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Half of primitive_events on mainnet is values that never changed — 37.7M of 75.1M rows, 22 GB across two tables. Reads carry the last observation forward, so a record whose value equals what the stream already resolves to at that date answers nothing its predecessor did not. The digest cannot touch them: it collapses records within a day, and these streams write once a day, so their single record is its own open, high, low and close.

This adds the actions that remove them. Nothing is deleted until an operator turns enabled on, and it ships false.

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056-duplicate-prune-schema.sqlduplicate_prune_config: enabled (false), retention_days (30), prune_schedule, the sweep cursor last_stream_ref, updated_at_height. The row is seeded by the migration. digest_config is not, and the result is a network where digest has simply never run because nobody noticed the row was missing.

057-duplicate-prune-actions.sqlbatch_prune_duplicates prunes a batch of streams, auto_prune_duplicates takes the next slice of the sweep and calls it, get_duplicate_prune_config is what a scheduler reads. Leader-gated, capped with a cap + 1 probe, has_more_to_delete for resume — the digest shape throughout. What differs is the unit of work: digest keys on (stream, day) and drains a queue, and being a duplicate is a property of a whole stream, so this walks a cursor over streams.id and wraps at the end.

A record is deleted only when all seven conditions hold. The file header states them and why each is there; three are worth calling out because they were not obvious going in.

The rule is LAG(value), not a recursive walk. "Equals the nearest surviving earlier record" reads like recursion, but deleting every row whose value equals its predecessor's picks exactly the same set — inside a run every row but the first has an equal predecessor, and afterwards no two neighbours are equal, so one pass reaches a fixpoint. It also has to be non-recursive: kwil forbids ORDER BY and LIMIT on a recursive CTE, so a recursive form could not have been capped at all.

One survivor per retention window. Collapsing a flat run all the way to its head would leave an anchor arbitrarily older than the point it answers for, and get_indexed_value_at (migration 055) rejects an anchor older than the staleness window it was given rather than carrying it forward — so index_change_in_range would ERROR where it used to settle FALSE. Bucketing by the retention window bounds the anchor's age and covers every market interval: one that fits inside the window never reads pruned history at all, and one that exceeds it allows a staleness at least a window wide. It costs about 3% of the compression, which is the right trade.

A day loses all its markers, not just the pruned record's. get_daily_ohlc treats a day as digested if any surviving marker still joins a live record, then reads each of open/high/low/close from its own marker bit. Taking one marked record out and leaving the rest would answer NULL for that role beside three real values — corruption rather than absence. Clearing the day drops it back to the raw branch, which recomputes from the survivors.

The cap counts event times, not rows: every revision at an event time goes together, and primitive_events has carried no primary key since migration 017 dropped it, so there is no way to address a single row.

What changes for a reader

The value a read resolves to at any time is unchanged. That is the whole safety argument, and it is the only blanket guarantee — the header is explicit about the rest:

  • A range read returns fewer points: the same step function, fewer vertices.
  • An anchored read reports the anchor's own event_time, which moves back to the head of a run. Right value, older timestamp.
  • get_first_record is a forward scan rather than an anchored read, so pruning the record it would have returned moves its value.
  • get_daily_ohlc recomputes from what is left of a day.
  • A frozen_at replay of a pruned window no longer reproduces the pruned rows.

Validation

Fourteen action-level tests in tests/streams/digest/prune_actions_test.go, green against a real node:

go test -v -tags kwiltest ./tests/streams/digest/ -run TestPruneActions -count=1
--- PASS: TestPruneActions (394.48s)

They cover the worked example with a read at every day asserted identical before and after; first, newest and Truflation-watermark records; the retention boundary; cap-and-resume to convergence; one survivor per window and its fixpoint; two streams in one batch where the second opens on the value the first closes on, which an unpartitioned LAG would eat; every revision at one event time; markers travelling with their record; a digested day still readable after losing one of its marked records; the cursor sweep including the pinned-cursor branch and the scheduler's NOTICE; the seeded config; argument validation; and the leader gate.

Also kwil-cli utils parse on both files, and a re-parse of every embedded migration through GetSeedScriptStatements.

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The scheduler. enabled and prune_schedule have a reader in get_duplicate_prune_config and nowhere else yet — the second cron inside tn_digest is the follow-up, and it carries the closing keyword for the Problem.

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  • New Features
    • Added configurable duplicate-record pruning for data streams.
    • Supports scheduled, batched cleanup with retention settings and progress tracking.
    • Preserves required historical, newest, and protected records while removing redundant data.
    • Includes safeguards for retention windows, deletion limits, and authorized execution.
    • Pruning is disabled by default until explicitly enabled.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Removes associated event markers when duplicate records are pruned.
    • Supports resuming cleanup across capped batches without skipping data.
    • Keeps data readable across retention windows and stream boundaries.

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The PR adds a singleton configuration table and two leader-gated SQL actions for duplicate pruning. Batch pruning applies retention and watermark rules. Automatic pruning walks streams with a persisted cursor. New schema tests cover deletion behavior, reads, configuration, validation, and authorization.

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Duplicate pruning

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Prune configuration
internal/migrations/056-duplicate-prune-schema.sql, internal/migrations/057-duplicate-prune-actions.sql, tests/streams/digest/prune_actions_test.go
Adds the singleton configuration table, default row, configuration view, and tests for disabled defaults.
Batch duplicate pruning
internal/migrations/057-duplicate-prune-actions.sql, tests/streams/digest/prune_actions_test.go
Adds capped duplicate selection and deletion. The action handles retention windows, revisions, Truflation watermarks, stream separation, markers, and read behavior.
Automatic stream sweep
internal/migrations/057-duplicate-prune-actions.sql, tests/streams/digest/prune_actions_test.go
Adds cursor-based stream batching, retention resolution, cursor persistence, wrap-around handling, notices, and sweep tests.
Validation and authorization coverage
tests/streams/digest/prune_actions_test.go
Adds schema-test setup and checks for invalid arguments, empty batches, leader-only execution, and action-call results.

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tests/streams/digest/prune_actions_test.go (1)

703-709: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add a case for the cursor wrap-around.

This test drives the capped path and the advance path. It never drives the two remaining sweep branches in internal/migrations/057-duplicate-prune-actions.sql: the wrap-around at Lines 586-600, which resets the cursor to 0 and re-reads from the start of streams, and the empty-network path at Lines 602-609, which writes last_stream_ref = 0 and returns zeros. Both branches write the cursor, so a defect there silently stalls or restarts the sweep in production.

The wrap-around case is cheap to add here. Call auto_prune_duplicates once more after the cursor sits on the last stream, then assert the cursor returned to the first primitive stream of the next pass.

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In `@tests/streams/digest/prune_actions_test.go` around lines 703 - 709, The prune
cursor test should exercise the wrap-around branch by calling
auto_prune_duplicates once more after the cursor reaches streamRef, then verify
the returned cursor is the first primitive stream of the next pass. Add coverage
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239-244: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Materialize the deletable keys once and reuse them.

batch_prune_duplicates rebuilds the targetseffectiveserieswatermark_timesdeletable chain in Steps 1–4. Each statement reprocesses matching primitive_events rows and evaluates eight window expressions. A batch with deletions therefore repeats this work four times. The separate chosen CTEs also duplicate the deletion predicate, which can cause the probe and deletes to disagree after a partial edit.

Store the capped (stream_ref, event_time) keys from Step 1 in parallel arrays, then UNNEST them in Steps 2–4. Keep the cap + 1 probe separate from the cap arrays so has_more_to_delete remains correct.

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In `@internal/migrations/057-duplicate-prune-actions.sql` around lines 239 - 244,
Update batch_prune_duplicates so Step 1 materializes the capped deletable
(stream_ref, event_time) keys into parallel arrays, retaining a separate cap+1
probe for has_more_to_delete; change Steps 2–4 to UNNEST and reuse those arrays
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In `@tests/streams/digest/prune_actions_test.go`:
- Around line 1064-1067: Update the result handling around the nil/error guard
so callActionAsStrings does not dereference r.Logs when r is nil. Return an
appropriate error for a nil result, while preserving the existing wrapped-error
behavior for r.Error and the successful return of out and r.Logs for non-nil
results.

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In `@internal/migrations/057-duplicate-prune-actions.sql`:
- Around line 239-244: Update batch_prune_duplicates so Step 1 materializes the
capped deletable (stream_ref, event_time) keys into parallel arrays, retaining a
separate cap+1 probe for has_more_to_delete; change Steps 2–4 to UNNEST and
reuse those arrays instead of rebuilding the
targets→effective→series→watermark_times→deletable chain and duplicate chosen
predicates.

In `@tests/streams/digest/prune_actions_test.go`:
- Around line 703-709: The prune cursor test should exercise the wrap-around
branch by calling auto_prune_duplicates once more after the cursor reaches
streamRef, then verify the returned cursor is the first primitive stream of the
next pass. Add coverage for the empty-network branch as well, asserting it
writes last_stream_ref as 0 and returns zero values.

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Both nitpicks taken in 75b4efde.

Materializing the deletable keys. batch_prune_duplicates walks the rule once now, collects cap + 1 keys and slices back to cap into two parallel arrays, which is the shape auto_digest already uses for its own queue. Steps 2 to 4 UNNEST those arrays rather than rebuilding the chain, so a call makes one pass over the batch's records instead of four. That also closes the drift you pointed at, since there is one predicate now rather than four copies of it. The file went from 660 lines to 487.

Sweep coverage. testAutoPruneWrapsAtTheEndOfAPass runs two streams at stream_batch_size = 1 and checks the cursor across three calls: it lands on the first stream with has_more_to_delete true, then on the second with it false, then back on the first. The cursor moving backwards is the only visible sign the wrap happened.

The empty-network branch is covered in the config test, which already runs on a network with no primitive streams.

15 action tests green, go test -tags kwiltest ./tests/streams/digest/ -run TestPruneActions in 421s.

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