feat(8.0): Model-B per-write generation-stamping + adaptive retention knob

Every write — transact() AND single-op add/update/remove/relate — is now its
own immutable generation (Model-B), so a now() pin always freezes and
asOf/since/diff/history/transactionLog reflect single-ops exactly like
transacts. Closes the Model-A hole where pins did not freeze against single-op
writes.

Generation-stamping:
- GenerationStore.commitSingleOp: a one-operation commitTransaction with
  deferred durability. Wired into add/update/remove/relate/updateRelation/
  unrelate + removeMany (the *Many and VFS paths delegate to these).
- Async group-commit (flushPendingSingleOps): the live write is acknowledged
  immediately; its before-image is buffered in an in-memory pending tier that
  resolveAt/chains/changedBetween/tx-log read like on-disk generations, so the
  synchronous now() freezes with no forced flush. One fsync per window
  (triggers: size / 50ms timer / flush / close / transact / compactHistory).
- Crash recovery is drop-without-restore for group-commit generations (marked
  groupCommit:true): a crash mid-flush discards the partial generation and
  never restores its before-images, which would otherwise revert the
  already-acknowledged live write.
- Init-time infrastructure (the VFS root) is the un-versioned generation-0
  baseline: a fresh brain reports generation()===0 and an empty
  transactionLog(); the first user write is generation 1.
- Historical find()/related() overlay bound is the full reserved watermark
  (generation()), so un-flushed single-op writes are overlaid too.

Retention knob:
- config `history` -> `retention`: 'all' | 'adaptive' |
  { maxGenerations?, maxAge?, maxBytes?, budgetBytes?, autoCompact? }; unset ->
  adaptive (disk/RAM pressure, zero-config). CompactHistoryOptions floors ->
  caps (retainGenerations->maxGenerations, retainMs->maxAge, +maxBytes):
  reclaim oldest-unpinned while ANY cap is exceeded; pins always exempt.
- brain.setRetentionBudget(bytes) drives the adaptive byte budget at runtime
  (a coordinator's fair-share input). Per-generation bytes recorded in each
  delta enable historyBytes() introspection without a storage size API.

Tests: per-write generation resolution, pin freeze vs add/update/remove,
drop-without-restore corruption-trap (fault injector), clean-reopen replay,
maxBytes/maxAge/no-cap reclamation, retention-then-reopen. 107 db/generation/
temporal tests green, tsc clean. Docs (ADR-001, consistency-model, snapshots
guide, api reference, RELEASES) updated to per-write granularity + retention.
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David Snelling 2026-06-22 15:19:58 -07:00
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@ -212,10 +212,12 @@ Historical records cost disk space, so retention is explicit:
- Every live `Db` holds a refcounted **pin**; a record-set is never
reclaimed while any pin could need it — pinned reads stay correct across
compaction, always.
- `brain.compactHistory({ retainGenerations?, retainMs? })` reclaims
everything no retention rule and no pin protects, and records the
**horizon**`asOf()` below it throws `GenerationCompactedError`,
explicitly, never partial data.
- The **`retention`** knob governs auto-compaction (on every `flush()`/
`close()`): unset → ADAPTIVE (disk/RAM-pressure, zero-config) · `'all'`
unbounded · `{ maxGenerations?, maxAge?, maxBytes? }` → explicit caps.
`brain.compactHistory({ maxGenerations?, maxAge?, maxBytes? })` reclaims
manually on the same caps, and records the **horizon**`asOf()` below it
throws `GenerationCompactedError`, explicitly, never partial data.
- To keep a state readable forever, `persist()` it first: snapshots are
self-contained and unaffected by compaction of the source store.
@ -357,9 +359,13 @@ Stated plainly, so nothing surprises you in production:
([multi-process model](./multi-process.md)). Transactions are atomic
within one writer process — there is no distributed or cross-process
transaction coordination.
- **History granularity.** Only `transact()` batches produce historical
records; single-operation writes between commits stay visible through
earlier pins (see above).
- **History granularity.** Every write is its own immutable generation —
`transact()` batches AND single-operation `add`/`update`/`remove`/`relate`.
A pin always freezes against later writes, and every write is addressable
via `asOf()`. (`transact()` groups several operations into ONE atomic
generation; durability of single-op history is batched via async
group-commit — a hard crash can lose only the last un-flushed window's
*history*, never live data.)
- **Compacted history is gone.** `asOf()` below the compaction horizon
fails explicitly; persist what you must keep.
- **Counter persistence is coalesced for single-operation writes.** Durable