Migration 026 freed the idempotency key as soon as deleted_at was set, so a
retry after a delete uploads afresh instead of 409ing forever. That rationale
only considered the GUEST deleting. deleted_at is also set by
host_delete_upload, and there the same rule reverses a moderation decision:
1. Guest uploads; the row commits and the photo appears, but the response
is lost on the way back — the flaky-wifi case the key exists for — so
the phone keeps the queue item.
2. The host takes the photo down. Epoch bumped, keepsake rebuilt without it.
3. The phone reconnects ten minutes later and retries. The key is free, the
INSERT succeeds, and the photo is back — in the feed and in the next
keepsake, under a NEW uuid that matches nothing in the host's moderation
history, with nothing logged to say a takedown was reversed.
Migration 031 keeps the key claimed for a host takedown and releases it only
for a guest's own delete, so the retry resolves to the duplicate path and is
refused. The refusal now says why ("von den Gastgebern entfernt") rather than
"already processed", which invites another try.
The index predicate and the ON CONFLICT arbiter are changed in lockstep;
these queries are not compile-checked, so a drift between them is a 500 on
exactly the retries the index exists to serve. Verified against a real
Postgres: live retry suppressed, host takedown holds the key, guest delete
releases it. The integration test's copy of the insert is updated too — it is
verbatim by design, and a stale copy would have kept passing.
Migrations
SQLx-managed Postgres migrations. Each NNN_topic.up.sql has a matching
NNN_topic.down.sql. Run by sqlx::migrate!() at app start.
Rules
- Never edit a shipped migration. If a column needs to change or a fix needs to land, write a new migration. Production has already applied the old one and SQLx tracks each by checksum — editing in place will fail to apply on existing databases.
- Always pair
.up.sqlwith a.down.sql. Reverts may not be perfect (data loss is sometimes unavoidable) but the file must exist and do the best it can. - Prefer additive changes. New columns, new tables, new keys in
config. Drop / rename only when there is no alternative. - No business logic in migrations. Schema + seeds only. Anything that needs Rust code goes in a one-off binary, not a migration file.
- One concern per migration. Easier to revert. Easier to read in
git log.
Numbering
Zero-padded three digits, monotonically increasing. The next free number lives at the bottom of the directory listing — pick that.
Seed-only migrations
When you only need to add config keys (feature flags, defaults), use
INSERT … ON CONFLICT DO NOTHING so existing operator overrides survive. See
009_feature_toggles.up.sql for the canonical shape.