Location history retention & background pruning - #93
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change adds configurable, cancellable location-history pruning with bounded database deletes, a supporting index, startup configuration, tests, and documentation. It also expands generated database methods for user, vehicle, trip, and activity operations. ChangesLocation retention pruning
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participant Main
participant LocationPruner
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Main->>LocationPruner: start with retention settings
LocationPruner->>Store: prune expired points at each interval
Store->>PostgreSQL: delete rows before cutoff in batch
PostgreSQL-->>Store: return deleted row count
Store-->>LocationPruner: return pruning result
Main->>LocationPruner: Stop during shutdown
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In `@main.go`:
- Around line 132-145: The retention configuration around NewLocationPruner must
treat only a zero LOCATION_RETENTION_PERIOD as disabled, reject negative
retention periods and non-positive prune intervals before creating the pruner,
and emit “location retention enabled” only after the worker starts successfully.
Preserve the existing warning and batch-size handling for valid settings.
In `@migrations/000010_add_location_retention_index.up.sql`:
- Line 4: Update migrations/000010_add_location_retention_index.up.sql:4 to use
concurrent creation for idx_location_points_received_at, and update
migrations/000010_add_location_retention_index.down.sql:1 to use concurrent
removal of the same index. Preserve the existing IF NOT EXISTS behavior where
supported.
In `@README.md`:
- Line 191: Correct the annual location_points row estimate in the documentation
to approximately 157.7 million rows for 50 vehicles reporting every 10 seconds,
replacing the inaccurate 13 million figure while preserving the surrounding
retention and GPS-trace context.
In `@retention.go`:
- Around line 61-64: Update the retention worker’s run and Stop lifecycle so the
background prune operation uses a worker-owned cancellable context, Stop cancels
that context and waits for run to exit, and shutdown does not return while
PruneLocationPoints remains active. Add a blocking-store test that verifies the
prune context receives cancellation through ctx.Done().
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| -- Supports the retention pruner's global scan over expired rows. | ||
| -- The existing (vehicle_id, received_at DESC) index cannot serve this predicate | ||
| -- because received_at is not its leading column. | ||
| CREATE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS idx_location_points_received_at ON location_points (received_at); |
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The current PostgreSQL migration runner supports these statements outside a transaction. Replace CREATE INDEX and DROP INDEX with CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY and DROP INDEX CONCURRENTLY to prevent blocking location_points writes.
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In `@migrations/000010_add_location_retention_index.up.sql` at line 4, Update
migrations/000010_add_location_retention_index.up.sql:4 to use concurrent
creation for idx_location_points_received_at, and update
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Thanks for this — the design here is genuinely good. Server-clock cutoff rather than trusting client timestamps, batched deletes in separate transactions so you never hold a long lock on the highest-volume table, the sync.Once stop channel matching the existing VehicleRateLimiter shape, and retention defaulting to off. The tests actually exercise behavior rather than restating it. I want this feature.
Two things to fix before it can land.
1. Migration version collision — the server will not start after merge.
main already has migrations/000010_add_user_active.{up,down}.sql (landed in #92). This branch adds migrations/000010_add_location_retention_index.{up,down}.sql. The filenames differ, so git merges both without a conflict and nothing looks wrong — but at startup iofs.New hits ms.Append returning false on the duplicate version and returns source.ErrDuplicateMigration, Store.Migrate wraps it as invalid migration source, and main.go exits 1.
Renumber to 000011. Worth noting this branch is already going to need a rebase for its main.go and db/query.sql conflicts, and that rebase will not surface this one, since there is nothing to conflict on. The repo has been bitten by this before (26905f4, 54e0a25 both renumber a migration for the same reason).
2. The row-volume estimate in the README is off by about 12x.
a 50-vehicle agency reporting every 10 seconds accumulates roughly 13 million rows per year
50 vehicles x 6 reports/min x 525,600 min/yr is about 157.7 million rows/year. 13 million corresponds to roughly a 2-minute reporting interval. This is the number the whole retention rationale rests on, so it is worth getting right — and the real figure argues for the feature considerably more strongly than the stated one.
Non-blocking, take or leave: main.go logs "location retention enabled" unconditionally, including when NewLocationPruner declined to start (a zero or negative LOCATION_PRUNE_INTERVAL). An operator would see both the error and the "enabled" line and reasonably conclude pruning was running.
Renumber the migration, fix the arithmetic, rebase, and I will take another look. Happy to re-review quickly.
Location history was never deleted, so this adds an opt-in retention period that clears expired points in batches.
… shutdown Renumber to 000011 — OneBusAway#92 landed 000010_add_user_active on main, and duplicate versions make iofs.New return ErrDuplicateMigration so the server exits at startup. Correct the README estimate to 157.7M rows/year. Stop now cancels an in-flight delete and waits for the worker to exit, the index builds CONCURRENTLY, and bad config no longer logs as enabled.
The repo has been bitten repeatedly by two branches adding the same migration version: filenames differ so git merges cleanly, then iofs.New rejects the duplicate and the server exits at startup. These tests need no database, so CI catches it on every PR.
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TRUST_PROXY_HEADERS=trueonly when trusted proxies overwrite inboundX-Forwarded-ForandX-Forwarded-Protoheaders and the backend accepts traffic only from those proxies. Otherwise, clients can select the login rate-limiter IP or spoof the request scheme.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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location_pointsis the highest-volume table in the system — one row per vehicle per reporting interval — and nothing has ever deleted from it. A 50-vehicle agency reporting every 10 seconds accumulates roughly 13 million rows per year, and that data is a permanent, per-second GPS trace of named drivers. README Milestone 5 lists "Data retention and privacy considerations" as a deliverable; this PR implements it.A
LocationPrunerbackground goroutine deletes location points older than a configurable retention period, in bounded batches, and shuts down cleanly with the server.LOCATION_RETENTION_PERIOD00disables pruningLOCATION_PRUNE_INTERVAL1hLOCATION_PRUNE_BATCH_SIZE10000Behavior change
None by default.
LOCATION_RETENTION_PERIODdefaults to0, which means retain forever — existing deployments are unaffected until an operator opts in. Deletion is permanent and there is no archival step; both facts are documented in the README.Design notes
received_at, nottimestamp.timestampis client-supplied; a device reporting a far-future timestamp would otherwise evade pruning indefinitely, and one reporting a far-past timestamp would have its data deleted immediately. Retention is a server-side policy and must depend only on server-assigned data.DELETEover a year of history can hold locks and bloat WAL long enough to stall the ingest hot path. Each pass removes at mostLOCATION_PRUNE_BATCH_SIZErows (default 10,000) in its own transaction, looping until a batch comes back short.received_at. None of the three existing indexes onlocation_pointsleads withreceived_at, so none can serve the prune predicate — a composite(vehicle_id, received_at)does not subsume(received_at).EXPLAIN ANALYZEbefore/after below.NewLocationPrunerlogs an error and returns an inert pruner rather than running.main.goalso gates onretentionPeriod > 0; deletion is irreversible enough to be worth both.envInt32OrDefaultparses at 32 bits deliberately. The batch size reaches the database as anint32query parameter, so parsing wider would let an oversized value wrap negative and produceLIMIT -Nerrors on every tick.location_points.id, andtrip_idis a plain GTFS text field rather than a FK totrips.id, so deletion cannot orphan or cascade.context.Background()in the pruner is intentional — this is a background job, not a request handler, so it owns its context instead of borrowing a request's.VehicleRateLimiterpattern:stopchannel +Stop()guarded bysync.Once, checked both between ticks and between delete batches so a long backlog does not delay shutdown.Summary by CodeRabbit
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