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shankar0123 c8985cf868 fix(ratelimit): Hotfix #5 — Postgres timestamptz[] scan + skip-inventory drift
Two CI hotfixes surfaced by master CI on 29cb13e7 (Sprint 13.6 tip
before the Sprint 13.7 closure landed):

1. TestRateLimit_PostgresBackend_CapEnforcedAcrossReplicas failed with
   "pq: scanning to time.Time is not implemented; only sql.Scanner".
   Root cause: time.Time does not implement sql.Scanner, and lib/pq's
   pq.GenericArray scan path calls element-Scan() directly rather than
   database/sql's convertAssign (which DOES support time conversions).
   So `pq.Array(&[]time.Time{})` reliably fails on read even though
   the symmetric write `pq.Array([]time.Time{...})` works (the write
   path uses driver.Value() which time.Time implements).

   Fix: cast the timestamptz[] to a text[] of canonical ISO 8601 UTC
   strings at the SQL boundary via to_char(t AT TIME ZONE 'UTC',
   'YYYY-MM-DD"T"HH24:MI:SS.US"Z"'), read via pq.StringArray (well-
   supported), and parse Go-side with layout "2006-01-02T15:04:05.000000Z".
   The format is fully deterministic regardless of the session's
   DateStyle or TimeZone settings.

   Touched: internal/ratelimit/postgres_sliding_window.go (Step 2 of
   the Allow() transaction — locking + read).

   Falsifiable proof on CI: the failing test
   TestRateLimit_PostgresBackend_CapEnforcedAcrossReplicas
   (100 concurrent Allow calls / 3 replicas / cap=10) must now produce
   exactly 10 succeed / 90 ErrRateLimited. Pre-fix it produced 1 / 0
   because every Allow after the first crashed on Scan.

2. skip-inventory-drift.sh CI guard turned red because Sprint 13.2
   added two new t.Skip sites:

     internal/ratelimit/equivalence_test.go:80
       t.Skip("race-style test under -short")
     internal/ratelimit/equivalence_test.go:88
       t.Skip("postgres equivalence tests require testcontainers;
              skipped under -short")

   The inventory at docs/testing/skip-inventory.md is auto-generated
   by scripts/skip-inventory.sh and must be re-generated alongside
   any t.Skip churn. Sprint 13.2 missed the regeneration.

   Fix: re-ran scripts/skip-inventory.sh. Totals walked
   142 → 144 sites; testing.Short() guards 76 → 78. The two new
   entries land in the internal/ratelimit section.

Verification (local sandbox, all clean):
  $ bash scripts/ci-guards/skip-inventory-drift.sh
    skip-inventory-drift guard OK: docs/testing/skip-inventory.md
    matches the live tree
  $ bash scripts/ci-guards/openapi-handler-parity.sh
    openapi-handler-parity: clean.
  $ bash scripts/ci-guards/openapi-rest-deferred-monotonic.sh
    openapi-rest-deferred-monotonic: clean — rest-deferred = 0,
    baseline = 0.
  $ gofmt -l internal/ratelimit/postgres_sliding_window.go
    (no output)
  $ go vet ./internal/ratelimit/
    (no output)

The Postgres rate-limit fix's full falsifiable proof
(TestRateLimit_PostgresBackend_CapEnforcedAcrossReplicas) cannot be
exercised in the sandbox (no docker for testcontainers); CI on the
amd64 runner will re-run it on this push. The diagnosis is verified
against lib/pq source semantics and the fix uses only well-supported
primitives (pq.StringArray + canonical to_char output + time.Parse).
2026-05-14 13:26:47 +00:00
shankar0123 c8347d742d feat(ratelimit): Phase 13 Sprint 13.2 — postgres-backed sliding window + multi-replica test
Phase 13 Sprint 13.2 closure (architecture diligence audit ARCH-M1):
ships the infrastructure half of the ARCH-M1 substantive close. Adds a
postgres-backed sliding-window rate limiter that satisfies the same
interface as the in-memory primitive — cross-replica-consistent rather
than per-process. Sprint 13.3 wires the 5 call sites through a
backend selector (`CERTCTL_RATELIMIT_BACKEND={memory,postgres}`); this
commit deliberately changes ZERO call sites. The infrastructure +
migration ship as their own review window, mirroring the Phase 9
Sprint 8a/8b pattern.

Substantive close, not document-and-defer
=========================================
The audit recommended "document the per-process limit + defer the
distributed backend to v3." The operator chose Option M1-A (postgres-
backed; zero new infra) over the document-and-defer path. Postgres
is already a hard dependency for certctl; no new operator burden. The
multi-replica integration test in this commit is the falsifiable
closure proof — cap-N enforced exactly across N replicas hitting the
same key concurrently.

Signature ground-truth
======================
The Sprint 13.2 prompt template specified `Allow(key string) error` as
the signature to match. The actual repo signature has been
`Allow(key string, now time.Time) error` since the EST RFC 7030
hardening master bundle Phase 4.1 — the `now` parameter is what makes
the memory limiter testable against synthetic time without an
indirection through clock-injection. The new `Limiter` interface +
`PostgresSlidingWindowLimiter` match the actual repo signature
(`Allow(key string, now time.Time) error`) byte-for-byte. Per CLAUDE.md
"the repo is truth" — the prompt is framing, the code is ground-truth.

Files added
===========

migrations/000046_rate_limit_buckets.up.sql + .down.sql:
  - rate_limit_buckets(bucket_key TEXT PRIMARY KEY, timestamps
    TIMESTAMPTZ[] NOT NULL DEFAULT '{}', updated_at TIMESTAMPTZ NOT
    NULL DEFAULT NOW()).
  - btree index on updated_at supports the Sprint 13.3 janitor sweep.
  - All statements IF NOT EXISTS / DROP IF EXISTS per CLAUDE.md
    "Idempotent migrations" rule.

internal/ratelimit/limiter.go (NEW, 53 LOC):
  - Defines the `Limiter` interface with `Allow(key string,
    now time.Time) error`.
  - Compile-time satisfaction checks for both backends.
  - Doc-comment documents the prompt-vs-repo signature reconciliation
    + the Sprint 13.3 backend-selector plan + why the interface stays
    minimal (Disabled/Len are non-portable cross-backend; keeping them
    off the interface avoids leaking implementation detail).

internal/ratelimit/postgres_sliding_window.go (NEW, 178 LOC):
  - PostgresSlidingWindowLimiter struct + NewPostgresSlidingWindowLimiter
    constructor + Allow + Disabled methods.
  - Algorithm: BEGIN tx → INSERT ON CONFLICT DO NOTHING (ensures the
    row exists) → SELECT ... FOR UPDATE (per-key row lock acquired
    across the cluster) → prune in Go via the shared pruneOlderThan
    helper (single source of truth for prune semantics) → decide
    rate-limited or append → UPDATE → COMMIT.
  - SELECT FOR UPDATE is what arbitrates across replicas. Replicas A
    and B firing simultaneous Allow("k") never race because Postgres
    serializes the row-lock; the memory backend's sync.Mutex only
    arbitrates within a process.
  - Same `maxN <= 0 → disabled` opt-out semantics as the memory
    backend.
  - Empty-key short-circuit (chokepoint avoidance) matches the memory
    backend.
  - Uses pq.Array for TIMESTAMPTZ[] marshalling (lib/pq is the
    existing project driver).

internal/ratelimit/equivalence_test.go (NEW, 304 LOC):
  - Backend-equivalence suite that runs the same scenario set against
    both backends via the `Limiter` interface. 7 scenarios per
    backend: AllowsUpToCap, DistinctKeysIndependent, WindowExpiry,
    DisabledBypass, NegativeCapDisabled, EmptyKeyShortCircuits,
    ConcurrentRaceFree.
  - Memory half: TestSlidingWindowLimiter_Equivalence_Memory — runs
    on every `go test ./...`.
  - Postgres half: TestSlidingWindowLimiter_Equivalence_Postgres —
    gated by `testing.Short()`; runs only when -short is omitted, so
    `go test -race -short ./...` keeps fast.
  - Schema-per-test isolation via testcontainers-go (mirrors the
    pattern in internal/repository/postgres/testutil_test.go: setup
    one container, fresh schema per subtest, search_path-pinned DSN).
  - Memory equivalence half re-verifies the same behaviors pinned in
    the pre-existing sliding_window_test.go but through the interface
    — catches drift if SlidingWindowLimiter.Allow ever changes shape.

internal/integration/ratelimit_multi_replica_test.go (NEW, 159 LOC):
  - The falsifiable ARCH-M1 closure proof, gated by //go:build
    integration matching the rest of internal/integration/.
  - Scenario: 1 postgres container shared across N=3 independent
    *PostgresSlidingWindowLimiter instances (each replica's process
    has its own *sql.DB pool to the same database, just like a real
    HA deployment). 100 concurrent Allow("test-key") calls round-
    robin across the 3 limiters via sync.WaitGroup. Cap = 10,
    window = 1m, shared now-timestamp so the scenario is
    deterministic.
  - Assert: exactly 10 succeed + 90 return ErrRateLimited. If the
    cross-replica row lock weren't arbitrating, each replica would
    independently let through ~3-4 requests (10/3), giving 12-15
    successes. The hard-pass on exactly-10 is what makes ARCH-M1
    substantive.

What did NOT change
===================
- internal/ratelimit/sliding_window.go (the memory backend) is
  byte-identical to its pre-Sprint-13.2 state. Same Mutex, same
  Allow signature, same Len/Disabled/pruneOlderThan/evictOldestLocked.
  Compile-time check in limiter.go pins that the memory backend
  still satisfies the new interface.
- No call site in cmd/server, internal/api/handler, internal/service
  changed. Sprint 13.3 owns the 5-site migration + the
  CERTCTL_RATELIMIT_BACKEND env-var selector.
- No new operator dependency. Postgres is already required for
  certctl-server to boot. Redis (Option M1-B) was declined by the
  operator and is not introduced here.

Verification
============

  $ ls migrations/000046_rate_limit_buckets.up.sql migrations/000046_rate_limit_buckets.down.sql
  $ ls internal/ratelimit/limiter.go internal/ratelimit/postgres_sliding_window.go

  $ grep -nE 'sync\.Mutex|sync\.RWMutex' internal/ratelimit/sliding_window.go
    30:// by sync.Mutex; per-key slices mutated only while the mutex is
    56:	mu       sync.Mutex
    (memory backend untouched)

  $ gofmt -l internal/ratelimit/ internal/integration/  → clean
  $ go vet ./internal/ratelimit/...                      → clean
  $ go vet -tags=integration ./internal/integration/...  → clean
  $ staticcheck ./internal/ratelimit/...                 → clean
  $ go build ./...                                       → clean
  $ go build -tags=integration ./internal/integration/...→ clean

  $ go test -race -short -count=1 ./internal/ratelimit/...
    ok  github.com/certctl-io/certctl/internal/ratelimit  1.028s
    (memory equivalence + sliding_window_test.go both pass; postgres
    equivalence skipped under -short as designed)

  $ go doc ./internal/ratelimit/
    type Limiter interface{ ... }
    type PostgresSlidingWindowLimiter struct{ ... }
        func NewPostgresSlidingWindowLimiter(db *sql.DB, maxN int,
            window time.Duration) *PostgresSlidingWindowLimiter
    type SlidingWindowLimiter struct{ ... }
        func NewSlidingWindowLimiter(maxN int, window time.Duration,
            mapCap int) *SlidingWindowLimiter
    var ErrRateLimited = ...
    (public surface matches the Sprint 13.2 prompt's required diff)

Sandbox note: the multi-replica integration test + the postgres
equivalence half run under testcontainers-go which requires docker-
in-docker. The CI integration job exercises both; local CI-equivalent
verification was build + vet + staticcheck + memory equivalence (the
sandbox /sessions partition is full so spinning a postgres container
locally isn't viable in this session). The Sprint 13.3 commit will
re-verify against the live integration job.

Next: Sprint 13.3 wires every call site through
ratelimit.NewLimiter(cfg.Server.RateLimitBackend, db, ...) +
introduces the scheduler janitor loop + rewrites the
docs/operator/observability.md "per-process" paragraph to describe
the configurable backend.

Refs: ARCH-M1 (HA / scale — rate limits per-process), Phase 13
Sprint 13.2.
2026-05-14 11:30:44 +00:00