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dtourolle 78df4211b0 Run the people deduplication after every catalog merge (#78)
A merge is where two devices' people meet: the same name typed on each,
or a redirect one of them made. So dedup_people::run now follows every
successful sync::merge_remote. It runs on the sync worker, never the
UI thread, before the snapshot is pushed, so what it folds reaches the
server on the same pass.

It runs in its own transaction, and a failure is logged, not
returned. What the merge took is committed and valid either way, and
the next pass tries again. Once a catalog is clean it costs 8-15 ms on
the reference library (19k faces, 26k people rows). On copies of the
two real catalogs, a round trip with a peer running the previous merge
converges on 75 listed named people on both sides and stays there
over a second round. merge_remote with the job takes 75-90 ms there.
2026-09-26 17:50:38 -04:00
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 94542371f6 Keep albums in the catalog: export folders and what went into them
An album is a named export destination. Its folder holds only the
exported files; the catalog records, per file, the image it was
rendered from, so an album can show the originals behind its JPEGs
(FR-EXP-10).

The tables are created on first use (CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS), the
way dedup_probes is, rather than by a schema migration: a new
user_version makes every older build refuse this catalog's snapshot at
sync, and the 0.16.0 tablet would stop merging collections, keywords
and people for a feature it does not have.

Albums merge as collections do: by uuid and revision, tombstones on
delete, exports as a set union keyed on the server's file id (content
hash for a folder library). A folder on the server lives on the album
row and syncs; a folder on this device lives in album_folders, which
the merge never reads and the upload snapshot drops, because a path or
a SAF grant on one device means nothing on another.

Exports are keyed on the file name, not the image: two crops of one
photograph are two files and two rows, and an overwrite re-points the
name at whatever wrote it last.
2026-09-26 14:13:28 -04:00
dtourolle 49b7bc2f9d Build the upload snapshot without the face crops instead of stripping them
Each sync pass spent 0.8-2.0 s of CPU and 1.0-5.4 s wall on the upload
snapshot of the reference catalog (24k images, 18,871 faces), ahead of the
rest of the pass. The upload itself had been crop-less since the crops
moved to the face shards. The cost was in how it got that way. The backup
API copied all 158 MB of the catalog, 96 MB of it the ~5 KB JPEG crop on
every faces row. Then `UPDATE faces SET crop = NULL` rewrote 18.9k rows
and freed their overflow chains, and VACUUM rebuilt the file again. That
wrote the catalog about three times over to upload 50 MB.

The snapshot is now built rather than copied. An empty file attaches the
catalog, creates each table from the catalog's own sqlite_master and fills
it with INSERT ... SELECT, with faces.crop selected as NULL. Indexes,
triggers and views follow, and user_version, application_id, page size and
the WAL header flag are carried over. It all runs in one transaction on the
snapshot's connection, so the catalog is read as of one moment and
concurrent writers are serialised, not raced, as the backup API did. The
build journal is in memory with synchronous off, because the file is
scratch that is rebuilt every pass and quick_check'd before upload. Foreign
keys are off on that connection. The bundled SQLite enables them, and then
a multi-row INSERT into images scans images for children of each new row
(shadowed_by is a self-reference with no index), which cost 1.2 s alone.

Measured on a .backup copy of the reference catalog with catalog_bench,
old and new binaries back to back on a loaded machine:
  before  best 1.0-5.4 s wall, 0.84-1.98 s cpu, 49.8 MB
  after   best 0.40-2.1 s wall, 0.39-0.96 s cpu, 50.4 MB
With the machine quiet the new build takes 0.31-0.43 s.

What a receiving device gets is unchanged. It is the same schema, the same
rows and a NULL crop, which is what 0.16.0 already uploads and merges. The
merge reads only a remote face's box and model (merge::match_faces) and
never writes a local crop. No device adopts a downloaded catalog as its
own, and a fresh one takes faces and crops from the shards. There is no
schema bump, so older builds still merge it. NFR-R2 backups keep using the
backup API and keep their crops.

Tests: the snapshot matches the catalog in schema, row counts, pragmas and
WAL header. A leftover file is replaced. Merging a crop-less snapshot
carries a confirmed name across by box and leaves the local crop
untouched, and does so idempotently.
2026-09-26 14:03:27 -04:00
dtourolle f100db89ca Verify the catalog snapshot before it is sent, and after it lands
Two checks around the upload, both cheap next to what they prevent.

Before: the snapshot is quick_checked before it leaves. It is the copy
every other device merges from, and a damaged one costs each of them a
download, a failed merge and a refusal to push.

After: the staged upload's size on the server is compared to the bytes
sent before it is rotated into place. A chunked upload is assembled
server-side, and an assembly that goes wrong is a file of plausible
size no device can open — caught here, on the device that caused it,
for one listing; otherwise on every other device, after the fact. A
mismatch, or a size the server will not confirm, discards the upload
and leaves the current copy and its generations untouched.
2026-09-13 19:31:58 +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
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 79c0520506 Keep the face, not just a way to find it again
A face was drawn by decoding the 1024px proxy it was found on and cutting the
box out again, every time the People screen opened. That made the screen a
derivative of the thumbnail cache: evict a proxy — which the cache may do at any
moment — and the cell goes blank, with no way back short of re-fetching the
original over the network and re-detecting it. It also cost a full JPEG decode
per image, per visit, to show a 96px cell.

So the crop is cut once, when the pixels are already in hand at detection time,
and kept. A 160px JPEG is a few KB against the ~250 KB proxy it replaces reading.

Where it lives is the interesting part. The catalog snapshot is uploaded *whole*
on every sync and downloaded by every device, so a crop column there would put
tens of MB on every round trip — the exact cost `face_shard`'s 25 MB cap exists
to bound, and the reason bulk per-face data lives in shards already. Crops
therefore travel in the face shards, beside the embeddings, and
`snapshot_for_upload` strips them from the copy it writes. Nothing reads a crop
out of a merged remote catalog — the merge touches collections and keywords only
— so a receiving device loses nothing. A shard carrying crops holds around 3,500
faces rather than 22,000, which is the price of a second device showing People
immediately instead of re-fetching every proxy.

The column is nullable and the reader falls back to the proxy, so a face indexed
before this still works and the next indexing pass fills it in.

V10 also adds `people.ignored`, for a person the user has looked at and does not
want to identify. Most clusters in a real library are strangers — passers-by,
other people's guests, a face on a poster — and there is no way to tell "not yet
looked at" from "looked at, don't care" without recording the second. It is a
column rather than a deletion because a deleted cluster comes straight back on
the next Regroup: the faces are still there and still similar, and nothing short
of remembering the judgement survives re-clustering. Same argument
`face_person_rejected` makes one level down.

And `prune_empty_unnamed`, for what clustering leaves behind. Regroup creates a
person per unanchored group and never removed the previous run's now-empty ones,
so pressing it twice added a rail entry per group it no longer believed in.
Named people are never touched however empty — a name is user data — nor is a
merge tombstone, which must outlive its faces to keep redirecting.

298 tests pass, including that the snapshot carries no crops while the live
catalog keeps them.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-27 21:17:44 +02:00
dtourolleandClaude Opus 5 62188ec740 Keep both devices' keywords when the catalogs meet
Keywords are catalog state, and the catalog syncs. Without this, two devices
keywording the same library would resolve to whichever synced last, and an
afternoon of work would vanish with no sign it had ever happened.

The vocabulary merges per row on the rule collections already use: revision
first, timestamp only to break a tie, so a device with a skewed clock cannot win
by having the wrong idea of the time. Assignments merge as a set union, which is
FR-NC-9's principle applied to metadata instead of edit nodes — disjoint work
survives on both sides.

Three things needed care and are commented where they happen:

A deletion travels *by name*, not by identity. Both devices may have minted
their own uuid for one word before they ever synced, so deleting by uuid would
tombstone a row nothing was assigned to and leave every photograph still
carrying the word. The union then refuses to readmit a word a winning tombstone
has just removed — without that filter the remote's live assignments would
resurrect it on the very same pass.

Images are resolved by the server's file id first and the content hash second.
Membership has always used the hash alone, but the hash is computed only when
import dedup or a reconnect asks for it, which for most libraries is never — so
a hash-only union would have quietly done nothing for the ordinary photograph.

A word lands on the local default version. Version uuids do not reconcile in the
catalog at all: ensure_default_versions mints a fresh one per device, so a
uuid-keyed join would have unioned nothing.

Removal still does not propagate. That is the trade collection membership
already makes, for the same reason — an unwanted keyword is removed again in a
second, and a silently lost afternoon is not recoverable at all.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-22 15:51:00 +02:00
dtourolle c8bb08e661 Add folder scan with format selection; validate A3 on a real library
Library setup as the user described it: pick a folder, choose which RAW
types to look for, scan recursively.

  dr-types::FormatFilter  the tick-box selection, seeing through VFS
                          placeholder suffixes so a dehydrated CR2 still
                          matches as a CR2
  dr-sync::scan           recursive walk, Depth:1 per directory, pruning
                          unchanged subtrees where the backend propagates
                          directory ETags

Verified against nextcloud.tourolle.paris (34.0.2) on a real library:

  browse root      32 entries, 98ms
  scan PhotosRaw   17,185 RAW files in 334 directories, 34.1s
                   (7,836 CR2 + 9,349 DNG)
  range read       262KB of a 21.5MB DNG in 119ms — 1.22% of the file,
                   and enough to read "Canon EOS 6D | ISO 100"

That last line is assumption A3 validated on real data. Cataloguing this
library by whole-file fetch would move roughly 370GB; the range path
moves a few MB.

Pruning is capability-gated rather than assumed: with per-entry ETags a
probe costs a request and proves nothing about children, so it is skipped
entirely. A test asserts zero probes in that case.

Still unresolved: /core/preview returns 400 for every parameter
combination tried, including on a JPEG the server reports as having a
preview. Not a request-shape bug — it fails identically bare. Recorded
rather than worked around; ARCH §6.7 already treats server previews as
opportunistic, so nothing depends on it.
2026-08-09 12:22:31 +02:00