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Summary

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.
• 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-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.

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Walkthrough

The pruning query materializes candidate sandboxes, detaches their snapshot storage locations, and sets orphaned_at before deleting the sandbox rows. A database test checks that expired deleted sandboxes are pruned and that locations for sandboxes outside the candidate set remain unchanged.

Possibly related PRs

• perplexityai/SPACE#1410: It also detaches snapshot storage locations and marks them orphaned when pruning deleted sandboxes.

Merge Risk: Moderate · up to 62b7a

An attached snapshot location may still prevent aged sandboxes from being pruned. Make detachment precede deletion reliably before merging.

Security architecture risk: Low · up to 62b7a

The change preserves retention eligibility and batch limits and reuses existing guarded storage cleanup. No introduced security weakness was established. Concurrent attachment and deployment-specific database behavior remain unvalidated.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The retention query can select eligible tombstones across organizations in its database, subject to the existing age, lifecycle, and batch limits. Detachment follows snapshot ownership through candidate sandbox IDs; it does not change organization identifiers or stored object URIs. The new exposure is reclamation of those previously blocked storage locations, not a new caller-facing authority.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — The existing sweeper requires both an orphan timestamp and a null snapshot reference, applies an age grace, and refuses startup without a configured bucket scope. Processing skips encrypted locations, malformed URIs, and other buckets. These controls constrain the newly eligible locations; effective production IAM and configuration were not verified.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — The sweeper deletes objects before removing their database anchor. Object-delete failures preserve the row for retry; database-delete failures after successful reclamation also preserve the retry anchor, and an already-empty prefix is accepted. Final row deletion rechecks both halves of the orphan state.

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Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Public-Safe Content		The code diff and title contain no credentials, private URLs, account IDs, workstation paths, or real cluster names. The PR description does disclose incident details in the “Severity and risk” and “R…	Remove the current-environment, operational-impact, and rollout incident details from the PR description. Keep only a concise description of the fixed defect and the regression-test result.
Title check		The title opens with the "[cr-test]" tag, which the required format does not include. It then uses "sandbox-store:" as the area prefix, which is lowercase with a colon and matches the required pattern…	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". Keep the rest of the title as it is.

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Description Follows The Pr Template		The description includes all required sections and content: ## Summary explains the change, ## Validation lists commands and results, ## Severity and risk states medium severity and the risks, a…
Bug Fixes Name A Regression Test		The pull request fixes application behavior under crates/. Its Validation section names tombstone_retention::tests::store_prunes_deleted_sandbox_with_attached_storage_location_in_same_batch and st…
Weakened Safeguards Are Justified		The diff does not weaken a safeguard. It changes the pruning query in crates/l30_storage/sandbox/store/src/tombstone.rs:38-61 and adds a regression test with assertions in `crates/l40_api/cluster/co…

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The description includes all required sections and content: ## Summary explains the change, ## Validation lists commands and results, ## Severity and risk states medium severity and the risks, and AI assistance: identifies Claude Code and the drafted parts.

Full details: Bug Fixes Name A Regression Test

Explanation

The pull request fixes application behavior under crates/. Its Validation section names tombstone_retention::tests::store_prunes_deleted_sandbox_with_attached_storage_location_in_same_batch and states that it fails on main with 23503 and passes with the fix. The diff adds this test and changes prune_deleted_sandboxes to detach storage locations before deletion.

Full details: Weakened Safeguards Are Justified

Explanation

The diff does not weaken a safeguard. It changes the pruning query in crates/l30_storage/sandbox/store/src/tombstone.rs:38-61 and adds a regression test with assertions in crates/l40_api/cluster/controller/server/src/tombstone_retention/tests.rs:226-352. No test, assertion, lint, CI check, or repository guard is removed or relaxed.

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The code diff and title contain no credentials, private URLs, account IDs, workstation paths, or real cluster names. The PR description does disclose incident details in the “Severity and risk” and “Rollout” sections: it describes a currently stalled retention environment, its administrative-delete impact, and the recovery behavior during rollout.

Resolution

Remove the current-environment, operational-impact, and rollout incident details from the PR description. Keep only a concise description of the fixed defect and the regression-test result.

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Explanation

The title opens with the "[cr-test]" tag, which the required format does not include. It then uses "sandbox-store:" as the area prefix, which is lowercase with a colon and matches the required pattern. The summary after the colon begins with lowercase "detach" and describes the change: detaching snapshot storage before pruning a tombstone. The title also has no trailing period and no ticket ID. The only deviation is the extra "[cr-test]" prefix, which is a test marker and not an area. The title is fully related to the change, so the content check passes. The format deviation is a minor issue that a reviewer can fix by removing the tag.

Resolution

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". Keep the rest of the title as it is.

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Review comments at @crates/l30_storage/sandbox/store/src/tombstone.rs:
- Line 48: Update the tombstone retention flow around the detached_storage CTE
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sandbox DELETE as separate statements in the caller’s transaction. Ensure
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Run detachment before the sandbox DELETE as a separate statement.

The passing test covers a favorable execution: PostgreSQL's RI check can see the detachment when the sibling UPDATE runs first. The CTE order is not guaranteed, however. If the DELETE reaches the ON DELETE RESTRICT check first, the retention transaction can fail and later runs can fail again on the same candidate.

Preserve one candidate ID set, then execute the storage-location UPDATE and sandbox DELETE as separate statements in the caller's transaction.

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Review comment at @crates/l30_storage/sandbox/store/src/tombstone.rs at line 48:
Update the tombstone retention flow around the detached_storage CTE to preserve
one candidate ID set, then run the storage-location UPDATE and sandbox DELETE as
separate statements in the caller’s transaction. Ensure detachment completes
before the DELETE begins, and retain the existing candidate selection and
transaction scope.

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