A batch of a dense range (over ~5,400 files) exceeded Postgres' 65,535
bind parameters per statement, so its post failed with a 500 until the
range was given up.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
About 5% of seeded headers are fragments. They went through staging,
where they waited 30 minutes for parts that were never coming (the
neighbouring range is worked on by another node, often hours later) and
expired: the staging table grew to 22 GB and the NVMe part of the database
reached its 60 GB limit, which stopped leasing and the backfill. Files cut
by a range edge can still be completed by the neighbouring range, so
fragments within 50k articles of an edge go straight into binaries and
parts; the rest, files with articles missing for good, are dropped.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- seed_nodes (hashed bearer tokens) and seed_ranges (planned ranges with
lease, resume point and counts); migration …140.
- SeedOrchestrator: lease (oldest plan first, FOR UPDATE SKIP LOCKED; a
lease without a batch for 15 min passes to the next node and resumes at
next_id), batch (stores files and fragments, moves next_id), finish,
release, plan (from below live indexing / the backfill / earlier plans
down to N days back; takes over the group's backfill), status.
- Seed API under /api/v1/seed (lease, ranges/:id/batches|done|release,
status) behind a node-token middleware; JSON bodies up to 64 MB after
gzip.
- seed:node runs a node: no database or Redis, outgoing HTTPS only, N
connections, gzip batches, retries for network errors and 5xx, drops a
range on 409, gives its ranges back on SIGTERM. seed-node/ has a compose
file that builds the image from this repository.
- seed:token, seed:plan, seed:status for the operator. Header parsing moved
to lib/ingest and the range loop to lib/seed/runner, shared by seed:range
and seed:node.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A seeding node fetches a range over one NNTP connection, parses headers
with the live rules, groups them into files in memory (lib/aggregate) and
stores per complete file its release, the file and a completed binary
(SeedService), instead of one parts row per article. What doesn't complete
within the window goes through the regular ingest path as fragments.
`--dry-run` only fetches and aggregates, to measure a node.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
