fix(server): migrate-dev-db refuses unimported legacy threads#23159
Problem
migrate-dev-db --source state.sqlite reports success but drops all legacy threads when the source predates V2. A migration-54 fixture containing one project and one thread exits 0 with Repro: 0 threads; the same loss occurs after schema migrations when the server has not imported the legacy thread shells.
Change
Read the source schema, validate pending legacy shell imports, and copy rows in one read-only source transaction. Refuse unsupported legacy data before checkpointing or replacing the destination. The error explains how to import a copy through the server and select the resulting userdata/statev2.sqlite. Empty legacy sources and already-imported V2 sources retain their existing behavior.
Scope and approval
Fixes #19018
Triaged bug via the automated issue flow. This is a focused refusal of a source the command cannot preserve, rather than a second implementation of the server's legacy importer.
Verification
- Focused migration suite: 10/10 pass. Regression tests cover populated V1 and migrated-but-unimported V2 sources, typed refusal, and byte-for-byte destination WAL preservation. A deterministic late-write regression commits the first V1 thread after the former preflight boundary; validation now sees the same snapshot as the copy. The V2 fixture includes an already-imported legacy thread to check it remains accepted.
- Targeted lint and formatting: pass. Server typecheck: pass.
- Two independent final reviews:
MERGE, no findings at a007595b42.
Runtime transcript and standalone synthetic reproduction script.
| Evidence | Before (a12d6ed942) | After (a007595b42) |
|---|---|---|
| Populated V1 source | Exit 0; 1 thread becomes 0 | Exit 1; destination DB/WAL hashes unchanged |
| V2 schema with pending legacy thread | Silently dropped by the same V2-only keep set | Exit 1; destination DB/WAL hashes unchanged |
| Empty V1 source | Exit 0 | Exit 0 |
| Already-imported V2 source | Supported | 10/10 tests pass; exact eligible IDs retained |
The original regression test failed at e0fba36b0d before implementation (assertion: “a source whose threads would be dropped must fail”). Final runtime proof was captured at a007595b42. The late-write regression fails at 44bd595e77 and passes at the current head. Render matrix is empty: CLI-only change, with no web, desktop, or mobile rendering paths. Browser and native client verification do not apply.
Models: Claude Opus 5.5 through the Claude Agent harness; GPT-6.1-Sol through the Codex harness in T3 Code.
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- fix(server): migrate-dev-db refuses pre-V2 sources with legacy threads22aeeae
- fix(server): migrate-dev-db refuses V2 sources with unimported legacy threads4324451
- fix(server): migrate-dev-db rejects legacy sources before touching the destination7072c27
- Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/main' into fix/issue-190189857856
- perf(server): migrate-dev-db legacy guard uses the V2 created-threads index9bf8c50
- test(server): migrate-dev-db refuses pre-V2 sources with legacy threadse0fba36
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Verdict: Approved at 5de8830
Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — This focused CLI bug fix prevents migrate-dev-db from silently dropping unimported legacy threads and verifies that rejected migrations do not modify the destination. The added behavior is narrowly scoped to unsupported legacy input, with existing valid migration paths preserved.
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Thread transfer impact
✅ Thread transfer remains within every enforced ceiling.
| Provider | Metric | Main baseline | This PR | Impact | PR ceiling | |
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| Codex | Total thread wire | 5.0 KiB | 5.0 KiB | 0 B (0.0%) | 6.8 KiB | ✅ |
| Codex | Thread snapshot wire | 3.8 KiB | 3.8 KiB | 0 B (0.0%) | 4.9 KiB | ✅ |
| Codex | Live turn WebSocket wire | 1.2 KiB | 1.2 KiB | 0 B (0.0%) | 2.0 KiB | ✅ |
| Codex | Live turn WebSocket decoded | 20.9 KiB | 20.9 KiB | 0 B (0.0%) | 29.3 KiB | ✅ |
| Codex | Live turn messages | 2 | 2 | 0 (0.0%) | 8 | ✅ |
| Claude | Total thread wire | 5.0 KiB | 5.0 KiB | +24 B (+0.5%) | 6.8 KiB | ✅ |
| Claude | Thread snapshot wire | 3.8 KiB | 3.8 KiB | 0 B (0.0%) | 4.9 KiB | ✅ |
| Claude | Live turn WebSocket wire | 1.2 KiB | 1.2 KiB | +24 B (+2.0%) | 2.0 KiB | ✅ |
| Claude | Live turn WebSocket decoded | 21.2 KiB | 21.2 KiB | +41 B (+0.2%) | 29.3 KiB | ✅ |
| Claude | Live turn messages | 1 | 2 | +1 (+100.0%) | 8 | ✅ |
Baseline: bb7783e · PR result: 5de8830 · Source CI: success
Scenario and decoded snapshot size
10 historical turns, 5 command tools per turn, 878.9 KiB retained MCP result per historical turn, and a 1.05 MiB retained result in the measured turn.
- Codex decoded thread snapshot: 108.5 KiB
- Claude decoded thread snapshot: 108.8 KiB
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Walkthrough
The migration checks for unimported legacy threads within the source-copy transaction. It rejects sources with pending legacy threads and reports the source path and thread count. Destination-use checks run after the source copy and before migration.
Changes: Legacy thread migration guard
Layer / File(s) Summary Source snapshot guard and migration error
apps/server/scripts/migrate-dev-db.tsThe migration counts legacy threads without a matching V2 thread.createdevent, or counts all legacy threads when the V2 projection table is absent. A positive count raisesMigrateDevDbLegacySourceError. Snapshot SQL errors map to asnapshotphase error. The destination-use check runs after the source copy.Fixtures and rejection tests
apps/server/scripts/migrate-dev-db.test.tsFixtures set event versions to V2 and add a legacy thread. Tests cover pre-V2 sources, V2 sources with legacy threads, and a race. They verify that rejection preserves destination database and WAL bytes. Priority: External image Normal
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes
Change: Bug fix
Possibly related PRs
- pingdotgg/t3code#24343: Both changes modify
copySourceSlice; that PR’s source-copy behavior is used by this migration guard. - pingdotgg/t3code#11869: That PR covers the V1-to-V2 import path. This change rejects copying sources that still contain unimported legacy threads.
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t3dotgg- pingdotgg/t3code#24343: Both changes modify
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The migration’s legacy-thread refusal has no identified merge-blocking issue. It is ready for normal checks.
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- test(server): migrate-dev-db refuses a legacy thread committed after the guard44bd595
Confirmed a narrower race at 9bf8c50e9a: an explicitly selected, initially empty V1 source can receive its first legacy thread after preflight. A deterministic regression test commits that row between preflight and copy; the command exits 0 with the late project present and zero threads. A V2 server does not insert legacy rows, but this V1 sequence requires consistent validation and copying.
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- fix(server): migrate-dev-db checks for legacy threads in the copy's own snapshota007595
Fixed in a007595b42: schema inspection, legacy validation and copying now share one source transaction. Destination checkpointing runs only after successful validation/copy. The deterministic late-write regression fails before this change and passes afterward; all 10 focused tests, lint, formatting and server typecheck pass. Both fresh reviewers returned MERGE.
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- Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/main' into fix/issue-190185de8830
Merged current main into the fix branch at 5de88300e7. Resolved the FTS5 copy conflict by keeping main’s shadow-table filtering and index rebuild while moving schema inspection into the same source transaction as legacy validation and copying. Focused migration tests: 10/10 pass; targeted lint and formatting pass. Server typecheck was terminated with exit 143 before producing a result; current-head CI remains the typecheck gate.