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Reviewer attention: Normal priority; review after #16480. This PR is stacked on #16480, and its diff only makes sense on top of that branch.

PR Justification: #16480 moved file reads out of the write transactions for scanning and output registration. The remaining asset write paths (the enrichment drains, watch-list admission and uploads) still stat, hash or read files while a transaction is open. This also carries the restore-error fix promised on #16480.

Stakes: Low to medium. Most of the exposure is in hashing mode, where the drains can hold the write lock while hashing a large file. The changes are small, but they move commit boundaries in the enrichment phase, and none of it has been measured on a real server.

Changes: Commit each drained entry before hashing the next, seed settled watch-list files through #16480's observe-then-write path, read upload metadata before the claim, and keep the upgrade error when restoring the backup also fails.

Stacked on #16480. Review that first; this PR's diff is against its branch.

Problem

#16480 moved filesystem work out of the write transactions for scanner seeding, reference sync and executed-output registration. Other asset write paths still stat, hash or read files while a SQLite transaction on the same connection is open. It also contains the fix promised on #16480: when a migration upgrade fails and restoring the pre-upgrade backup also fails, the restore's exception replaces the upgrade's, and the backup's location is never logged.

Cause

A statement trace (sqlite3 trace callback on every connection, plus os.stat and open wrappers) against a file database on the #16480 head shows these paths reading files inside an open transaction:

  • drain_pending_verifications (app/assets/scanner_changes.py) and drain_transition_queue (app/assets/services/hash_mode_state.py) process every queued entry in one session. When an entry writes, e.g. marking a vanished file missing, the implicit BEGIN stays open while the next entry's file is stat'ed and hashed.
  • In the seeder's enrich phase, tick_watch_list (app/assets/scanner_admission.py) runs in that same session, so its stats and hashes also run inside the drain's open transaction. Each settled file is seeded in a deferred SAVEPOINT that reads before it writes.
  • create_from_hash (app/assets/services/ingest.py) and the reuse path of upload_from_temp_path read the file for system metadata after the content claim's UPDATE has opened the transaction.

Change

  • The two drains commit at the top of each entry, so each hash runs with no transaction open. The seeder commits the pending verifications before it ticks the watch list.
  • tick_watch_list() no longer takes a session. It collects the settled specs and passes them to insert_asset_specs, the path Take the SQLite write lock up front for asset scan and output-registration writes #16480 already converted: stat and hash first, then one BEGIN IMMEDIATE write session.
  • _create_upload_record takes system_metadata as an argument instead of reading the file. Callers extract it before opening their session. When reusing content, they extract after the lookup and before the claim. For the new-content upload path and register_file_in_place, the trace already showed the read outside any transaction, so on those two paths this is only the signature change.
  • observe_asset_specs (app/assets/scanner.py) logs the real error type through _log_scan_error when a spec fails to stat or hash with anything other than FileNotFoundError, then skips it as before. A missing file is still reported as vanished. This is the fix promised on Take the SQLite write lock up front for asset scan and output-registration writes #16480 for its "every OSError is logged as vanished" finding.
  • _migrate_and_bind (app/database/db.py) now logs the upgrade error first. It wraps the restore and the backup removal in a try that logs where the pre-upgrade copy is kept, and re-raises the upgrade error either way.

Deliberately left alone:

  • The claim's refresh_qualified_content still stats the file after the claim UPDATE. That re-check under the claim is what makes the claim sound.
  • The upload paths stay on create_session(). In the trace, every transaction on those paths starts with a write statement, so there is no read-then-write upgrade for BEGIN IMMEDIATE to prevent. Switching would also merge the content insert and the record insert into one transaction, which is a behaviour change outside this PR.

This is unmeasured on a real server. The evidence is statement traces and unit tests, not latency or lock-contention measurements.

Tests

New tests. Each one fails with its production change reverted, and each was checked by actually reverting:

  • test_detection_gate.py::test_drain_commits_each_entry_before_hashing_the_next: assert [True] == [False] when reverted.
  • test_transition_drain.py::test_drain_commits_each_entry_before_hashing_the_next: assert [False, True] == [False, False] when reverted.
  • test_seeder.py::test_enrich_phase_commits_pending_verifications_before_ticking_watch_list: without the seeder commit, the watch list ticks before the commit.
  • test_admission_gate.py::test_settled_entries_are_seeded_in_one_write_session_batch: with the per-spec seeding restored, insert_asset_specs is called 0 times.
  • test_from_hash.py::test_create_from_hash_reads_the_file_before_the_claim_transaction and test_upload_b.py::test_reupload_reads_the_reused_file_before_the_claim_transaction: assert [True] == [False] against the old ingest.py.
  • test_scanner_seed_resilience.py::test_seed_logs_the_real_error_for_an_unreadable_path: with the old scanner.py, only the "vanished" line is logged, not error_type=permission_denied.
  • test_db_init_locking.py::test_failed_restore_does_not_mask_the_upgrade_error: with the old code, OSError: restore exploded propagates instead of the upgrade's RuntimeError.
$ python -m pytest tests-unit/assets_test tests-unit/seeder_test -q
576 passed, 72 skipped

$ python -m pytest tests-unit/app_test/test_db_init_locking.py
8 tests, 0 failures, 0 errors

$ python -m pytest tests-unit/app_test/test_migration_0007.py tests-unit/app_test/test_migration_roundtrip.py tests-unit/app_test/test_migrations.py tests-unit/app_test/test_migration_warning.py tests-unit/app_test/database_path_test.py
8 passed / 2 passed / 4 passed / 4 passed / 12 passed

$ ruff check .
All checks passed!

The statement-trace probe runs each site against a file database built by init_db(). It flags any stat/open while a connection has a transaction open, counting BEGIN, BEGIN IMMEDIATE, or an outermost SAVEPOINT until COMMIT/ROLLBACK/its RELEASE. The probe has controls: I/O deliberately placed inside a legacy DML transaction, an outermost savepoint, and BEGIN IMMEDIATE is flagged for both stat and open, and a stat after a bare SELECT is not. On this branch it passes 31/31. On the #16480 head it fails the drains, the enrich-phase preamble, create_from_hash and the watch list's single-BEGIN IMMEDIATE check. Excerpt, drain_transition_queue on the #16480 head:

sql  T BEGIN
sql  T UPDATE asset_contents SET is_missing=1 WHERE asset_contents.id = ...
...
stat dtq_b.bin   <-- INSIDE TXN
open dtq_b.bin   <-- INSIDE TXN
stat dtq_b.bin   <-- INSIDE TXN
sql  T UPDATE asset_contents SET hash='blake3:...
sql    COMMIT

and on this branch:

sql  T BEGIN
sql  T UPDATE asset_contents SET is_missing=1 WHERE asset_contents.id = ...
...
sql    COMMIT
stat dtq_b.bin
open dtq_b.bin
stat dtq_b.bin
sql  T BEGIN
sql  T UPDATE asset_contents SET hash='blake3:...
sql    COMMIT

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drain_pending_verifications and drain_transition_queue ran every entry in
one session, so an entry that wrote (marking a vanished file missing, say)
left a transaction open while the next entry's file was stat'ed and
hashed. Commit at the top of each entry instead, so the hash runs with no
transaction open.
tick_watch_list seeded each settled file through seed_asset_specs in the
caller's session, where the enrich phase still held drain_pending's
writes open, and each seed ran in a deferred savepoint that reads before
it writes. Collect the settled specs and hand them to insert_asset_specs,
which stats and hashes before opening one write session. The seeder
commits the pending verifications before ticking, so no transaction is
open while the watch list stats or waits for the write lock.
_create_upload_record read the file for system metadata after the
content claim had opened a write transaction. Callers now extract the
metadata before opening their session (or, when reusing content, before
claiming it) and pass it in. The claim's own stat re-check stays inside
the transaction: that is what makes the claim sound.
If restoring the pre-upgrade backup raised, that exception replaced the
upgrade's, and the backup's location was never logged. Log the upgrade
error first, log where the pre-upgrade copy is kept if the restore or its
cleanup fails, and re-raise the upgrade error either way.
…her failure

The drains' per-entry commit only leaves no transaction open on a
create_session() session. The restore log now covers a failed backup
removal as well as a failed restore. The watch-list admission test
patches insert_asset_specs, the seam tick_watch_list now calls.
observe_asset_specs treated every OSError as a vanished file, so a
permission error or an I/O error on a file that still exists was
reported only as "Skipping vanished asset during scan". A missing file
is still handled as before; any other OSError is now also logged through
_log_scan_error before the spec is skipped. The vanished-path test's
fake now raises FileNotFoundError, the error a vanished file produces.
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P2 Badge Distinguish unreadable specs from vanished ones

When os.stat or snapshot_hash raises a non-FileNotFoundError such as PermissionError, this logs the real error but still stores None; seed_asset_specs then handles that value by warning Skipping vanished asset during scan. Each unreadable file therefore produces both the new diagnostic and a contradictory claim that the file vanished. Preserve the failure reason or make the downstream warning accurately cover both cases.

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Taken in #16489, stacked on this PR so this one stays as approved. observe_asset_specs logs "vanished" only for FileNotFoundError, and seed_asset_specs no longer warns a second time for a skipped spec. The unreadable-path test now asserts that the file is never reported as vanished.

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The changes add logging for seed-observation errors, batch settled watch-list specs for insertion, and adjust verification transaction boundaries. Ingestion paths now extract system metadata before record creation. Migration recovery logs upgrade and restoration failures while preserving the original upgrade exception.

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This change shortens how long asset hashing holds the database lock. As a result, a file registered at the same moment it is being verified can make that verification step fail instead of retrying. No data is corrupted. The failure is narrow and recoverable, so the change is mergeable, with a small follow-up to retry affected entries.

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