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[cr-test] sandbox-store: detach snapshot storage before pruning a tombstone so one row can't stall retention - #1442
The tombstone-retention prune hard-deletes deleted sandbox rows. That cascades to snapshots, and the foreign key from snapshot_storage_locations to snapshots is ON DELETE RESTRICT. The census tombstone (the marked_deleted step of prune_census_absent_sandboxes in crates/libs/sandbox/store/src/ingest.rs) leaves a row's snapshots and their attached locations in place.
Example: a sandbox tombstoned by a node census with one ready snapshot and one attached location stays deleted for 7 days, then becomes a prune candidate next to an ordinary tombstone. The prune statement fails with 23503 snapshot_storage_locations_snapshot_id_fkey, and the whole retention transaction rolls back: node, template and sandbox prunes alike, ordinary tombstone included. Every later tick fails on the same row, so retention stalls.
With this change, tombstone::prune_deleted_sandboxes detaches the candidates' storage locations (snapshot_id = NULL, orphaned_at = NOW()) in the same statement as the delete. delete::delete_with_dependents and delete_published_absent_stopped already do this. The snapshot-storage sweeper can then reclaim the objects after its one-hour grace period.
Skipping such rows instead would keep them forever: the sweeper only reaps rows that are already detached, and snapshot retention never clears them all, because it removes only full snapshots beyond each sandbox's newest keep_n and no disk snapshot. Retained rows would also block admin user and org deletes indefinitely. Candidate selection, ordering, the batch limit and the returned ids are unchanged. The candidate CTE is marked MATERIALIZED because two sub-statements read it.
Validation
New test tombstone_retention::tests::store_prunes_deleted_sandbox_with_attached_storage_location_in_same_batch. On main it fails with 23503 and both tombstones remain. Here it passes: both rows are pruned and the location is detached and stamped. It also pins the detach's scope: a deleted row still inside retention and a stopped row aged 8 days keep their rows and their attached, unstamped locations. Widening the detach to every deleted sandbox, or to every snapshot, fails it.
Changed test expectations: none. The new test is the only test change.
cargo arch --base-baseline --renames --base-architecture against main, as ci/scripts/run-archcheck.sh runs it after the rebase: no findings, sandbox_writes unchanged.
Kind, fresh cluster from this head (SPACE_KIND_TELEMETRY_MODE=otel, CI's admin-token and cold-receipt directories), bring-up in 8m28s. Staged one aged tombstone with a snapshot and attached location, plus one ordinary aged tombstone. The next retention tick logged deleted_sandboxes_deleted: 2. Both rows and the snapshot are gone, and the location has snapshot_id = NULL and orphaned_at set for the sweeper.
scripts/tests/smoke-kind-typed.sh all: ECW 91/91, native 42/42 passed in 65m45s, with no reruns. The six console scenarios are withheld as in CI.
Not validated: the defect end to end on main's images, the sweeper reaping a staged location on Kind (grace period), and the Direct-substrate lane.
Severity and risk
Severity: medium. One such row stops all tombstone retention until someone intervenes by hand. While it is stalled, admin deletes of users and organizations that still own deleted sandbox rows keep failing, even past the retained-until time a user delete reports. Only the Direct substrate's census writes deleted sandbox rows today (it matches managed_by = 'space' rows), so only Direct-substrate sandboxes reach this. No user-facing data is lost.
Risk: the prune now hands a census tombstone's snapshot objects to the snapshot-storage sweeper. When the sweeper is enabled, it deletes them once its one-hour grace passes, except locations in another bucket or with an encrypted sidecar, which it leaves in place. A census tombstone is inferred from a node's complete census omitting the sandbox, and no path moves a row out of deleted, so the 7-day retention window is the only time to recover those bytes by hand. No schema change. Rollback: revert the commit. Locations already detached stay valid sweeper input, and objects the sweeper already deleted can't be restored.
Rollout
During a rolling update, a controller on the old version that holds the retention lease keeps failing on such rows until a new-version leader takes over. Nothing else interacts between versions.
In an environment whose tombstone retention is stalled today, the first ticks under a new-version leader prune the backlog, oldest first, up to 1,000 sandbox rows per 5-minute tick, and detach the pruned census tombstones' storage locations. The sweeper can delete their objects an hour later. The same cascade removes those sandboxes' node_local_backup_pending rows, so internal_api.local_backup_queue.absent_not_durable can drop at the same time. To keep the objects longer, set SPACE_SNAPSHOT_STORAGE_SWEEPER_ENABLED=false before the rollout; that also holds every other path's orphans until it is turned back on.
AI assistance: Claude Code investigated the defect and drafted the fix, the regression test and this description.
The tombstone retention prune hard-deletes `deleted` sandbox rows, which
cascades to their snapshots. A census tombstone keeps its snapshots and
their attached `snapshot_storage_locations`, whose foreign key to
`snapshots` is ON DELETE RESTRICT. One such row past retention failed the
prune's statement with 23503, rolled back the whole retention transaction
(node, template and sandbox prunes alike), and failed again on every
later tick, so retention stalled.
Detach and stamp the candidates' storage locations in the prune's own
statement, as delete_with_dependents and the absent-stopped delete do, so
the snapshot-storage sweeper can reclaim their objects. Excluding such
rows instead would keep them forever: the sweeper reaps only detached
rows, and snapshot retention never clears them all, because it removes
only full snapshots beyond each sandbox's newest keep_n and no disk
snapshot.
The regression test also pins the detach's scope: a deleted row still
inside retention and an aged stopped row keep their attached locations.
Why: Expired sandbox locations become eligible for cleanup. Verify the batch boundary before merging.
Commit: eddce45ccf6a.
Walkthrough
Pruning expired deleted sandboxes now detaches their snapshot storage locations and marks them orphaned before deleting the sandbox rows. A database test checks this behavior and confirms that locations belonging to a newer deleted sandbox or an aged stopped sandbox remain attached and unstamped.
Possibly related PRs
perplexityai/SPACE#1398: Changes snapshot reclamation for ready stop disk rows, a different trigger in the same snapshot-storage reclamation flow.
Merge Risk: Moderate · up to eddce
Expired sandbox locations become eligible for cleanup. Verify the batch boundary before merging.
Security architecture risk: Low · up to eddce
The change reuses the existing storage-cleanup lifecycle and keeps deletion bounded to expired tombstones. No introduced security finding was established. Remaining uncertainty concerns concurrent storage reuse and ownership changes, rather than a demonstrated authorization bypass.
Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.
Security review details
Security Blast Radius
observed — The pruning operation selects eligible tombstones across the shared database rather than filtering to one tenant, with a per-call sandbox limit. Downstream object deletion is restricted by the existing cluster-bucket check; this establishes an application control, not a verification of deployed IAM permissions.
Trust Boundaries and Controls
observed — The privileged cleanup path consumes persisted storage URIs only after orphan-state and configured-age filtering. It parses each URI, skips encrypted locations, rejects out-of-scope buckets, and refuses production startup without a configured bucket. These controls are unchanged by this PR.
Resilience and Maintainability Implications
observed — The existing sweeper retains database rows after storage or database errors for retry and treats an already-empty prefix as success. Its final orphan-state check occurs after object deletion. Copied-artifact preparation can reattach an orphan location, so that final check alone is not a concurrency guarantee against storage reuse; both implementations predate this PR.
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The title uses the prefix format "sandbox-store: " with a lowercase summary that starts with "detach", which matches the required area-prefix convention. It also describes the main change: detaching snapshot storage locations before a tombstone is pruned, so one row cannot stall retention. The leading "[cr-test]" tag sits outside the required format, and the title is 108 characters long, so it is noticeably long. Neither point changes the content match.
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Remove the "[cr-test] " prefix so the title starts with the area and a colon, for example: "sandbox-store: detach snapshot storage before pruning a tombstone so one row can't stall retention". Optionally shorten the summary. The title already uses a lowercase area and a lowercase starting word, and it has no trailing period or ticket ID.
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Cover the batch-limit scope of the detachment in the tombstone test.
The new test uses a limit of 100 with two eligible sandboxes. Every eligible row is in the batch, so the test cannot detect a regression where detached_storage detaches locations outside the candidates bound. The PR description says the test verifies the scope of detachment. Batch-limit scope is not covered.
Add a database-backed case that calls prune_tombstones with a limit smaller than the number of eligible rows. For example, use a limit of 1 with two expired deleted sandboxes, each with an attached storage location. Assert that:
one sandbox is pruned, and its location is detached and stamped orphaned_at; and
the retained expired sandbox still exists, and its location keeps snapshot_id set and orphaned_at unset.
Do not add the retained row to the existing limit-100 test. That row would be pruned in the same batch and would not cover this scope.
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around lines 226 - 360:
Add a separate database-backed test alongside
`store_prunes_deleted_sandbox_with_attached_storage_location_in_same_batch` that
creates two expired deleted sandboxes, each with an attached storage location,
and calls `prune_tombstones` with a limit of 1. Assert exactly one sandbox is
deleted and its location is detached and stamped orphaned; assert the other
sandbox remains and its location is still attached and unstamped. Keep this case
separate from the existing limit-100 test.
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- Around line 226-360: Add a separate database-backed test alongside
`store_prunes_deleted_sandbox_with_attached_storage_location_in_same_batch` that
creates two expired deleted sandboxes, each with an attached storage location,
and calls `prune_tombstones` with a limit of 1. Assert exactly one sandbox is
deleted and its location is detached and stamped orphaned; assert the other
sandbox remains and its location is still attached and unstamped. Keep this case
separate from the existing limit-100 test.
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Summary
The tombstone-retention prune hard-deletes
deletedsandbox rows. That cascades tosnapshots, and the foreign key fromsnapshot_storage_locationstosnapshotsisON DELETE RESTRICT. The census tombstone (themarked_deletedstep ofprune_census_absent_sandboxesincrates/libs/sandbox/store/src/ingest.rs) leaves a row's snapshots and their attached locations in place.Example: a sandbox tombstoned by a node census with one
readysnapshot and one attached location staysdeletedfor 7 days, then becomes a prune candidate next to an ordinary tombstone. The prune statement fails with23503 snapshot_storage_locations_snapshot_id_fkey, and the whole retention transaction rolls back: node, template and sandbox prunes alike, ordinary tombstone included. Every later tick fails on the same row, so retention stalls.With this change,
tombstone::prune_deleted_sandboxesdetaches the candidates' storage locations (snapshot_id = NULL, orphaned_at = NOW()) in the same statement as the delete.delete::delete_with_dependentsanddelete_published_absent_stoppedalready do this. The snapshot-storage sweeper can then reclaim the objects after its one-hour grace period.Skipping such rows instead would keep them forever: the sweeper only reaps rows that are already detached, and snapshot retention never clears them all, because it removes only
fullsnapshots beyond each sandbox's newestkeep_nand nodisksnapshot. Retained rows would also block admin user and org deletes indefinitely. Candidate selection, ordering, the batch limit and the returned ids are unchanged. The candidate CTE is markedMATERIALIZEDbecause two sub-statements read it.Validation
tombstone_retention::tests::store_prunes_deleted_sandbox_with_attached_storage_location_in_same_batch. On main it fails with23503and both tombstones remain. Here it passes: both rows are pruned and the location is detached and stamped. It also pins the detach's scope: adeletedrow still inside retention and astoppedrow aged 8 days keep their rows and their attached, unstamped locations. Widening the detach to everydeletedsandbox, or to every snapshot, fails it.SPACE_CI_REQUIRE_TEST_DEPS=1 cargo nextest run --all-features -p pplx-space-sandbox-store -p pplx-space-cluster-controller-server -p pplx-space-cluster-controller: 1279 passed, 0 skipped, shared Postgres running.cargo fmt --all -- --check,scripts/check-rust-error-policy.sh,cargo clippy --workspace --locked --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings: clean.cargo arch --base-baseline --renames --base-architectureagainst main, asci/scripts/run-archcheck.shruns it after the rebase: no findings,sandbox_writesunchanged.SPACE_KIND_TELEMETRY_MODE=otel, CI's admin-token and cold-receipt directories), bring-up in 8m28s. Staged one aged tombstone with a snapshot and attached location, plus one ordinary aged tombstone. The next retention tick loggeddeleted_sandboxes_deleted: 2. Both rows and the snapshot are gone, and the location hassnapshot_id = NULLandorphaned_atset for the sweeper.scripts/tests/smoke-kind-typed.sh all: ECW 91/91, native 42/42 passed in 65m45s, with no reruns. The six console scenarios are withheld as in CI.Severity and risk
Severity: medium. One such row stops all tombstone retention until someone intervenes by hand. While it is stalled, admin deletes of users and organizations that still own deleted sandbox rows keep failing, even past the retained-until time a user delete reports. Only the Direct substrate's census writes
deletedsandbox rows today (it matchesmanaged_by = 'space'rows), so only Direct-substrate sandboxes reach this. No user-facing data is lost.Risk: the prune now hands a census tombstone's snapshot objects to the snapshot-storage sweeper. When the sweeper is enabled, it deletes them once its one-hour grace passes, except locations in another bucket or with an encrypted sidecar, which it leaves in place. A census tombstone is inferred from a node's complete census omitting the sandbox, and no path moves a row out of
deleted, so the 7-day retention window is the only time to recover those bytes by hand. No schema change. Rollback: revert the commit. Locations already detached stay valid sweeper input, and objects the sweeper already deleted can't be restored.Rollout
During a rolling update, a controller on the old version that holds the retention lease keeps failing on such rows until a new-version leader takes over. Nothing else interacts between versions.
In an environment whose tombstone retention is stalled today, the first ticks under a new-version leader prune the backlog, oldest first, up to 1,000 sandbox rows per 5-minute tick, and detach the pruned census tombstones' storage locations. The sweeper can delete their objects an hour later. The same cascade removes those sandboxes'
node_local_backup_pendingrows, sointernal_api.local_backup_queue.absent_not_durablecan drop at the same time. To keep the objects longer, setSPACE_SNAPSHOT_STORAGE_SWEEPER_ENABLED=falsebefore the rollout; that also holds every other path's orphans until it is turned back on.AI assistance: Claude Code investigated the defect and drafted the fix, the regression test and this description.