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perf(server): Load earlier turns is 2.0x faster for history written after this change (median 503 -> 247 ms) - #33961
Clicking Load earlier turns on a long thread is slow when the thread has large tool outputs. On a seeded 2,038-row thread with 61.0 MB of tool payloads, the click took a median of 503 ms locally and 911 ms on a shaped 5 Mbps / 120 ms link. Almost all of that time is one SQL statement.
Change
This change has three costs, so they come first. First, only history written after this change gets faster. Existing rows keep the old cost until something rewrites them, so the old history a user already has sees no gain. Second, completed tool rows cost about 2.3 to 2.6 times more to write in a re-apply benchmark, roughly +4 ms per MB of completed tool payload. That also slows projection rebuild and replay. Third, it adds a schema migration.
Cause: every history page read calls readTimelineIndex in apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProjectionStore.ts. That function decides which rows keep persistent inline output (html_render, MCP app output, viewed images, delegate_task) by running four LIKE patterns over every tool payload in the thread, on every read.
Now:
Migration 081 adds a nullable persistent_output INTEGER column to orchestration_v2_projection_turn_items. It is an instant ALTER TABLE ... ADD COLUMN, with no table rewrite and no backfill.
The turn-item upsert (the one write path, also used by rebuild and replay) stores the flag only when status = 'completed', which is the only state where grouping reads it. It evaluates the same four predicates through the same SQL fragment, so the semantics match exactly, including LIKE's case-insensitivity and _ wildcard. Any other status stores NULL, and every update rewrites the column.
The upsert now uses INSERT ... SELECT instead of VALUES, so the payload is bound once and the predicate can read it. It needs WHERE true because SQLite's upsert grammar requires a WHERE clause on the SELECT, to keep ON CONFLICT from being parsed as a join constraint.
readTimelineIndex reads COALESCE(item.persistent_output, <the same four predicates>), so NULL (legacy or unfinished) rows fall back to today's predicate and give the same answer.
Why a fallback and not a backfill: a backfill would have to read and rewrite every completed tool payload, either in one long startup transaction or through new background machinery. The fallback is one column and one COALESCE.
Not done:
The thread-open window's use of the predicate is unchanged. It only scans the tail of the thread.
Downgrade gap: an older build can still open the migrated database. But if an older build rewrites the payload of a row this build already flagged, the flag can go stale.
The change is server-only. Web, desktop, and mobile read the same history page, and the contracts don't change.
Scope and approval
Approval is outstanding. I searched upstream issues and discussions once and found no triaged issue or approved Ideas discussion for this, and no exception in CONTRIBUTING.md fits a schema change.
The branch is based on 20c3dd3689; upstream main is 4 commits ahead.
Verification
Measured against built servers (upstream 20c3dd3689 vs this branch), interleaved A B A B, on one loaded Windows 11 machine running Node 26.13. "New data" means every row of the thread was rewritten through the patched ProjectionStore.apply. "Old data" means rows written before the change, so their flag is NULL.
SQL stage alone (the readTimelineIndex statement), 7 interleaved samples, median ms
Data
Rows
Upstream
This branch
Speedup
New
2,038
228.4
12.1
18.9x
New
25,038
677.0
120.8
5.6x
Old
2,038
286.9
289.9
0.99x
Old
25,038
697.8
691.9
1.01x
The 25,038-row fixture extends the real thread with synthetic tool rows modeled on its 1 to 8 KiB rows. Their flags come from the same expression the upsert uses, not from the write path itself.
Write cost: a regression. Each sample is the median of 3 re-applies of the thread's rows through ProjectionStore.apply in one transaction, 6 runs per build, in ms.
Rows re-applied
Upstream samples
Median
This branch samples
Median
Cost
364 tool rows (61.0 MB)
134.4, 171.7, 165.9, 158.2, 214.7, 200.1
171.7
371.6, 474.4, 506, 441.8, 433.3, 372.9
441.8
2.57x slower
All 2,038 rows (67.9 MB)
272.7, 280, 359.6, 273.1, 258.8, 239.4
273.1
655.6, 716.1, 523.4, 628.1, 510.7, 506.6
628.1
2.30x slower
In-progress updates skip the predicate, but I did not measure a real turn-ingest stream. How often completed rows are re-upserted during a live turn is unknown.
Row parity
The full timeline index rows matched upstream exactly in all four SQL cases, including the 36 and 2,914 persistent-output rows.
After the patched writes, every rewritten row's stored flag matched the predicate: 0 mismatches.
The browser history page was identical between upstream and this branch on old and on new data: same content hash, 500 rows, cursor position 1345, 35 tool rows, 4 attachment references. It was also identical across old and new data.
Gap: the measured browser page has no grouped work and no app-output rows. Grouping and app output are covered only by the full-index SQL comparison and the unit test below.
Tests
New case in ProjectionStore.test.ts, "stores completed inline-output flags that page like the payload predicate":
checks the stored flag for each of the four markers, case variants, the _ wildcard, running rows, and non-tool rows;
checks the flag is updated when the payload or status changes;
checks a grouped "deferred" history page is identical after resetting every flag to NULL (legacy rows).
I did not run it on upstream main: the column does not exist there.
vp test run on ProjectionStore, FoundationPersistence, reconcileV2PreviewMigration, Migrations, initializeV2Database, ProjectionRecovery, ThreadFind and boundedSnapshotTransport: 175/175 pass on Node 26.13. The suite needs Node 26: on Node 24.22, the existing case "reads a fixed SQL turn-item window for long histories and repeated clients" fails with statement.stat is not a function.
vp run typecheck for the server passes; vp lint and vp fmt are clean on the touched files.
Missing: no real turn-ingest stream was measured, and all numbers come from one loaded Windows machine.
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The change adds a nullable persistent_output column, records the value for turn-item updates, and uses it in timeline index reads. Tests cover output classification, updates, and deferred history filtering.
Migration 86 adds the nullable persistent_output column and registers it. Preview migration tests include migration 86 in the successful upgrade and retry expectations.
Persist and read output flags apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProjectionStore.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProjectionStore.test.ts
Turn-item writes store 1 or 0 for completed items and NULL for non-completed items. Timeline index reads use the stored value when present and fall back to the payload check when it is NULL. Tests cover classification, rewrites, and deferred history filtering.
This change speeds up loading earlier history turns by storing a precomputed output flag. Older rows continue to use the existing logic, so behavior should be unchanged. No concrete merge-blocking risk was found.
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The page assertion runs before the flags are cleared, but its flags match the payload predicate. A reader that ignores the flags can pass this test and lose the new read optimization. Add a conflicting flag to distinguish the stored and fallback paths.
Suggested fix
assert.isTrue(
stored.items.some((row) => String(row.sourceItemId) === "item:inline-output-flag:app"),
);
+ yield* sql`UPDATE orchestration_v2_projection_turn_items SET persistent_output = 0+ WHERE thread_id = ${threadId} AND turn_item_id = 'item:inline-output-flag:app'`;+ assert.isFalse(+ (yield* page()).items.some(+ (row) => String(row.sourceItemId) === "item:inline-output-flag:app",+ ),+ );
yield* sql`UPDATE orchestration_v2_projection_turn_items SET persistent_output = NULL
WHERE thread_id = ${threadId}`;
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Update the “stores completed inline-output flags that page like the payload
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merged current main (836b86a5d6) into the existing contributor branch without rebasing or force-pushing. head: 56b15daa156b027349ec1447b7779d81d1ba7406. main now owns migration 82 (TurnItemConversationIndex), so this pr's additive migration is 83 (TurnItemPersistentOutput). the manifest and preview migration expectations retain both. no output classification or paging logic changed in this pass; the pr remains five files.
github and git.cafe confirm no conflicts. all 31 github checks are green on this head. two independent gpt-6.1-sol reviews found no issues on this head. the earlier bot request to distinguish stored flags from the payload predicate is already covered by the contributor's 580c968be3 test.
verification blocker: blacksmith-check allocated two separate workers, but both failed before source sync with file sync failed: sync timed out after 2m0s. direct ssh to the first worker also timed out. neither vp run check:changed nor the focused tests executed through blacksmith in this run. both workers were stopped. github ci passing does not replace that required verification. no new runtime or performance claim is made.
earlier verification below is historical evidence, not rerun in this pass.
Earlier verification, still valid for the unchanged logic (it refers to the migration as 81; it is now 82):
Verified in a real dev environment
Functional verification at 4e4554e97146f3144ee6d362645936cf08d4f332 on Linux, using Chrome via repository Playwright, the real dev web client, and real Codex gpt-6.1-sol turns. No source changes were needed.
Started github/main (1a2a4a5e96) in a separate worktree first. Created the project and 36 turns through the UI, including shell output, a roughly 1 MiB MCP result and rendered inline HTML. Stopped main, copied that app-created dev database, and started the exact PR head. Both history checks ran on Node 26.12.1.
Migration 81 succeeded. All 194 existing rows retained NULL flags.
Clicking Load earlier turns returned 107 identical items before and after migration, including the inline HTML. Item content, ids, cursor position and has-more state matched. Only the snapshot sequence changed across server startup.
New real turns exercised the write path: a running MCP item had NULL, then completed with 1; a plain thread-list result stored 0; html_render stored 1. A read-only SQL comparison found zero mismatches with the original payload predicate.
A fresh client loaded history successfully after those writes. Ordinary tool output and newly rendered inline HTML remained usable.
Blacksmith, explicitly using Node 26.12.1: ProjectionStore.test.ts and reconcileV2PreviewMigration.test.ts, 59/59 passed. GitHub checks were green on this head.
Short runtime transcript:
Migrations ran successfully: 81_TurnItemPersistentOutput
migrated rows: 194; NULL flags: 194
legacy history: HTTP 200; 107 items; normalized content equal
new t3_thread_list: completed, flag 0
new html_render: completed, flag 1
stored-flag mismatches: 0
fresh-client history after new writes: HTTP 200; no page errors
Main, after loading earlier history (chat-panel crop):
PR, matching data after migration and the same interaction:
New inline HTML from a real Codex turn on the PR:
Not verified
The claimed 2x speedup and write-cost figures were not reproduced. This smaller real-turn corpus verifies behavior, migration compatibility and flag derivation, rather than the PR's large-thread performance benchmark. No performance conclusion follows from this run.
Native desktop/mobile clients, other providers, relay/tunnel connections, MCP app output, viewed-image output and delegated output were not exercised live. Large deferred-work grouping was covered by the focused tests, not a live 150-plus-work-item turn. On main, html_preview timed out twice; html_render still completed and its output rendered correctly.
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A stored flag of 0 on a row whose payload still matches the predicate now
drops that row from the page, so a reader that ignores the flag fails.
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@maria-rcks thanks for the takeover and the functional pass. Two things kept your run from showing a speedup, and both match what the PR says to expect:
Every row you measured was a legacy row. You migrated an existing database, and all 194 rows kept NULL flags. NULL rows fall back to the same payload predicate as main, so the PR claims no gain for them (the "Old data" rows in the tables are about 1.0x).
The corpus was too small to see. At 194 rows and about 1 MB of payload, the predicate costs about 2 ms per page. That is a 3x ratio on a number nobody can see. The gain grows with total tool-payload bytes per thread.
So "not reproduced" was the expected result for that data, not evidence against the claim. Here is a benchmark you can rerun, measured on a second machine.
Reproduction
The patch below adds a temporary case to ProjectionStore.test.ts. It seeds one thread through the patched ProjectionStore.apply (so new rows get stored flags) and times getThreadHistoryPage(..., "deferred"), the server side of Load earlier turns. It interleaves "stored flags" with "flags set to NULL" (the legacy path, the same predicate as main). It also asserts that both paths return an identical page.
git apply bench-only.patch # from the details block belowcd apps/server
BENCH_OUT=/tmp/bench.txt vp test run src/orchestration-v2/ProjectionStore.test.ts -t BENCH
# tune with BENCH_ROWS, BENCH_TOOL_ROWS, BENCH_TOOL_BYTES, BENCH_SAMPLES
cat /tmp/bench.txt
Results: Apple M4 Pro, Node 26.13, head 580c968be3, 9 interleaved samples, ms
Fixture
Payload
Stored flags (median)
NULL / legacy (median)
Speedup
2,038 rows, 364 tool rows at 168 KB (the PR's thread shape)
62.0 MB
8.7
116.3
13.4x
25,038 rows, 8,000 tool rows at 4 KB
42.4 MB
48.6
117.9
2.4x
194 rows, 40 tool rows at 26 KB (your corpus size)
1.1 MB
0.8
2.7
3.2x (about 2 ms)
Raw samples for the 2,038-row case: stored 10.9, 9.6, 8.7, 9.5, 8.4, 8.7, 7.8, 8.4, 8.5, NULL 115.9, 116.3, 116.3, 119.5, 121.2, 117.8, 117.7, 115.7, 114.5.
This confirms the SQL-stage claim on a second machine, an idle Mac rather than the loaded Windows box. It does not re-measure the browser click end to end or the write-cost regression. The NULL path stands in for main because it runs the same predicate, and the PR's own old-data rows show it within 1% of upstream.
bench-only.patch (applies on 580c968, do not commit)
--- a/apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProjectionStore.test.ts+++ b/apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProjectionStore.test.ts@@ -2809,6 +2809,140 @@
yield* sql`UPDATE orchestration_v2_projection_turn_items SET persistent_output = NULL
WHERE thread_id = ${threadId}`;
assert.deepEqual(yield* page(), stored);
+ }),+ );++ it.effect("BENCH load earlier turns: stored flags vs legacy NULL flags", () =>+ Effect.gen(function* () {+ const ROWS = Number(process.env.BENCH_ROWS ?? 2038);+ const TOOL_ROWS = Number(process.env.BENCH_TOOL_ROWS ?? 364);+ const TOOL_BYTES = Number(process.env.BENCH_TOOL_BYTES ?? 168_000);+ const SAMPLES = Number(process.env.BENCH_SAMPLES ?? 9);+ const store = yield* ProjectionStore.ProjectionStoreV2;+ const sql = yield* SqlClient.SqlClient;+ const threadId = yield* addRolledBackRecoveryCandidate("bench");+ const run = (yield* store.getThreadProjection(threadId)).runs[0]!;+ const now = yield* DateTime.now;+ yield* store.apply({+ id: EventId.make("event:bench:run-completed"),+ type: "run.updated",+ threadId,+ runId: run.id,+ providerInstanceId,+ occurredAt: now,+ payload: { ...run, status: "completed", completedAt: now },+ });+ const base = {+ threadId,+ runId: run.id,+ nodeId: null,+ providerThreadId: null,+ providerTurnId: null,+ nativeItemRef: null,+ parentItemId: null,+ title: null,+ startedAt: now,+ completedAt: now,+ updatedAt: now,+ status: "completed" as const,+ };+ const filler = (seed: number) => {+ let out = "";+ let x = seed + 1;+ while (out.length < TOOL_BYTES) {+ x = (x * 1103515245 + 12345) % 2147483648;+ out += x.toString(36);+ }+ return out.slice(0, TOOL_BYTES);+ };+ const toolEvery = Math.max(1, Math.floor(ROWS / TOOL_ROWS));+ let tools = 0;+ const seedStart = performance.now();+ yield* sql.withTransaction(+ Effect.gen(function* () {+ for (let index = 0; index < ROWS; index += 1) {+ const isTool = index % toolEvery === 0 && tools < TOOL_ROWS;+ if (isTool) tools += 1;+ const item = isTool+ ? {+ ...base,+ type: "dynamic_tool" as const,+ toolName: "shell",+ // ~1 in 10 tool rows renders inline HTML so persistent rows exist.+ input: tools % 10 === 0 ? { htmlRender: true, out: filler(index) } : { out: filler(index) },+ }+ : { ...base, type: "command_execution" as const, input: `echo ${index}` };+ yield* store.apply({+ id: EventId.make(`event:bench:${index}`),+ type: "turn-item.updated",+ threadId,+ runId: run.id,+ occurredAt: now,+ payload: { ...item, id: TurnItemId.make(`item:bench:${index}`), ordinal: index + 2 },+ });+ }+ }),+ );+ const seedMs = performance.now() - seedStart;+ const bytes = yield* sql<{ readonly bytes: number; readonly flagged: number }>`+ SELECT SUM(LENGTH(payload_json)) AS bytes, SUM(persistent_output = 1) AS flagged+ FROM orchestration_v2_projection_turn_items WHERE thread_id = ${threadId}`;++ const page = () =>+ store.getThreadHistoryPage(+ threadId,+ encodeThreadHistoryCursor({+ snapshotSequence: 0,+ sourceThreadId: threadId,+ sourceItemId: `item:bench:${ROWS - 1}`,+ position: ROWS,+ }),+ undefined,+ false,+ "deferred",+ );+ const flagsOn = () =>+ sql`UPDATE orchestration_v2_projection_turn_items+ SET persistent_output = CASE WHEN type = 'dynamic_tool' AND payload_json LIKE '%htmlRender%' THEN 1 ELSE 0 END+ WHERE thread_id = ${threadId} AND status = 'completed'`;+ const flagsOff = () =>+ sql`UPDATE orchestration_v2_projection_turn_items SET persistent_output = NULL+ WHERE thread_id = ${threadId}`;+ const time = Effect.fnUntraced(function* () {+ const start = performance.now();+ const result = yield* page();+ return { ms: performance.now() - start, result };+ });+ const median = (xs: ReadonlyArray<number>) => {+ const sorted = [...xs].sort((a, b) => a - b);+ return sorted[Math.floor(sorted.length / 2)]!;+ };++ // Warm up both paths and check they return the same page.+ const withFlags = (yield* time()).result;+ yield* flagsOff();+ const legacy = (yield* time()).result;+ assert.deepEqual(legacy, withFlags);++ const stored: Array<number> = [];+ const nulls: Array<number> = [];+ for (let sample = 0; sample < SAMPLES; sample += 1) {+ yield* flagsOn();+ stored.push((yield* time()).ms);+ yield* flagsOff();+ nulls.push((yield* time()).ms);+ }+ const fmt = (xs: ReadonlyArray<number>) => xs.map((x) => x.toFixed(1)).join(", ");+ (yield* Effect.promise(() => import("node:fs"))).appendFileSync(+ process.env.BENCH_OUT ?? "/dev/stderr",+ [+ `BENCH rows=${ROWS} toolRows=${tools} payloadMB=${(bytes[0]!.bytes / 1e6).toFixed(1)} flagged=${bytes[0]!.flagged} pageItems=${withFlags.items.length}`,+ `BENCH seed ${seedMs.toFixed(0)} ms`,+ `BENCH stored flags ms: ${fmt(stored)} | median ${median(stored).toFixed(1)}`,+ `BENCH NULL flags ms: ${fmt(nulls)} | median ${median(nulls).toFixed(1)}`,+ `BENCH speedup ${(median(nulls) / median(stored)).toFixed(2)}x`,+ ].join("\n") + "\n\n",+ );
}),
);
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Fixed in 580c968be3. The test now sets the app row's stored flag to 0 while its payload still matches, and asserts the page drops the row. The NULL-fallback assertion is still there. I checked that it bites: with the reader's COALESCE replaced by the bare predicate, the new assertion fails. ProjectionStore.test.ts plus src/persistence: 127/127 pass on Node 26.13.
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…flags
Main added migration 83 (CommandReadIndexes), so this branch's TurnItemPersistentOutput migration moves to 84.
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Main now caches timeline indexes until a thread event is written, so the raw SQL flag edits need an event to be seen.
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…flags
Main added migrations 84 (LastExecutedRunIndex) and 85 (TurnItemCounts), so this branch's TurnItemPersistentOutput migration moves to 86.
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Heads up, this overlaps: #35224 is merged as 4fd40e1.
It changes the same read. A history page now runs the inline-output payload scan only over the runs that page spans, not over every tool payload of the thread, and it applies to existing rows with no migration. Measured on a 45,057-item, 318.6 MB thread: one page went from 810 to 1,025 ms to 439 to 566 ms warm with the index cache dropped, and from 516 MB to about 350 MB of disk reads cold.
This PR was not measured on top of that change. The stored flag may now save much less, because the scan it avoids is already limited to a page. If you re-measure on current main, post the numbers here.
Re-measured the page-scoped payload scan on current upstream main, 4fd40e1a16e3800418b8f6a32932b68179098c8d (includes #35224).
The benefit is workload-dependent and these results do not substantiate the existing 2.0x click-to-render claim on current main.
SQL-stage medians, milliseconds:
Fixture
Total rows / payload
Rows / payload in scanned runs
Main
Stored flag
NULL flag fallback
Real history A
138 / 13.57 MB
138 / 13.57 MB (3 runs)
29.37
0.07
29.36
Real history B
2,214 / 13.42 MB
821 / 2.97 MB (17 runs)
1.30
0.33
1.29
Synthetic, runs of 250 rows
45,057 / 317.80 MB
557 / 3.93 MB (3 runs)
5.25
0.27
5.24
Synthetic, one long run
45,057 / 317.80 MB
45,057 / 317.80 MB (1 run)
437.38
31.29
439.96
Method: Node 26.12.1 on Apple Silicon macOS. Copied two real histories from an existing isolated dev database opened read-only; no live userdata was opened. Synthetic rows are completed dynamic tools with ~7 KB JSON payloads and an htmlRender marker every 100 rows. Selected the distinct runs spanned by the final 500 raw rows (or all rows for A). Used main's exact json_each / CROSS JOIN / completed-status payload-scan query, then replaced only its predicate with COALESCE(item.persistent_output, CASE WHEN <same predicate> THEN 1 ELSE 0 END). The stored values were populated with the PR's exact completed-item predicate; NULL models legacy data. Existing table indexes were retained. Each case used 21 retained interleaved samples after three warm-up pairs, alternating A/B order, with SQLite cache released before each query; OS cache remained warm. The main column above is the paired baseline for stored flags; the separate paired baselines for NULL fallback were 29.26, 1.30, 5.23 and 439.53 ms respectively.
Every measured query's returned rows matched main exactly, including all persistent outputs (0, 8, 6 and 451 respectively). Flag population, seeding and parity assertions were outside timing.
Interpretation: #35224 substantially narrows the opportunity on pages spanning short runs: the many-run synthetic case now saves only ~5 ms in this stage, and real history B saves ~1 ms. A large individual run can still leave a substantial scan (~406 ms saved in the synthetic stress case). Existing NULL-flag history still gets no material gain.
Limits: this is an isolated SQL-stage experiment, not the full ProjectionStore service, actual grouped-page selection/expansion, a browser click, network latency, cold-disk I/O or turn ingestion. The synthetic flag population is equivalent SQL, not writes through ProjectionStore.apply. The earlier write-cost measurements predate this remeasurement. The original PR's read change targets code removed by #35224; this experiment applies its COALESCE idea to the new scoped query without changing or pushing the PR branch. A mergeable implementation and new end-to-end measurements remain necessary before retaining a user-visible speedup claim.
Closing: #35224 already scopes the payload scan to the page's runs, so on current main the stored flag saves only ~1–5 ms in typical cases (see the remeasurement above), and existing history gets no gain. The 2.0x claim no longer holds.
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Problem
Clicking Load earlier turns on a long thread is slow when the thread has large tool outputs. On a seeded 2,038-row thread with 61.0 MB of tool payloads, the click took a median of 503 ms locally and 911 ms on a shaped 5 Mbps / 120 ms link. Almost all of that time is one SQL statement.
Change
This change has three costs, so they come first. First, only history written after this change gets faster. Existing rows keep the old cost until something rewrites them, so the old history a user already has sees no gain. Second, completed tool rows cost about 2.3 to 2.6 times more to write in a re-apply benchmark, roughly +4 ms per MB of completed tool payload. That also slows projection rebuild and replay. Third, it adds a schema migration.
Cause: every history page read calls
readTimelineIndexinapps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProjectionStore.ts. That function decides which rows keep persistent inline output (html_render, MCP app output, viewed images, delegate_task) by running fourLIKEpatterns over every tool payload in the thread, on every read.Now:
persistent_output INTEGERcolumn toorchestration_v2_projection_turn_items. It is an instantALTER TABLE ... ADD COLUMN, with no table rewrite and no backfill.status = 'completed', which is the only state where grouping reads it. It evaluates the same four predicates through the same SQL fragment, so the semantics match exactly, including LIKE's case-insensitivity and_wildcard. Any other status stores NULL, and every update rewrites the column.INSERT ... SELECTinstead ofVALUES, so the payload is bound once and the predicate can read it. It needsWHERE truebecause SQLite's upsert grammar requires a WHERE clause on the SELECT, to keepON CONFLICTfrom being parsed as a join constraint.readTimelineIndexreadsCOALESCE(item.persistent_output, <the same four predicates>), so NULL (legacy or unfinished) rows fall back to today's predicate and give the same answer.Why a fallback and not a backfill: a backfill would have to read and rewrite every completed tool payload, either in one long startup transaction or through new background machinery. The fallback is one column and one COALESCE.
Not done:
The change is server-only. Web, desktop, and mobile read the same history page, and the contracts don't change.
Scope and approval
Approval is outstanding. I searched upstream issues and discussions once and found no triaged issue or approved Ideas discussion for this, and no exception in CONTRIBUTING.md fits a schema change.
20c3dd3689; upstreammainis 4 commits ahead.Verification
Measured against built servers (upstream
20c3dd3689vs this branch), interleaved A B A B, on one loaded Windows 11 machine running Node 26.13. "New data" means every row of the thread was rewritten through the patchedProjectionStore.apply. "Old data" means rows written before the change, so their flag is NULL.Load earlier turns, headless Edge, 2,038-row thread, settled ms, 5 pairs
SQL stage alone (the
readTimelineIndexstatement), 7 interleaved samples, median msThe 25,038-row fixture extends the real thread with synthetic tool rows modeled on its 1 to 8 KiB rows. Their flags come from the same expression the upsert uses, not from the write path itself.
Write cost: a regression. Each sample is the median of 3 re-applies of the thread's rows through
ProjectionStore.applyin one transaction, 6 runs per build, in ms.In-progress updates skip the predicate, but I did not measure a real turn-ingest stream. How often completed rows are re-upserted during a live turn is unknown.
Row parity
Tests
ProjectionStore.test.ts, "stores completed inline-output flags that page like the payload predicate":_wildcard, running rows, and non-tool rows;main: the column does not exist there.vp test runon ProjectionStore, FoundationPersistence, reconcileV2PreviewMigration, Migrations, initializeV2Database, ProjectionRecovery, ThreadFind and boundedSnapshotTransport: 175/175 pass on Node 26.13. The suite needs Node 26: on Node 24.22, the existing case "reads a fixed SQL turn-item window for long histories and repeated clients" fails withstatement.stat is not a function.vp run typecheckfor the server passes;vp lintandvp fmtare clean on the touched files.Missing: no real turn-ingest stream was measured, and all numbers come from one loaded Windows machine.
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