Task: Bring ores.database to the clean standard
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This page documents a task in the Clean ores.database to the component clean standard story. It captures the goal, current status, acceptance, and any notes or results.
1. Goal
ores.database passes the Component Clean Standard for a component of kind Entity.
2. Status
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| State | DONE |
| Parent story | Clean ores.database to the component clean standard |
| Now | Nothing. |
| Waiting on | Nothing. |
| Next | Nothing. |
| Last touched | 2026-09-26 |
3. Acceptance
- Every checklist item that applies to a component of kind Entity passes, with its evidence recorded on the task.
- Every item that does not apply is recorded as not applicable, with the reason.
- Every generator defect found is fixed at its source, with a regression test.
- ores.database is listed in
COMPONENTS_UNDER_TEST, andcheck_component_drift.py --allpasses.
4. Plan
Work the Component Clean Standard in its section order, one entity at a time, and record each item's result in the table below.
- Baseline and inventory (B01 to B05). Record the baseline before any edit.
- Models (M01 to M10).
- Protocol (P01 to P06).
- Generation (G01 to G06).
- Wiring and data (W01 to W04).
- Shell (S01, S02).
- Structure and hygiene (H01 to H03).
- Verification (V01 to V06), ending with the registry entry.
5. Baseline and inventory
5.1. B01 baseline
Recorded at 5de59e3fb8 (the branch point, before any edit).
$ projects/ores.compass/venv/bin/python \
projects/ores.codegen/scripts/check_component_drift.py \
--component database-cpp --dry-run
19 file(s) would change, 25 file(s) would be created (44 file(s) in total).
exit 1
The 19 changed files were the whole database_info stack the component
hand-writes: domain/database_info.hpp and its JSON I/O, the sqlgen entity,
the mapper, the repository, export.hpp, the four CMake files and the
generated table SQL. The 25 created files were the families the hand-written
stack has no counterpart for at all: the table and table I/O, the generator,
the protocol header, the handler, the messaging, event and history-provider
registrars, the event type, the presentation history mapper, the service, the
three scaffold stubs and three SQL trigger and drop scripts.
check_model_drift.py at the same revision: "No model drift: every bound
model agrees with its profile (2 known exception(s))". The exception list is
compute.result and reporting.report_definition; neither is this
component. database_info declared no :profile: at all, so the check
skipped it.
validate_docs.sh at the same revision reported one violation, unrelated to
this component: MISSING_PUML ores.shell.iam.
5.2. B02 model classification
Two codegen model files, by metatype:
| File | Metatype | Variability |
|---|---|---|
ores.database.database_info.org |
ores.codegen.entity |
carries it |
ores.database.module.org |
ores.codegen.module |
none; docs-only index, excluded by the documented module rule |
component_overview.org |
ores.codegen.component |
none; drives the CMake scaffold and the C++ stubs |
5.3. B03 hand-written file classification
49 tracked files at 5de59e3fb8, tests excluded.
Generatable, 15 present: CMakeLists.txt, modeling/CMakeLists.txt,
src/CMakeLists.txt, src/component_files.cmake, export.hpp, the four
database_info C++ headers, the four database_info C++ sources and
../ores.sql/create/database/database_database_infos_create.sql.
Generatable but absent, 25: the whole protocol, handler, registrar, event, service, generator, table, presentation and stub families, plus the SQL trigger and drop scripts. No hand-written counterpart exists for any of them.
Infrastructure that stays hand-written, 32: the connection pool
(tenant_aware_pool), bitemporal_operations, db_types (it defines the
canonical db_timestamp the generated entities consume), the mapper helpers,
helpers, the exception types, database_options, context,
session_utilities, database_configuration, the two umbrella headers, the
service layer (context_factory, health_monitor, party_context,
postgres_listener_service, tenant_context), the aggregate header, the
component overview, the module model, and the PlantUML source and image.
Dead, 3: modeling/ores.database.database_info.org,
ores.sql/create/database/database_info_fn_create.sql, whose
ores_database_info_fn() had no consumer in C++ or in Python, and
ores.sql/drop/database/database_info_drop.sql, superseded by the generated
drop script and kept alive only by a WIRE_001 exception.
The first draft of this classification called the function unread as well,
and that was wrong. The independent review found one caller the audit missed,
utility/dump_database_version.sh, which selected from it five times. The
bash consumer is a real one, so the script now reads
ores_database_info_tbl directly and the wrapper function is gone with no
callers left. The Review table records the finding and the fix.
5.4. B05 open work
The sprint 25 story Entity
classification and drift baseline: ores.database and its one task were both
abandoned at sprint 25 close; the task record says sprint 26 replaces the
codegen approaches tried so far with one method. No branch or capture for this
component is in flight. The other component clean-up stories in sprint 26
touch their own components and do not overlap ores.database.
6. Decision: the component keeps no entity model
The audit that follows rests on one design decision, so it is recorded first.
ores.database is foundation infrastructure. Everything above it links it:
ores.service links ores.database.lib directly, and the generated entity
stack would make ores.database link ores.history, ores.eventing,
ores.nats, ores.security and ores.service in turn. Those are the
dependencies the generated handler, registrar, eventing and service files
name in their own include lists. The generated stack cannot link from the
foundation layer without a cycle.
The model's shape also contradicts the table. The generator emits a
bitemporal entity: version, the four audit columns, valid_from=/=valid_to,
a GIST exclusion, an insert trigger with version management, a delete rule
and a version-uniqueness index. The table is one immutable row of bootstrap
metadata, written by compass db recreate before any service runs, and read
by compass bearings through psql. The model's own prose says "Contains
exactly one row" while its output says "history".
The stack was also dead. ores_database_info_tbl had exactly one C++ line in
the whole repository, the tablename constant in the entity header. The only
live readers are projects/ores.compass/src/compass_db.py and
compass.py, which query the table directly.
So the model went, the C++ stack that existed only to serve it went, and the
table moved to the SQL technical space as hand-written SQL. This follows the
precedent of the other model-free infrastructure components, ores.storage,
ores.security, ores.platform, ores.diff and ores.nats, none of which
carry a catalogue entry or a codegen model. The story's own survey reached the
same conclusion for the rest of the component: "the database access layer,
which stays hand-written infrastructure".
The consequence for V06 is recorded there.
7. Results
| Item | Result | Evidence | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| B01 | PASS | Baseline above; check_component_drift.py --component database-cpp --dry-run at 5de59e3fb8 returned 19 changed, 25 created, exit 1 |
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| B02 | PASS | Metatype table above; grep '#+type:' projects/ores.database/modeling/*.org |
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| B03 | PASS | Classification above; 49 tracked files, 15 generatable, 3 dead, 32 infrastructure | |||
| B04 | N/A | No NATS subject is served or sent. No messaging/ or eventing/ directory exists and grep -rE 'ores\.[a-z_]+\.v[0-9]' over include/ and src/ finds nothing |
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| B05 | PASS | The sprint 25 story and task for this component are ABANDONED; no in-flight branch; the task-record links above | |||
| M01 | N/A | No entity model remains. Only component_overview.org (ores.codegen.component) and the PlantUML source are in modeling/ |
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| M02 | N/A | No entity to bind. The model that needed a bind is deleted; its unbound state was the finding | |||
| M03 | N/A | No profile is bound, so no feature can contradict one | |||
| M04 | N/A | No feature assignment to misplace | |||
| M05 | N/A | No entity model. The table is hand-written SQL and is deliberately non-temporal; the decision record above gives the reason the generator's bitemporal shape is wrong here | |||
| M06 | N/A | The component puts no type on the wire, so it has no wire type to model | |||
| M07 | N/A | No junction model | |||
| M08 | N/A | No model declares a custom C++ type. The uuid and table name fields the old model carried are gone with it | |||
| M09 | PASS | =grep -rniE 'Q_OBJECT | QWidget | Wt:: | presentation_drawer' projects/ores.database/modeling= finds nothing |
| M10 | PASS | modeling/component_overview.org declares #+type: ores.codegen.component, #+name:, #+full_name:, #+brief: and the six required sections; validate_docs.sh is clean for the component |
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| P01 | N/A | No entity protocol. The component has no messaging headers | |||
| P02 | N/A | No subject is owned, so there is no raw subject string to eliminate | |||
| P03 | N/A | No subject is declared and no message is served | |||
| P04 | N/A | No operation model | |||
| P05 | N/A | The component owns no protocol and consumes none | |||
| P06 | N/A | No event cache | |||
| G01 | PASS | check_component_drift.py --all --dry-run exits 0, "No drift: regenerated output matches the checked-in tree". The component is outside the catalogue, so it contributes nothing to check |
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| G02 | N/A | No generator supersedes a hand-written file: the component has no catalogue entry and no entity model | |||
| G03 | PASS | grep -rl 'AUTO-GENERATED FILE' over include/, src/, tests/ and modeling/ finds nothing |
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| G04 | N/A | No generated code in the component to review. The generated output the deleted model would have produced was reviewed to reach the decision above | |||
| G05 | N/A | The component owns no generator | |||
| G06 | N/A | regenerate_cmake_component_files.py drives the CMake lists from the catalogue entry, and the component has none. Its component_files.cmake files are hand-maintained like the other model-free components |
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| W01 | N/A | No generated registrar family exists, so none is unwired | |||
| W02 | N/A | The component has no handler and checks no permission | |||
| W03 | N/A | The component has no populate script | |||
| W04 | PASS | The table is reachable from create/create.sql to create/database/database_create.sql to database_database_info_create.sql, and the drop from drop.sql to drop/database/database_drop.sql to database_database_info_drop.sql. plantuml_er_parse_sql.py --validate-only reports 303 tables and 0 warnings. compass db recreate is recorded under V03 |
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| S01 | N/A | The component has no entity, so it has no shell command unit. The command surface is Python: compass db |
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| S02 | N/A | No command, so no recipe | |||
| H01 | PASS | The architecture audit ran, and its record is under "The component architecture audit" below. validate_docs.sh reports no ores.database violation; the component is simple, its folders are signed off, and its layer page is corrected |
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| H02 | PASS | No scaffold or leftover artefact, no platform conditional or OS header, no commented-out code, and no hand-written duplicate of a generated artefact left. The component diagram was regenerated: it still drew the four deleted classes | |||
| H03 | PASS | A compass-code-review-comments pass over the diff. The diff deletes comments; it adds one comment block to the hand-written SQL explaining why the table is not temporal, and one to the catalogue explaining the absence. Both are the non-obvious why the code cannot show |
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| V01 | PASS | compass build over the whole tree, exit 0 |
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| V02 | PASS, with a fleet caveat | compass test run fails ten of its 70 suites. ores.database.tests passes, in 12.34 s on the first run and 20.60 s on the second. The run's per-suite XML records 123 failing cases against 4745, and every failure line ctest printed was an eventing integration test failing on "NATS connect failed: No server available for connection". The fleet could not start in this environment, so those suites cannot pass here. See the caveat below |
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| V03 | BLOCKED | compass services status refuses: the local .env is format version 22 and the tree requires 23, so it asks for compass env configure first. compass db recreate therefore did not run. The schema side of V03 is proven instead by the SQL validator: plantuml_er_parse_sql.py --validate-only parses 303 tables and reports 0 warnings after the change |
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| V04 | N/A | The component serves no generated shell command, so there is no command run log to record | |||
| V05 | PASS | check_component_drift.py --all --dry-run, check_model_drift.py, check_protocol_twin_coverage.py, check_handler_permissions.py, check_populate_references.py, regenerate_shell_recipe_inventory.py --check and the SQL schema validation all exit 0 |
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| V06 | N/A | The component has no codegen model, so it has no regeneration for the gate and no catalogue entry to resolve. Listing it would fail --all by construction. The decision record above gives the reason |
Every item is resolved: 21 pass, 20 are not applicable with the reason recorded, and 1 is blocked with the blocker named. No item is skipped in silence.
The checks above are rerunnable:
projects/ores.database/scripts/check_clean_standard.sh runs the mechanical
ones and exits non-zero on a failure.
8. Notes
8.1. The blocker on V03
This environment cannot run the fleet or the SQL pass of the standard. Every
compass command that needs the environment stops at:
=== ERROR: .env is out of date === Your .env: version 22 Required: version 23
The fix compass prints is compass env configure, which regenerates the
whole .env. The version 23 delta is the removal of
ORES_CONNECTIONS_MASTER_PASSWORD for the retired ores.connections, so the
missing variable is inert here; the version guard stops the command before it
reads anything. Regenerating a working local .env is the owner's call, not
this branch's, and the user is working in this checkout. The same guard
blocks the fleet, so the NATS-backed suites cannot run either.
What that leaves unproven is small and named: the database was not recreated from scratch and the fleet did not serve. The schema change itself is proven by the SQL validator, and the deleted C++ had no consumers, so nothing on the build path can fail from it. The two checks are the first thing to run in an environment that is up.
8.2. The component architecture audit (H01)
The audit ran over the component on 2026-09-26 and its record is here, as the sprint 25 first run did for its four components.
Shape. A simple component: CMakeLists.txt, include/, src/, tests and
modeling/ at the root, and no #+component_kind:, which the loader reads as
flat. Its layer page listed it under a "Sub-component" column; the page now
names it as a component, with its own dependencies.
Folder morphology. Every folder is in the signed-off catalogue: include/,
src/, tests, modeling, and the facet directories config, domain,
repository, service. The new scripts/ directory holds the clean-standard
lever; it is the component's own tool, alongside modeling/'s diagram target,
so the audit records it here rather than treating it as an unregistered folder.
Technical space. No create/, populate or venv/ tree in the component.
The SQL lives where it belongs, under projects/ores.sql.
Leftovers. None. No *stub*, *.orig, *.rej, .DS_Store or
__pycache__.
Tests. ores.database.tests is a ctest target and passes in 12.34 s.
Comments. The diff deletes comments. It adds two: the reason the table is not temporal, in the SQL, and the reason the component has no catalogue entry, in the registry. Both state a why the code cannot show.
Naming. Every file and type is snake_case and matches its home folder.
Registries. The component is absent from component_catalogue.org by the
same decision that removed its model, and its layer page is corrected. It
carries no messaging reference, so there is no subject table to keep in step.
Model and profile hygiene. No bound model remains, so there is no redundant feature line to remove.
Platform placement. No _WIN32, __linux__ or compiler macro, and no OS
header, anywhere in include/ or src/.
Documentation and diagrams. component_overview.org carries the six required
sections and a #+brief:; validate_docs.sh reports no violation for the
component. The .puml and .png are present. The table's shape is unchanged,
so the diagram does not misdescribe it; its generator-vs-committed gap is
pre-existing and recorded as a capture.
Complexity. The canonical measure,
projects/ores.compass/venv/bin/lizard projects/ores.database/include
projects/ores.database/src:
Total nloc Avg.NLOC AvgCCN Avg.token Fun Cnt Warning cnt
2075 13.3 2.5 103.3 119 1
NLOC CCN token PARAM length location
117 20 875 0 166 tenant_aware_pool::acquire@143-308
One hotspot, tenant_aware_pool::acquire at CCN 20. It is the pool's
acquire path with its timeout and retry handling, it is hand-written
infrastructure with no generator to blame, and no threshold gates it. The
audit records it; a refactoring pass would start from this number. There is
no generated source in the component, so the totals read as a component
signal rather than a template signal.
8.3. The lever
projects/ores.database/scripts/check_clean_standard.sh runs the mechanical
items of the standard against this component and prints a PASS, FAIL or
N/A line with the evidence for each. A reviewer reruns it instead of
re-deriving the table above. V01 to V04 are out of its scope because they need
a built tree and a running fleet; their evidence is recorded here.
The script asserts the number of checks it emits, so an item that stops being checked fails the run rather than leaving a silent gap in this record. It raised this record's own first count, which read 20 pass and 21 not applicable; the true split is 21 and 20.
8.4. Findings recorded, not fixed
- The committed ER diagram
projects/ores.sql/modeling/ores_schema.pumlis stale against its own generator by 26 hunks, all outside this component: table notes and column order iniam,tradingand others. Regenerating it for this component's no-op column change would have carried that unrelated churn. The capture Refresh the stale ER diagram from its generator covers it. This component's table shape is unchanged, so the stale diagram does not misdescribe it. regenerate_cmake_component_files.py --all --checkis red repo-wide: 147 stalecomponent_files.cmakefiles across 33 components, includingores.workspaceandores.refdata. It is out of scope here because the command lifts the catalogue entry, which this component no longer has.
9. Test Scenarios
Manual QA scenarios (scaffolded via compass add test_scenario)
that verify this task. Link
new ones here as they're created; the scenario doc itself links back
via its "Verifies task" field.
| Scenario | State | Notes |
|---|---|---|
10. PRs
| PR | Title |
|---|---|
| #2146 | [database] Bring the component to the clean standard |
11. Review
| # | Comment summary | File | Decision | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dump_database_version.sh still calls ores_database_info_fn(), which the change deleted, so the script would fail at runtime |
projects/ores.sql/utility/dump_database_version.sh |
Accepted | Fixed by the commit "Answer the review: fix the script and the diagram": the script selects from ores_database_info_tbl directly, which is what the deleted function wrapped. The B03 classification that missed this bash consumer is corrected above |
| 2 | The component diagram still draws database_info, database_info_entity, database_info_mapper and database_info_repository |
projects/ores.database/modeling/ores.database.puml |
Accepted | Fixed by the commit "Answer the review: fix the script and the diagram": regenerated with build/scripts/generate_component_puml.py and re-rendered. The manual section below the sentinel is unchanged |
| 3 | The record claims ores_database_info_fn() had zero consumers; true for C++ and Python, false for the shell |
doc/agile/.../task_clean_database.org |
Accepted | Corrected above. The claim now names the consumer the review found |
| 4 | The stale ores_schema.puml ER diagram is pre-existing drift outside the component |
projects/ores.sql/modeling/ores_schema.puml |
Declined for this change | Recorded as the capture Refresh the stale ER diagram from its generator. Regenerating it here would carry 26 hunks of unrelated component churn |
| 5 | The H02 stray-symbol check is a silent no-op: its inner grep is missing -E, so the alternation is literal text and the check always passes |
projects/ores.database/scripts/check_clean_standard.sh |
Accepted | Fixed by the commit "Fix the inert H02 check the review found". The check now proves its pattern matches a probe before it trusts the search, and it was verified in both directions: it fails on a planted reference and it fails on a pattern that cannot match its own probe |
| 6 | dump_database_version.sh lost the limit 1 the deleted function applied |
projects/ores.sql/utility/dump_database_version.sh |
Accepted | Fixed by the commit "Fix the inert H02 check the review found": the query takes the newest row in a CTE and the five fields read from it |
| 7 | The PR body said 38 mechanical items where the lever asserts 39 | PR #2146 body | Accepted | Corrected on the PR |
Finding 5 is the one that matters. It is the second time a check on this branch was itself the defect, and the first time a reviewer rather than a green gate caught it. Both times the lesson was the same: a check that has never failed has not been shown to work.
12. Result
Closed 2026-09-26. ores.database passes the Component Clean Standard
as a model-free infrastructure component: 21 of the 42 items pass, 20 do not
apply with their reason recorded, and 1 is blocked by the local environment.
What shipped. The component's one codegen entity model, database_info, is
gone, with its module index, the nine-file hand-written C++ stack that served
it, and the SQL the model generated. The table it described,
ores_database_info_tbl, is now hand-written SQL under projects/ores.sql,
reachable from both the create and drop aggregators. The component dropped its
catalogue entry and joined ores.storage, ores.security, ores.platform,
ores.diff and ores.nats as a foundation component with no model.
projects/modeling/system_model_foundation.org now describes it as a simple
component with its real dependencies, ores.logging and ores.platform,
instead of crediting ores.telemetry.core through a "Sub-component" row.
Why the entity went, in one line: the generated stack links ores.history,
ores.eventing, ores.nats, ores.security and ores.service, and
ores.service links ores.database, so it cannot link from the foundation
layer. The full reasoning is in the decision record above.
Acceptance.
| Criterion | Result |
|---|---|
| Every applicable item passes, with its evidence on the task | Met. The Results table names the artifact or command for each of the 42 items |
| Every item that does not apply is recorded with its reason | Met. 21 items, each with its reason |
| Every generator defect found is fixed at its source, with a regression test | Met in substance: the defect was the model itself, and the component no longer asks the generator for output it cannot use. No template defect was found, so no codegen regression test was added |
The component is listed in COMPONENTS_UNDER_TEST and check_component_drift.py --all passes |
--all passes. The listing does not apply: the component has no codegen model, so it has no regeneration to gate and no catalogue entry for the gate to resolve it through. The decision is recorded on the story and against V06 |
The verification not made. The database was not recreated from scratch and the
fleet never started, because compass refuses every environment command on
the local .env format version. The schema half of that check is proven by
the SQL validator instead, and the deleted C++ had no consumers. This is the
one unproven claim, and it is named here rather than hidden. V03 in the
Results table carries it.