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This ports the delta symbol dictionary work from questdb/java-questdb-client#66 to the .NET QWP client and aligns the implementation with the applicable follow-up changes in the current Java client.

  • Send only newly registered symbol IDs during normal operation instead of resending the full dictionary with every message.
  • Rebuild server-side dictionary state after reconnect with ordered catch-up frames before data, splitting catch-up frames to respect the server-advertised batch cap.
  • Enforce the protocol limit of exactly 1,000,000 distinct symbol values. Registering the 1,000,001st value fails before the row is buffered; existing values remain usable.
  • Persist store-and-forward dictionaries in a Java-compatible .symbol-dict side file with CRC-32C validation, write-ahead ordering, torn-tail recovery, and clean-slot lifecycle handling.
  • Count the dictionary side file against the store-and-forward disk cap while preserving the active-plus-spare segment liveness floor.
  • Handle NotWritable (0x0C) and DictionaryGap (0x0D) as retryable, non-poisoning QWP responses.
  • Release the initial connection gate after the WebSocket upgrade while keeping dictionary catch-up ordered ahead of data frames.
  • Reclaim a cancelled or failed row's newly allocated symbol ids before they are published or persisted, so abandoned rows do not burn the dictionary cap or grow the side file.

Behavior changes

  • HTTP Basic auth credentials are now encoded as UTF-8 (previously ASCII), matching the WS/egress auth path; non-ASCII credentials that were silently corrupted now round-trip correctly.
  • Table() on the WS sender now throws IngressError(InvalidApiCall) when switching tables while a row is in progress; previously the misuse surfaced later, at the next flush.

Java client alignment

Besides questdb/java-questdb-client#66, this includes the applicable client-side changes from:

questdb/java-questdb-client#76 is intentionally not included because it is still open and depends on tandem server-side protocol support.

Verification

  • QWP tests: 1,012 passed.
  • QWP TLS tests: 12 passed.
  • Store-and-forward background drainer regression test: passed.
  • Builds succeeded for all targeted frameworks from .NET 6 through .NET 10.
  • git diff --check passed.

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  • New Features

    • Added persisted symbol-dictionary recovery and delta synchronization across WebSocket reconnects.
    • Added retry handling for read-only targets and dictionary gaps.
    • Added support for PEM and PFX/PKCS#12 TLS certificate bundles.
    • Enforced the one-million-entry symbol-dictionary limit.
    • Added quarantine handling for unreplayable data.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved recovery of interrupted dictionary files and malformed trailing data.
    • Prevented resource leaks during HTTP sender initialization.
    • Improved table selection during in-progress rows.
  • Documentation

    • Clarified symbol-dictionary, TLS, and storage-cap behavior.

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The change adds persisted symbol-dictionary storage and reconnect catch-up for QWP store-and-forward senders. It adds dictionary limits and retry classifications, accounts side-file bytes in segment caps, supports PEM certificate bundles, improves HTTP cleanup, and adds failover coverage.

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QWP dictionary and persistence

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Protocol and dictionary contracts
src/net-questdb-client/Enums/*, src/net-questdb-client/Qwp/QwpConstants.cs, src/net-questdb-client/Qwp/QwpSymbolDictionary.cs, src/net-questdb-client/Qwp/Sf/QwpSymbolDictionaryMirror.cs, src/net-questdb-client-tests/Qwp/*
Adds status codes, dictionary limits, capacity enforcement, delta validation, reconnect catch-up frame generation, and protocol assertions.
Persisted dictionary storage and capacity
src/net-questdb-client/Qwp/Sf/QwpPersistedSymbolDictionary.cs, src/net-questdb-client/Qwp/Sf/QwpSegmentManager.cs, src/net-questdb-client/Qwp/Sf/QwpBackgroundDrainer.cs, src/net-questdb-client/Qwp/Sf/QwpOrphanScanner.cs, src/net-questdb-client-tests/Qwp/Sf/*
Adds .symbol-dict persistence, recovery, CRC validation, torn-tail repair, quarantine handling, side-file disk-cap accounting, and related tests.
Sender and reconnect integration
src/net-questdb-client/Senders/QwpWebSocketSender.cs, src/net-questdb-client/Qwp/Sf/QwpCursorSendEngine.cs, src/net-questdb-client/Qwp/Sf/QwpErrorClassifier.cs, src/net-questdb-client/Utils/SenderError.cs, src/net-questdb-client-tests/Qwp/QwpWebSocketSenderTests.cs, src/net-questdb-client-tests/Qwp/Sf/QwpCursorSendEngineTests.cs
Persists symbols before publication, replays dictionary deltas before unacknowledged frames, preserves ACK mapping, and treats dictionary-related responses as retriable.
HTTP and TLS resource handling
src/net-questdb-client/Senders/HttpSender.cs, src/net-questdb-client/Utils/QwpTlsAuth.cs, src/net-questdb-client-tests/HttpTests.cs, src/net-questdb-client-tests/Utils/QwpTlsAuthTests.cs
Adds injectable HTTP client creation, construction-failure cleanup, multi-certificate PEM/PFX trust roots, and disposal tests.
Integration and protocol fixtures
system_test/enterprise_e2e/*, src/net-questdb-client-tests/QuestDbWebSocketIntegrationTests.cs, src/net-questdb-client-tests/Pooling/FacadeCallbackTests.cs, src/net-questdb-client-tests/Qwp/Sf/QwpBackgroundDrainerTests.cs
Adds WebSocket reconnect and enterprise failover tests, and replaces opaque test payloads with valid empty QWP commit frames.

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Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to 7898d

This change introduces delta symbol-dictionary transmission and reconnect catch-up, but normal data frames may still depend on connection-local dictionary state, risking rejected or incorrectly interpreted data after reconnects or state loss. Merge should be blocked until the frame contract is corrected; the new startup test also needs stabilization to avoid intermittent failures.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant QwpWebSocketSender
  participant QwpPersistedSymbolDictionary
  participant QwpCursorSendEngine
  participant QuestDB
  QwpWebSocketSender->>QwpPersistedSymbolDictionary: Persist new symbols
  QwpWebSocketSender->>QwpCursorSendEngine: Publish QWP frame
  QwpCursorSendEngine->>QuestDB: Send dictionary catch-up after reconnect
  QwpCursorSendEngine->>QuestDB: Replay unacknowledged data frames
  QuestDB-->>QwpCursorSendEngine: Return ACK or reconnectable status
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@kafka1991 kafka1991 changed the title feat(qwp): add persistent delta symbol dictionaries feat(qwp): stop resending the full symbol dictionary on every message Aug 14, 2026

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src/net-questdb-client/Senders/HttpSender.cs (1)

103-105: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Reduce the new comments to one line or remove them.

  • src/net-questdb-client/Senders/HttpSender.cs#L103-L105: reduce the constructor-cleanup explanation to one line.
  • src/net-questdb-client/Utils/QwpTlsAuth.cs#L61-L63: reduce the certificate ownership documentation to one line.
  • src/net-questdb-client/Utils/QwpTlsAuth.cs#L86-L89: reduce the validator ownership documentation to one line.
  • src/net-questdb-client/Utils/QwpTlsAuth.cs#L106-L107: reduce the lazy-load explanation to one line.
  • src/net-questdb-client/Utils/QwpTlsAuth.cs#L143-L144: reduce the PEM bundle explanation to one line.

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In `@src/net-questdb-client/Senders/HttpSender.cs` around lines 103 - 105, Reduce
the constructor-cleanup comment in src/net-questdb-client/Senders/HttpSender.cs
lines 103-105 to one line. Reduce the certificate ownership comment in
src/net-questdb-client/Utils/QwpTlsAuth.cs lines 61-63, validator ownership
comment at lines 86-89, lazy-load comment at lines 106-107, and PEM bundle
comment at lines 143-144 to one line each, or remove them where the reason is
not non-obvious.

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src/net-questdb-client/Qwp/Sf/QwpSymbolDictionaryMirror.cs (1)

95-138: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add the dictionary-size cap to Accumulate.

Seed refuses to grow past QwpConstants.MaxSymbolDictionarySize, but Accumulate applies no such limit. A long-lived connection can therefore push the mirror above the protocol cap, and every reconnect then builds catch-up frames the server must reject. Enforce the same limit where the mirror grows.

♻️ Proposed guard
         var deltaEnd = checked(delta.Start + delta.Count);
         if (deltaEnd <= Count)
         {
             return;
         }
+
+        if (deltaEnd > QwpConstants.MaxSymbolDictionarySize)
+        {
+            throw new InvalidDataException(
+                $"QWP symbol dictionary would reach {deltaEnd} entries, above the {QwpConstants.MaxSymbolDictionarySize} limit");
+        }
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In `@src/net-questdb-client/Qwp/Sf/QwpSymbolDictionaryMirror.cs` around lines 95 -
138, Update Sf.Qwp.QwpSymbolDictionaryMirror.Accumulate so it rejects any delta
that would grow the mirror beyond QwpConstants.MaxSymbolDictionarySize before
appending entries. Preserve existing gap, overlap, and capacity handling, and
match the limit-enforcement behavior used by Seed.
src/net-questdb-client/Qwp/Sf/QwpSegmentManager.cs (1)

85-85: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

SideFileBytes performs I/O and can overwrite _lastServiceError.

The getter calls the provider on every read. The provider in QwpCursorSendEngine.cs line 216 returns persistedSymbolDictionary.FileLength, so each read can touch the file system. On a provider fault, ReadSideFileBytes writes _lastServiceError, so an external reader can overwrite the service-loop diagnostic. Consider caching the last value observed by ServiceRing and exposing that instead.

♻️ Proposed change
-    public long SideFileBytes => ReadSideFileBytes();
+    public long SideFileBytes => Volatile.Read(ref _lastSideFileBytes);

Set _lastSideFileBytes in ServiceRing after each ReadSideFileBytes() call.

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In `@src/net-questdb-client/Qwp/Sf/QwpSegmentManager.cs` at line 85, Cache the
value returned by ReadSideFileBytes during each ServiceRing iteration in a
dedicated _lastSideFileBytes field, and change the SideFileBytes getter to
return that cached value instead of performing I/O. Initialize the field
consistently with the existing state so external reads do not invoke the
provider or overwrite _lastServiceError.
src/net-questdb-client-tests/Qwp/QwpSymbolDictionaryTests.cs (1)

55-75: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚖️ Poor tradeoff

Consider bounding the cost of this cap test.

The test allocates 1,000,000 distinct strings plus a pre-sized dictionary and list. This costs roughly 100 MB and several seconds on every run of the suite. The cap is a compile-time constant, so the test cannot lower it.

Two options keep the contract covered at lower cost:

  • Mark the test with a category (for example [Category("Slow")]) so a fast-feedback run can exclude it.
  • Add an internal test seam that exposes the cap so the refusal path can be exercised with a small dictionary.
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In `@src/net-questdb-client-tests/Qwp/QwpSymbolDictionaryTests.cs` around lines 55
- 75, Reduce the cost of
Add_RefusesNewValuePastProtocolCapWithoutMutatingDictionary by avoiding a
million-entry setup in normal fast test runs. Prefer marking this test with an
appropriate slow-test category so it can be excluded from fast feedback, while
preserving its existing coverage of cap refusal and non-mutation.
src/net-questdb-client-tests/Qwp/QwpWebSocketSenderTests.cs (1)

1867-1886: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

ReadSymbolDelta is copied verbatim into two test fixtures. Both copies hard-code the symbol-delta wire layout, so a protocol change needs two edits and the copies can drift.

  • src/net-questdb-client-tests/Qwp/QwpWebSocketSenderTests.cs#L1867-L1886: move this implementation into a shared internal test helper and call it from the four assertion sites in this fixture.
  • src/net-questdb-client-tests/Qwp/Sf/QwpCursorSendEngineTests.cs#L1592-L1609: delete this copy and call the shared helper.
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In `@src/net-questdb-client-tests/Qwp/QwpWebSocketSenderTests.cs` around lines
1867 - 1886, Move ReadSymbolDelta from QwpWebSocketSenderTests.cs into a shared
internal test helper, then update the four assertion sites in that fixture to
use it. Delete the duplicate ReadSymbolDelta implementation in
QwpCursorSendEngineTests.cs and call the shared helper there instead; apply
these changes at QwpWebSocketSenderTests.cs lines 1867-1886 and
QwpCursorSendEngineTests.cs lines 1592-1609.
src/net-questdb-client/Senders/QwpWebSocketSender.cs (2)

133-134: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Consider replacing the seven-element tuple with a named type.

BuildEngineStack now returns seven values on a single declaration line. Each new dependency widens the signature, the deconstruction at lines 103-104, and the reader's burden.

A small private readonly record struct EngineStack(...) would name each member and keep future additions local.

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In `@src/net-questdb-client/Senders/QwpWebSocketSender.cs` around lines 133 - 134,
Replace the seven-element tuple returned by BuildEngineStack with a private
readonly record struct named EngineStack, giving each returned dependency a
named member. Update BuildEngineStack and its deconstruction or access at the
sender initialization site to use EngineStack while preserving the existing
values and behavior.

55-55: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Consider removing the constant _selfSufficientSymbolFrames flag.

The field is readonly and is assigned the literal false at line 107. The two encoder call sites branch on it, so the self-sufficient branch and the symbolDeltaCount computation are unreachable. _currentBatchMaxSymbolId is then maintained only to feed that dead expression.

If the flag is a placeholder for a future option, add a one-line note that says so. Otherwise drop the field, pass selfSufficient: false and symbolDeltaCount: -1 directly, and remove _currentBatchMaxSymbolId if it has no other consumer.

Also applies to: 1153-1154, 1165-1166

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In `@src/net-questdb-client/Senders/QwpWebSocketSender.cs` at line 55, Remove the
unused _selfSufficientSymbolFrames flag and simplify both encoder call sites to
use selfSufficient false and symbolDeltaCount -1 directly; then remove
_currentBatchMaxSymbolId and its maintenance if no other consumers remain. If
the flag is intentionally reserved for a future option, retain it and add a
brief note documenting that purpose.

Apply the same fix in `@src/net-questdb-client/Senders/QwpWebSocketSender.cs`
around lines 103 - 107.
src/net-questdb-client/Qwp/Sf/QwpPersistedSymbolDictionary.cs (1)

132-156: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🔵 Trivial

Note the crash-durability relationship between the side file and the ring.

AppendRangeLocked calls Flush(flushToDisk: false), so the chunk can sit in the OS page cache while the referencing ring frame reaches disk. After a host crash the surviving frame can carry a delta whose prefix is missing, and FoldFrame then throws unreplayable symbol dictionary gap at line 345. Recovery fails closed, so the whole slot becomes unopenable and its buffered frames cannot be drained.

sf_durability accepts only memory today, so this is consistent with the documented tier. Two follow-ups are worth tracking for the durable tier:

  • Add an fsync of the side file before the frame is published when a durable tier is introduced.
  • Consider a recovery mode that quarantines an unreplayable slot instead of blocking sender startup, so one corrupt slot cannot stop ingestion.
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In `@src/net-questdb-client/Qwp/Sf/QwpPersistedSymbolDictionary.cs` around lines
132 - 156, Update AppendNewSymbols and the ring-frame publication flow so the
symbol-dictionary side file is durably flushed before any frame referencing the
newly appended symbols reaches disk; preserve the current memory-tier behavior
if durable flushing is not yet supported, and do not implement the durable-tier
or quarantine follow-ups here.
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Inline comments:
In `@src/net-questdb-client-tests/Qwp/Sf/QwpCursorSendEngineTests.cs`:
- Around line 1299-1322: Update the test transport factory to enqueue the newly
created StubTransport before incrementing the connection counter, then add a
lock-protected snapshot accessor on StubTransport using _sentLock. Use snapshots
in the catch-up count wait and subsequent frame search instead of reading or
enumerating Sent directly, including refreshing the snapshot while waiting for
the delta frame.

In `@src/net-questdb-client/Enums/SenderErrorCategory.cs`:
- Around line 49-60: Preserve the public numeric values of SenderErrorCategory
by assigning explicit ordinal values to all existing members, or move
NotWritable and DictionaryGap after the existing ProtocolViolation and Unknown
members. Ensure ProtocolViolation and Unknown retain their previous values while
the new categories receive distinct values.

In `@src/net-questdb-client/Qwp/Sf/QwpPersistedSymbolDictionary.cs`:
- Around line 113-119: In QwpPersistedSymbolDictionary.cs at lines 113-119, wrap
result.AppendRange in cleanup handling that disposes result if the mutation
throws, since stream ownership has already been cleared; at lines 283-290,
similarly wrap the SetLength/Flush/Position mutation block and dispose the local
stream on failure before returning the tuple. Preserve successful ownership
transfer and existing outer error handling.

In `@src/net-questdb-client/Senders/HttpSender.cs`:
- Around line 280-286: Update the Basic authentication header construction in
the HttpSender credentials block to encode the username and password with
Encoding.UTF8 instead of Encoding.ASCII, matching QwpTlsAuth.BuildAuthHeader
while preserving the existing Base64 and header flow.

In `@src/net-questdb-client/Senders/QwpWebSocketSender.cs`:
- Around line 161-166: Update the QwpWebSocketSender constructor’s
QwpPersistedSymbolDictionary.OpenOrRecover call to catch InvalidDataException
and rethrow it as IngressError with the appropriate error code, preserving the
original exception as the inner exception. Keep the existing recovery and
symbolDictionary.Commit flow unchanged for successful recovery.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@src/net-questdb-client-tests/Qwp/QwpSymbolDictionaryTests.cs`:
- Around line 55-75: Reduce the cost of
Add_RefusesNewValuePastProtocolCapWithoutMutatingDictionary by avoiding a
million-entry setup in normal fast test runs. Prefer marking this test with an
appropriate slow-test category so it can be excluded from fast feedback, while
preserving its existing coverage of cap refusal and non-mutation.

In `@src/net-questdb-client-tests/Qwp/QwpWebSocketSenderTests.cs`:
- Around line 1867-1886: Move ReadSymbolDelta from QwpWebSocketSenderTests.cs
into a shared internal test helper, then update the four assertion sites in that
fixture to use it. Delete the duplicate ReadSymbolDelta implementation in
QwpCursorSendEngineTests.cs and call the shared helper there instead; apply
these changes at QwpWebSocketSenderTests.cs lines 1867-1886 and
QwpCursorSendEngineTests.cs lines 1592-1609.

In `@src/net-questdb-client/Qwp/Sf/QwpPersistedSymbolDictionary.cs`:
- Around line 132-156: Update AppendNewSymbols and the ring-frame publication
flow so the symbol-dictionary side file is durably flushed before any frame
referencing the newly appended symbols reaches disk; preserve the current
memory-tier behavior if durable flushing is not yet supported, and do not
implement the durable-tier or quarantine follow-ups here.

In `@src/net-questdb-client/Qwp/Sf/QwpSegmentManager.cs`:
- Line 85: Cache the value returned by ReadSideFileBytes during each ServiceRing
iteration in a dedicated _lastSideFileBytes field, and change the SideFileBytes
getter to return that cached value instead of performing I/O. Initialize the
field consistently with the existing state so external reads do not invoke the
provider or overwrite _lastServiceError.

In `@src/net-questdb-client/Qwp/Sf/QwpSymbolDictionaryMirror.cs`:
- Around line 95-138: Update Sf.Qwp.QwpSymbolDictionaryMirror.Accumulate so it
rejects any delta that would grow the mirror beyond
QwpConstants.MaxSymbolDictionarySize before appending entries. Preserve existing
gap, overlap, and capacity handling, and match the limit-enforcement behavior
used by Seed.

In `@src/net-questdb-client/Senders/HttpSender.cs`:
- Around line 103-105: Reduce the constructor-cleanup comment in
src/net-questdb-client/Senders/HttpSender.cs lines 103-105 to one line. Reduce
the certificate ownership comment in src/net-questdb-client/Utils/QwpTlsAuth.cs
lines 61-63, validator ownership comment at lines 86-89, lazy-load comment at
lines 106-107, and PEM bundle comment at lines 143-144 to one line each, or
remove them where the reason is not non-obvious.

In `@src/net-questdb-client/Senders/QwpWebSocketSender.cs`:
- Around line 133-134: Replace the seven-element tuple returned by
BuildEngineStack with a private readonly record struct named EngineStack, giving
each returned dependency a named member. Update BuildEngineStack and its
deconstruction or access at the sender initialization site to use EngineStack
while preserving the existing values and behavior.
- Line 55: Remove the unused _selfSufficientSymbolFrames flag and simplify both
encoder call sites to use selfSufficient false and symbolDeltaCount -1 directly;
then remove _currentBatchMaxSymbolId and its maintenance if no other consumers
remain. If the flag is intentionally reserved for a future option, retain it and
add a brief note documenting that purpose.

Apply the same fix in `@src/net-questdb-client/Senders/QwpWebSocketSender.cs`
around lines 103 - 107.
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  • src/net-questdb-client-tests/HttpTests.cs
  • src/net-questdb-client-tests/Pooling/FacadeCallbackTests.cs
  • src/net-questdb-client-tests/Qwp/QwpResponseTests.cs
  • src/net-questdb-client-tests/Qwp/QwpSymbolDictionaryTests.cs
  • src/net-questdb-client-tests/Qwp/QwpWebSocketSenderTests.cs
  • src/net-questdb-client-tests/Qwp/Sf/QwpBackgroundDrainerTests.cs
  • src/net-questdb-client-tests/Qwp/Sf/QwpCursorSendEngineTests.cs
  • src/net-questdb-client-tests/Qwp/Sf/QwpErrorClassifierTests.cs
  • src/net-questdb-client-tests/Qwp/Sf/QwpPersistedSymbolDictionaryTests.cs
  • src/net-questdb-client-tests/Qwp/Sf/QwpSegmentManagerTests.cs
  • src/net-questdb-client-tests/Utils/QwpTlsAuthTests.cs
  • src/net-questdb-client/Enums/QwpStatusCode.cs
  • src/net-questdb-client/Enums/SenderErrorCategory.cs
  • src/net-questdb-client/Qwp/Query/QueryOptions.cs
  • src/net-questdb-client/Qwp/QwpConstants.cs
  • src/net-questdb-client/Qwp/QwpEncoder.cs
  • src/net-questdb-client/Qwp/QwpSymbolDictionary.cs
  • src/net-questdb-client/Qwp/Sf/QwpBackgroundDrainer.cs
  • src/net-questdb-client/Qwp/Sf/QwpCursorSendEngine.cs
  • src/net-questdb-client/Qwp/Sf/QwpErrorClassifier.cs
  • src/net-questdb-client/Qwp/Sf/QwpPersistedSymbolDictionary.cs
  • src/net-questdb-client/Qwp/Sf/QwpSegmentManager.cs
  • src/net-questdb-client/Qwp/Sf/QwpSymbolDictionaryMirror.cs
  • src/net-questdb-client/Senders/HttpSender.cs
  • src/net-questdb-client/Senders/QwpWebSocketSender.cs
  • src/net-questdb-client/Utils/QwpTlsAuth.cs
  • src/net-questdb-client/Utils/SenderOptions.cs

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Comment thread src/net-questdb-client/Enums/SenderErrorCategory.cs
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…CK recycles

A NACK naming a catch-up wire sequence maps below the replay cursor, but
the sent-on-connection flag alone cannot tell it from a data-frame NACK:
the send pump ships data before the catch-up's NACK round-trip is read.
A retriable non-connection-state status could therefore strike an
already-acked historical FSN and escalate a transient outage to a
terminal. NACKs below the cursor are now treated as pre-data rejects,
matching the Java client's replay-head gate.

NotWritable/DictionaryGap recycles carry no poison strike, so nothing
bounded their churn: a single-address node stuck read-only reconnected
at the initial backoff forever. Strike-exempt recycles now pace on
consecutive no-progress recycles - first immediate, then doubling,
capped; any OK-level progress resets the streak.

Also: dispose the reopened side-file stream when CreateClean fails after
the temp move; document the side file's no-fsync durability contract;
make SegmentManager.SideFileBytes return the manager's cached gauge
instead of doing I/O on the caller thread; drop the always-false
self-sufficient encoder path and the unreachable blocking-connect
cap-gap clause; share ReadSymbolDelta between test fixtures; add a
live-server reconnect test covering symbol dictionary catch-up.

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src/net-questdb-client/Qwp/Sf/QwpCursorSendEngine.cs (2)

874-887: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Keep every ingest frame self-sufficient.

SendCatchUpAsync restores connection-scoped dictionary state before replay. Accumulate then lets normal frames depend on that state. This makes normal ingest frames non-self-sufficient.

Encode the complete schema and symbol-dictionary delta in every normal frame. Do not require a prior catch-up frame for decoding.

As per coding guidelines, src/net-questdb-client/Qwp/**/*.cs requires every QWP frame to carry the full schema and full symbol-dictionary delta, with no reference-mode schema reuse on the ingest path.

Also applies to: 1099-1101

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In `@src/net-questdb-client/Qwp/Sf/QwpCursorSendEngine.cs` around lines 874 - 887,
Update the normal ingest-frame encoding path, including Accumulate, so every QWP
frame carries the complete schema and symbol-dictionary delta rather than
relying on state restored by SendCatchUpAsync. Disable reference-mode schema
reuse for ingest frames while preserving catch-up sequencing and ACK behavior.

Source: Coding guidelines


821-824: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Reduce new explanatory comments to one line.

  • src/net-questdb-client/Qwp/Sf/QwpCursorSendEngine.cs#L821-L824: replace the multi-line explanation with one line, or remove it.
  • src/net-questdb-client-tests/Qwp/Sf/QwpCursorSendEngineTests.cs#L1411-L1413: remove the test-flow narration or reduce it to one line.
  • src/net-questdb-client-tests/QuestDbWebSocketIntegrationTests.cs#L425-L426: reduce the reconnect explanation to one line.

As per coding guidelines, default to no comments and use only a one-line comment when the reason is non-obvious.

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In `@src/net-questdb-client/Qwp/Sf/QwpCursorSendEngine.cs` around lines 821 - 824,
Reduce the explanatory comments to one line or remove them: in
src/net-questdb-client/Qwp/Sf/QwpCursorSendEngine.cs lines 821-824, shorten the
comment near the initial-connect flow; in
src/net-questdb-client-tests/Qwp/Sf/QwpCursorSendEngineTests.cs lines 1411-1413,
remove or condense the test-flow narration; and in
src/net-questdb-client-tests/QuestDbWebSocketIntegrationTests.cs lines 425-426,
condense the reconnect explanation to one line.

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In `@src/net-questdb-client/Qwp/Sf/QwpCursorSendEngine.cs`:
- Around line 874-887: Update the normal ingest-frame encoding path, including
Accumulate, so every QWP frame carries the complete schema and symbol-dictionary
delta rather than relying on state restored by SendCatchUpAsync. Disable
reference-mode schema reuse for ingest frames while preserving catch-up
sequencing and ACK behavior.
- Around line 821-824: Reduce the explanatory comments to one line or remove
them: in src/net-questdb-client/Qwp/Sf/QwpCursorSendEngine.cs lines 821-824,
shorten the comment near the initial-connect flow; in
src/net-questdb-client-tests/Qwp/Sf/QwpCursorSendEngineTests.cs lines 1411-1413,
remove or condense the test-flow narration; and in
src/net-questdb-client-tests/QuestDbWebSocketIntegrationTests.cs lines 425-426,
condense the reconnect explanation to one line.

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A host crash can tear the unsynced .symbol-dict side file while fsynced
ring frames survive, leaving delta frames whose dictionary prefix no
source still holds. sender_id is stable and a not-fully-drained slot is
retained on close, so failing construction re-recovered the same slot
and threw again on every restart: the application could not build a
sender at all, not even to buffer new rows - an unbounded outage of
everything after an already-lost batch.

Port the Java client's recovery path: the verdict is a distinct
QwpUnreplayableSlotException (recovery data verdicts only; operational
I/O failures still abort startup), sender construction renames the slot
aside as <sender_id>.unreplayable-<i>, marks it .failed, reports a
DataLoss sender error naming the quarantined path, and continues on a
fresh slot. The orphan scanner skips quarantined slots by name as well
as by sentinel, and the background drainer quarantines an unreplayable
orphan instead of re-adopting it forever. The set-aside is bounded (64
copies) and a failed rename still fails loudly - bytes are never
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src/net-questdb-client/Utils/SenderError.cs (1)

149-155: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Include QuarantinedPath in ToString.

Operators log SenderError through ToString. For a DataLoss report the quarantine path is the value needed to recover the data, and it is currently absent from the log line.

♻️ Proposed refactor
     public override string ToString()
     {
         return $"SenderError{{category={Category}, policy={AppliedPolicy}, " +
                $"status=0x{ServerStatusByte & 0xFF:X2}, seq={MessageSequence}, " +
-               $"fsn=[{FromFsn},{ToFsn}], table={TableName ?? "(none)"}, msg={ServerMessage}}}";
+               $"fsn=[{FromFsn},{ToFsn}], table={TableName ?? "(none)"}, " +
+               (QuarantinedPath is null ? "" : $"quarantinedPath={QuarantinedPath}, ") +
+               $"msg={ServerMessage}}}";
     }
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In `@src/net-questdb-client/Utils/SenderError.cs` around lines 149 - 155, Update
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src/net-questdb-client-tests/Qwp/Sf/QwpBackgroundDrainerTests.cs (1)

293-306: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Replace the ignored payloads parameter with a frame count.

SeedSlot no longer uses the byte arrays. It only uses payloads.Length. Callers still pass distinct values such as new byte[] { 20 }, new byte[] { 21 }, which suggests the content reaches the ring. A count parameter states the real contract.

♻️ Proposed refactor
-    private static void SeedSlot(string slotDir, byte[][] payloads)
+    private static void SeedSlot(string slotDir, int frameCount)
     {
         Directory.CreateDirectory(slotDir);
         using var ring = QwpSegmentRing.Open(slotDir, segmentCapacity: 4096);
-        foreach (var _ in payloads)
+        for (var i = 0; i < frameCount; i++)
         {
             // Recovery now validates the ring as QWP rather than treating its contents as opaque
             // bytes. Use a legal zero-table commit frame while retaining the requested frame count.
             var frame = QwpEncoder.Encode(
                 Array.Empty<QwpTableBuffer>(),
                 new QwpSymbolDictionary());
             Assert.That(ring.TryAppend(frame), Is.True);
         }
     }

Update the call sites to pass counts, for example SeedSlot(slotB, frameCount: 2).

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In `@src/net-questdb-client-tests/Qwp/Sf/QwpBackgroundDrainerTests.cs` around
lines 293 - 306, Change SeedSlot to accept an integer frameCount instead of
byte[][] payloads, and iterate exactly frameCount times when appending frames.
Update every SeedSlot call site to pass the intended count explicitly, such as
frameCount: 2, removing the misleading payload-array arguments.
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Inline comments:
In `@src/net-questdb-client-tests/Qwp/Sf/QwpPersistedSymbolDictionaryTests.cs`:
- Around line 153-175: Update the test’s error collection around the
error_handler to use a thread-safe concurrent collection instead of
List<SenderError>, then filter reported errors to SenderErrorCategory.DataLoss
before asserting the count and inspecting the expected entry. Keep the existing
DataLoss assertions unchanged, but use the filtered entry so background connect
failures do not affect the test.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@src/net-questdb-client-tests/Qwp/Sf/QwpBackgroundDrainerTests.cs`:
- Around line 293-306: Change SeedSlot to accept an integer frameCount instead
of byte[][] payloads, and iterate exactly frameCount times when appending
frames. Update every SeedSlot call site to pass the intended count explicitly,
such as frameCount: 2, removing the misleading payload-array arguments.

In `@src/net-questdb-client/Utils/SenderError.cs`:
- Around line 149-155: Update SenderError.ToString to include the
QuarantinedPath value in the formatted log output, preserving the existing
fields and formatting.
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Comment thread src/net-questdb-client-tests/Qwp/Sf/QwpPersistedSymbolDictionaryTests.cs Outdated
Port the enterprise SqlFailoverQwpClientLosslessTest tandem scenario:
a bounded symbol set is registered and durably acked on the primary
before a kill -9, so every frame buffered through the outage carries an
empty symbol-dict delta and bare ids that resolve on the promoted node
only through the reconnect dictionary catch-up. The acked-head barrier
keeps the replay from re-registering the dictionary itself, and a
per-row value oracle catches a mis-registered catch-up that count-based
oracles cannot see.

The sidecar SEND verb gains an optional tag cardinality; the default
keeps the existing one-symbol-per-row behavior.
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Code review — delta symbol dictionary + reconnect catch-up

Full pass over the QWP wire-format change, the cursor send engine, SF segment/dictionary persistence, reconnect/NACK/poison logic, TLS/auth, HTTP construction, and the public error surface.

No committed build artifacts — every changed file shows numeric add/delete counts.

This PR deliberately changes a documented invariant: production QWP ingest frames are no longer self-sufficient — they carry only symbol-dict deltas, and after a reconnect the engine replays a dictionary catch-up (from an I/O-thread mirror seeded by the persisted .symbol-dict side file) before replaying un-acked data frames. I traced the catch-up/NACK FSN accounting and the persist/rollback floor end-to-end: the delta + catch-up + persist machinery has no data-loss, mis-decode, or wedge window.

Critical

None. No store-and-forward / NACK / pool-startup invariant is violated. Verified sound:

  • Catch-up FSN accounting is exact. fsnAtZero -= catchUpFrames maps catch-up frames to wire seqs [0, C) → FSNs [ackedFsn−C, ackedFsn−1], all strictly below the ack cursor; the first replayed data frame maps to exactly ackedFsn. A catch-up ACK can never advance the ring trim watermark past a real frame, and the fromFsn < ackedFsnAtReject guard correctly uses < (wire-seq C is the first data frame, not a catch-up frame).
  • No-drop NACK policy holds. Retriable NACKs never advance _ackedFsn; NotWritable/DictionaryGap never burn the poison budget even when fromFsn ≥ 0; only deterministic rejections go terminal.
  • Steady-state reconnect stays unbounded; the gate release on WS upgrade keeps a producer from being stranded while catch-up retries; RAM-mode replay and SF-restart recovery both restore the full dictionary before any data frame.
  • Concurrency clean: mirror is send-pump-owned, persisted-dict access is fully _lock-guarded (producer AppendNewSymbols vs heartbeat FileLength), _firstConnectGate uses RunContinuationsAsynchronously, no await under _stateLock.

Moderate

M1 — withdrawn after deeper verification (correction). The original claim was that importing every certificate from a PFX/PEM bundle into CustomTrustStore promotes leaves/intermediates to standalone trust anchors. Verified against the .NET runtime on all three platforms this is not the case: only self-signed certificates in CustomTrustStore act as trust anchors, while non-self-signed certificates only assist chain building (OpenSSL: explicit subject==issuer partition in OpenSslX509ChainProcessor; Windows: hExclusiveRoot without CERT_CHAIN_EXCLUSIVE_ENABLE_CA_FLAG — per the Win32 docs "only self-signed certificates in the hExclusiveRoot store are treated as trust anchors"; macOS: the same partition before SecTrustSetAnchorCertificates). A full-chain PFX therefore behaves correctly — the root anchors, the intermediate merely assists — and the bundle import is the right behavior. No production change needed; worth a one-line doc on tls_roots (anchor semantics) and a multi-cert PFX test to match the PEM one.

Minor

Comments / correctness-adjacent

  • Contradictory comment in the catch-up block (Qwp/Sf/QwpCursorSendEngine.cs:876-879): says catch-up failure leaves "the initial-connect gate remains closed," but _seenFirstConnect = true + FireFirstConnectSucceeded() (lines 825/828) open it before catch-up — and the comment at 821-824 correctly explains why. Drop the "and the initial-connect gate remains closed" clause.
  • Two Java references in XML doc comments (Qwp/Sf/QwpPersistedSymbolDictionary.cs:32,40). Describe the format on its own terms.
  • SenderError.ToString() omits QuarantinedPath — for a DataLoss report that path is what an operator needs to recover the bytes; include it.
  • Byte-vs-char truncation (Qwp/Sf/QwpOrphanScanner.cs:57-59): FailedSentinelMaxBytes (4096) is compared against detail.Length (UTF-16 units) and used as a Substring index — can split a surrogate pair. Cosmetic (diagnostic sentinel, near-always-ASCII detail).

Test coverage gaps (non-blocking; every bug-fix has a regression test that fails on revert)

  • QwpSymbolDictionaryMirror.SendCatchUpAsync multi-frame splitting is untested — every engine test seeds a 1-entry dict, so the packing-limit boundary and normal ≥2-frame split are never exercised (only the solo-too-big CatchUpCapGap branch). Core new logic; add a direct unit test.
  • Accumulate partial-overlap tail logic and AppendNewSymbols idempotency-after-failed-publish have no direct test. Multi-cert PFX trust-root loading untested (see M1).
  • Brittle assertion (Qwp/Sf/QwpPersistedSymbolDictionaryTests.cs:171): asserts reported Has.Count.EqualTo(1) while the sender runs against an unreachable addr under async connect; a background connect outage dispatched as a SenderError would break the exact ==1. Use >= 1 + .Any(e => e.Category == DataLoss) and a thread-safe collection.
  • Benchmark gap: no sf_dir + symbols allocation bench, and BenchAllocationsWs's symbol cardinality plateaus, so the per-flush side-file write and the Accumulate List<int> alloc are unmeasured.

Perf (all off the steady-state hot path) — Accumulate allocates a List<int> per new-symbol frame (QwpSymbolDictionaryMirror.cs:123, trivially removable — add directly to _entryEnds); ParseDelta is walked twice per sent frame; WriteChunk allocates scratch FrameBuilders per new-symbol flush. The zero-new-symbol steady state pays only two uncontended lock round-trips + trivial parses.

Resource — a rare compound failure in QwpPersistedSymbolDictionary.CreateClean can leave a .symbol-dict.tmp-<guid> file as disk litter after a hard crash (no handle leak; nothing sweeps it). Consider a .tmp-* sweep on slot open.

PR metadata — the description doesn't enumerate the new public API (SenderError.DataLoss/QuarantinedPath, SenderErrorCategory.DataLoss/NotWritable/DictionaryGap, SenderErrorPolicy.Abandoned) or the HTTP Basic-auth ASCII→UTF-8 change for non-ASCII credentials; commits 679f2f6 (scopeless subject, empty body) and 8be696c (empty body) could use why-bodies.

Verify against the server (not code bugs): the ingress MaxSymbolDictionarySize = 1,000,000 cap boundary (confirm server rejects on > not >=), and that the server tolerates the client's overlapping symbol re-registration on catch-up.

Durability note (fail-closed, not a bug): the .symbol-dict write-ahead is page-cache-only (Flush(flushToDisk:false)), so its cross-host-crash guarantee rests on recovery-side gap detection — which is airtight (torn chunks CRC-truncated; a true delta gap throws unreplayable → quarantine, never silent wrong data). Consistent with the sf_durability=memory tier.

Re: the earlier automated review comments

  • "Keep every ingest frame self-sufficient" / "data may be rejected after reconnect" — the self-sufficiency change is the intended headline; catch-up provably restores full dictionary state before any data-frame replay, with exact FSN alignment. Not a bug.
  • "Add the size cap to Accumulate" — ParseDelta already rejects start+count > MaxSymbolDictionarySize; the mirror cannot exceed the cap.
  • "SideFileBytes performs I/O / overwrites _lastServiceError" — already addressed; the getter returns cached _lastSideFileBytes via Volatile.Read.
  • "Dispose AppendRange/CreateClean on throw" — already handled on both paths.
  • SenderErrorCategory explicit-ordinal concern — new members appended at 7/8/9; ProtocolViolation=5/Unknown=6 preserved; no ordinal/serialization consumer exists.
  • No net6.0 build break — ImportFromPemFile is net6.0+; the production project compiles 0 errors on net6/7/10.

Verdict

Approve — no blocking issues. Fix the misleading catch-up comment and the SendCatchUpAsync multi-frame test gap; the rest are cheap cleanup. The delta-dictionary + reconnect-catch-up + SF-persistence design holds under adversarial tracing, resources are released on every path, and the tests are genuinely regression-grade. Repo-wide callsite inventory across the changed symbols found 0 broken out-of-diff callsites — the most-reachable seams (QwpEncoder signatures, the SenderError/QwpSegmentManager/QwpCursorSendEngine ctors) are append-only or doc-only.

- Include QuarantinedPath in SenderError.ToString so a DataLoss log
  line carries the path operators need to recover the bytes.
- Truncate the .failed sentinel without splitting a surrogate pair and
  share one helper between the orphan scanner and the drainer pool.
- Drop the per-frame List<int> in QwpSymbolDictionaryMirror.Accumulate:
  ParseDelta already proves the tail ends at EntriesEnd, so both
  capacities are reserved before the first mutation and the recording
  walk cannot fail midway.
- Sweep .symbol-dict.tmp-* litter left by a hard crash between
  CreateClean's temp write and its rename.
- Document tls_roots anchor semantics (only self-signed certificates
  act as trust anchors; other bundle certificates assist chain
  building) and correct the stale initial-connect-gate comment in the
  engine's catch-up block.
- Tests: pin SendCatchUpAsync multi-frame splitting, Accumulate
  overlap handling, AppendNewSymbols retry idempotency, and multi-cert
  PFX bundles; collect quarantine-test errors thread-safely and assert
  on the DataLoss report alone so background connect failures cannot
  flake it.
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Code review — delta symbol dictionaries

Reviewed at merge-base 06e7a38 (39 files, +3059 −191), with a focus on the highest-risk subsystems this touches: QWP wire encoding, the cursor send engine, SF persistence, reconnect/NACK handling, and TLS/auth.

Updated: M2 has since been verified against the server source (resolved, see below); m1/m3/m4 are fixed in 3867b8c; M1's quarantine radius is narrowed in 1e455a1.

Pre-checks

  • No committed binaries / build artifacts in the diff. ✅
  • Built the library on net6.0 → net10.0 locally (exit 0) — confirms the "builds .NET 6–10" claim, including that the WS/QWP and new SF code compile on net6.0. ✅

The central move — replacing "every frame is self-sufficient" with delta symbol dictionaries + reconnect catch-up + a persisted .symbol-dict side file — is the deliberate goal here, so the replacement safety machinery was the focus. The reconnect wire-seq/FSN math, NACK-below-cursor handling, poison/strike accounting, persisted-dict recovery, quarantine, cap accounting, and mirror-terminal risk all traced correct for reachable workloads. No blocking issues.

Critical

None. No committed artifacts; no data-loss-on-outage, terminal-on-transient, reconnect-budget-on-steady-state, or ack-watermark-past-NACK issue. The store-and-forward / NACK / pool-startup invariants hold.

Moderate

M1 — Host-crash torn side-file expands the SF data-loss blast radius from "torn tail" to "whole slot."Resolved: fsync tradeoff kept (Java parity), quarantine radius narrowed in 1e455a1.
The no-fsync choice matches the Java client exactly — its PersistedSymbolDict documents the same page-cache tier with the same CRC + replay-guard fail-clean rationale, so no fsync was added. What Java additionally had was a nothing-replays exemption (QwpWebSocketSender.seedGlobalDictionaryFromPersisted): a dictionary gap confined to already-acknowledged frames must not quarantine, because nothing referencing the lost ids will ever be resent — quarantining raised a false DataLoss telling the operator to resend delivered rows. 1e455a1 ports that: recovery now takes the watermark-derived replay floor (shared with the engine's cursor seed via QwpAckWatermark.ResolveReplayFloor) and tolerates a gap strictly below it, resuming on the intact persisted prefix. The .NET rule is per-frame (finer than Java's all-or-nothing arm) and provably safe: production frames always encode their committed watermark as the delta start — even empty deltas carry (committedCount, 0) — so any frame that folds cleanly is fully self-covered, and any frame that could reference a lost id necessarily trips the gap check. A missing/unwritten watermark resolves the floor to the ring's oldest FSN, i.e. the previous fail-closed behavior. All other recovery verdicts (CRC, header, UTF-8, overlap mismatch) stay fatal.
Original finding, for the record:
The .symbol-dict side file is written Flush(flushToDisk: false) (page cache, no fsync), while the mmap ring segment is fsync'd on the segment manager's ~1s cadence (FlushActiveflushToDisk: true). Program order is correct (side file before its referencing frame), but there's no fsync barrier on the side file matching the ring's. A host crash / power loss in the window after a ring-segment fsync but before the side-file dirty pages are written back leaves a durable ring frame whose delta-start prefix is missing → recovery hits delta.start > entries.CountQwpUnreplayableSlotException → the entire slot is quarantined as DataLoss. The pre-change self-sufficient design lost only the un-flushed ring tail.
Not Critical because it fails closed and loud — reported via SenderError.DataLoss + QuarantinedPath, bytes preserved on disk (moved, not deleted), never mis-parsed — and the class docstring documents this as the memory-durability tier. But the whole-slot-vs-torn-tail amplification is worth an explicit decision: fsync the side file before publishing its referencing frame (durable tier), salvage sub-gap frames instead of quarantining the whole slot, or at minimum document the durability boundary in the SF / sf_max_total_bytes user docs.

M2 — Reconnect replay assumes the server tolerates overlapping/duplicate delta re-registration.RESOLVED — verified against the server source.
The concern: on reconnect the engine registers [0..mirror.Count) via catch-up, then replays un-acked ring frames verbatim, whose deltas re-emit ids the catch-up just registered. DummyQwpServer acks unconditionally, so client-side tests could not validate server semantics. Verified in questdb OSS master:

  • The gap check is strictly greater-than (QwpMessageCursor.java:287): deltaStartId > connectionSymbolDict.size()DELTA_DICT_GAP; deltaStartId <= size() (overlap) is accepted, entries overwrite via extendPos + setQuick.
  • Identical re-registration is explicitly documented as supported: "Re-sending an identical dict (the common dict-from-0 case within one sender) overwrites with equal values and is not a redefinition" (QwpMessageCursor.java:363-368) — exactly the reconnect-replay case.
  • DELTA_DICT_GAP is designed as retriable, not terminal: "the identical frame succeeds once the sender has re-registered from an id the server actually holds, making the gap retriable rather than terminal" (:280-286) — matching this client's DictionaryGap → Retriable + strike-exempt classification verbatim.
  • Even different-string overlap (orphan adoption replaying another sender's dict-from-0) is handled: symbolDictRedefinedsymbolCache.clear() (QwpIngressProcessorState.java:1175-1177), which validates the orphan-drainer path too. The server resets connectionSymbolDict on disconnect (:914), matching the client's upgrade-resets-dictionary assumption.

One side-finding from the same verification: the server bumped MAX_SYMBOL_DICTIONARY_SIZE from 1,000,000 to 2,000,000 in questdb#7468 (first released in 10.0.0; 9.4.3 is still 1M). The client's 1M cap exactly matches 9.4.3 and the Java client, and is safely conservative against 10.0.0 (client refuses before the server ever would). No change needed now; bump in lockstep with the Java client when it moves to 2M.

M3 — Two user-facing behavior changes aren't called out in the description. (open — description edit)

  • (a) Table() now throws IngressError(InvalidApiCall) on a mid-row table switch (was a silent switch that orphaned a partial row). Verified no existing caller switches tables mid-row, so nothing breaks — but it's a stricter public-API contract attributed only to "java#77 alignment."
  • (b) HTTP Basic auth charset Encoding.ASCIIEncoding.UTF8, on all TFMs. Byte-identical for ASCII credentials; for non-ASCII it changes the header bytes (a server decoding Basic as latin1/ASCII would see different bytes). Correct per RFC 7617 and aligns HTTP with the already-UTF-8 WS path, but it's a real runtime change mentioned only as "java#78 alignment."

Minor

  • m1 — sender_id doesn't reject the reserved .unreplayable- infix.Fixed in 3867b8cSetSenderId now rejects the reserved marker (with a regression test). Previously, the orphan scanner skips any sibling slot whose directory name contains .unreplayable-, so a user-chosen id containing it would leave that sender's crashed slot permanently un-drained.
  • m2 — A permanent catch-up cap-gap stall surfaces no diagnostic SenderError. (open) In a heterogeneous cluster where a symbol accepted on a large-cap node can't fit a single catch-up frame under a smaller node's cap after failover, QwpCatchUpCapGapException retries forever (correct). But FirstConnectTask already completed on upgrade, so the sender reports connected, retains data, delivers nothing, and dispatches no error explaining why (only repeating Connected/Disconnected events). No data loss; consider a distinct diagnostic reason.
  • m3 — RollbackTo latent fragility.Fixed in 3867b8c — the reverse-lookup entry is now removed only when the rolled-back id still owns it, so an AddRecovered duplicate can no longer orphan a lower id's mapping if a future caller rolls back across it.
  • m4 — Drainer terminal classification was fragile coupling.Fixed in 3867b8cIsRetryableDrainFault now classifies QwpUnreplayableSlotException as non-retryable explicitly, instead of relying on its inner exception happening to be an InvalidDataException.
  • m5 — Test nits (open, non-blocking) (suite is otherwise strong — every material change is pinned by a regression test that fails on revert; correct exception matchers; the ReadSymbolDelta copy-paste is already consolidated into QwpFrameTestUtils):
    • QwpSegmentManagerTests.DiskCap_Counts… uses await Task.Delay(100) before a negative assertion — a slow manager could pass falsely; prefer a positive post-condition.
    • The strike-exempt NACK pacing progression (_zeroProgressExemptRecycles immediate-then-doubling + reset) has no direct assertion — only the no-poison outcome is tested.
    • HttpSender's own multi-root callback wiring is untested (only the parallel QwpTlsAuth.BuildCertificateValidator path); it ships on all TFMs.
    • BuildOkAck is still duplicated across 4 fixtures — natural next consolidation into QwpFrameTestUtils.
  • m6 — Metadata. (open) The headline feat(qwp): add persistent delta symbol dictionaries commit has an empty body; fix: harden protocol compatibility and recovery lacks a scope and body. The stated perf goal has no benchmark backing (the per-frame byte reduction is definitional, but there's a "benchmarked perf" bar for this work).

Dismissed after source verification (false positives)

  • "Keep every frame self-sufficient" — the delta model is the change; self-sufficiency is intentionally replaced by reconnect catch-up + persistence.
  • "Add the dictionary-size cap to Accumulate" — the mirror only accumulates frames whose ids come from the client dictionary, already capped at 1M by ThrowIfFull (and ≤1M-validated on recovery). Not reachable.
  • "SideFileBytes performs I/O" — already fixed: SideFileBytes => Volatile.Read(ref _lastSideFileBytes), no I/O.
  • "ReadSymbolDelta copied into two fixtures" — already resolved (consolidated into QwpFrameTestUtils).
  • Background-drainer wedge on an unreplayable orphan — routes to a .failed sentinel (sanctioned terminal), not a transient retry or silent drop.
  • Mirror spurious terminal on a legitimate frame — the "mirror covers [0..X) and every frame's start ≤ X" invariant holds for linear send, reconnect replay, and seeded-first-frame.
  • Data races on the mirror / persisted dict — mirror is strictly single-threaded (catch-up fully awaited before the send pump spawns); persisted dict is fully lock-guarded with no lock-ordering inversion.
  • Resource/native-memory leaks (FileStream, X509 certs, HttpClient/handler) — clean on all paths; the disposeHandler: false change actually fixes a pre-existing handler double-dispose.

Summary

Approve with minor changes — no blocking issues. The intricate reconnect wire-seq/FSN accounting, NACK/poison exemptions, write-ahead persistence, and quarantine machinery hold up under adversarial tracing and are backed by genuine regression tests. Cross-context callsite sweep (production, tests, benchmarks, examples, sidecar, pool) found 0 broken callsites — the signature changes are all trailing-optional / factory-mediated.

Status after follow-up: M1 resolved (fsync tradeoff kept per Java parity; the nothing-replays exemption ported in 1e455a1 removes the false-DataLoss quarantine for delivered data); M2 resolved (server source confirms overlapping delta re-registration is the supported, documented path); m1/m3/m4 fixed in 3867b8c. Remaining: M3 is a description edit (surface the mid-row Table() throw and the HTTP UTF-8 auth change), and m2/m5/m6 are low-risk cleanups.

Reject sender_id values containing the reserved .unreplayable- quarantine
marker: the orphan scanner skips such directories, so a crashed sender with
that id would strand its own store-and-forward data forever.

Classify QwpUnreplayableSlotException as non-retryable in the drainer pool
explicitly instead of relying on its inner exception happening to be an
InvalidDataException.

Guard QwpSymbolDictionary.RollbackTo so a duplicate value recovered via
AddRecovered cannot orphan a lower id's reverse mapping if a future caller
rolls back across it.
…ntine

A host-crash tear can lose the .symbol-dict tail while fsync'd ring frames
survive. When every frame touched by the resulting delta gap is already
below the ack watermark, nothing referencing the lost ids will ever be
resent: the data is on the server and the frames are only ever trimmed.
Quarantining such a slot raised a false DataLoss report telling the
operator to resend delivered rows.

Recovery now takes the replay floor (the same watermark-derived resume
point the engine seeds its cursor from, extracted into
QwpAckWatermark.ResolveReplayFloor) and tolerates a dictionary gap
confined to frames below it, resuming on the intact persisted prefix.
A gap in any frame at or above the floor still fails closed and
quarantines. A missing or unwritten watermark resolves the floor to the
ring's oldest FSN, preserving the previous behavior.

Every other recovery verdict (CRC, header, UTF-8, overlap mismatch)
remains fatal regardless of the floor.
Symbol() allocates the global dictionary id eagerly, but CancelRow and a
mid-row append failure abandoned the row without reclaiming the ids it
had allocated. The next flush's delta then published them and the SF
side file persisted them: values no row references permanently burn the
1,000,000-entry protocol cap and count against the disk cap.

Track the first id the in-progress row allocates and roll the dictionary
tail back when the row dies: on CancelRow, on a Symbol failure (the
whole row's ids, not just the failing call's), on the row-too-large
abort, and as a flush-time backstop for internally cancelled rows whose
append failure the caller swallowed. A live row's ids are never touched;
committing a row transfers its ids to the batch.

Tests: pin the reclaim through the on-wire delta; pin the exempt-NACK
pacing (immediate first recycle, doubling to the cap, reset on ack
progress) via a reconnect-policy jitter hook that records each paced
delay and zeroes the sleep, so the sequence asserts without wall-clock
sensitivity; pin the AddRecovered/RollbackTo duplicate interaction.
A Column/At append failure cancels the row inside QwpTableBuffer, a
path that never runs through the sender's Symbol() catch, so the dead
row's freshly allocated dictionary ids survived; once a later row
committed, the single-row reclaim marker was reset and the orphans were
published and persisted forever, permanently burning the protocol's
1,000,000-entry dictionary cap. QwpTableBuffer now notifies the sender
on every row cancel so the ids are reclaimed the moment the row dies.

The reclaim also floors its rollback at the published/persisted prefix,
and FlushAndGetSequenceAsync gains the EnsureNoRowInProgress guard every
other flush entry point already had — a mid-row flush would commit and
persist the pending row's ids and then silently cancel the row.
HandleServerRejection keyed the pre-data check off
_sentOnCurrentConnection, which the send pump sets only after
SendBinaryAsync returns. A NACK processed by the receive pump while the
send-side await was still completing was misread as pre-data, skipping
the poison strike for a data frame the server had actually rejected.
The sent-FSN watermark bumps under _stateLock before the wire write, so
comparing it against the connection's first data FSN closes the window;
catch-up frames never bump the watermark and keep their pre-data
classification.
…handler

The default handler treated every non-terminal policy as retriable, so
an Abandoned quarantine report would have been logged as
"RETRIABLE (replaying)" — the opposite of what it means.
The existing continuity test trips ParseDelta's protocol-cap check
before ever reaching the gap branch; cover the actual
delta-start-above-count rejection, its non-mutation, and the legal
start == Count boundary.
Code-review fixes for the delta symbol dictionary:

- Skip a below-floor frame whose values conflict with the side file
  instead of quarantining the slot: a recovery that skipped an acked
  delta gap resumes on the intact prefix and re-uses the skipped ids,
  while the stale frame still sits in the active segment. Ids ascend
  within a frame, so compares strictly precede appends and the skipped
  frame contributes nothing.

- Fsync the .symbol-dict side file before trimming acked segments and
  skip the trim cycle when the fsync fails. Segments are fsync'd on the
  same heartbeat, so the page-cache-only side file was the one place a
  host crash could tear the slot unreplayable; a delta only becomes
  unrecoverable once its introducing frame is unlinked, and unlink is
  the manager's own synchronous event. The flush is a no-op once
  cardinality saturates, so the producer path is untouched.

- Reset the reconnect backoff only when a data frame was acked on the
  connection, mirroring the Go client's no-real-progress recycle
  pacing. An accept-then-close endpoint previously recycled at the
  initial-backoff rate forever, re-uploading the full dictionary
  catch-up on every cycle; catch-up ACKs map below the replay cursor
  and never count as progress. The retry loop itself stays unbounded.

- Deliver the quarantine DataLoss report through the error dispatcher
  instead of invoking the user's error_handler synchronously on the
  constructing thread: the documented background-dispatcher contract
  holds again, TotalErrorNotificationsDelivered counts the report, and
  the default handler's Abandoned arm becomes reachable. Dispatcher
  dispose now prefers a natural drain before cancelling.

- Tests: pin each fix, cover the orphan drainer's dictionary catch-up,
  wait on a manager service tick instead of sleeping in the disk-cap
  test, and seed drainer slots by frame count.
…ring

Follow-up fixes from reviewing the delta symbol dictionary work.

Reconnect backoff: gating the reset purely on data progress meant an idle
sender never reset it, because a connection carrying no rows makes no ack
progress. A producer behind an idle-timeout proxy accumulated one attempt per
reap cycle and settled at reconnect_max_backoff (5s by default) instead of
the 100ms it took before. Rows were buffered, not lost, but the first append
after an idle stretch waited for the full ceiling. Outliving the backoff
ceiling now also counts as proof the endpoint is healthy; an accept-then-close
endpoint drops the socket well below that, so the hot loop stays guarded.

Flush errors: persisting the dictionary added a producer-thread disk write
ahead of every publish, but its failures escaped Send(), SendAsync(), Flush()
and auto-flushing At() as raw IOException, so callers catching IngressError
saw an unhandled exception on a full or read-only volume. Wrap it as
IngressError(ServerFlushError), matching what the engine raises when
sf_append_deadline expires, and widen the slot-recovery catch to IOException.
QwpUnreplayableSlotException is an IngressError and still reaches quarantine.

Trim ordering: the gate fsynced the side file and then called DrainTrimmable,
which reads the ack watermark afresh, so a frame acked during the fsync became
trimmable in the same tick despite introducing entries that fsync never
covered. Sample the ceiling before the barrier and trim only up to it.

Accuracy: MaxSymbolDictionarySize documented itself as the point where the
server rejects a delta, but the server's ceiling is twice this value and has
been since QWP landed - 1,000,000 is a deliberate client-side cap at or below
it. SwitchingTablesMidRow ended on a bare WaitFor, which returns silently on
timeout, so the frame never had to arrive. DeltaDictionary_CatchUpNackAfter-
Progress acks its only frame up front, so no data frame is sent and the branch
its name advertised is covered by its LateCatchUpNackAfterDataSend sibling.
@ideoma
ideoma merged commit 9e459d0 into main Aug 19, 2026
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