feat: per-instance query limits (Query::limit) — wire format, trusted-read engine, fail-closed gates - #844
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… fail-closed gates Adds a per-instance result limit to Query: each execution instance of a query node (one run per matched parent key) gets a fresh budget bounding every result row originating in that instance's subtree — "top k per parent" — composing with the global SizedQuery::limit by min. The root node executes once, so its cap is equivalent to the global limit. Wire format: Query encoding version 3 with a flags byte (bit 0 read mode, bit 1 per-instance limit). The encoder always emits the lowest representable version, so every existing query stays byte-identical on versions 1/2 (golden pins extended) and pre-field decoders fail closed on version 3. Zero caps are rejected as malformed. Trusted-read engine: path_query_push v2 (element.path_query_push = 2, GROVE_V4) threads a QueryBudget per frame — the global/offset pair keeps the long-standing copy-and-reconcile scheme, the instance chain seeds min(inherited, own Query::limit) per descent. v2 also reconciles descents by total consumed budget (rows + empty-subtree charges) instead of returned rows, aligning nested empty-subtree accounting with the prover's shared counter; v0/v1 keep legacy behavior byte-for-byte. Empty-subtree charges consume only the global budget by default; the new QueryOptions::decrease_instance_limits_on_range_with_no_sub_elements (default false) opts them into instance budgets too. Fail-closed gates (path_query_methods.per_instance_query_limits, 0 before GROVE_V4): pre-V4 reads reject; proof generation/verification reject at every entry until the V1 prover/verifier learn the accounting (next PR); PathQuery::merge and the whole Query merge family refuse limit-carrying nodes; read-mode, aggregate, and count-offset shapes reject; query_keys_optional rejects (its terminal-keys projection would report keys beyond a cap as falsely absent). Part 1 of 3: proofs + merge lifting land next, then the book chapter. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~100 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The PR adds per-instance limits, but the current head still has a success-path proof test using a limit that proof operations reject and a public query path that can run a limited query without enforcing or rejecting the cap, risking test failure and incorrect uncapped results. These issues should be fixed before merging. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Client
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Client->>query_raw: execute PathQuery
query_raw->>query_raw: reject_unserved_per_instance_limits(...)
query_raw->>get_path_query_internal: start trusted read
get_path_query_internal->>QueryBudget: new(global, instance, offset)
get_path_query_internal->>path_query_push_v1: descend with budget
path_query_push_v1->>QueryBudget: charge_row / charge_empty_subtree
path_query_push_v1-->>get_path_query_internal: child consumed
get_path_query_internal-->>query_raw: rows and skipped count
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grovedb-version/src/version/v4.rs (1)
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path_query_pushbump.The comment directly above this line still describes only the earlier "Bumped from 0 → 1" issue
#690fix. This diff bumps the value from 1 to 2, adding per-instance limit serving and consumed-budget reconciliation. Update the inline comment to mention the second bump, so a reader relying only on this local comment does not miss what version 2 adds.📝 Proposed comment update
- // Bumped from 0 → 1: v1 no longer decrements the outer limit when - // a subquery's emptiness was caused by offset skips rather than a - // true no-match (issue `#690`). v0 keeps the legacy accounting for - // shipped grove versions. + // Bumped from 0 → 1: v1 no longer decrements the outer limit when + // a subquery's emptiness was caused by offset skips rather than a + // true no-match (issue `#690`). v0 keeps the legacy accounting for + // shipped grove versions. + // Bumped from 1 → 2: v2 serves per-instance limits + // (`Query::limit`) and reconciles subquery descents by total + // consumed budget (rows plus empty-subtree charges) instead of + // returned rows only. See the module-level doc comment above + // for the full rationale. path_query_push: 2,🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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361-361: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winReject per-instance limits in
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In `@grovedb-version/src/version/v4.rs`:
- Line 269: Update the inline comment immediately above path_query_push in the
version configuration to document the bump from 1 to 2, including per-instance
limit serving and consumed-budget reconciliation, while retaining the earlier
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In `@grovedb/src/element/query.rs`:
- Line 361: Update ElementQueryExtensions::query_item to reject queries where
sized_query.query.limit carries a per-instance limit before constructing
QueryBudget with instance set to None; return the existing appropriate error for
this unsupported case, while preserving the current behavior for queries without
an instance limit.
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Covers the codecov-flagged gaps from the initial patch: every grovedb-query merge entry point's instance-limit refusal (both sides, branch and map flavors), the version-3 owned-Decode path and its canonicality rejection, Query Display with a limit, the walker helpers across branch flavors, the classify/aggregate/count-offset validator rejects, the terminal-keys projection rejects, QueryOptions display, the public query_item wrapper's limit/offset write-back contract, and the now-version-unreachable path_query_push v1 arm via a doctored version table (pinned equal to v2 for plain single-level subqueries). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Document the 1 → 2 bump in the inline comment above the v4 path_query_push slot (it only described the issue-#690 v1 bump). - ElementQueryExtensions::query_item fails closed on a queried node carrying its own per-instance cap: the legacy per-item signature cannot thread an instance budget (the budget is per node instance), so the cap would have been silently ignored. Caps on subqueries below the node keep being served through the descent. Covered in the gate-coverage tests. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The issue-#690 guard landed as path_query_push v1 gated to GROVE_V4, but V4 has not been released, so no version table ever selected it — once the per-instance engine took the V4 slot as v2, v1 was dead code kept alive only by a doctored-version test. Since the slot values are internal until V4 ships, collapse instead of leaving a hole: the per-instance engine (which carries the #690 guard) IS v1 now, GROVE_V4 maps path_query_push back to 1, and the dispatcher knows [0, 1]. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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3694-3694: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winRemove the per-instance limit from this successful proof test.
Query::limitis now rejected by proof generation and verification. This test sets the limit at Line 3694, then expectsprove_queryto succeed. It also sets the same unsupported limit at Line 3719 before verification.Remove both assignments from this success-path test. If gate coverage is needed, add a separate test that expects
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Fresh full review of the current PR head. I found the inline issues below after revalidating the complete diff, the latest path_query_push v1 fold, and the targeted per-instance-limit tests.
- serde: both optional Query fields are now always serialized (default kept for deserialization) — skip_serializing_if broke positional, non-self-describing serde formats by dropping presence tags, shifting every following field; four-combination serde-bincode round trips added. - merge_default_subquery_branch scans the WHOLE receiver for instance limits: the unchecked body can promote a default into a conditional and merge it with an existing limited conditional branch, which a defaults-only scan missed; promotion regression test added. - The capability slot (per_instance_query_limits) is validated exactly everywhere (unknown future values are typed VersionErrors, not today's semantics), and serving requires a coherent table: a version selecting the v0 path_query_push engine cannot account for instance budgets and is refused as incoherent. - Element::get_path_query / get_query_apply_function run a recursive whole-query preflight, so limits hiding in unmatched conditional branches (or unmatched zero caps) cannot slip past the O(1) per-frame checks that only see nodes the walk reaches. - Public proof verification wrappers gate limited queries BEFORE decoding the (up to 256 MiB) proof envelope; error-precedence test with an undecodable proof added. - The absent-terminal instance charge and the descent reconciliation honor the QueryOptions contract: the instance empty-charge flag is subordinate to decrease_limit_on_range_with_no_sub_elements and has no effect while that governing flag is off; missing-first/ present-second regression test added. - Borrowed-decoder (BorrowDecode) V3 round trips and malformed-flags rejections covered; the backwards owned/borrowed comment fixed. - read_mode wire-version docs describe the lowest-representable-version rule (v3 when a limit rides along); remaining stale v2-engine references renamed to v1. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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…ugh merges Teaches the V1 prover and verifier the per-instance limit accounting (Query::limit, introduced in #844), and makes PathQuery::merge lift merged inputs' global limits into per-instance caps. Proofs: the bare overall_limit/limit_left counters become a shared V1LimitState { global, consumed_rows, consumed_total } threaded through both walks, plus a frame-local instance budget per layer (min(inherited, the layer query's Query::limit), resolved through SinglePathSubquery::instance_limit). Each layer's merk walk runs under min(global, instance); rows charge every budget, descents settle the enclosing frame from the consumed_rows delta, and the empty-layer charge stays global-only. The consumed_total counter also replaces the old detect-consumption-by-diffing-the-Option trick, which went blind when the global limit was None. Non-Merk layers (MMR / BulkAppend / Dense / CommitmentTree) and the count-offset dispatch keep their helper signatures and are bounded through an effective-limit temp whose delta is absorbed back. Behavior for every query without per-instance limits is byte-for-byte unchanged; the V0 prover/verifier stay frozen and reject limit-carrying queries at dispatch, as do absence-proof assembly and pre-GROVE_V4 versions. The public verification wrappers run the version-aware gate before decoding the proof envelope, with the absence-mode blanket kept pre-decode as well. Merging (path_query_methods.merge = 2, GROVE_V4): an input's global SizedQuery::limit is lifted onto its merged branch's Query::limit — exact, because the branch instance executes exactly once — and authored per-instance limits ride along on their branches. Limits merge only as exclusive grafts: a limited input landing at the merged root, or two branches colliding on a key, are refused with typed errors; limit-free inputs keep the v1 merge behavior identically. prove_query_many therefore now serves limited path queries, and the verifier re-derives the same merged query at the same grove version. Deliberately NOT included: counting add_parent_tree_on_subquery rows against the limit (the M6 known limitation). Making the prover charge exactly where the verifier pushes needs a per-descent-arm audit (including the aggregate arms) that deserves its own change; the documented limitation stands. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Fresh rereview of the complete PR at c73322a. The latest commit fixes the previously reported merge, proof-precheck, empty-range, borrowed-decode, wrapper-preflight, and capability-value issues. Four additional reproducible findings remain.
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…ugh merges (#845) * feat: serve per-instance query limits in V1 proofs and lift them through merges Teaches the V1 prover and verifier the per-instance limit accounting (Query::limit, introduced in #844), and makes PathQuery::merge lift merged inputs' global limits into per-instance caps. Proofs: the bare overall_limit/limit_left counters become a shared V1LimitState { global, consumed_rows, consumed_total } threaded through both walks, plus a frame-local instance budget per layer (min(inherited, the layer query's Query::limit), resolved through SinglePathSubquery::instance_limit). Each layer's merk walk runs under min(global, instance); rows charge every budget, descents settle the enclosing frame from the consumed_rows delta, and the empty-layer charge stays global-only. The consumed_total counter also replaces the old detect-consumption-by-diffing-the-Option trick, which went blind when the global limit was None. Non-Merk layers (MMR / BulkAppend / Dense / CommitmentTree) and the count-offset dispatch keep their helper signatures and are bounded through an effective-limit temp whose delta is absorbed back. Behavior for every query without per-instance limits is byte-for-byte unchanged; the V0 prover/verifier stay frozen and reject limit-carrying queries at dispatch, as do absence-proof assembly and pre-GROVE_V4 versions. The public verification wrappers run the version-aware gate before decoding the proof envelope, with the absence-mode blanket kept pre-decode as well. Merging (path_query_methods.merge = 2, GROVE_V4): an input's global SizedQuery::limit is lifted onto its merged branch's Query::limit — exact, because the branch instance executes exactly once — and authored per-instance limits ride along on their branches. Limits merge only as exclusive grafts: a limited input landing at the merged root, or two branches colliding on a key, are refused with typed errors; limit-free inputs keep the v1 merge behavior identically. prove_query_many therefore now serves limited path queries, and the verifier re-derives the same merged query at the same grove version. Deliberately NOT included: counting add_parent_tree_on_subquery rows against the limit (the M6 known limitation). Making the prover charge exactly where the verifier pushes needs a per-descent-arm audit (including the aggregate arms) that deserves its own change; the documented limitation stands. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs: per-instance query limits book chapter (#846) Adds the Per-Instance Query Limits chapter (semantics, min composition, budget-vs-traversal charges, the merge lift, proof behavior, the fail-closed table, and the version-3 wire encoding), links it from the Query System chapter, and refreshes the stale Query struct listings in the book and the grovedb crate doc (both predated read_mode). The add_parent_tree_on_subquery known-limitation note now points at the remaining prover/verifier charging work instead of promising the per-level redesign that has since shipped. Part 3 of 3. Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * refactor: move PathQuery::merge onto the versioned sub-file dispatch pattern The merge slot's behavior was branched inline throughout one function body (if merge_version >= 1 / < 2 / match merge_version), against the repo convention that version gates live in <op>/{mod.rs,v0.rs,...} sub-files with a match dispatcher. PathQuery::merge now keeps only the version-independent prelude (unknown-slot fail-closed validation, empty-input rejection, the read-mode refusal, the single-input shortcut) and dispatches to query/merge/{v0,v1,v2}.rs: - v0: frozen GROVE_V1..V3 behavior — directions silently dropped, all limits and offsets refused; - v1: direction agreement + propagation, limits still refused (kept as its own arm — unlike the folded path_query_push intermediate, the 0/1/2 numbering is spelled out in the version-table docs); - v2 (GROVE_V4): v1's direction rules plus the per-instance limit lift with its exclusive-graft refusals. Pure restructure — every version's behavior is byte-for-byte what the inline branches produced, pinned by the untouched merge test suite. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * refactor: fold the never-shipped merge intermediate into v1 Same reasoning as the path_query_push fold: the direction-agreement merge landed gated to GROVE_V4 as slot 1, V4 has not been released, and the per-instance lift took the V4 slot as 2 — leaving slot 1 a dead dispatch arm no version table selects. Since the slot values are internal until V4 ships, collapse: the direction rules + limit lift ARE merge v1 now, GROVE_V4 maps path_query_methods.merge back to 1, and the dispatcher (and its fail-closed validator) know [0, 1]. Table docs, tests, and the book chapter renumbered to match. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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* fix: address maintainer P1 review on per-instance limits in proofs - A layer with subquery branches no longer runs its merk walk under the instance budget: the cap counts descendant ROWS, and an empty first child consumes none of it, so truncating the child enumeration discarded later populated children (proofs returned 0 rows where the trusted read returned 1). Subquery layers now walk under the global budget only, pure terminal layers keep min(global, instance), and the verifier derives the identical per-layer value. - That exposed a truncation-masked prover/verifier asymmetry on subquery-matched EMPTY trees: the prover charged them as result rows (instance included), the verifier charged nothing. Both sides now charge them as empty children — global budget only, mirroring the trusted read's empty-subquery charge — while genuinely-terminal empty trees keep their row charge. - The four non-Merk adapters (MMR / BulkAppend / Dense / CommitmentTree) min-compose the lower query's own Query::limit on both prover and verifier; they bypass recursive frame creation, so a child cap was ignored entirely (3 rows verified under a cap of 1). - The BulkAppend layer accounting saturates on an empty child range (positions at or past total_count clamped end below start — debug-panic underflow, ~u16::MAX charged in release). - The merge lift treats overlap with the merged root's own selection as a collision: a grafted conditional overrides the root query's default/terminal semantics for that key and silently dropped the root-landing input's contribution. Regression tests: empty-then-populated sibling parity under an instance cap, child caps enforced across Dense/Bulk/MMR proofs, the empty-range underflow, and the root-overlap merge refusal. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs: tidy merge v1 comments after the fold Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix: follow-ups from the per-instance limits reviews (#844/#845) Carries the review fixes the #845 squash-merge raced past, plus the follow-ups from the post-merge #844 review. Proof/merge fixes (reviewed on #845, missed by its merge): - subquery layers no longer run their merk walk under the instance budget (an empty first child discarded later populated ones); pure terminal layers keep min(global, instance); verifier mirrors the rule - prover and verifier both charge subquery-matched EMPTY trees as empty children (global budget only) — truncation had masked their row-vs-nothing asymmetry - the non-Merk adapters (MMR/Bulk/Dense/CT) min-compose the lower query's own Query::limit on both sides - the BulkAppend layer accounting saturates on an empty child range (debug-panic underflow) - the merge lift treats overlap with the merged root's own selection as a collision #844 follow-ups: - Query's serde representation is versioned and hand-written: fixed always-present positional layout with a leading version; flat base-compatible JSON for versions 1-2; the limit-bearing version 3 nests under `body` so pre-limit readers hard-fail instead of silently decoding an unlimited query; unknown flat keys are refused; canonical version claims enforced; cross-generation writer/reader tests both directions in both format families - Element::query_item runs the recursive whole-query preflight (an unmatched limited conditional made acceptance data-dependent) - the internal walk helpers validate their subordinate method-version slots (query_item / get_query_apply_function / get_path_query), which the wrapper-only checks no longer covered - both coherence gates exact-match the path_query_push selector, so an unknown engine value is a typed VersionError independent of data Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix: address the six Codex findings on the follow-ups PR - Serde: the positional layout is now FRAMED — a leading magic sentinel before the version, because a bare version byte was consumed by the released unframed reader as its items-vector length and the payload reinterpreted (full-consumption repro); the framed reader requires the magic exactly. The human-readable form nests version 2 as well as 3 under `body`: the actual released v5.0.1 derive (no read_mode) ignores unknown flat keys, so a flat read-mode payload silently decoded as plain key selection. Flat maps smuggling read_mode/limit are refused; cross-generation tests now target the released layout in both directions and both format families. - Merge lift is order-independent: sub-level branches merge in a canonical partition — limit-free branches first through the full machinery (still limit-free at that point), limited grafts last, with collisions judged only against the structures they actually touch; permutation regression added. - The specialized adapters (MMR / Bulk / Dense / CT) order rows by the query direction before the cap applies, so a descending cap keeps the last positions; exact-key descending tests for all four (including a CommitmentTree fixture). - The BulkAppend prover charges semantically matched rows (the same expand_query_to_u64_positions set the verifier uses) instead of the bounding span, which desynchronized the shared budget on sparse queries and made the verifier reject honest proofs; regression with positions {0,100} under a global limit plus a later sibling layer. - The empty-child verifier arm reports the matched parent when add_parent_tree_on_subquery requests it, so empty and non-empty parents behave alike (parent rows stay uncharged per the documented flag limitation); mixed empty/non-empty regression added. - The 8-site lower-layer cap derivation is one shared helper (V1LimitState::effective_lower_layer_limit) so prover and verifier cannot silently diverge (CodeRabbit). 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Part 1 of 3 of the per-instance ("nested") query limits feature. This PR adds the field, the wire format, the trusted-read engine, and fail-closed gates everywhere else. Part 2 teaches the V1 prover/verifier the accounting and lifts merge restrictions; part 3 is the book chapter.
What a per-instance limit is
SizedQuery::limitis one global budget shared by the whole traversal — you can't say "return each parent's top 3 children", and merging limited path queries has always been refused because a single counter can't represent "5 from A plus 7 from B".Query::limitis per execution instance: a query node runs once for every parent key it is reached under, and each run gets a fresh budget oflimitrows for everything originating in that instance's subtree. Caps compose byminwith every enclosing budget (ancestor instances and the global limit). The root node executes exactly once, so its cap ≡ the global limit.Wire format
Queryencoding version 3, selected only when the node actually carries a limit: version byte3, then a flags byte (bit 0 = read mode present, bit 1 = per-instance limit — always set, the encoding is canonical), standard fields, then the appended payloads. Every already-expressible query keeps its exact version-1/2 bytes (golden pins extended with v3 pins + canonicality/fail-closed decode tests). Decoders that predate the field reject version 3 — fail closed by construction, same asread_mode's version 2.Some(0)is rejected as malformed at every serving entry point.Trusted-read engine (GROVE_V4)
New
element.path_query_pushv2 (V4 was on v1, unreleased), threading aQueryBudgetper recursion frame:min(inherited remaining, own Query::limit)at each descent, so each node's cap is fresh per parent while ancestors keep binding;Empty-subtree charges consume only the global budget by default (they exist to bound traversal work); the new
QueryOptions::decrease_instance_limits_on_range_with_no_sub_elements(defaultfalse) opts them into instance budgets too.Fail-closed everywhere else
New version slot
path_query_methods.per_instance_query_limits(0 in V1–V3, 1 in V4):query_raw(and per-frame in the engine as defense in depth);PathQuery::mergeand the wholeQuery/SubqueryBranchmerge family refuse limit-carrying nodes (same_unchecked-family invariant as read modes);query_keys_optional/query_raw_keys_optionalreject — their terminal-keys projection would report keys beyond an instance cap as falsely absent (same hazard class that blocks absence proofs, which stay rejected in part 2 as well).Tests
per_instance_limit_tests.rs: top-k-per-parent, global∧instance composition, root-cap ≡ global, conditional-branch caps, ancestor caps binding descendants, reverse direction, offset interplay (skips don't consume instance budgets), empty-subtree charge routing (default vs opted-in), the nested-charge global alignment with a GROVE_V3 legacy differential, and all the fail-closed gates.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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