit union - deleting the automatic snapshot selection fails the test. Also per review: DocumentRankedMode/DocumentHavingMode prefix_pins docs and both resolvers now describe PrefixPins (one value normally, several for the single branching IN) instead of equality pairs. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Per review: the snapshot threading had no concurrency regression - a regression back to per-layer views would have stayed green. A test-only seam now fires in both prove_query entries right after the generation snapshot is taken; the new test lands a commit inside that window (a new branch plus a changed page) through a scoped writer thread and requires the branched envelope to still verify against the PRE-commit root with the pre-commit content, absence included. The branched shape is the common primitive both of Drive's IN-pinned surfaces prove through. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Pure hash normalization: dashpay/grovedb#831 (snapshot-pinned read transactions) squash-merged into develop as f7e9d1b9, so the interim pin at the PR-branch head fa6c85cf moves to the develop commit carrying identical content. No code change; ranked/having suites (112), workspace check and fmt green at the new pin. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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…ime, conformance-test the ReadOptions funnel (#833) * feat: harden snapshot read transactions — refuse writes, expose lifetime, conformance-test the ReadOptions funnel Closes #832. Follow-up hardening for #831, whose primitive left three traps open for future callers. The transaction type returned by the storage layer is now a wrapper (storage Tx) around the raw RocksDB transaction, carrying the snapshot-read marker set by start_snapshot_read_transaction. The raw un-optioned accessors are private to the storage module, making the wrapper the single funnel for everything done through a transaction: 1. Read-only is enforced, not documented. Every write entry point — the immediate context's put/delete family, the batch apply (rebuild_from_writebatch), and commit — refuses a snapshot read transaction with a typed SnapshotReadOnlyTransaction error instead of leaving writes to fail nondeterministically with Busy at commit (set_snapshot arms commit-time conflict detection). Rollback stays allowed as the harmless cleanup path. 2. Snapshot lifetime is observable. The marker doubles as a creation timestamp: is_snapshot_read() and snapshot_age() are exposed on the transaction (and thus on grovedb's Transaction alias), and debug builds log loudly — once per transaction — when a read executes on a snapshot held longer than one second, three orders of magnitude above the intended millisecond-scoped holds. 3. The silent-regression channel on the read funnel is closed. Both prefixed transaction contexts now read exclusively through the wrapper's get/get_cf/raw_iterator, which inject the transaction's snapshot into every read's options; a read method added later cannot reach the raw un-optioned accessors from outside the storage module. A conformance test walks every read method of the storage-context trait (get/get_aux/get_root/get_meta and every raw-iterator navigation variant) on both context types under a snapshot transaction with a commit landed after creation, asserting pre-commit visibility per method — a forgotten new method surfaces as an obvious test-extension failure. Plain transactions are byte-for-byte unaffected: their snapshot handle is null, which RocksDB documents as reading latest-committed state. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test: cover the long-hold debug warning path Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs: spell out iff in the snapshot marker doc Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs: spell out the remaining iff shorthand across comments Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix: expose the savepoint family on the transaction wrapper The wrapper hid every raw-transaction method it did not re-export, and set_savepoint / rollback_to_savepoint were not re-exported because nothing in-tree calls them — but platform's block processing does (per-state-transition savepoints in prepare/process proposal and process_raw_state_transitions), so the wrapper as first pushed would have broken the platform build with method-not-found. Pass them through with the same policy as rollback: allowed on a snapshot read transaction, since the savepoint family only ever unwinds writes, which such a transaction cannot accumulate. rollback_to_savepoint returns the storage Error like the rest of the wrapper surface; platform's three hand-wrapped RocksDBError sites become one-line compiler-caught fixes. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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GroveDb::start_snapshot_read_transaction()— a transaction whose reads are pinned to the committed state as of its creation. Both prefixed transaction contexts now route every get and raw iterator throughReadOptionscarrying the transaction's snapshot.Why
RocksDB optimistic transactions read the latest committed state on every operation — the snapshot requested at creation is not consulted unless injected into each read's options. A multi-operation read under one transaction (or under
None) can therefore observe two committed states when a commit lands between its operations. The acute case is the branched axis read (run_path_query'sBranchedAxisReadarm): its per-branch absence probes and axis walks could merge branch pages that never coexisted in any committed state. dashpay/platform#4401'sIN-pinned ranked / having-range reads need exactly this primitive.Compatibility
A plain transaction's snapshot handle is null, which RocksDB documents as leaving reads on the latest committed state — existing callers are byte-for-byte unaffected; pinning activates only through the new constructor. Read-only by intent:
set_snapshotalso arms commit-time conflict detection, so writes through a snapshot transaction may fail to commit where a plain transaction's would not.Testing
snapshot_read_transaction_pins_a_branched_read_to_one_committed_state: runs the branched axis read under a snapshot transaction while a commit creates a new branch and changes an existing page — the snapshot read returns the creation-time state (absence included), while a plain transaction and aNoneread see the new state. Full grovedb (2915) + storage (36) suites pass.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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