Each release chunk is a release inserted once: release_key the SHA-1 of
the identity, the owner group and the first article (deterministic; no
numbering under a group lock), identity_key the identity's SHA-1 bytes,
poster_id and group_set_id through catalog_refs (cached per process),
source as a code (weak-stem added), the name into release_texts. A
finished release's candidates are claimable at once; a provisional tail
release is finished by a later chunk of its key, a finished one sent again
is left alone. Gone: joins into earlier releases and across groups, key
numbering, the group lock, the fragment merger. Interim: chunks, counts
and samples keyed by ranges.block_id, a range without a block gets one.
Readers follow: search (posters and group_sets joined, words through
release_texts, posters by id, source by code), the par2 merger, the
sidecar folder, the judge's scraped rule, the spot inspector, the spotter,
the NZB service, releases:regroup, edge:bench. Tests insert fixtures
through tests/functional/helpers/releases.ts; the suites pass again.
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The rebuild branch starts over (REBUILD.md): the API starter kit, with
Postgres instead of SQLite (its own database, DB_SEARCH_PATH for a
shared one in development) and the #lib alias. Phase 1's code is
imported from the current app module by module.
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Spotnet (CONCEPT D29):
- Index free.pt fully and import spots with their descriptions, categories
and NZBs; a spot renames its release, since Spotnet names are more
trustworthy than names derived from subjects.
- Find passwords in spot descriptions too, and tell "needs a password we
have" from "needs a password we don't have".
Content inspection:
- List the contents of 7z (.7z.001) archives, SFV sets, nicovideo uploads
and other archive-like files; mark yEncBin .bin containers as encrypted.
- Take real names from yEnc headers for randomly named files, and merge
uploads that were split across posts.
Storage (D31, D32):
- Store segment lists zstd-compressed behind the FileStore accessor.
- group:backfill indexes older headers at low priority and pauses when
the NVMe or HDD part of the database gets too large.
Grouping (D35, D36):
- Lone header segments wait in staged_segments until a second segment of
their file arrives, which drops the per-article junk binaries.
- Counter grouping joins random-subject uploads by poster, [i/M] counter,
part count and day.
Search and maintenance (D33, D34):
- A trigram-indexed search_text column, smaller indexes, estimated stats.
- Passes that clean up nonsense names; weekly index maintenance; GC budgets
per kind.
- Web UI: grey out stale results while a search runs and cancel superseded
requests. Count only up to 1,000 matches for the page, which made filter
clicks take seconds (Newznab keeps the 10,000 cap).
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