feat: flush() never compacts — history maintenance moves to close() with bounded passes

flush() is durability work: it must cost what the current window's
deltas cost, never what the history backlog costs. Under adaptive
retention the byte budget derives from free memory, so bulk-load
pressure shrank the budget exactly at peak write volume and flush paid
actual reclaim inline — a production deployment measured single writes
blocked 25-191s behind reclaim-on-flush.

- flush() no longer calls autoCompactHistory(); close() is THE
  auto-compaction site (already ran there; now alone).
- Every auto pass is time-bounded (CLOSE_COMPACTION_BUDGET_MS = 5s):
  reclamation is oldest-first, so an early stop is a consistent prefix
  and the next pass resumes. Explicit compactHistory() gains an
  optional timeBudgetMs for caller-chosen maintenance windows.
- Documented trade stated where operators read: a long-lived writer
  that never closes accumulates history until its next explicit
  compactHistory() — predictable writes, explicit maintenance.

Pins: flush-never-reclaims + close-reclaims-durably (db-mvcc), bounded
pass stops-then-resumes as a consistent prefix (generationStore unit).
This commit is contained in:
David Snelling 2026-07-19 12:04:39 -07:00
parent a16567d626
commit 300d9f2a16
7 changed files with 100 additions and 31 deletions

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@ -176,6 +176,15 @@ export interface CompactHistoryOptions {
* of each surviving generation's serialized record set (`GenerationDelta.bytes`).
*/
maxBytes?: number
/**
* Stop reclaiming after this many milliseconds even if caps are still
* exceeded (8.9.0). Compaction is maintenance a bounded pass keeps
* `close()` (and any explicit maintenance window) from stalling on a large
* backlog; the next pass resumes where this one stopped (reclamation is
* oldest-first, so an early stop is always a consistent prefix). Unset =
* run to completion.
*/
timeBudgetMs?: number
}
/**