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A changeset round in PlatformWalletPersistenceHandler accumulated every row unsaved until endChangeset, so each per-row fetch() in upsertUtxo / upsertTransaction re-scanned the whole pending set — O(rows²) per round. On a mixing-heavy wallet (~6.7k transactions, ~13.8k TXOs) the catch-up round after a backward re-walk turned into 10+ minutes of compute on the persistence queue and looked like a hang. Sampling the process put every sample inside SwiftData's pending-merge hashing under upsertUtxo. This is the SDK-side half of the large-wallet "sync finished but transactions are missing" reports; the app-side gate is dashpay/dashwallet-ios#1112.

What was done?

The quadratic cost is not the number of rows but the per-row fetch() by txid / outpoint: SwiftData evaluates the predicate against the context's pending changes, hashing the whole unsaved set on every lookup. The round stays ONE SwiftData transaction with one save() in endChangeset (the atomicChangesets contract is untouched); what changes is how in-round lookups are answered:

  • Round-scoped registry (roundTransactions, roundTxos, roundPendingInputs): rows this round has fetched or created are served from dictionaries keyed by their immutable identity (txid / outpoint).
  • On a miss, lookupTransaction / lookupTxo / lookupPendingInputs run a store-only fetch (FetchDescriptor.includePendingChanges = false), which skips the pending-merge and is an index lookup. Every in-round creation of these entities registers itself (registerRoundTransaction / registerRoundTxo / registerRoundPendingInput), so a store-only miss never means "created earlier this round"; rows deleted this round are filtered via isDeleted.
  • The registry is reset at beginChangeset and after commit or rollback in endChangeset. Outside a round the helpers behave exactly like the plain fetches they replace.
  • Converted call sites: upsertTransaction, upsertUtxo (incl. the stub-parent path and pending-input adoption), resolveInputOutpoint, removePendingInputs, markUtxoSpent, markUtxoInstantLocked.
  • No public API change; single file.

History: the first revision used intermediate saves every 500 rows; review pointed out that a later callback failure would then leave committed rows behind a rolled-back round, breaking atomicChangesets (which invitation creation requires). That approach is replaced, not layered on.

Note: #4589 touches the same file (swept-transaction handling); the hunks do not overlap, but whichever lands second needs a trivial rebase.

How Has This Been Tested?

No new unit tests (the handler has no round-level harness; adding one is a follow-up). Manual, same seed throughout (~6.7k transactions, ~13.8k TXOs, CoinJoin-heavy):

  • iOS Simulator (iPhone 17 Pro Max), rescan of the full history on an existing store with the process killed at height 2,180,000 and relaunched: persistence kept pace with the scan (~2.0M heights in ~75 s, previously stuck for 10+ minutes on the same round), resumed from the persisted watermark after the kill and reached the tip. The resulting store matched the previous run row for row: 6,787 transactions, 13,882 TXOs, no duplicate txids/outpoints, no stub rows, no failed or rolled-back rounds; gettxout audit of every unspent row matched the chain.
  • The earlier revision (intermediate saves) was also run on an iPhone 13 Pro (relaunch and a full rescan; frontier reached the tip both times) — the device numbers for this revision are still to be taken.
  • Built against dash-spv a2ba48d7 (fix(dash-spv): make backward coverage durable by rewinding synced_height instead of sweeping in memory rust-dashcore#1002); the handler change itself does not depend on it.

Breaking Changes

None. A round is still a single SwiftData transaction. Reviewer note: correctness of the store-only lookups relies on every in-round creation of PersistentTransaction / PersistentTxo / PersistentPendingInput going through the register helpers; the three constructor sites in this file do.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Performance

    • Improved wallet synchronization performance for large changesets, reducing delays during processing.
  • Reliability

    • Changeset updates are now saved atomically at completion, helping prevent partially applied changes.
    • Synchronization progress is updated only when the full changeset is successfully persisted.

…e watermark last

A changeset round in `PlatformWalletPersistenceHandler` accumulated every
row unsaved until `endChangeset`, so each per-row `fetch()` in
`upsertUtxo` / `upsertTransaction` re-scanned the whole pending set —
O(rows²) per round. On a mixing-heavy wallet the catch-up round after a
backward re-walk (thousands of TXO/transaction upserts) turned into
minutes of compute on the persistence queue and looked like a hang;
sampling put every sample inside SwiftData's pending-merge hashing.

Flush `backgroundContext` every 500 applied rows (`noteRowApplied`) so the
pending set stays bounded and the round is linear. Because intermediate
saves commit rows before the round ends, the `syncedHeight` watermark can
no longer be written when the chain changeset arrives: stage it in
`deferredSyncedHeights` and apply it immediately before the round's final
save. The watermark certifies "every row at or below this height is
durable", so it must be the last thing a round commits — a crash mid-round
then leaves idempotent rows without an advanced watermark, and the durable
re-walk redelivers the remainder. Staged watermarks are dropped on
rollback, like the parked payment rows.

Measured on the same wallet: the persisted frontier went from stuck at
2,174,999 for 10+ minutes to advancing continuously; a simulator kill
mid-round resumed from the last committed watermark and reached the tip
with a store that matched the chain.
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PlatformWalletPersistenceHandler now caches rows within each changeset round and uses store-only fetches for misses. Intermediate saves and deferred synced-height handling were removed. Changesets reset the registry and commit through one final save.

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Add round-scoped row registries
packages/swift-sdk/Sources/SwiftDashSDK/PlatformWallet/PlatformWalletPersistenceHandler.swift
The handler caches transactions, TXOs, and pending inputs during a changeset. Registry misses use store-only fetches that exclude pending changes.
Route wallet operations through registries
packages/swift-sdk/Sources/SwiftDashSDK/PlatformWallet/PlatformWalletPersistenceHandler.swift
Transaction, TXO, and pending-input operations use the round registries for lookups and newly created rows. Deleted rows are excluded from later lookups.
Restore atomic changeset saves
packages/swift-sdk/Sources/SwiftDashSDK/PlatformWallet/PlatformWalletPersistenceHandler.swift
Changesets reset the registries and no longer perform intermediate saves. Synced heights are written directly, and the registry is cleared after commit or rollback.

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The changeset persistence path now uses round-scoped lookups while retaining a single final save for each round. No current merge-blocking risk is identified.

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- Line 178: Update the endChangeset flow around backgroundContext.save() to
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…a round registry instead of intermediate saves

Review (#4595): the intermediate `save()` every 500 rows committed every
dirty object in `backgroundContext`, so a callback failing later in the
round left those rows committed while `endChangeset` rolled back and
reported failure to Rust. That breaks the declared `atomicChangesets`
contract, which invitation creation requires — the bit cannot simply be
dropped.

Replace the intermediate saves with a round-scoped registry. The
quadratic cost was never the number of rows but the per-row `fetch()` by
txid / outpoint: SwiftData evaluates the predicate against the context's
pending changes, hashing the whole unsaved set on every lookup. While a
round is open, `lookupTransaction` / `lookupTxo` / `lookupPendingInputs`
serve rows this round has fetched or created from dictionaries and fall
through to a store-only fetch (`includePendingChanges = false`) on a
miss. Every in-round creation of those entities registers itself, so a
store-only miss never means "created earlier this round"; rows deleted
this round are filtered via `isDeleted`. The registry is reset at
`beginChangeset` and after commit or rollback. Outside a round the
helpers behave like the plain fetches they replace. One `save()` per
round, as before; the deferred-watermark staging is no longer needed and
is gone.

Same wallet, simulator rescan of the full history with a process kill at
height 2,180,000 and a relaunch: persistence kept pace with the scan
(~2.0M heights in ~75 s), resumed from the persisted watermark, reached
the tip; the store matched the previous run row for row (6,787
transactions, 13,882 TXOs, no duplicates, no stubs, no failed rounds).
@romchornyi romchornyi changed the title fix(swift-sdk): save a changeset round in bounded batches, certify the watermark last fix(swift-sdk): make a changeset round linear without giving up atomicity Sep 4, 2026
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