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Close the Row/Col position race: unique index plus retry-by-read

(TabID, Position) was a plain index on Row and Col (models.go), not a
constraint — EnsureRow/EnsureCol (task 11) are the first insert logic
ever written against either table, and a second process (another app
instance, a retried background job, a double-clicked import) building
its own in-memory rowByPos/colByPos can lose a race this handle's own
mutex cannot see: both find no row at a position, both Create, and
without a constraint both succeed, leaving two Row records claiming one
grid coordinate.

Fix: uniqueIndex on (TabID, Position) for both Row and Col, and
EnsureRow/EnsureCol treat a Create that violates it as "someone else
already created this," recovering by reading the row/col back — the
same shape internFormat already uses for Format.Digest's own
uniqueIndex, applied to the table that didn't have one.

Tested against a real violation, not just the happy path:
TestEnsureRowRetriesOnConcurrentCreate and
TestEnsureColRetriesOnConcurrentCreate seed a colliding row/col through
a path this handle's own bookkeeping never observes (standing in for
another process), then assert EnsureRow/EnsureCol recovers the winner's
id rather than erroring or creating a duplicate; a count query confirms
no duplicate landed. TestRowUniqueIndexRejectsDuplicatePosition pins the
constraint itself. Live-fire checked: with the retry removed, the new
tests fail with "duplicated key not allowed"; reinstated, they pass —
and the log line at internal/sheets/store/handle_grid.go:47 shows the
violation actually firing and being recovered from, not just a green
happy path.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01APtNStXDZ5H2fAc1ZuGqtS
Paul Campbell pushed by paul@keymail.dev c832524c9ce37c617add36686744e9bad7a2f671 parent ab0acaf
3 files changed, +137 −5
  • internal/sheets/models.go +11 −4
  • internal/sheets/store/handle_grid.go +27 −1
  • internal/sheets/store/handle_grid_race_test.go +99 −0

Intent

full ledger: core

diff --git a/internal/sheets/models.go b/internal/sheets/models.go
index 674ceff..0f7ec93 100644
--- a/internal/sheets/models.go
+++ b/internal/sheets/models.go
@@ -26,17 +26,24 @@ type Tab struct {
// never part of a key — so inserting a row above a comment or a range does
// not move what they point at. See spec section 4.2 for what this does and
// does not buy: it removes reference rewriting for insert and delete only.
+//
+// (TabID, Position) is a uniqueIndex, not a plain one: at most one Row (or
+// Col) may ever claim a given grid coordinate within a tab. Nothing wrote
+// Row/Col rows until store.Handle.EnsureRow/EnsureCol (XLSX import), which
+// is why this constraint arrives with them rather than with the schema
+// itself — see that file's doc comment for the race a plain index would
+// leave open across two processes.
type Row struct {
ID uint64 `gorm:"primaryKey"`
- TabID uint64 `gorm:"index:idx_row_tab_pos"`
- Position int `gorm:"index:idx_row_tab_pos"`
+ TabID uint64 `gorm:"uniqueIndex:idx_row_tab_pos"`
+ Position int `gorm:"uniqueIndex:idx_row_tab_pos"`
Height int
}
type Col struct {
ID uint64 `gorm:"primaryKey"`
- TabID uint64 `gorm:"index:idx_col_tab_pos"`
- Position int `gorm:"index:idx_col_tab_pos"`
+ TabID uint64 `gorm:"uniqueIndex:idx_col_tab_pos"`
+ Position int `gorm:"uniqueIndex:idx_col_tab_pos"`
Width int
}
diff --git a/internal/sheets/store/handle_grid.go b/internal/sheets/store/handle_grid.go
index fb982cb..1eab3fd 100644
--- a/internal/sheets/store/handle_grid.go
+++ b/internal/sheets/store/handle_grid.go
@@ -24,6 +24,19 @@ import (
// EnsureRow returns the id of the row at pos, creating it if this tab has
// none there yet. Idempotent: a second call for the same pos returns the
// same id without writing anything.
+//
+// (TabID, Position) is a uniqueIndex (models.go), not just a plain one:
+// within THIS handle, its own mutex plus rowByPos already make a
+// duplicate Create impossible. But a second process — another app
+// instance, a retried background job, a double-clicked import — builds
+// its own rowByPos and can lose exactly this race: both see no row at
+// pos, both Create. Without the constraint that succeeds twice, leaving
+// two Row records claiming one grid coordinate. With it, the loser's
+// Create fails on the unique violation, which is not treated as a
+// failure here: it means someone else already created the row this call
+// wanted, so this re-reads it by (TabID, pos) instead of propagating the
+// error — the same recovery shape internFormat uses below for
+// Format.Digest's own uniqueIndex.
func (h *Handle) EnsureRow(pos int) (uint64, error) {
h.mu.Lock()
defer h.mu.Unlock()
@@ -32,6 +45,12 @@ func (h *Handle) EnsureRow(pos int) (uint64, error) {
}
r := sheets.Row{TabID: h.tabID, Position: pos}
if err := h.db.Create(&r).Error; err != nil {
+ var existing sheets.Row
+ if err2 := h.db.Where("tab_id = ? AND position = ?", h.tabID, pos).First(&existing).Error; err2 == nil {
+ h.rowPos[existing.ID] = pos
+ h.rowByPos[pos] = existing.ID
+ return existing.ID, nil
+ }
return 0, fmt.Errorf("store: create row at position %d: %w", pos, err)
}
h.rowPos[r.ID] = pos
@@ -39,7 +58,8 @@ func (h *Handle) EnsureRow(pos int) (uint64, error) {
return r.ID, nil
}
-// EnsureCol is EnsureRow's column counterpart.
+// EnsureCol is EnsureRow's column counterpart, including the same
+// unique-violation-means-someone-else-won-the-race recovery.
func (h *Handle) EnsureCol(pos int) (uint64, error) {
h.mu.Lock()
defer h.mu.Unlock()
@@ -48,6 +68,12 @@ func (h *Handle) EnsureCol(pos int) (uint64, error) {
}
c := sheets.Col{TabID: h.tabID, Position: pos}
if err := h.db.Create(&c).Error; err != nil {
+ var existing sheets.Col
+ if err2 := h.db.Where("tab_id = ? AND position = ?", h.tabID, pos).First(&existing).Error; err2 == nil {
+ h.colPos[existing.ID] = pos
+ h.colByPos[pos] = existing.ID
+ return existing.ID, nil
+ }
return 0, fmt.Errorf("store: create col at position %d: %w", pos, err)
}
h.colPos[c.ID] = pos
diff --git a/internal/sheets/store/handle_grid_race_test.go b/internal/sheets/store/handle_grid_race_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d490535
--- /dev/null
+++ b/internal/sheets/store/handle_grid_race_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,99 @@
+package store_test
+
+import (
+ "testing"
+
+ "amadan.net/oficina/sheets/internal/sheets"
+ "amadan.net/oficina/sheets/internal/sheets/store"
+)
+
+// TestEnsureRowRetriesOnConcurrentCreate simulates the race a second
+// process can win: a Row lands at (tabID, pos) through a path this
+// handle's own rowByPos never observes (a raw db.Create standing in for
+// another process's Handle), so when THIS handle's EnsureRow reaches the
+// same position it must lose the Create to the uniqueIndex on
+// (TabID, Position) — models.go — and recover by reading the row back,
+// not by erroring or creating a second, colliding Row.
+func TestEnsureRowRetriesOnConcurrentCreate(t *testing.T) {
+ db, sealer, tabID := emptyTab(t)
+ h, err := store.Open(db, sealer, tabID)
+ if err != nil {
+ t.Fatalf("Open: %v", err)
+ }
+ defer h.Release()
+
+ const pos = 3
+ winner := sheets.Row{TabID: tabID, Position: pos}
+ if err := db.Create(&winner).Error; err != nil {
+ t.Fatalf("seed concurrent row: %v", err)
+ }
+
+ got, err := h.EnsureRow(pos)
+ if err != nil {
+ t.Fatalf("EnsureRow after a concurrent create: %v", err)
+ }
+ if got != winner.ID {
+ t.Fatalf("EnsureRow(%d) = %d, want the concurrently-created row's id %d", pos, got, winner.ID)
+ }
+
+ var count int64
+ if err := db.Model(&sheets.Row{}).Where("tab_id = ? AND position = ?", tabID, pos).Count(&count).Error; err != nil {
+ t.Fatalf("count rows at position: %v", err)
+ }
+ if count != 1 {
+ t.Fatalf("%d rows claim position %d, want exactly 1 — the retry created a duplicate", count, pos)
+ }
+
+ // A subsequent call must still be idempotent, now served from the
+ // handle's own (now-populated) rowByPos rather than hitting the db.
+ got2, err := h.EnsureRow(pos)
+ if err != nil || got2 != winner.ID {
+ t.Fatalf("EnsureRow(%d) again = %d, %v, want %d, nil", pos, got2, err, winner.ID)
+ }
+}
+
+// EnsureCol's counterpart to the above.
+func TestEnsureColRetriesOnConcurrentCreate(t *testing.T) {
+ db, sealer, tabID := emptyTab(t)
+ h, err := store.Open(db, sealer, tabID)
+ if err != nil {
+ t.Fatalf("Open: %v", err)
+ }
+ defer h.Release()
+
+ const pos = 3
+ winner := sheets.Col{TabID: tabID, Position: pos}
+ if err := db.Create(&winner).Error; err != nil {
+ t.Fatalf("seed concurrent col: %v", err)
+ }
+
+ got, err := h.EnsureCol(pos)
+ if err != nil {
+ t.Fatalf("EnsureCol after a concurrent create: %v", err)
+ }
+ if got != winner.ID {
+ t.Fatalf("EnsureCol(%d) = %d, want the concurrently-created col's id %d", pos, got, winner.ID)
+ }
+
+ var count int64
+ if err := db.Model(&sheets.Col{}).Where("tab_id = ? AND position = ?", tabID, pos).Count(&count).Error; err != nil {
+ t.Fatalf("count cols at position: %v", err)
+ }
+ if count != 1 {
+ t.Fatalf("%d cols claim position %d, want exactly 1 — the retry created a duplicate", count, pos)
+ }
+}
+
+// TestRowUniqueIndexRejectsDuplicatePosition pins the constraint itself,
+// independent of EnsureRow/EnsureCol's recovery: two Row records cannot
+// claim the same (TabID, Position) at the database level at all, which is
+// the guarantee the retry-by-read logic above depends on existing.
+func TestRowUniqueIndexRejectsDuplicatePosition(t *testing.T) {
+ db, _, tabID := emptyTab(t)
+ if err := db.Create(&sheets.Row{TabID: tabID, Position: 0}).Error; err != nil {
+ t.Fatalf("first create: %v", err)
+ }
+ if err := db.Create(&sheets.Row{TabID: tabID, Position: 0}).Error; err == nil {
+ t.Fatal("second Row at the same (TabID, Position) succeeded, want a uniqueIndex violation")
+ }
+}