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dtourolle ffdd640170 Backfill the catalog once per state, not on every open
Catalog::open ran schema::backfill every time, and every worker thread
opens its own connection. A develop landing made five opens, and each
paid the RAW/JPEG pairing, the default-version anti-join over every
image, the uuid pass over every default version and the keyword check:
17 ms of CPU an open on a copy of the reference catalog, ~80 ms a
landing, to confirm that nothing had changed since the open before.

Everything the backfill repairs is a row some write added: an image a
scan inserted, a version or keyword assignment a merge brought in. So
the open now reads a stamp - user_version, max(id) of images and
versions, max(rowid) of keywords, and the file's device and inode - and
skips the backfill when the stamp matches the one recorded at this
path's last backfill in this process. The maxima are each the last page
of a b-tree; an open that skips costs ~1 ms.

The backfill still runs:
- on the first open in a process (nothing recorded yet);
- on any open that migrated the schema, unconditionally;
- after a pull: merge_remote forgets the path, so the next open
  backfills even when every incoming row collided and nothing moved;
- when the file is replaced under its name: the inode is in the stamp,
  and recovery::set_aside, the first step of a restore and a rebuild,
  forgets the path;
- when another process or thread adds rows, because the stamp is read
  from the file, not from anything this process did.

The stamp is taken before the backfill, not after. Read after, it would
describe the backfill's own inserts, and could record an image another
connection inserted in between as covered when it was not. Read before,
the worst case is one redundant pass after a backfill that did real work.

Kept in memory rather than in the catalog: a stamp row would need a
table an older build does not have and would travel in the sync
snapshot, where a flag from another device's catalog says nothing about
this one. No schema version bump, so the tablet on 0.16.0 still reads
the snapshot. Tests cover the skip, a scan's new image, a migration, a
pull and a replaced file.
2026-09-26 14:26:10 -04:00
dtourolle 84fade99ec Put the developer docs under docs/dev and index the folder for users first
docs/ had 26 developer documents flat beside the manual, and the two
audiences are very differently sized: most readers want the manual and
the gesture reference, a few want the register, the designs and the
measurements. The manual and gestures.md stay at the top; everything for
someone changing the code moves to docs/dev/, and the two documents that
name their own successors — the v0.1 milestone and the UI-refinement plan
— go to docs/dev/archive/ rather than being deleted, since both are still
cited. docs/README.md is the index, users first.

Every reference follows: code comments, Cargo manifests, the workflows,
the pre-commit hook, the bench and traceability tools (which locate the
repo root by docs/dev/requirements.md now), packaging, the Docker READMEs,
CLAUDE.md, CONTRIBUTING.md and the README. The matrix links one level
deeper and is regenerated. Links out of the moved documents into the tree
gain a level; a link checker over every Markdown file finds none broken.
2026-09-20 21:16:03 +02:00
dtourolle eeee3d920a Back the catalog up daily, not only before migrations
NFR-R2 asks for the catalog to be backed up on a schedule and before
schema migrations. Only the second half existed: every backup on disk
was a pre-migration copy, and a library that never migrated was never
backed up at all.

A backup is now also taken at the end of a library sweep when the newest
one is more than a day old — the moment the catalog is quiet and a day's
collection and people edits have just been folded in — on its own
thread and its own connection, so the copy of a 130 MB file is not spent
on the UI. Whether one is due is read from the backup directory, not
the catalog, so the ordinary case costs nothing. An empty catalog is
skipped: there is nothing in it a rescan would not rebuild. Pruning to
KEEP_BACKUPS applies as before.
2026-09-13 19:32:05 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 8eeb9ba0f6 Offer the backup, and then the rebuild, when the index turns out to be damaged
NFR-R6 asks for an integrity check at startup and two offers behind it, and
none of it existed. `PRAGMA integrity_check` appeared nowhere in the tree,
`Catalog::open` was `open` → `configure` → `migrate` → `backfill` and nothing
else, and corruption therefore surfaced as whatever rusqlite error the first
unlucky query happened to produce — "database disk image is malformed"
attached to a thumbnail refresh, elided into a 34px banner, over an empty
grid saying "No images found · Check the library folder". Two messages that
disagreed, and no way forward but deleting catalog.sqlite by hand.

The property that makes the second offer real was already here and load-
bearing: the catalog is an index, not a source of truth, rebuildable from
sources plus sidecars (invariant §5.2.4, cited by schema.rs, trash.rs and
lib.rs). And sync.rs already knew how to take a coherent snapshot of a WAL
database. What was missing was the check, the type, and the conversation.

Four pieces:

**The type.** `CatalogError::Corrupt`, and — the part that makes it worth
having — a hand-written `From<rusqlite::Error>` that classifies rather than
wraps. `SQLITE_CORRUPT` and `SQLITE_NOTADB` become `Corrupt` wherever they
arise, so a background job that trips over the damage first reports the same
thing the startup check would have. `SQLITE_IOERR` and `SQLITE_BUSY`
deliberately do not: a dropped network mount is a different problem, and
telling someone to rebuild their index would be a wrong answer delivered
confidently.

**The check.** `Catalog::open_verified`, `quick_check` before the open rather
than after, because opening runs migrations and a damaged catalog with an
intact header would otherwise have structure rewritten on top of structure
that is already wrong. Bound to `open_verified` and not to `open`: the check
reads every page, which is affordable once at startup where a user can answer
a question, and not affordable on the dozens of opens a session's background
tasks make.

**The backup.** NFR-R2's second clause, taken between `configure` and
`migrate` in `Catalog::open`. A migration is the one routine operation that
rewrites table structure, so it is the likeliest way this file becomes
unreadable, and it is the last moment the pre-migration state exists to be
copied. Three generations, through SQLite's backup API after a TRUNCATE
checkpoint — never `fs::copy`, which on a WAL database backs up a state older
than the catalog and possibly torn. A failure to take the copy is logged, not
raised: a full disk must not be what makes a library unopenable.

**The conversation.** The first line of the dialogue is that the photographs
and the edits are safe, before the diagnosis, because that is the question the
user is actually asking. Then the two offers, which are *not* interchangeable
and are not presented as if they were: a restore keeps collections, and a
rebuild cannot, because a manual collection is a set of images assembled by
hand and nothing in the filesystem records it (docs/catalog.md §8.1). The
labels say so, and the rebuild does not take the affirmative styling while a
restore is on the table.

One thing that is a fix rather than a feature: `show_catalog_now` now gates
the scan. `Catalog::open` succeeds on a file whose header survived, so the
scan that used to start immediately afterwards would write folder ETags and
image rows into damaged pages in the seconds while the user was still reading
the question — turning a file that had a backup into one where the backup is
the only copy left.

Restore also deletes the damaged catalog's `-wal` and `-shm`. That step is
easy to leave out and fatal to leave out: a journal belonging to the old file,
sitting beside the new one under the same name, is replayed into it on the
next open. That is not a restore, it is a fresh corruption with the evidence
gone.

Tested by corrupting a fixture catalog — 500 images and a collection, then
every page past the second overwritten — and driving both branches. The
restore is asserted on the collection, because a collection is precisely what
distinguishes the two paths; the rebuild on the damaged file being kept and
the next open producing an empty catalog at the current schema. Plus the
`SQLITE_NOTADB` presentation, a damaged backup being refused rather than
installed, and a v1 catalog whose pre-migration backup comes back reading
v1 rather than v11.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-30 10:34:12 +02:00