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Make SQLite durable under concurrent readers and stop re-delivering stranded webhooks (closes #256)
An operator running `sqlite3 <db> .dump` against their own per-webhook
database wedged it: inbound webhooks rejected with HTTP 500, 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`. `cache=shared` is gone, because
under it an in-process conflict is SQLITE_LOCKED, which the busy
handler does not retry. The busy timeout is applied before
journal_mode: the driver runs DSN pragmas in order on every new
connection, and `PRAGMA journal_mode` takes a lock, so the reverse
order leaves the one pragma that can block uncovered by the handler
meant to cover it.

Eligibility. `internal/delivery/inflight.go` holds the set of
deliveries the engine owns — taken when a task is queued, when a
target schedules a retry, and by every recovery path before it
re-dispatches; dropped when the worker that ran the task returns.
Recovery and both sweep arms re-dispatch only what the set does not
hold. Nothing decides that from a row's age: a delivery waiting in a
10000-deep channel is arbitrarily old and perfectly healthy, and
reasoning from age re-sends it. `takeForRedispatch` is the single gate
every re-dispatch goes through — ownership first, then a conditional
update confirming the row is still in the status the batch read.

Bookkeeping. `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 the sweeps recover
it. Every recovery path — pending and retrying alike — first settles
any delivery that already holds a successful `DeliveryResult` rather
than sending it again. Recovery continues each delivery's 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 against measurement: both
documented procedures were re-run against a live instance, a `-wal`
left by a crash carries data the `.db` alone does not, and an archive
file normally holds its rows in a `-wal` rather than in the `.db`.
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package delivery
import "sync"
// inflightSet records which deliveries the engine currently owns.
//
// A delivery is owned from the moment a task for it is handed to a
// channel or to a retry timer until the engine has no further plan for
// it in memory. Restart recovery and both arms of the periodic sweep
// re-dispatch only deliveries the set does not hold, which is what
// makes them exact rather than a guess about how long a row has sat at
// pending.
//
// This replaces reasoning from timestamps. A delivery's row says
// pending from creation until its outcome is written, which covers
// four different situations — never dispatched, waiting in a channel,
// being attempted right now, and genuinely stranded — and no column
// distinguishes them. Only the engine knows which, and it knows
// exactly. `deliveryChannelSize` is 10000 against 10 workers, so a
// perfectly healthy delivery can wait far longer than any age bound
// worth setting before its attempt even begins; an age bound alone
// re-sends it. See
// https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/webhooker/issues/256.
//
// In-memory state is sufficient because a data directory admits one
// process: internal/datadir takes an flock on it at startup and a
// second instance refuses to run. Deliveries owned by a process that
// died are not in any successor's set, and restart recovery is what
// picks those up.
//
// References are counted rather than held as a plain set because
// ownership outlives the worker that took it. A target that schedules
// a retry from inside Deliver adds a reference while the worker still
// holds one, so the delivery stays owned across the gap between the
// worker returning and the timer firing — the window in which a sweep
// would otherwise find the row at retrying and send it again.
//
// The zero value is ready to use, and the Engine holds one by value.
// That is deliberate: an engine built by a constructor that forgot to
// initialise this would not refuse to re-dispatch anything, and the
// symptom would be duplicate deliveries rather than a failure anybody
// notices.
type inflightSet struct {
mu sync.Mutex
ids map[string]int
}
// retain adds a reference to a delivery the caller already knows the
// engine owns, so that ownership survives the current holder letting
// go. It cannot fail.
func (s *inflightSet) retain(deliveryID string) {
s.mu.Lock()
defer s.mu.Unlock()
if s.ids == nil {
s.ids = make(map[string]int)
}
s.ids[deliveryID]++
}
// retainIdle takes the first reference on a delivery, and reports
// whether it got it. It fails when the engine already owns the
// delivery, which is what makes two claimants — restart recovery and
// the sweep run concurrently, or two sweep arms — mutually exclusive
// rather than merely atomic.
func (s *inflightSet) retainIdle(deliveryID string) bool {
s.mu.Lock()
defer s.mu.Unlock()
if s.ids[deliveryID] > 0 {
return false
}
if s.ids == nil {
s.ids = make(map[string]int)
}
s.ids[deliveryID] = 1
return true
}
// release drops one reference. The delivery becomes eligible for
// re-dispatch again once the last one goes.
func (s *inflightSet) release(deliveryID string) {
s.mu.Lock()
defer s.mu.Unlock()
n := s.ids[deliveryID] - 1
if n <= 0 {
delete(s.ids, deliveryID)
return
}
s.ids[deliveryID] = n
}
// held reports how many deliveries the engine currently owns. It
// exists so a test can assert that ownership is released rather than
// leaked: a reference that is never dropped hides its delivery from
// every sweep for the life of the process, which is the one way this
// mechanism can fail silently.
func (s *inflightSet) held() int {
s.mu.Lock()
defer s.mu.Unlock()
return len(s.ids)
}