Delivery 2 (#381) gated every chain read on the layout marker and laid the
builds out beside the start; a read of the start then met the gate, the
controller exited, and systemd started it again every five seconds from
14:34 on 2026-10-18. The layout now runs once inside attachTheChain, before
anything reads; it skips keys laid out before, so it takes seconds, and a
failure is retried beside the serving as before.
Delivery 2 deleted the move and chain_moved, so the layout of the builds under their modules is made by the controller's start (LayBuildsOut), recorded by the key layout.done in the builds bucket, retried every half minute with an urgent condition while it fails; the chain on the bus is refused until it exists. Its source readers use the module and pointer reads.
Delivery 1 wrote no commit on the key of a pulled-in module, so after the upgrade those modules fell out of SentBuilds. At the start of the lease holder a copy fills every key that names no commit (creating a standing pulled-in key where none stands), overwrites nothing, empties each column it copied, and raises an urgent condition while it fails. Migration 0105 no longer drops node.sent_builds (issue 1112 does).
Every method of builds, build requests, rollouts, merges and assignments reads and writes the chain alone: the else branches that read the tables, the movers and MoveChain with their tests, chain_moved reads, ChainReads and the flags that switched a kind, the store's assignments mirror (KeepAssignmentPlans needs none of it: it uses only the AssignmentMirrored type, mirrors.go, and AssignmentValues, provisioning.go) and its tick, the move code of the controller's start, and ForTest's chain_moved row. The listed store tests of the move go with their functions; the tests of the readers, requests, assignments and plans that lived beside them stay in chain_store_test.go. Tests that replayed old data migrations over the build, assignment and pin tables are removed with the tables. The static test that no plan is written but through SavePlansMoving now reads the plan's chain path.
The first try of the move to the bus is made before the controller serves, and a failure of the kind that is tried again no longer holds the start: it is tried every half minute while the controller serves from the tables. Moving the assignments looked up the build of each commit by scanning the bucket of builds for each of them; it reads the builds once.
A request is the build's record under the id its outcome will carry, in state asked; the outcome takes its place and keeps the request beside it, so assign, the pending assignments and the planner read the builds bucket alone. The bucket removes no key, so a request past thirty days is not listed instead of deleted. The move folds build_request into the same records (one kind, builds, counted against both tables) and marks the requests never handed over to be asked again once: claimed before it is asked and settled after, so a crash loses the ask rather than making it twice. Also tests the chain buckets' options on a real bus, the assignments' mirror options included.
Once chain_moved records the kind, RecordBuild and every build read go through the chain (reuse key and published added); before that the tables are read as before. The serving controller copies the rows at its start, holding the lease: idempotent per key, rows counted against keys, the largest value measured, a refusal (urgent condition, nothing switched) on a count that differs or a value over the bus's largest, and a re-read when the table took a row meanwhile. ForTest attaches the chain in memory with builds moved; ForTestBefore leaves it unmoved. Build requests, gates and the other kinds are still in their tables.
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