"""Regression: state.db repair-path writes must be durable on macOS. Incident (2026-08-19, recurrence of 2026-08-18/19): `state.db` was recovered clean at 01:02, tore again in the pages holding rows written 02:18-02:22, and the damage went undetected until 13:36 when a write finally landed on a damaged page (`append_message failed: constraint failed`). `PRAGMA integrity_check` on the file reported the torn-b-tree signature: Tree 5 page 47256 cell 423..429: 2nd reference to page ... Tree 5 page 60788 cell 4: Rowid 34637 out of order Page 50549..52587: never used The defect: hermes_state already knows macOS `fsync()` does not guarantee write ordering, and mitigates it with `synchronous=FULL` + `checkpoint_fullfsync=1` (see `_enforce_macos_synchronous_full`, whose docstring names this exact failure: "a WAL checkpoint race with process termination ... can leave the main DB with half-written btree pages"). Those pragmas are per-connection and were applied only via `apply_wal_with_fallback()`. The repair path opened `state.db` with a bare `sqlite3.connect()` five times and then ran REINDEX, VACUUM and `writable_schema` surgery through it — the operations that rewrite nearly every page of the file — with no barrier at all. (The proactive `verify_state_db_integrity()` gate the original PR #90747 also carried is deferred to the follow-up that wires it into gateway startup — PR #91754 — since it ships as dead code without that caller. This file covers only the repair-connection durability half.) """ from __future__ import annotations import re import sqlite3 import sys from pathlib import Path import hermes_state from hermes_state import ( _connect_repair_durable, repair_state_db_schema, ) def _make_db(tmp_path: Path) -> Path: db = tmp_path / "state.db" conn = sqlite3.connect(str(db)) conn.execute("PRAGMA journal_mode=WAL") conn.execute("CREATE TABLE sessions (session_id TEXT PRIMARY KEY)") conn.execute("CREATE TABLE messages (id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY, body TEXT)") conn.execute("INSERT INTO messages (body) VALUES ('seed')") conn.commit() conn.close() return db # ── Repair-path write durability ──────────────────────────────────────── def test_connect_repair_durable_sets_macos_barriers(tmp_path: Path) -> None: """The repair connection must carry both macOS durability barriers.""" db = _make_db(tmp_path) conn = _connect_repair_durable(db) try: synchronous = conn.execute("PRAGMA synchronous").fetchone()[0] checkpoint_fullfsync = conn.execute( "PRAGMA checkpoint_fullfsync" ).fetchone()[0] finally: conn.close() if sys.platform == "darwin": # SQLite: 0=OFF, 1=NORMAL, 2=FULL, 3=EXTRA. NORMAL is what tore the # b-tree pages; FULL is what _enforce_macos_synchronous_full sets. assert synchronous == 2, ( f"repair connection opened with synchronous={synchronous}; on " "Darwin this lets REINDEX/VACUUM leave half-written b-tree pages" ) assert checkpoint_fullfsync == 1, ( "repair connection has no F_FULLFSYNC barrier at checkpoint " "boundaries; macOS fsync() does not flush the drive cache" ) else: # Elsewhere the helper is a plain connect — no behaviour change. assert synchronous in (0, 1, 2, 3) def test_connect_repair_durable_is_autocommit(tmp_path: Path) -> None: """Must preserve isolation_level=None — repair runs DDL and VACUUM.""" db = _make_db(tmp_path) conn = _connect_repair_durable(db) try: assert conn.isolation_level is None # VACUUM is only legal outside an implicit transaction. conn.execute("VACUUM") finally: conn.close() def test_repair_path_has_no_bare_connects() -> None: """No repair/probe site may bypass the durability helper. Source-level guard: the bare form is exactly what regressed, and a unit test on the helper alone would not notice a sixth site being added. """ source = Path(hermes_state.__file__).read_text() pattern = r"^\s*conn = sqlite3\.connect\(str\(db_path\), isolation_level=None\)" # The one legitimate bare connect is inside the helper itself; everything # after that definition must go through it. helper = source.index("def _connect_repair_durable(") body_end = source.index("\ndef ", helper + 1) inside_helper = re.findall(pattern, source[helper:body_end], flags=re.MULTILINE) assert len(inside_helper) == 1, ( "_connect_repair_durable no longer opens the connection itself" ) elsewhere = re.findall( pattern, source[:helper] + source[body_end:], flags=re.MULTILINE ) assert elsewhere == [], ( f"{len(elsewhere)} repair-path connection(s) still bypass " "_connect_repair_durable() and write state.db without the macOS " "fsync barriers" ) def test_repair_still_works_through_durable_connection(tmp_path: Path) -> None: """Routing every strategy through the helper must not break the path. The helper is entered once per strategy, so a plumbing fault (recursion, a leaked connection, a refused pragma) surfaces as an exception rather than a report. Whether this fixture's minimal schema is *repairable* is beside the point — the assertion is that the path runs to completion. """ db = _make_db(tmp_path) report = repair_state_db_schema(db, backup=False) assert isinstance(report, dict) assert set(report) >= {"repaired", "strategy", "backup_path"} # The file must still open afterwards — repair may fail, but it must not # leave the database less usable than it found it. conn = sqlite3.connect(str(db)) try: assert conn.execute("SELECT COUNT(*) FROM messages").fetchone()[0] == 1 finally: conn.close()