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Make concurrent SQL schema migration idempotent - #336

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Summary

  • make retained numeric-to-string schema reconciliation tolerate another backend completing the migration concurrently
  • recheck column metadata before issuing the ALTER and after inspection or DDL conflicts
  • wait for a bounded five-second grace when a peer migration is still in flight
  • preserve interruption and the original SQL failure when the peer does not complete

Root cause

Two backends can inspect the same legacy numeric column at startup. One backend may finish converting VoteRemindersLast while the other combines stale JDBC type metadata with the new quoted string default from information_schema. The second backend then reports Cannot safely preserve SQL column default during migration even though the peer is completing a valid migration.

The migration is now safely idempotent: a backend succeeds only after a fresh type read proves the retained column is no longer numeric/boolean. It never treats an unresolved or unsafe schema as successful.

MCHT evidence

Addresses finding F1 in report 20260922T221334527956Z-bcabbae7e3c8, associated with suite 20260922T044028Z-web-622697.

A focused candidate MCHT run using the dependent VotingPlugin artifact is in progress as suite 20260923T003719Z-web-036097; no live result is claimed here yet.

Tests

  • MysqlUserBackendSchemaExpansionTest: peer completion during metadata inspection
  • MysqlUserBackendSchemaExpansionTest: delayed peer completion after the unsafe-default inspection failure
  • MysqlUserBackendSchemaExpansionTest: peer completion after a conflicting ALTER
  • mvn -B -f AdvancedCore/pom.xml clean install
    • 933 tests, 0 failures, 0 errors, 0 skipped
    • packaged artifact test passed

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  • AdvancedCore.jar: 16,417,763 bytes
  • SHA-256: fab10a1d65168988b9abc5b729ae1394dce9fc55c71398f0ee17c7bf89591d7e

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A fresh independent read-only Codex review of the exact final diff returned No findings.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved database schema upgrades when multiple application instances migrate concurrently.
    • Migrations now recognize when another instance has completed the upgrade and continue safely instead of failing unnecessarily.
    • Added brief retry handling for temporary metadata or schema-change conflicts.
    • Genuine migration errors remain visible and continue to be reported.
  • Tests
    • Added coverage for concurrent MariaDB schema migrations and race conditions during column updates.

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The SQL backend now detects peer-completed column migrations during metadata inspection and DDL failures. It waits up to five seconds for completion. MariaDB tests cover the concurrent migration paths.

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SQL migration concurrency

Layer / File(s) Summary
Migration recheck handling
AdvancedCore/src/main/java/com/bencodez/advancedcore/core/user/storage/sql/MysqlUserBackend.java
The backend centralizes numeric and boolean JDBC-type detection. MySQL and PostgreSQL migration paths recheck for peer completion after inspection or conversion failures. The polling helper checks every 50 milliseconds for up to five seconds and restores the interrupt status when interrupted.
Concurrent migration test coverage
AdvancedCore/src/test/java/com/bencodez/advancedcore/core/user/storage/sql/MysqlUserBackendSchemaExpansionTest.java
MariaDB tests simulate peer migrations during inspection, after inspection failure, and after conflicting alterations. The fixture uses concurrent-safe state and migration controls.

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Change: Bug fix

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The implementation appears mergeable, but the intended concurrent inspection-failure scenario should be made deterministic before merging.

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`@AdvancedCore/src/test/java/com/bencodez/advancedcore/core/user/storage/sql/MysqlUserBackendSchemaExpansionTest.java`:
- Around line 282-294: Update the failure branch in
MysqlUserBackendSchemaExpansionTest around peerMigrationAfterAttributeFailure
and the schema-migration-peer thread to throw SQLException immediately after
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Comment on lines +282 to +294
if (peerMigrationAfterAttributeFailure && "VoteRemindersLast".equals(column)) {
peerMigrationAfterAttributeFailure = false;
Thread peer = new Thread(() -> {
try { Thread.sleep(100); }
catch (InterruptedException interrupted) {
Thread.currentThread().interrupt();
return;
}
numericColumns.remove(column);
}, "schema-migration-peer");
peer.setDaemon(true);
peer.start();
}

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Raise the intended attribute-inspection failure.

The fixture returns a valid ResultSet after starting the peer thread. No configured ResultSet operation throws SQLException, so migrationCompletedByPeer is not entered through this path.

The following metadata check races the peer thread. The test can execute the local ALTER, or pass without exercising the recovery path.

Throw SQLException after peer.start().

Proposed fix
                             peer.setDaemon(true);
                             peer.start();
+                            throw new SQLException("attribute inspection failed");
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if (peerMigrationAfterAttributeFailure && "VoteRemindersLast".equals(column)) {
peerMigrationAfterAttributeFailure = false;
Thread peer = new Thread(() -> {
try { Thread.sleep(100); }
catch (InterruptedException interrupted) {
Thread.currentThread().interrupt();
return;
}
numericColumns.remove(column);
}, "schema-migration-peer");
peer.setDaemon(true);
peer.start();
}
if (peerMigrationAfterAttributeFailure && "VoteRemindersLast".equals(column)) {
peerMigrationAfterAttributeFailure = false;
Thread peer = new Thread(() -> {
try { Thread.sleep(100); }
catch (InterruptedException interrupted) {
Thread.currentThread().interrupt();
return;
}
numericColumns.remove(column);
}, "schema-migration-peer");
peer.setDaemon(true);
peer.start();
throw new SQLException("attribute inspection failed");
}
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In
`@AdvancedCore/src/test/java/com/bencodez/advancedcore/core/user/storage/sql/MysqlUserBackendSchemaExpansionTest.java`
around lines 282 - 294, Update the failure branch in
MysqlUserBackendSchemaExpansionTest around peerMigrationAfterAttributeFailure
and the schema-migration-peer thread to throw SQLException immediately after
peer.start(), ensuring the configured attribute-inspection failure enters the
migrationCompletedByPeer recovery path.

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