Make SQLite durable under concurrent readers and stop re-delivering stranded webhooks (closes #256)
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An operator running `sqlite3 <db> .dump` against their own per-webhook
database wedged it: 60 of 60 inbound webhooks rejected with HTTP 500,
206 delivered webhooks stranded at `pending`, and every one of them
POSTed a second time on the next restart while the event log recorded a
single attempt.

Durability. Every SQLite file — main, per-webhook, and archive — now
opens through one path, `internal/database/sqlite_open.go`, in WAL
journal mode with a 10-second busy timeout, `BEGIN IMMEDIATE`
transactions, and a bounded connection pool. WAL is what stops a
reader blocking writers at all. `_txlock=immediate` is what stops a
`COMMIT` failing while its transaction stays open on a pooled
connection, which is how four `database is locked` errors became 593
`cannot start a transaction within a transaction`: a deferred
transaction that upgrades to a write lock mid-flight gets SQLITE_BUSY
without the busy handler being consulted. `cache=shared` is gone,
because under it an in-process conflict is SQLITE_LOCKED, which the
busy handler does not retry.

Delivery. `recordResult` and `updateDeliveryStatus` return their
errors instead of logging and dropping them, and a caller whose
bookkeeping write failed writes nothing at all — the delivery keeps
whichever non-terminal status it already held, and both sweeps recover
it. Recovery and the sweep now reconcile before re-sending: a pending
delivery that already holds a successful `DeliveryResult` is marked
delivered rather than sent again, which is the state that did not
previously exist. A delivery handed back out is claimed by
compare-and-set so successive sweeps cannot send it repeatedly, and it
continues its own attempt numbering instead of restarting at 1. The
sweep gains a `pending`-with-age-bound arm, so a stranded delivery no
longer waits for a restart.

Docs. WAL produces `-wal`/`-shm` sidecars, so the backup and restore
procedures in README.md are corrected: both documented procedures were
re-run against a live instance, and a `-wal` left by a crash carries
data the `.db` alone does not.

Verified by reproducing the failure on unmodified `next` first — 6
targets, 60 events at 5/s, a concurrent `.dump` reader — which gave 38
HTTP 500s and 112 duplicate POSTs at the sinks across a restart. Both
arms of the matched pair now show 0 inbound 500s, 0 engine write
errors, and 0 new requests at the sinks after a restart, counted by
payload.
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clawbot
2026-08-23 23:40:01 +00:00
committed by sneak
parent fd5966f807
commit 027f0898e7
18 changed files with 1269 additions and 106 deletions

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@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ package database
import (
"context"
"database/sql"
"errors"
"fmt"
"log/slog"
@@ -234,12 +233,11 @@ func (m *WebhookDBManager) openDB(
webhookID string,
) (*gorm.DB, error) {
path := m.dbPath(webhookID)
dbURL := fmt.Sprintf(
"file:%s?cache=shared&mode=rwc",
path,
)
sqlDB, err := sql.Open("sqlite", dbURL)
// See sqlite_open.go: WAL, a busy timeout, immediate-transaction
// locking, and a bounded pool, all of which this file needs most —
// it is the one every delivery worker writes to concurrently.
sqlDB, err := OpenSQLite(path, SQLiteModeCreate)
if err != nil {
return nil, fmt.Errorf(
"opening webhook database %s: %w",