fix(server): rebuild empty drifted tables to heal pre-rename column drift

Companion to #29. `healInitialSchemaDrift` can only ADD columns, so it
skips NOT NULL-without-default columns like `federation_outbox.entity_id`
/ `context_id` — which on some old pre-drizzle dev DBs carry the
pre-rename names `message_id` / `dm_channel_id` instead. The tables
load but the outbox worker fails every tick with "no such column:
federation_outbox.context_id" once the server is up.

Adds healRenamedColumns() — a second pass that runs right after
`healInitialSchemaDrift`. For each table whose physical column set is
*missing* columns declared by the current-migration-state snapshot AND
which holds zero rows, it DROPs the table and rebuilds it from the
snapshot's JSON: columns, defaults, foreign keys, composite PKs,
unique constraints, indexes.

Key design decisions:

- **Target is the current-migration-state snapshot, not the latest on
  disk.** The current state is determined by the highest
  `__drizzle_migrations.created_at` matched against `_journal.json`'s
  `when` timestamps (with backward walk for idx values that lack a
  snapshot, like the hand-written 0002). Rebuilding to a *future*
  snapshot would introduce columns that drizzle's migrator is about
  to add via ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN, causing duplicate-column errors.
  Rebuilding to the *current* snapshot preserves the invariant that
  drizzle's pending migrations can run cleanly afterwards.

- **Missing-column gate, not extra-column.** Extra columns alone don't
  break anything at runtime (the ORM ignores them); they're leftover
  from pre-drizzle manual migrations and might matter to the operator.
  Missing columns DO break runtime queries, so only those trigger
  rebuild.

- **Empty-table gate.** Non-empty tables log a warning and skip —
  data preservation wins over heal, and this path should only ever
  hit a pre-drizzle dev DB that never exercised the affected tables
  in the first place.

- **Transactional rebuild.** DROP + CREATE + index reinstatement wrap
  in a single `db.transaction()` so a partial rebuild rolls back.

Verified against three scenarios via in-memory simulation:
(A) fresh install — heal no-op, drizzle creates everything; (B) pre-
drizzle dev DB with fed_outbox/fed_mutation_log rename drift —
tables rebuilt to 0000 snapshot, drizzle then applies 0001–0004
successfully to reach the current target schema; (C) post-migration-
correct (production-like) — heal no-op, drizzle no-op, schema
unchanged. Live boot on my actual dev DB: migrations complete
silently, server binds :3005, no outbox worker errors. Server tests
110/110, web 131/131, typecheck clean.

No migration files changed. Deployed Pi+VM instances are unaffected
(their schema matches the snapshot exactly — heal won't touch
anything).

Closes backlog #30.
This commit is contained in:
Jannis Braun
2026-04-23 03:19:56 +02:00
parent 02a8b27d2b
commit 06c538b013
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@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ import { drizzle } from 'drizzle-orm/better-sqlite3';
import { migrate } from 'drizzle-orm/better-sqlite3/migrator';
import { config } from '../config.js';
import * as schema from './schema.js';
import { baselineExistingInstall, healInitialSchemaDrift, ensureDefaults } from './migrate.js';
import { baselineExistingInstall, healInitialSchemaDrift, healRenamedColumns, ensureDefaults } from './migrate.js';
import { setWorkerId } from '../utils/snowflake.js';
import { mkdirSync } from 'fs';
import { dirname, resolve } from 'path';
@@ -35,6 +35,13 @@ export function initDatabase() {
// a no-op on fresh installs and correctly-migrated DBs.
healInitialSchemaDrift(sqlite);
// Second-pass heal for rename/removal drift that the ADD-only pass
// can't resolve: for tables whose column set still doesn't match
// the 0000 snapshot and which are empty, DROP and rebuild from
// 0000_initial.sql. Non-empty tables are skipped with a warning.
// No-op on correctly-migrated DBs.
healRenamedColumns(sqlite);
// Apply any pending Drizzle migrations
const migrationsFolder = resolve(__dirname, '../../drizzle');
const db = drizzle(sqlite, { schema });
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@@ -140,6 +140,215 @@ export function healInitialSchemaDrift(db: Database.Database): void {
}
}
/**
* Second-pass heal for pre-drizzle dev DBs whose column drift is not a
* pure add-column problem.
*
* `healInitialSchemaDrift` handles tables that are missing columns — it
* ALTERs them in. But a pre-drizzle dev DB can also carry *renamed*
* columns: e.g. `federation_outbox` on some old installs retains the
* pre-rename `message_id` / `dm_channel_id` columns instead of the
* current `entity_id` / `context_id`. The missing columns are NOT NULL
* without a default, so the earlier heal correctly skips them, and the
* outbox worker then fails every tick with `no such column:
* federation_outbox.context_id`.
*
* For tables whose physical column set is *missing* columns declared by
* the current-migration-state snapshot (the one matching the highest
* `__drizzle_migrations` entry — NOT the latest snapshot on disk) *and*
* which hold zero rows, this pass DROPs the table and rebuilds it from
* the snapshot's JSON (columns, defaults, foreign keys, composite PKs,
* unique constraints, indexes). Targeting the current-state snapshot
* — rather than the latest — is critical: rebuilding to a future
* snapshot would introduce columns that drizzle's migrator is about
* to add via ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN, causing duplicate-column errors.
* Extra-only drift (leftover columns from pre-drizzle manual migrations
* that no current code reads) is left alone — the trigger is missing
* columns, because that's what breaks runtime queries.
*
* Non-empty tables are skipped with a warning — data preservation wins
* over heal, and this path should only ever be hit by a pre-drizzle dev
* DB that never exercised the affected tables in the first place.
*
* Idempotent: on correctly-migrated DBs the column sets already match,
* so the mismatch check short-circuits for every table and nothing is
* dropped. Production Pi+VM instances are unaffected.
*/
type SnapshotColumn = {
name: string;
type: string;
primaryKey: boolean;
notNull: boolean;
autoincrement: boolean;
default?: string | number;
};
type SnapshotTable = {
name: string;
columns: Record<string, SnapshotColumn>;
indexes: Record<string, { name: string; columns: string[]; isUnique: boolean }>;
foreignKeys: Record<string, {
name: string;
tableFrom: string;
tableTo: string;
columnsFrom: string[];
columnsTo: string[];
onDelete?: string;
onUpdate?: string;
}>;
compositePrimaryKeys: Record<string, { name?: string; columns: string[] }>;
uniqueConstraints: Record<string, { name?: string; columns: string[] }>;
};
type DrizzleSnapshot = { tables: Record<string, SnapshotTable> };
function loadSnapshotForCurrentMigrationState(
db: Database.Database,
migrationsFolder: string
): DrizzleSnapshot {
// The rebuild target must be the snapshot that reflects what drizzle
// has already applied — NOT the latest snapshot on disk. Rebuilding
// to a future snapshot would introduce columns that pending ALTER
// TABLE ADD COLUMN migrations are about to add, causing duplicate-
// column errors when drizzle's migrator runs right after.
//
// __drizzle_migrations rows store `created_at` = the journal entry's
// `when` timestamp. Pick the row with the highest id (most recently
// applied), match it to a journal entry by that timestamp, then walk
// backward to find the nearest existing snapshot (some idx values
// may lack a snapshot if the migration was hand-written outside of
// `drizzle-kit generate`, e.g. 0002 in this codebase).
const journalPath = path.join(migrationsFolder, 'meta', '_journal.json');
const journal = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(journalPath, 'utf-8')) as {
entries: { idx: number; tag: string; when: number }[];
};
const hasJournal = db.prepare(
"SELECT name FROM sqlite_master WHERE type='table' AND name='__drizzle_migrations'"
).get();
if (!hasJournal) {
// No migrations recorded at all — caller is about to run them all
// from scratch via drizzle's migrate(). Nothing to rebuild against;
// return an empty snapshot so the heal loop is a no-op.
return { tables: {} };
}
const latest = db.prepare(
'SELECT created_at FROM __drizzle_migrations ORDER BY id DESC LIMIT 1'
).get() as { created_at: number } | undefined;
if (!latest) return { tables: {} };
const entry = journal.entries.find(e => e.when === latest.created_at);
if (!entry) {
throw new Error(
`__drizzle_migrations.created_at=${latest.created_at} has no matching journal entry`
);
}
const candidates = journal.entries
.filter(e => e.idx <= entry.idx)
.sort((a, b) => b.idx - a.idx);
for (const candidate of candidates) {
const idxPadded = String(candidate.idx).padStart(4, '0');
const snapshotPath = path.join(migrationsFolder, 'meta', `${idxPadded}_snapshot.json`);
if (fs.existsSync(snapshotPath)) {
return JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(snapshotPath, 'utf-8')) as DrizzleSnapshot;
}
}
// No snapshot at or below current migration state — shouldn't happen
// in practice because 0000_snapshot.json always exists, but fall
// through to a no-op rather than guessing.
return { tables: {} };
}
function buildCreateTableStatement(table: SnapshotTable): string {
const lines: string[] = [];
for (const col of Object.values(table.columns)) {
const parts = [`\`${col.name}\``, col.type];
if (col.primaryKey) parts.push('PRIMARY KEY');
if (col.notNull) parts.push('NOT NULL');
if (col.default !== undefined) parts.push(`DEFAULT ${col.default}`);
lines.push('\t' + parts.join(' '));
}
for (const cpk of Object.values(table.compositePrimaryKeys)) {
lines.push('\tPRIMARY KEY(' + cpk.columns.map(c => `\`${c}\``).join(', ') + ')');
}
for (const uc of Object.values(table.uniqueConstraints)) {
lines.push('\tUNIQUE(' + uc.columns.map(c => `\`${c}\``).join(', ') + ')');
}
for (const fk of Object.values(table.foreignKeys)) {
const from = fk.columnsFrom.map(c => `\`${c}\``).join(', ');
const to = fk.columnsTo.map(c => `\`${c}\``).join(', ');
const onUpdate = fk.onUpdate ? ` ON UPDATE ${fk.onUpdate}` : '';
const onDelete = fk.onDelete ? ` ON DELETE ${fk.onDelete}` : '';
lines.push(`\tFOREIGN KEY (${from}) REFERENCES \`${fk.tableTo}\`(${to})${onUpdate}${onDelete}`);
}
return `CREATE TABLE \`${table.name}\` (\n${lines.join(',\n')}\n)`;
}
function buildIndexStatements(table: SnapshotTable): string[] {
return Object.values(table.indexes).map(idx => {
const unique = idx.isUnique ? 'UNIQUE ' : '';
const cols = idx.columns.map(c => `\`${c}\``).join(', ');
return `CREATE ${unique}INDEX \`${idx.name}\` ON \`${table.name}\` (${cols})`;
});
}
export function healRenamedColumns(db: Database.Database): void {
const migrationsFolder = path.resolve(__dirname, '../../drizzle');
const snapshot = loadSnapshotForCurrentMigrationState(db, migrationsFolder);
for (const table of Object.values(snapshot.tables)) {
const exists = db.prepare(
"SELECT name FROM sqlite_master WHERE type='table' AND name=?"
).get(table.name);
if (!exists) continue;
const snapshotCols = new Set(Object.keys(table.columns));
const physicalCols = new Set(
(db.prepare(`PRAGMA table_info("${table.name}")`).all() as { name: string }[])
.map(c => c.name)
);
const missingFromPhysical = [...snapshotCols].filter(c => !physicalCols.has(c));
const extraInPhysical = [...physicalCols].filter(c => !snapshotCols.has(c));
// Trigger the rebuild only when the physical table is *missing*
// columns the snapshot declares — that's the runtime-breaking
// case the app code relies on. Extra-only drift (leftover columns
// from pre-drizzle manual migrations that no current code reads)
// is left alone: dropping those would risk losing data the app
// doesn't care about but the operator might.
if (missingFromPhysical.length === 0) continue;
const rowCount = (db.prepare(
`SELECT COUNT(*) AS c FROM "${table.name}"`
).get() as { c: number }).c;
if (rowCount > 0) {
console.warn(
`[migrate] Column drift on ${table.name} (missing: [${missingFromPhysical.join(', ')}], extra: [${extraInPhysical.join(', ')}]) — skipping rebuild: table has ${rowCount} rows, manual data migration required`
);
continue;
}
console.log(
`[migrate] Rebuilding empty table ${table.name} to match current-migration-state snapshot (missing: [${missingFromPhysical.join(', ')}], extra: [${extraInPhysical.join(', ')}])`
);
const createStmt = buildCreateTableStatement(table);
const indexStmts = buildIndexStatements(table);
// Wrap in a transaction so a partial rebuild rolls back cleanly.
const rebuild = db.transaction(() => {
db.exec(`DROP TABLE "${table.name}"`);
db.exec(createStmt);
for (const stmt of indexStmts) db.exec(stmt);
});
rebuild();
}
}
/**
* Ensure data invariants after schema migration. Idempotent — safe to run
* on every boot. Uses raw better-sqlite3 handle (not Drizzle ORM).