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siftlode/backend/app/collation.py
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peter d928d50686 perf(db): each feed sort rides an index, and an ICU upgrade rebuilds the title ones
The views, duration and title sorts had no index: every page read the whole videos heap and kept a
top-N (prod 350 ms a page, 550-780 for title). Migration 0096 adds one per direction and, for title,
per reader collation, in the exact ORDER BY feedquery builds. Localdev prod copy: plain sorts
180-310 ms -> ~1 ms, page 20 3-5 ms, narrow filters unchanged. view_count/duration are only written
by the enrich, which already rewrites indexed columns, so no HOT update is lost.

The title indexes are the first on an ICU collation, and postgres:16-alpine floats: collation.heal_drift
rebuilds them (CONCURRENTLY) at startup when Postgres reports the ICU version moved.
test_feed_sort_indexes holds every videos sort to an index and checks the rebuild.
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"""Alphabetical order in the reader's language (E30 S3).
Why not the database default: the Postgres image is Alpine, and musl's `en_US.utf8` collation is BYTE
order — every accented initial sorted after "Z" ("Zorró < Életrajzi < Ötödik"), in every A→Z list the
server orders. Postgres ships the ICU collations on the same image (dev, test, prod alike), so a text
sort names one: Hungarian puts "Ö" after "O" and "Cs" after "Cu", English folds the accents in.
`collated` wraps an ORDER BY expression — and because a keyset cursor compares with the SAME expression
(`feedquery.sort_keys`), the cursor pages in the same order it sorted in. `sorted_words` orders a Python
list the same way through the database, so a list built in Python matches one built in SQL exactly.
The feed's title sorts ride indexes built in these collations (migration 0096), and an index keeps the
order of the ICU that built it. `postgres:16-alpine` is a floating tag: an image update can bring a newer
ICU, after which those indexes disagree with the comparisons a query makes (a keyset page skips or
repeats a title). `heal_drift` rebuilds them at startup once Postgres reports the version moved."""
from typing import Any
from sqlalchemy import Engine, SQLColumnExpression, column, func, select, text, values
from sqlalchemy.orm import Session
from sqlalchemy.sql.elements import ColumnElement
from sqlalchemy.types import String
from app import logs
from app.mailtext import normalize
log = logs.get_logger(__name__)
ICU: dict[str, str] = {"en": "en-x-icu", "hu": "hu-x-icu"}
def collation(lang: str | None) -> str:
"""The ICU collation for a UI language; anything unknown sorts as English."""
return ICU[normalize(lang)]
def collated(expr: SQLColumnExpression[Any], lang: str | None) -> ColumnElement[Any]:
"""`expr` compared in the reader's alphabet. Case-folded, so "apple" and "Apple" sit together."""
return func.lower(expr).collate(collation(lang))
def sorted_words(db: Session, words: list[str], lang: str | None) -> list[str]:
"""`words` in the reader's alphabetical order, by the same ICU collation as `collated`."""
if not words:
return []
w = values(column("w", String), name="words").data([(x,) for x in words])
return list(db.scalars(select(w.c.w).order_by(collated(w.c.w, lang), w.c.w)))
def heal_drift(engine: Engine) -> list[str]:
"""Rebuild every index on an ICU collation whose library version moved, then record the new version.
Returns the rebuilt indexes. CONCURRENTLY: the feed keeps reading while it runs."""
with engine.connect().execution_options(isolation_level="AUTOCOMMIT") as conn:
drifted = conn.execute(
text(
"SELECT oid, collname FROM pg_collation WHERE collname = ANY(:names) "
"AND collversion IS DISTINCT FROM pg_collation_actual_version(oid)"
),
{"names": list(ICU.values())},
).all()
if not drifted:
return []
indexes = list(
conn.execute(
text(
"SELECT DISTINCT d.objid::regclass::text FROM pg_depend d "
"JOIN pg_class c ON c.oid = d.objid AND c.relkind = 'i' "
"WHERE d.classid = 'pg_class'::regclass "
"AND d.refclassid = 'pg_collation'::regclass AND d.refobjid = ANY(:oids)"
),
{"oids": [row.oid for row in drifted]},
).scalars()
)
log.warning(
"ICU collation version changed (%s): rebuilding %d indexes",
", ".join(row.collname for row in drifted),
len(indexes),
)
for name in indexes:
conn.execute(text(f"REINDEX INDEX CONCURRENTLY {name}"))
for row in drifted:
conn.execute(text(f'ALTER COLLATION "{row.collname}" REFRESH VERSION'))
return indexes