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docs(migration): make the Protect-to-Stack conversion guide actionable - #1620
Make the PostgreSQL migration customers copy identical to the executable conversion we test. The previous handwritten snippet failed strict TypeScript and compared Stack's plaintext with Stack's own interpretation, so it could miss a consistently incorrect read.
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Generate the complete standalone conversion from e2e/migration-guide/postgres-conversion.ts; a default-suite test compiles and executes the pasted code and rejects source drift.
Keep Protect in a separate pinned migration tool until verification completes. Retain its source plaintexts, batch equality queries and target decryption, and compare Stack results independently before commit.
Validate bulk item identities, counts and failures, row identities and retained encrypted bytes. Reuse the same schema/client factory in the example and integration tests.
Resolve PostgreSQL types by OID and primary-key attributes through catalogs; qualify public tables and stabilize rollback index inspection with a transaction-local search path.
Add live regressions that run the actual guide script and cover dropped physical columns, restricted search paths and missing primary keys.
Define the credentials snippet's environment source and pin executable/return links to immutable code revision 21631ecf68fd5356fdd4c2631550a46931123dc4. Keep DynamoDB evidence scoped to in-memory persistence.
Verification
Current source head: a6d33c9e8f7acc65158553bbce5b7b6ff62165a2; guide SHA-256: 6e730d48fdba975c55273f3c9d58f27c21928babe8607c862a6b0eca996bc242.
Red-first checks reproduced strict snippet diagnostics, acceptance of consistently wrong Stack plaintext, repeated decryption, mutable links and undeclared credentials variables. Final focused suite: 74 tests passed.
E2E typecheck, generator check and whitespace check pass. Repository Biome gate passes with warnings/information outside the clean scoped check.
Independently copied the actual snippet and examples outside the workspace: strict NodeNext TypeScript passes against published Protect 10.2.1, Stack 1.2.1 and postgres 3.4.9 (dependency declaration checking skipped); native conversion-module import passes.
Independent behavioral review found no remaining blocker after the rollback search-path repair. Every pinned path exists, and the linked canonical conversion matches the generated source.
Current-head live E2E passed: 27/27 combined PG17 tests, including 14 guide cases, plus 14/14 guide cases on PG18. Both versions executed the standalone pasted script, dropped-predecessor fixture, both restricted search paths and missing-primary-key refusal. Protect-DynamoDB has 40 passes; standard E2E has 125 passes and 16 authentication-gated skips. All six Test JS jobs passed on this head without retry. Previous head e7d6a02 failed the PG17 fixture twice; the fixture-only follow-up qualified its DDL and asserted setup before migration. Historical namespace state was not retained, so its exact cause is not claimed as proven.
Earlier guide-only model runs used guide hash 46106cc0… and harness 5261d3a5c…. They remain historical evidence and do not validate this changed guide. Earlier source CI at 0ecabc3f… is likewise baseline evidence only.
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Start with the canonical conversion and the test that executes the pasted script. This remains a small, fixed-schema, managed-endpoint example requiring a rehearsed maintenance window; it is not a general backfill or recovery service. The new application removes Protect, while the separate migration tool retains it for independent source validation. Docs publication and customer-specific staging/cutover/rollback rehearsal remain outstanding.
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Documentation
Updated the Protect-to-Stack migration guide with credential configuration examples for DynamoDB and PostgreSQL.
Added a standalone PostgreSQL conversion example with supported-table requirements, validation and verification steps, and rerun guidance.
Clarified that conversion failures roll back transactional changes and that source columns are retained.
Updated migration example links and instructions for keeping the guide’s conversion snippet synchronized.
Added guidance on when Protect can be removed from the migration tool and new application.
The cited compatibility assertion compares stored item objects in memory. Name that scope beside the byte-preservation claim so readers do not infer an AWS persistence guarantee. Refs #1604.
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The migration guide now includes Stack credential instructions and a standalone PostgreSQL conversion script. The PostgreSQL example uses a shared conversion module. New tests cover conversion behavior, failure cases, database conditions, and synchronization between the guide and canonical script.
Changes: Protect-to-Stack migration guide and conversion
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Guide instructions and credentials docs/migration/protect-dynamodb-to-stack.md, e2e/migration-guide/README.md
The guide updates credential instructions and example links. It describes running the PostgreSQL conversion as a one-off script and includes the script, its validation and transaction steps, and rerun guidance. The README adds snippet synchronization instructions and migration-tool guidance.
Conversion setup and source validation e2e/migration-guide/postgres-conversion.ts, e2e/migration-guide/legacy.ts
The conversion module constructs clients and schemas, checks SDK and bulk results, validates PostgreSQL dependencies and source data, and verifies plaintext types and equality mappings. legacy.ts re-exports shared helpers.
V3 conversion and execution e2e/migration-guide/postgres-conversion.ts
The conversion adds v3 columns and indexes, rebuilds envelopes while retaining source columns, and verifies converted rows before commit. It analyzes the table after the transaction and supports direct execution with connection cleanup.
Example integration and validation e2e/migration-guide/postgres.ts, e2e/tests/protect-guide-script.e2e.test.ts, e2e/tests/protect-postgres-upgrade.e2e.test.ts, scripts/sync-migration-guide.mjs
The example uses the shared conversion module and public-qualified table references. Tests cover success and failure outcomes, dropped leading columns, restricted search_path values, missing primary keys, guide compilation, snippet synchronization, and pinned links.
cipherstash/stack#1519: This PR introduced the migration guide, PostgreSQL example, and upgrade test that this change updates.
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The title "docs(migration): make the Protect-to-Stack conversion guide actionable" matches the main change. The PR makes the PostgreSQL Protect-to-Stack migration guide match the tested conversion script, adds a standalone conversion script to the guide, and adds e2e tests that compile and run the guide snippets. The title is concise, specific to the primary change, and follows a conventional commit style.
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The first real guide-only Runs (Claude Sonnet, isolated Migration Harness) found two gaps on the PostgreSQL path. Step 3 handed the conversion to e2e/migration-guide/postgres.ts, which a reader of the guide alone does not have, so the agent rebuilt it from the prose list. The guide never showed how to pass credentials to Encryption explicitly, so the agent read the package typings.
Step 3 now carries the core of the tested conversion script and says to run it as a one-off script in the maintenance window, not at application startup (the agent had put DDL in createApp). Both step 2s show Encryption's `config` with the four credential fields. Links into this repository are now absolute GitHub URLs, so they resolve from the published guide.
Refs #1603
Refs #1604
…onversion script
The in-guide conversion script decrypted the source with a Protect 10.2.1 client, but PostgreSQL step 2 had just uninstalled Protect. A real Claude Migrator recorded this as actionable friction and decrypted the v2 envelopes with Stack instead, a path no suite tested.
A new credentialed test in protect-postgres-upgrade proves Stack 1.x decrypts every Protect-written v2 envelope read from the eql_v2_encrypted columns to the same plaintext as Protect. The guide's script now decrypts the source with client.decrypt in both the validate and verify steps and cites that test. The executable example still cross-checks with the preserved Protect build, which the guide says.
Refs #1603
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docs(e2e): qualify in-memory migration evidence
docs(migration): make the Protect-to-Stack conversion guide actionable
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Guide-only migration exposed an omitted safety check that required opening the example. Inline the tested initial-conversion checks and describe the existing refusal on a repeated conversion so the one-off procedure is self-contained without introducing new migration behavior.
Refs #1540, #1605.
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Pin the customer page to the source revision that includes dependency checks directly and explains safe refusal on repeated conversion. Keep the added customer rehearsal checklist separate from the verified procedure.
Refs cipherstash/stack#1620.
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Review comments at @docs/migration/protect-dynamodb-to-stack.md:
- Line 319: Add installation of the `postgres` driver to PostgreSQL step 2,
alongside the existing Stack installation, so the conversion script can resolve
its `postgres` import.
- Around line 73-76: Update the credential values in the config example to read
from process.env rather than the undeclared env object. Apply this to
workspaceCrn, clientId, clientKey, and accessKey, preserving the existing CS_*
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Reviewed 0ecabc3 · posted from Claude Code (scheduled routine) · claude-opus-5-5 · effort medium
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Skills: code-review, rust-security (no Rust in the diff), review-cross-check
Findings (6): 6 minor — 6 inline.
Findings were checked at head with review-cross-check; there was no earlier review feedback to match against. Two findings that need an author decision were left out: whether step 6's Stack-vs-Stack plaintext check should be reworded, since only the hm recomputation is independent and only for indexed columns; and whether the blob/main example links should be pinned to a commit. Two were refuted (a misleading term-mismatch error message, and duplicated schemas in the new test).
5. Create functional equality indexes on `eql_v3.eq_term(email_v3)` and `eql_v3.eq_term(age_v3)`.
6. Read and decrypt the target values with Stack, compare plaintext and retained bytes against the source, then commit. A failed check rolls back the added columns and indexes too.
The script below is the core of the tested [executable migration](https://github.com/cipherstash/stack/blob/main/e2e/migration-guide/postgres.ts), for the `customers` table above. `client` and `customers` are the Stack client and schema from step 2. The script decrypts the source v2 envelopes with Stack's `client.decrypt`, which accepts Protect-written v2 payloads, so no Protect client is needed after step 2 removed it (`postgres-upgrade › decrypts every Protect-written v2 source envelope with Stack to the same plaintext as Protect`). The executable example additionally cross-checks each source value with the preserved Protect build; keeping that old build for rollback (step 1) is unchanged. The dependency preflight below matches the executable example's initial-migration checks: it refuses extra constraints, secondary indexes, views, triggers, policies and inheritance before changing data or adding columns. PostgreSQL 18 records the primary key column's NOT NULL constraint in `pg_constraint`; the check permits that constraint while still refusing NOT NULL on the encrypted source columns.
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minor The executable example never decrypts a v2 source with Stack: postgres.ts calls legacy.decrypt for validation (:217) and verification (:279) and calls stack.decrypt only on v3 payloads. So "additionally cross-checks" is wrong, and the Stack-only conversion in this guide has never run as a migration. Its only evidence is the separate decrypt test. Reword this to say Protect is used instead of Stack, or have postgres.ts decrypt with stack.decrypt and cross-check against legacy.decrypt.
The script below is the core of the tested [executable migration](https://github.com/cipherstash/stack/blob/main/e2e/migration-guide/postgres.ts), for the `customers` table above. `client` and `customers` are the Stack client and schema from step 2. The script decrypts the source v2 envelopes with Stack's `client.decrypt`, which accepts Protect-written v2 payloads, so no Protect client is needed after step 2 removed it (`postgres-upgrade › decrypts every Protect-written v2 source envelope with Stack to the same plaintext as Protect`). The executable example additionally cross-checks each source value with the preserved Protect build; keeping that old build for rollback (step 1) is unchanged. The dependency preflight below matches the executable example's initial-migration checks: it refuses extra constraints, secondary indexes, views, triggers, policies and inheritance before changing data or adding columns. PostgreSQL 18 records the primary key column's NOT NULL constraint in `pg_constraint`; the check permits that constraint while still refusing NOT NULL on the encrypted source columns.
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minor About 95 lines of migration code are copied here with no test linking them to e2e/migration-guide/postgres.ts. protect-upgrade-guide.e2e.test.ts checks only citations, versions and npm uninstall lines. Any later change to the example's preflight, validation or envelope rebuild passes CI while this copy goes stale. Add a credential-free test that extracts this block and compares its preflight SQL and validation predicate with postgres.ts, or run the extracted snippet in protect-postgres-upgrade.
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minor The snippet does not type-check under strict (reproduced with tsc and postgres@3.4.9): function ok(result, step) gives TS7006 on both parameters, and postgres(process.env.DATABASE_URL) gives TS2769 because string | undefined fits neither overload. term?.hm (line 376) also reads from encryptQuery's union result without narrowing it. Guard the URL, type ok<T>(result: { data?: T; failure?: { message: string } }, step: string): T, and narrow term the way postgres.ts:244-248 does.
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minor The source is decrypted three times per value, one key-service call at a time, while the ACCESS EXCLUSIVE lock is held: step 2 (line 369), then the target and source again here. The before decrypt repeats line 369's result. Keep the step-2 plaintexts and compare against them, and use bulkDecrypt for the source and target reads, so the lock is held for less time.
**Rerunning the conversion:** after a successful commit, the table includes the three `_v3` columns. Running this conversion again fails the exact source-shape check before any DDL or data changes; the transaction rolls back without altering the completed migration. It is a one-off conversion, not an idempotent startup hook. Do not treat the mere presence of target columns as proof that a migration completed, and do not drop them to force a rerun. If a transaction failed, diagnose the failure and confirm its changes rolled back before deciding whether to retry. If the client lost the connection around commit, inspect and verify the database state first. Continue with verification and cutover after a successful migration.
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minor No test covers this rerun claim, and unlike the guide's other behaviour claims it cites no postgres-upgrade › test. Every test seeds a fresh table and calls migrate() once, and nothing expects 'Unsupported columns', so the shape check has no coverage at all. Add a test that runs migrate() twice, expects the second run to reject with the table unchanged, and cite it here.
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minorenv is not defined anywhere in the guide, so pasting this snippet gives ReferenceError: env is not defined. users also refers to the Stack schema from step 3 (line 120), not yet defined here; the only earlier users (line 108) is the Protect csTable. Use process.env.CS_* or say env is the app's config source, and note which schema users is.
A handwritten guide copy could compile incorrectly and validate Stack against itself while the executable example passed. Generate the standalone script from one typed module, retain Protect source plaintexts for independent verification, and exercise the pasted script in live tests. Resolve catalog identities without physical-column or search-path assumptions and batch SDK work under the lock.
Refs #1604, #1540
…sion
Freeze executable and return links at the commit containing the shared conversion so later main changes cannot silently alter the pinned Stack 1.2.1 instructions. Every referenced path was verified and the linked conversion matches the generated snippet.
Refs #1604, #1540
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Write the new synchronization script in TypeScript.
This new .mjs script conflicts with the repository’s TypeScript policy. Use a TypeScript runner compatible with the declared Node range, and update the documented command and test invocation with the script. Based on learnings, SECURITY.md says: “Use TypeScript for all new code.”
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- Around line 120-127: Move the fault-matrix checks that call executeConversion
with mocked SDK clients and SQL out of the E2E suite into a unit suite. Keep
real database-backed guide execution in the E2E suite, and preserve the mocked
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Move the mocked conversion checks to a unit suite.
executeConversion replaces both SDK clients and SQL with fakes. The fault-matrix tests therefore do not meet the E2E suite’s test contract. Keep the real database-backed guide execution in E2E, and move these mocked checks to a unit suite. As per coding guidelines: “Mock nothing. If you find yourself wanting to mock, the test belongs in a unit suite.”
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Review comment at @e2e/tests/protect-guide-script.e2e.test.ts around lines 120 - 127:
Move the fault-matrix checks that call executeConversion with mocked SDK clients and SQL out of the E2E suite into a unit suite. Keep real database-backed guide execution in the E2E suite, and preserve the mocked checks’ existing coverage in the unit suite.
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The conversion explicitly targets public, but the regression fixture created and renamed an unqualified replacement. Bind its DDL to the same relation and assert both table presence and pk physical position before testing conversion, so a setup failure cannot masquerade as a migration failure.
Refs #1604, #1540
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Summary
Make the PostgreSQL migration customers copy identical to the executable conversion we test. The previous handwritten snippet failed strict TypeScript and compared Stack's plaintext with Stack's own interpretation, so it could miss a consistently incorrect read.
Changes
e2e/migration-guide/postgres-conversion.ts; a default-suite test compiles and executes the pasted code and rejects source drift.21631ecf68fd5356fdd4c2631550a46931123dc4. Keep DynamoDB evidence scoped to in-memory persistence.Verification
a6d33c9e8f7acc65158553bbce5b7b6ff62165a2; guide SHA-256:6e730d48fdba975c55273f3c9d58f27c21928babe8607c862a6b0eca996bc242.46106cc0…and harness5261d3a5c…. They remain historical evidence and do not validate this changed guide. Earlier source CI at0ecabc3f…is likewise baseline evidence only.Related
Refs #1604, #1603, #1540. Customer publication draft: cipherstash/docs#118.
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Start with the canonical conversion and the test that executes the pasted script. This remains a small, fixed-schema, managed-endpoint example requiring a rehearsed maintenance window; it is not a general backfill or recovery service. The new application removes Protect, while the separate migration tool retains it for independent source validation. Docs publication and customer-specific staging/cutover/rollback rehearsal remain outstanding.
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