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Summary

bootstrap-roles grants the application roles (space_user, space_ro,
space_creds) privileges on every relation in schema public, views included,
on every run. A planned rename leaves compatibility views under the old table
names. Before those views are dropped, a brownout step revokes the application
roles' privileges on them so that any remaining reader fails loudly. Without
this change, the next bootstrap-roles run restores those privileges and the
brownout is quietly undone.

This adds GRANT_EXCLUDED_RELATIONS in
crates/l30_storage/db/migrate/src/bootstrap_roles.rs: relations bootstrap grants
the application roles nothing on. converge_grants takes the list as a
parameter. Excluded relations are skipped by the per-relation grant loop and by
the space_ro column-scoped re-grant. Revokes still apply to them: the
credential fence, and the column fence's space_ro revoke. Bootstrap logs each
skipped relation at info level. Every SQL statement stays whole; the exclusion
is a Rust-side filter on the existing catalog query's results.

The production list is empty. A brownout adds its views to it. An entry is
removed only after the migration that drops its view has applied everywhere:
provisioning runs bootstrap-roles before migrations, so an image without the
entry would re-grant the view before the drop. Landing the mechanism now keeps
the brownout step to a list change. It does not protect a brownout by itself: a
bootstrap run from any image that lacks the brownout's entry, this one
included, re-grants the views.

An exclusion list is smaller than the alternative of having bootstrap re-grant
only relations it declares. Bootstrap does not declare per-relation grants: it
grants on every relation in public, so new and adopted tables converge with
no list at all. Declaring grants would mean listing every application table.

Validation

On this head, with Docker running and the Rust toolchain from rust-toolchain.toml:

• Test-first, grant loop: before the exclusion existed, a test that revoked
  space_user, space_ro and space_creds on a fixture view
  (CREATE VIEW legacy_fixture AS SELECT id FROM renamed_fixture) and then ran
  bootstrap failed with space_user must stay revoked on the view. That
  confirms bootstrap restores the revoked privileges.
• grant_exclusion_keeps_revoked_view_privileges_revoked (a check that
  first_bootstrap_adopts_admin_owned_tables_routines_and_types runs on its
  already bootstrapped server) sends the fixture view through the production
  converge_grants path with its own exclusion list. It checks that all three roles stay revoked on the view while its base
  table is granted, then that a normal bootstrap run (production list) grants
  the view again.
• Test-first, column fence: grant_exclusion_still_fences_denylisted_columns_from_ro
  (the second check run inside the same test) creates, as space_migrator, a view named sessions (an
  RO_COLUMN_DENYLIST entry) over id and token_hash. Its precondition
  checks that space_ro starts with SELECT from the default privileges. With
  sessions excluded, converge_grants must leave space_ro no column
  (has_any_column_privilege) while space_user keeps its table SELECT. A
  normal bootstrap run then must grant space_ro id but not token_hash.
  Before the fix, the column fence skipped excluded relations entirely, and the
  test failed with space_ro must lose every column of an excluded denylisted view. It passes after the fix.
• The two checks share first_bootstrap_adopts_admin_owned_tables_routines_and_types's
  container instead of starting their own. Each bootstrap-roles test starts its
  own Postgres container, and as separate tests the column-fence check took
  4.1-4.6 s, over the 4 s gate in ci/test-duration-budget.toml. The host test,
  listed with a 5 s ceiling, now takes 2.9-3.4 s on the validation machine.
• Mutation checks on this head, each restored afterwards. Each one fails
  first_bootstrap_adopts_admin_owned_tables_routines_and_types, and only that test:
  • grant loop's skip removed: space_user must stay revoked on the excluded view;
  • column fence's continue for excluded relations removed (re-grant):
    space_ro must lose every column of an excluded denylisted view;
  • excluded relations skipping the column-fence revoke as well: the same message;
  • bootstrap passing the fixture names instead of GRANT_EXCLUDED_RELATIONS:
    space_user must be regranted a view that is not excluded.
• cargo build -p pplx-space-db-test-fixtures --bin space-nextest-postgres-setup && cargo nextest run -p pplx-space-db-migrate:
  run as root as CI's privileged step does (--run-ignored all --ignore-default-filter):
  54 tests run, 54 passed, 0 skipped (SPACE_TEST_DEPS_OPTIONAL unset). The
  bootstrap Postgres tests ran against real containers.
• python3 ci/scripts/check-test-durations.py target/nextest/default/junit.xml ci/test-duration-budget.toml,
  6 runs: the host test took 2.9-3.4 s against its 5 s ceiling. Three runs failed
  because ro_reads_api_keys_without_key_hash or
  ro_reads_publication_grant_metadata_without_authorization_id took 5.0-5.3 s
  against their 5 s ceilings on that machine; those tests already reach 4.86 s on
  main there, and CI set their ceilings from runs of 3.33 s or less.
• cargo fmt --all -- --check: clean.
• cargo clippy --locked -p pplx-space-db-migrate --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings: clean.
• bash ci/scripts/run-archcheck.sh <base sha> "" (base and its baseline,
  renames and ARCHITECTURE.toml, as CI passes them): exit 0, no findings.
• cargo check --workspace --all-targets --all-features --locked: passed.

Not validated: workspace-wide clippy on this head; the full privileged test group
together and the full CI matrix (durations above are from one machine, not CI);
Kind.

Severity and risk

Severity: low on its own, because the list is empty. It is a precondition for a
safe brownout: without it, a routine bootstrap run would silently undo one.

Risk: with an empty list, the grant loop and both fences run exactly as before.
Once a relation is listed, bootstrap stops granting the application roles on
it, so a listed relation that is not actually being retired loses access on its
next revoke; if it is in RO_COLUMN_DENYLIST, space_ro loses access on the
next bootstrap run. Roll back by removing the entry, or by reverting this
commit, and re-running bootstrap-roles.

Rollout

No migration, flag or configuration. With the empty list, every image behaves
as before. Once a brownout adds an entry, a bootstrap run from an image without
that entry re-grants the view. From the brownout's revoke until the view's drop
has applied everywhere, every bootstrap run, a rollback included, must come
from an image that carries the entry. The migration-isolation check rejects
changes to this list in a PR that also changes migrations, so entries are added
and removed in PRs of their own.

AI assistance: An AI agent (Claude Code) wrote the code, the tests and this description.

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Walkthrough

Bootstrap now passes GRANT_EXCLUDED_RELATIONS to converge_grants. The grant loop skips grants for listed relations. For excluded denylisted relations, it still revokes table access and skips the column-scoped re-grant. PostgreSQL tests cover excluded-view privileges, later restoration, and the token_hash column fence.

Possibly related PRs

• perplexityai/SPACE#1310: Implements the same excluded-relation bootstrap behavior and changes the grant convergence function and PostgreSQL tests.

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to fd807

Production grants remain unchanged because the exclusion list is empty. The PR is marked preview-only.

Security architecture risk: Minimal · up to fd807

The production exclusion list is empty, so this PR does not change effective database permissions. The new mechanism suppresses grants rather than adding authority, and preserves the credential and sensitive-column safeguards. Activating a future brownout will require coordinated revocation and deployment changes.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• observed — The mechanism operates on public-schema relations in the connected control-plane database and affects grants to space_user, space_ro and space_creds. It is relation-wide rather than tenant-scoped. No production relation is currently excluded.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — The provisioning command requires a database identity authorized to create roles. Excluding a relation does not bypass the credential-table revoke from space_user and space_ro, nor the denylisted-relation revoke from space_ro. The latter runs before the exclusion check suppresses its safe-column re-grant.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — Bootstrap remains a sequence of convergent operations: hard fence errors propagate, and skipped recoverable operations cause the command to report incomplete convergence for retry. The added tests cover successful exclusion and subsequent restoration, not interrupted or concurrent brownouts. No new atomicity guarantee is established.

Pre-merge checks: 4 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Title check		The title uses the bracketed prefix form "[cr-test] db-migrate:" and then a summary starting with a lowercase word, "let". The requirement asks for a lowercase area prefix followed by a colon, or the …	Remove the "[cr-test]" tag so the title starts with the area in brackets or with the area and a colon. For example: "db-migrate: let bootstrap-roles leave excluded relations ungranted". Keep the summary starting with the lowercase word "let…

Passed checks: 4 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Follows The Pr Template		The description contains all required template content: a substantive ## Summary, a ## Validation section with commands and results, a ## Severity and risk section with severity and risk, and an…
Bug Fixes Name A Regression Test		The pull request fixes application behavior in crates/l30_storage/db/migrate. Its Validation section names grant_exclusion_keeps_revoked_view_privileges_revoked and `grant_exclusion_still_fences_d…
Weakened Safeguards Are Justified		The diff changes only bootstrap_roles.rs and postgres_bootstrap_tests.rs. It does not remove or weaken tests, assertions, lints, CI checks, or repository guards. It adds exclusion behavior and new…
Public-Safe Content		No prohibited public-safety content appears in the changed files, title, or description. The diff contains no credentials, private keys, URLs, hostnames, ARNs, workstation paths, production logs, or i…

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Explanation

The description contains all required template content: a substantive ## Summary, a ## Validation section with commands and results, a ## Severity and risk section with severity and risk, and an AI assistance: line identifying the tool and drafted parts.

Full details: Bug Fixes Name A Regression Test

Explanation

The pull request fixes application behavior in crates/l30_storage/db/migrate. Its Validation section names grant_exclusion_keeps_revoked_view_privileges_revoked and grant_exclusion_still_fences_denylisted_columns_from_ro, and states that each failed without the fix and passed with it. The diff adds both checks and the assertions that expose the regressions.

Full details: Weakened Safeguards Are Justified

Explanation

The diff changes only bootstrap_roles.rs and postgres_bootstrap_tests.rs. It does not remove or weaken tests, assertions, lints, CI checks, or repository guards. It adds exclusion behavior and new assertions covering revoked view privileges and column fencing.

Full details: Public-Safe Content

Explanation

No prohibited public-safety content appears in the changed files, title, or description. The diff contains no credentials, private keys, URLs, hostnames, ARNs, workstation paths, production logs, or incident details. token_hash and the credential-related test text are clearly synthetic test identifiers. The reported timings are test measurements, not production measurements.

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Explanation

The title uses the bracketed prefix form "[cr-test] db-migrate:" and then a summary starting with a lowercase word, "let". The requirement asks for a lowercase area prefix followed by a colon, or the area in square brackets, followed by a lowercase summary. The title meets the bracket form and the lowercase rule. It has no trailing period and no ticket ID. However, it adds a "[cr-test]" tag before the area. That tag is a test marker, not an area name, so the title only partly matches the required format. The title describes the main change accurately: bootstrap-roles can leave excluded relations ungranted, which matches the added GRANT_EXCLUDED_RELATIONS list and the grant skipping logic.

Resolution

Remove the "[cr-test]" tag so the title starts with the area in brackets or with the area and a colon. For example: "db-migrate: let bootstrap-roles leave excluded relations ungranted". Keep the summary starting with the lowercase word "let".

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