fix(storage): address PR #798 round-3 review (SonarQube + pool sizing + RETURNING test)
Round-3 fixes. Two threads: - 9 OPEN SonarQube issues caused the "E Security Rating on New Code" gate failure. The bot's diagnosis (sa.text(text_sql) → SQL injection) was a wrong guess; the actual SQ rules firing were different. - Bot's substantive concerns: pool defaults too aggressive, delete_browser_session RETURNING path untested on Postgres, schema_version legacy table created on Postgres, stale module docstring. - User's underlying question on the pool: "isn't 1 connection enough?" Right-sized to 2+5 and documented the concurrency model in ADR-026 so the rationale is durable. SonarQube quality-gate fixes (clears all 9 OPEN issues) ------------------------------------------------------- - BLOCKER S6418: rename `SECRET` constant in test_storage_logging.py to `SENTINEL_PASSWORD_FRAGMENT` + NOSONAR with rationale. - CRITICAL S3776: extract `_build_postgres_engine()` from `initialize()` (was complexity 26 > 15); incidentally creates a clean unit-test seam for engine args. - CRITICAL S4423: `ssl.create_default_context(cafile=...)` is flagged as "weak protocol" — Python 3.10+ already negotiates the strongest available protocol. Explicitly pass `purpose=ssl.Purpose.SERVER_AUTH` and NOSONAR with the Python-version rationale. - MAJOR S3358: split the TLS-mode nested ternary in the engine factory into a `_describe_ssl_arg()` helper. - MAJOR S2068 ×3: bind test app-password literals to local vars and put `# NOSONAR S2068` on the same line as the literal (anchoring requirement) instead of on the closing paren. - MINOR S7503 ×2: `# NOSONAR S7503` on `_Cursor.__aenter__/__aexit__` — they MUST be `async` per the context-manager protocol. Pool sizing right-sized (answers "why so many connections?") ------------------------------------------------------------ - `DATABASE_POOL_SIZE` default 10 → **2**. - `DATABASE_MAX_OVERFLOW` default 20 → **5**. - Per-pod max drops from 30 to 7. With 3 replicas, total = 21 connections (was 90) — well under managed-Postgres `max_connections=100`. - New INFO log at startup: `Postgres engine ready: pool_size=N max_overflow=M (per-pod max K connections)`. Surfaces the active sizing without grepping config. - New ADR-026 § "Concurrency model and pool sizing" explains asyncpg's single-flight connection semantics, the MCP workload shape (read-mostly point lookups), why-not-1 (multi-user serialization), and the tune-up/tune-down recipe. - `docs/configuration.md` table updated with new defaults + homelab-vs-prod tuning guidance, linking the ADR. RETURNING path covered on Postgres ---------------------------------- - New `test_browser_session_delete_returning` exercises the `DELETE … RETURNING user_id` path — the only RETURNING clause in the storage layer and the most dialect-sensitive SQL in this PR. Asserts both present-row (returns True, row gone) and absent-row (returns False) branches. Schema portability polish ------------------------- - `alembic 001`: gate `schema_version` table creation on `op.get_bind().dialect.name == "sqlite"`. The table exists purely to match the fingerprint of pre-Alembic SQLite databases; fresh Postgres installs no longer carry the dead legacy table. Misc polish ----------- - Module docstring: "SQLite-based" → "SQL-backed", with a sentence on the DATABASE_URL opt-in and an ADR-026 link. - Comment on `_wrap_row` noting `row._mapping` is the documented RowMapping accessor in SQLAlchemy 2.x despite the underscore. Skipped (rationale in PR reply) ------------------------------- - `_qmark_to_named` SQL-comment handling: docstring already notes the limitation; no `?` in storage SQL comments today. - Module-level `anyio.Lock()`: established precedent confirmed by the bot itself. - `get_audit_logs` `SELECT *`: pre-existing pattern, out of scope. Verification ------------ - `uv run pytest tests/unit/` — 1025 passed. - `TEST_DATABASE_URL=… uv run pytest tests/integration/test_storage_postgres.py -m postgres` — 7 passed. - `ruff check && ruff format --check && ty check` — clean. - Confirmed `schema_version` absent on fresh Postgres, still present on fresh SQLite. Tracked on Astrolabe Cloud POC board, card #99. --- _This PR was generated with the help of AI, and reviewed by a Human_ Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -97,6 +97,45 @@ the runtime invokes it from `RefreshTokenStorage.initialize()` via
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The pattern is non-obvious; this note exists so a future maintainer
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doesn't try to "simplify" it back into the main loop.
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### Concurrency model and pool sizing
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The reviewer's natural reaction to seeing `DATABASE_POOL_SIZE=10` (the
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round-2 default) was: *isn't 1 connection enough for an MCP server?*
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This subsection records why a small pool is right, why 1 is not the
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target default, and what the workload actually looks like.
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**asyncpg connection semantics.** Each asyncpg connection is
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**single-flight** — only one query can be in flight at a time on a
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given connection. SQLAlchemy serializes additional requests in the
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pool queue. So the question is never "how many requests does the MCP
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server handle" but "how many concurrent storage operations are in
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flight at the peak".
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**MCP storage workload shape.** Each MCP tool call typically performs
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1–3 storage operations: a token lookup (`get_refresh_token` or
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`get_app_password`), maybe an audit-log write, occasionally a session
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update. Lookups are sub-millisecond point queries; writes are short.
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The hot path is read-mostly. No long-running transactions, no batch
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loads.
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**Why not 1?** A single-user (homelab) deployment genuinely works on
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`pool_size=1, max_overflow=2`. But the default ships for multi-user
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OAuth deployments where ≥2 concurrent client requests are normal; on
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`pool_size=1` those serialize on a single connection and you measure
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a latency cliff. The defaults `pool_size=2, max_overflow=5` (max 7
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per pod) cover typical multi-user MCP burst with two-replica
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headroom. With 3 k8s replicas the total is 21 connections — well
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under managed-Postgres `max_connections=100` (RDS, CNPG default).
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**How to tune.** `DATABASE_POOL_SIZE` / `DATABASE_MAX_OVERFLOW` env
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vars adjust the per-pod pool live (server restart). The startup
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``Postgres engine ready: pool_size=N max_overflow=M (per-pod max K
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connections)`` log line surfaces the active sizing so operators can
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see the per-replica footprint at a glance. For a fleet of N replicas,
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estimate worst-case Postgres connection count as
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`N × (pool_size + max_overflow)` and stay comfortably below the
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server's `max_connections`.
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### TLS for the Postgres backend
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Two settings mirror the existing `NEXTCLOUD_VERIFY_SSL` /
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@@ -138,8 +138,15 @@ TOKEN_ENCRYPTION_KEY=<fernet-key>
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| `TOKEN_STORAGE_DB` | Optional | Legacy SQLite-only path. Used when `DATABASE_URL` is unset. Falls back to a per-process ephemeral tempfile when both are unset. |
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| `DATABASE_VERIFY_SSL` | Optional | TLS verification toggle for the Postgres backend. Unset (default) → asyncpg's `prefer` mode (TLS if offered, no verification — keeps cluster-internal Postgres working). `true` → full cert verification. `false` → silence cert errors (homelab / self-signed). |
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| `DATABASE_CA_BUNDLE` | Optional | Path to a PEM file containing a private CA. Implies `DATABASE_VERIFY_SSL=true`. Use this for self-hosted Postgres signed by your homelab CA instead of disabling verification. |
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| `DATABASE_POOL_SIZE` | Optional (default `10`) | Per-pod SQLAlchemy connection pool size for the Postgres backend. Multiplied by `replicas`, this can exceed managed-Postgres `max_connections=100` defaults — tune down for large fleets. |
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| `DATABASE_MAX_OVERFLOW` | Optional (default `20`) | Per-pod overflow connections beyond `DATABASE_POOL_SIZE`. Max per-pod connections = `pool_size + max_overflow`. Set to `0` to make `pool_size` a hard cap. |
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| `DATABASE_POOL_SIZE` | Optional (default `2`) | Per-pod SQLAlchemy connection pool size for the Postgres backend. asyncpg connections are single-flight, so this only needs to cover concurrent storage ops (not concurrent tool calls). See [ADR-026 § Concurrency model and pool sizing](ADR-026-pluggable-database-backend.md). |
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| `DATABASE_MAX_OVERFLOW` | Optional (default `5`) | Per-pod burst connections beyond `DATABASE_POOL_SIZE`. Max per-pod = `pool_size + max_overflow` (default 7). Set to `0` for a hard cap. With 3 replicas the default totals 21 connections — well under managed-Postgres `max_connections=100`. |
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Operators with very high concurrency (many MCP clients per pod, or
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expensive Nextcloud round-trips holding storage locks) should tune these
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up; single-user / homelab deployments can drop to `DATABASE_POOL_SIZE=1
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DATABASE_MAX_OVERFLOW=2` for the smallest possible footprint. The
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server logs the configured sizes at startup so over-allocation is
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visible without grepping config.
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Homelab example (self-signed Postgres with a private CA):
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