fix(price): bound relayed price staleness at one TTL, not two - #925
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Closes MostroP2P#860. The Nostr provider accepts a trusted-node rate event up to `max_price_staleness_seconds` old, and the store then stamped it `as_of = now` and served it for another full window. The two windows stacked, so a relayed price could outlive the configured TTL. Stamp `as_of` with the event's own `created_at` instead. Total age is then bounded at exactly one TTL whatever age the event arrived with, and it needs no new configuration. `PriceProvider` gains a defaulted `last_observed_at()` returning `None` — correct for every HTTP provider, where ingestion time is observation time. Only `NostrProvider` overrides it, recording the `created_at` of the event that sourced the tick. `nostr_anchor_dependent` currencies are backdated too: a fiat-cross value built on a relayed anchor is no fresher than that anchor, even though `contributors` names only the cross provider.
Self-review follow-ups on the backdating change. `PriceStore::update` now drops a write whose observation is older than the one already stored. Without it a relayed event predating a direct fetch moved `as_of` backwards, refusing a currency that was servable a moment earlier — worse than writing nothing at all. The parameter is renamed `now` -> `as_of` and its doc corrected, since it is no longer always the wall clock. `observe_freshness` re-arms the past-TTL refusal flag on any served read, not only on a value younger than one poll interval. A relayed currency's age is measured from observation, so it can sit above one interval for its whole servable life — which would have let the "refusing" warning fire exactly once per process. The relayed test is `contributors.contains(&Nostr)` rather than equality: today `restrict_nostr_to_fallback` makes them equivalent, but `contains` fails safe if that invariant ever relaxes. Also: spec §6.4 updated to match, and two tests — an older relayed event must not shorten a window a direct fetch earned, and a tick without a Nostr contribution must not be backdated by leftover provider state.
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Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Severity of issue fixed: Medium Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Scheduler
participant PriceManager
participant NostrProvider
participant PriceStore
participant PriceReader
Scheduler->>PriceManager: run update_all
PriceManager->>NostrProvider: fetch price event
NostrProvider-->>PriceManager: quotes and created_at
PriceManager->>PriceStore: store relayed prices with created_at
PriceManager->>PriceStore: store direct prices with tick time
PriceManager->>PriceStore: count servable entries
PriceReader->>PriceStore: read price
PriceStore-->>PriceReader: serve or refuse by observation age
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- Around line 344-355: Update the opening definition in §6.4 to define `as_of`
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The design is right, and it's the one @arkanoider endorsed on #860 and I
arrived at in the #886 review — down to the shape (partition on
contributors, two store.update calls with different stamps). The
correction on #860 is the good kind: the !e.is_expired_at(now) gate at
nostr.rs:194 really is what binds, and the body carries the corrected
number instead of burying it.
Checked before commenting: merges clean onto main @ 7e6b600, and on the
merged tree cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features is clean, cargo fmt --check is clean, and all 146 price:: tests pass. pick_first_usable
returning the winning event is the right detail, and pinning event.id == valid.id in the two updated tests stops the newest-but-skipped candidate
creeping back.
One place the PR undersells itself. The "known limitation" justifies reading
provider state after the tick via contributors alone — which leaves the
other half of the partition, nostr_anchor_dependent, looking unjustified. It
isn't: in aggregate_tick that flag comes from anchor_uses_nostr, which
comes from kept_contributors over this tick's direct quotes, after
restrict_nostr_to_fallback. So it cannot be true unless Nostr's quote
survived this tick — exactly the same guarantee. Worth saying in the note.
Five things.
1. The test-plan claim is false for half the new tests. I ran them rather
than reason about them.
The body says "Each new test was run against the pre-fix code and fails
there; they are regressions, not restatements." Against pre-PR behaviour
(backdating neutralised in store_with_observation_time, monotonic guard
removed from PriceStore::update):
| Test | pre-PR |
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relayed_currency_is_stamped_from_observation_not_ingestion |
FAILED ✔ |
nostr_anchor_dependent_currency_is_also_backdated |
FAILED ✔ |
a_relayed_event_older_than_the_stored_value_does_not_regress_as_of |
ok |
a_tick_without_a_nostr_contribution_is_not_backdated |
ok |
The third does fail, but against commit 1 alone — I checked that state
separately. It's a proper regression test for commit 2, just not for the PR's
premise. The fourth passes in all three states: it isn't a regression test at
all, it pins a design choice (partition on contributors, not on
observed_at.is_some()). That's worth having, but it's a different claim.
#886 came down over a number asserted rather than checked. The body should say
which state each test fails against.
2. The tick reports currencies as fresh that it has just made unservable,
and the store now drops writes silently.
Two halves of one gap:
PriceStore::updatecontinues past a dropped write with no log and no
return value, so a discarded relayed rate leaves no trace anywhere.report.fresh_currencies = aggregates.len()is taken from the aggregate map
rather than from what the store accepted — and it reaches the operator:
scheduler.rslogs "still {} fresh currencies". After this PR a relayed
event arriving nearmax_ageis stamped at or past the TTL, so it can be
counted fresh whileget_pricereturnsTooStalein the same second.
Pre-PR that could not happen:as_of = nowalways meant a full window.
This is the observability face of the limitation you already name, and it's a
few lines in the code you're already editing — have update return the
applied count, and count only servable entries.
3. The warning re-arm changes behaviour for every currency and has no test.
Moving clear_warned(&self.warned_refused, key) out of the age <= one_interval branch is necessary — a backdated currency sits above one
interval for its entire servable life, so the refusal warning would fire once
per process — and "once per staleness episode" is better semantics than what
was there. But it also changes when the flag re-arms for directly-fetched
currencies, and nothing covers it:
stale_warning_is_one_shot_then_re_arms_on_fresh_read re-arms at age 0, which
passed before the change too, and
past_ttl_refusal_warning_not_suppressed_by_within_ttl_warning never touches
it. Put the line back where it was and both stay green.
The fixture in that second test is already the right one: seed as_of = now - 60 with update_interval = 1, read it (served, stale), assert
warned_refused is empty.
4. The unit that changed has no unit test.
The monotonic guard lives in PriceStore::update, and store.rs's five tests
never exercise a backwards as_of — the only coverage runs through the whole
manager. A three-line store test (update(X, 2_000); update(Y, 1_000); then
assert as_of == 2_000 and value == X) also pins that the value is
dropped along with the stamp, which the manager test doesn't assert.
5. CodeRabbit's doc comment is still open, and it's right.
§6.4 still opens with "as_of = the timestamp of the last tick that produced a
fresh aggregate for it", and the bullet directly beneath it now says the
opposite for relayed rates. One line.
Minor: the partition adds two HashMaps per tick on top of the clone that
was already there. Irrelevant at this cadence, but the follow-up you name
(carrying the timestamp on AggregateResult) removes it — better as an issue
than as a comment nobody will find.
I'd want (1) and (3) before merge. (2) is the one that will cost somebody an
afternoon in production.
… writes Review round on PR MostroP2P#925. `report.fresh_currencies` was sized from the aggregate map, so a tick could name a currency fresh in the same second `get_price` refused it. Reachable, not theoretical: the Nostr `max_age` gate is the full TTL with a deliberately inclusive boundary, it runs at fetch time, and the tick's `now` is only taken once every remaining provider's poll budget has burned down. The number reaches the operator through the partial-outage warning in `scheduler.rs` — precisely the tick a relayed rate lands in, since `restrict_nostr_to_fallback` only lets Nostr through for a currency nobody else covered. `PriceStore::servable_count` now answers it from the stored entries, using `get`'s own predicate. Counting applied writes would be wrong the other way: a write the guard drops leaves a *fresher* value in place. `PriceStore::update` returns how many writes it applied, so a discarded rate leaves a trace instead of vanishing. The manager logs the shortfall once per tick at debug — the guard doing its job is expected, not an anomaly. The monotonicity guard moves off wall-clock writes and onto a new `update_observed`, for backdated ones only. On `update` it was a freeze: a backwards clock step (NTP step after a bad-RTC boot, a resumed VM snapshot) puts `now` behind the stored `as_of`, every direct write for every currency is dropped, and `get` keeps serving the pre-jump price as fresh because `now - as_of` goes negative and negative is inside any TTL. Two tests for code this round did not change but that had no coverage of its own: the store's guard at the layer that owns it, asserting the value is dropped along with the stamp; and the refusal-warning re-arm, which changed behaviour for every currency while both existing warning tests stayed green with the line in either position. Docs: §6.4 opened by defining `as_of` as the producing tick's time, which the bullet beneath it contradicts (CodeRabbit). Same stale contract on `AggregatedPrice::as_of`, `TickReport::fresh_currencies`, and the store's module header. `store_with_observation_time` now records why reading the stamp after the tick is sound for the `nostr_anchor_dependent` half too: the flag comes from `kept_contributors` over this tick's post-restriction quotes, so it cannot be true unless Nostr's quote survived this tick.
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Thank you — and you were right to run them instead of reasoning about them. 1. The false test-plan claimReproduced your table before touching anything, the same way you built it —
Identical to yours, and the third does fail against commit 1 alone — I The claim is gone. The test plan is now a table naming, per test, the state it That is twice now on this issue that I have asserted something instead of 2. Fresh-but-unservable, and the silent dropBoth halves done, and the scenario is worse than "can happen" — it is the
One thing I did differently from your suggestion, and I think it matters: New regression: 3. The re-armTest written, and I verified your claim rather than assuming it: with
4. The store's own unit test
5. CodeRabbit's doc commentFixed, and it was not the only stale copy of that sentence — the same The note that undersold itselfVerified and documented. Something you did not ask about: commit 2 shipped a freeze
Every direct write for every currency dropped, and served as fresh the whole The guard now lives on a separate MinorAgreed on the two per-tick
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as_ofin the pipeline diagram.The diagram states
as_of: now. This conflicts with §6.4: relayed and Nostr-anchor-dependent values use their observation time. State observation time in the diagram.Proposed fix
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In `@src/price/manager.rs`:
- Line 335: Update the fresh_currencies calculation in the price aggregation
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not only currencies present in aggregates.keys(). Apply the same calculation on
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CodeRabbit round on PR MostroP2P#925, and it was right. Restricting the count to the tick's own currencies made it lie *downward*: every last-known-good value still inside its window went uncounted, and a partial outage is exactly what leaves those behind — which is exactly when `scheduler.rs` shows the number to the operator. Measured: three currencies stored, one refreshed next tick, all three servable, reported as one. `PriceStore::servable_count` now evaluates `get`'s predicate over the whole store. The two narrower counts were both wrong, in opposite directions: the aggregate map's size names a currency the tick just stamped past the TTL, while the tick's own currency set omits what the outage left standing. The `aggregates.is_empty()` early return no longer leaves the count at its default zero. That path is not only the all-providers-down case: every provider can answer and still contribute nothing, scoped out or losing the outlier filter, and the warning then read "still 0" while the store served everything it held. `fresh_currencies` becomes `servable_currencies`, and the operator line becomes "{} currencies still servable". An entry counted here can be old enough that `observe_freshness` warns "is stale ({}s old)" while still being served, so calling it fresh contradicts the vocabulary the module next door uses. The field's whole purpose on this PR is to stop being a number that misleads; leaving a misleading name on it finishes the job halfway. Docs: the §6.3 pipeline diagram said `as_of: now`, contradicting §6.4 (CodeRabbit). And §6.4's own "`as_of` never moves backwards" was stated as an unconditional store invariant when the guard is deliberately only on `update_observed` — a wall-clock write must land even behind a stamp already held. Caught by `/code-review` before pushing.
`observe_warnings` ran on the tick's aggregate map *before* the write, which was safe while every write landed. It stopped being safe in this PR's own `aba2063`: `update_observed`'s monotonicity guard drops a write whose observation predates what is already stored, and the aggregate then describes a value the node is not serving. Measured, three ticks, one currency: | Tick | served `source_count` | flag latched | | |---|---|---|---| | 1 | 2 | no | correct | | 2 | 2 (write dropped) | **yes** | warned "single source" while serving two | | 3 | 1 (genuine) | yes | already latched, so **no warning fired** | Both halves matter, and the second is the worse one: the flag is one-shot, so a latch earned by a value that never landed swallows the real transition when it happens. Confirmed as a regression rather than a pre-existing gap by disabling the guard — without it tick 2 reads `source_count = 1` and the warning is accurate. The single-source warning is a claim about what is being served, so it is now computed from the store and emitted after the write. The iteration set stays the tick's currencies: one absent from the tick keeps its last-known-good value, so its flag must not move either. Found by `/code-review` before pushing, along with a stale doc paragraph left stacked above the new one — it described the aggregate-driven behaviour this commit removes, and would have pointed the next reader back at the bug.
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Round 3 — 1. The count was lying downward too (CodeRabbit, Major)Restricting it to the tick's own currencies drops every last-known-good value still inside its window — and a partial outage is exactly what leaves those standing, which is exactly when So @Catrya's finding and this one are the same field lying in opposite directions. The only reading that satisfies both is "what can this node serve right now", which is what the log line was always asking. Also fixed on the same path: the Rename: The §6.3 pipeline diagram (the Minor) said 2. A third defect in
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| 1 | 2 | no | correct |
| 2 | 2 (write dropped) | yes | warned "single source" while serving two |
| 3 | 1 (genuine) | yes | already latched → no warning fired |
The second row is the visible bug; the third is the damaging one, because the flag is one-shot, so a latch earned by a value that never landed swallows the real transition. Confirmed a regression rather than a pre-existing gap by disabling the guard — without it tick 2 reads source_count = 1 and the warning is accurate.
Same principle as the count: the warning is a claim about what is served, so it is now computed from the store and emitted after the write. Pinned by a_dropped_write_neither_warns_nor_swallows_the_real_single_source, which covers both rows.
/code-review also caught a stale doc paragraph left stacked above the new one, describing the behaviour the commit removes.
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On upstream/main @ abbb66b (0.18.7, mostro-core 0.14.6, #882 included) merged with d832653: cargo fmt --all --check clean, cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings clean, cargo test 1346 passed / 0 failed / 2 ignored. No CI ran on this head — #929.
Every new test on this round was verified failing against the state without its own fix, in a throwaway worktree. Test-plan table in the PR body names the state each one fails against.
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- Around line 345-347: Move the servable_currencies assignment in update_all to
after the publish_rates_to_nostr().await branch, and sample Utc::now() at that
point so the count reflects prices that remain servable after publication.
- Around line 513-514: Update the snapshot handling in the price manager to
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…fixtures @arkanoider's `a_past_ttl_relayed_single_source_does_not_latch_the_warning` landed in `mod coverage_tests`, but `ScriptedProvider`, `manager_with_many` and the `Quote` helpers live in `mod tests`. Rust does not reach across sibling test modules, so `cargo clippy --all-targets` and `cargo test` both failed to compile: `E0433` on `ScriptedProvider` twice and `E0425` on `manager_with_many`. The test itself is unchanged — it is moved verbatim, next to `a_dropped_write_neither_warns_nor_swallows_the_real_single_source`, which covers the adjacent half of the same flag. His fix is right and it closes a gap this branch left open. Warning from the store rather than from the tick's aggregate was only half the rule: a value past the TTL is *stored* but not *served*, so its source count must not warn, and must not latch a one-shot flag that then swallows a genuine within-TTL single-source transition. `> max_price_staleness_seconds` is the exact complement of `PriceStore::get`'s `<=`. Verified by removing the skip: his test fails, the neighbouring one still passes. Nothing caught the build break because no CI runs on pull requests — MostroP2P#929.
…and name dropped writes
Two findings from `/code-review` on the past-TTL skip.
**The skip also skipped the re-arm.** `continue` on a past-TTL entry bypassed
the `else { clear_warned }` branch, not just the warning. A flag latched while
the currency was servable then survived the unservable stretch and swallowed
the genuine transition when it came back inside the window — the same one-shot
swallow the skip was added to prevent, one layer up. The warning is still
suppressed for an unservable value, but the flag is cleared: a currency we
cannot serve at all is not one we are warning about.
**The dropped-write trace named no currency.** It logged `{n}/{m} dropped`,
which records that something went missing without saying what, so it cannot
diagnose the rate that stopped moving — the one job it was added for.
`PriceStore::update_observed` now returns the codes it dropped and the manager
logs them. `update` loses its return value: with the guard off it, every entry
lands unconditionally, so a count there was always `aggregates.len()`.
Left alone deliberately: CodeRabbit's suggestion to sample the count after
`publish_rates_to_nostr`. @arkanoider evaluated it and declined with the right
reason — publishing is store-read-only, so the only difference is that `now`
advances by the send timeout, and `get_price` samples its own later clock
anyway. The single-now keeps the write clock and the count clock identical.
… taint The rustdoc argued the coarseness "over-refuses rather than over-serves", which reasons about stamping a blended value early. Measured, it is more than that: the backdated write also meets the monotonicity guard, so a tainted aggregate whose observation predates the stored stamp is dropped **whole** — the fresh, independently-observed direct half with it. Reproduced: tick 1 stores CUP from a direct Yadio quote at the tick's own clock; tick 2 has Yadio quoting CUP fresh again while El Toque cross-quotes it against a USD anchor only Nostr supplies, from an older event. The aggregate is tainted, the write is dropped, and CUP keeps tick 1's value and stamp. With the relay pinned on that event the same thing happens every tick, and the currency ages out to a refusal with a good direct quote arriving throughout. Still the right trade for a price that quotes trades, and the fix is per-contributor provenance (MostroP2P#959), not a change here. But it is a refusal this node could have avoided, not merely a shorter window, and the note should say so rather than let a reader infer the milder version.
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Thanks @arkanoider — the tACK and the hands-on pass are appreciated, and your finding was right and closed a gap I left open. Warning from the store instead of from the tick's aggregate was only half the rule. A value past the TTL is stored but not served, so its source count must not warn — I fixed "warn about what the tick computed" and stopped one step short of "warn about what is actually servable". Verified rather than assumed: removing your skip makes your test fail and leaves the neighbouring one green. Three things came out of picking it up. 1. The commit did not compile — and that is #929, not a slip
Moved verbatim into Worth naming the reason rather than the mistake: nothing caught it because no CI runs on pull requests. A commit that does not build reached an approval on this PR, in a repo that has 2. The skip also skipped the re-arm
Also: the dropped-write trace logged Your call on the other CodeRabbit comment is right, and for the right reason: publishing is store-read-only, so moving the count past it only advances 3. Measured a limitation this PR had understatedThe rustdoc argued the coarse
With a relay pinned on that event it repeats every tick and the currency ages out to a refusal while a good direct quote arrives throughout. Still the right trade here — refusing beats serving a figure staler than it claims — so I have not widened this PR for it. The rustdoc and the body now state the real consequence, and it is recorded on #959, which is where the fix belongs. VerificationOn @Catrya — your round-2 findings are all answered as of |
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The "is stale" warning now fires on a healthy node for every currency relayed over Nostr.
observe_freshness warns once a served value is older than one update interval, and it measures that from as_of. With this PR, as_of for a relayed currency is when the trusted node published the rate, not when we stored it. That's the right clock for the TTL, and it's what fixes #860. But the warning uses the same clock, so a relayed event that arrives already older than one interval trips it immediately, even when every tick is healthy.
Reproduced: with a healthy tick, a 400s-old event and update_interval_seconds = 300, the first get_price("ARS") logs ARS is stale (400s old, > 300s interval). Before this PR the same tick stamped now and stayed quiet. With the upstream node publishing on the same cadence as ours, that's most cycles, for every relayed currency that gets read. The prices served are correct; the problem is that an operator will read a healthy node as a degraded one, or learn to ignore the warning.
The two checks answer different questions. The TTL asks "how old is this price?", which is as_of. This warning asks "did our tick refresh it?", which is when we wrote it. Keeping both doesn't need #959's per-contributor provenance, just one more timestamp. AggregatedPrice is only built in store.rs:
- add a
written_atfield, stamped with the tick'snowon every write that lands (update_observedwould takenowalongsideobserved_at); - in
observe_freshness, measure the within-TTL warning fromwritten_at; - the TTL keeps using
as_of, unchanged.
That restores this warning's pre-PR behaviour and leaves the TTL fix untouched.
If you'd rather not widen the PR, the minimum is to document it where the warning is described, the get_price bullet in §6.4 and the observe_freshness rustdoc: for a relayed or nostr_anchor_dependent currency, this warning is expected in steady state and doesn't mean a tick failed.
A relayed rate's as_of is its source event's created_at (issue MostroP2P#860), but the within-TTL staleness warning asks 'did our tick refresh it?', so it must measure from when this node wrote the value. Add written_at to AggregatedPrice, stamped with the tick clock on every landed write, and measure observe_freshness from it. The TTL keeps using as_of, so the MostroP2P#860 fix is untouched. Without this a relayed event older than one update interval warned on a healthy node every tick.
The guard test passed a tick clock equal to the stored `written_at` (both 2_000), so a dropped write that still stamped `written_at` would have passed it. That now matters: `observe_freshness` measures from `written_at`, so such a stamp would present a value no tick refreshed as fresh. That includes the coarse `nostr_anchor_dependent` case documented in `manager.rs`, where the tainted write is dropped every tick and the currency has to warn, then age out. Both calls now use a tick clock of 3_000: the dropped write must leave `written_at` at 2_000, and the equal-stamp write that lands must move it to 3_000. Checked against a mutant that stamps `written_at` on the drop path: the new assertion fails there. That second assertion also pins a consequence, now stated in the test and in the `observe_freshness` rustdoc: `nostr-sdk` re-delivers an already-seen event to each query, so a relay stuck on one event is re-written every tick with the same `created_at`, the warning stays quiet, and the TTL refusal is the first signal. Not refreshing `written_at` on a re-observation would restore an early warning, at the cost of intermittent false ones when the upstream publishes slightly slower than our tick; left as the reviewer's shape and raised on the PR.
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@Catrya thanks. @arkanoider pushed exactly the shape you proposed as
I found one gap and closed it in One consequence worth your eyes, which I've left as is on purpose. The body's test table now lists both new tests with the state each one fails against ( Verified on |
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Closes #860. Replaces #886, which I withdrew — its premise did not survive
@Catrya's review, and the correction is on the issue.
The bug, restated correctly
The Nostr provider accepts a trusted-node rate event that is already some
age, and
PriceStorethen stamped itas_of = nowand served it for anotherfull
max_price_staleness_seconds. The two windows stack, so a relayed priceoutlives the configured TTL.
The size, corrected — the original issue said ~2x, which was wrong because it
missed the NIP-40 gate at
nostr.rs:194:is_expired_at)max_age)Both exceed the setting. This bounds both at exactly 1.0x.
The fix
This is the approach @arkanoider endorsed in the first reply on #860 ("carry
the event's own
created_atthrough toas_of") and @Catrya arrived atindependently in the #886 review. It turned out not to need the architecture
change I claimed it did.
Stamp
as_offrom when the rate was observed rather than when we ingestedit. Total age is then bounded at one TTL whatever age the event arrived with,
and no new configuration is involved.
PriceProvidergains a defaultedlast_observed_at() -> Option<i64>.Noneis correct for every HTTP provider — ingestion time is observationtime — so the five HTTP adapters are untouched.
NostrProvideroverrides it, recording thecreated_atof the event thatsourced the tick.
pick_first_usablenow returns the winning event so thetimestamp comes from the candidate that actually parsed, not the newest one.
PriceManagerstamps relayed currencies from that timestamp and everythingelse from
now.PriceStore::update_observed— the backdated write — never movesas_ofbackwards: a write carrying an older observation is dropped. Without this
a relayed event predating a direct fetch would move
as_ofback and refusea currency that was servable a moment earlier, worse than writing nothing.
It returns how many writes landed, so a discarded rate leaves a trace
instead of vanishing; the manager logs the shortfall once per tick at
debug, since the guard doing its job is expected rather than an anomaly.
report.servable_currencies(renamed fromfresh_currencies) counts whatthe store will actually serve —
PriceStore::servable_countapplyingget's own predicate over the whole store. This field lied in bothdirections before: sizing it from the aggregate map named a currency fresh
in the same second
get_pricerefused it (@Catrya), and restricting it tothe tick's own currencies dropped every last-known-good value still inside
its window (CodeRabbit). Both reach the operator through the partial-outage
warning in
scheduler.rs, which is precisely the tick a relayed rate landsin, since
restrict_nostr_to_fallbackonly lets Nostr through for acurrency nobody else covered. Counting applied writes is wrong too: a
write the guard drops leaves a fresher value in place, so that currency is
still servable.
observe_freshnesswarns"is stale ({}s old)"while still being served,so fresh contradicts the vocabulary the module next door uses. The
operator line is now
"{} currencies still servable".observe_warningsnow reads its source count from the store, after thewrite. It ran on the tick's aggregate map beforehand, which was safe while
every write landed — the monotonicity guard ended that, and a dropped
backdated write left it warning "single source" about a value the node was
not serving, latching a one-shot flag that then swallowed the genuine
transition.
nostr_anchor_dependentcurrencies are backdated too: a fiat-cross valuebuilt on a relayed anchor is no fresher than that anchor, even though
contributorsnames only the cross provider. That case is the one acontributors == [Nostr]test alone does not catch.Deliberate choices worth reviewing
The relayed test is
contains, not equality. Todayrestrict_nostr_to_fallbackdrops Nostr's quote for any currency anotherprovider covers, so the two are equivalent.
containsfails safe (stalesooner) if that invariant ever relaxes, rather than failing open (served
past its true age).
Not merged with
republishable_rates, whose predicate is the apparentinverse. They answer different questions: that one deliberately republishes
a value Nostr merely corroborated (pinned by
republishable_rates_keeps_a_currency_nostr_only_partly_helped_with), whilebackdating must trigger on any Nostr involvement. Sharing a helper would
break one of them.
The monotonicity guard is on
update_observedonly, never onupdate.Applying it to both was a freeze, and my own
/code-reviewcaught it in thefirst version of this branch: a backwards clock step (an NTP step after a
bad-RTC boot, a resumed VM snapshot) puts
nowbehind the storedas_of,so every direct write for every currency is silently dropped and
getkeepsserving the pre-jump price as fresh —
now - as_ofgoes negative, andnegative is inside any TTL. A wall-clock write is this node's own
authoritative observation and must always land; only a stamp we did not
generate needs the guard.
nostr_anchor_dependentis coarse, and the cost is bigger than "stampedearly". The flag is set when any surviving contributor resolved through
a Nostr-touched anchor, so a currency that also has an independent direct
contributor is backdated as a whole. Because the backdated write also meets
the monotonicity guard, such an aggregate is dropped whole when its
observation predates the stored stamp — the fresh, independently-observed
direct half with it. Measured: tick 1 stores CUP from a direct Yadio quote;
tick 2 has Yadio quoting CUP fresh again while El Toque cross-quotes it
against a USD anchor only Nostr supplies, from an older event — and the
write is discarded, CUP keeping tick 1's value and stamp. With a relay
pinned on that event it repeats every tick, and the currency ages out to a
refusal with a good direct quote arriving throughout.
Still the right trade here — refusing beats serving a figure staler than it
claims — but it is a refusal this node could have avoided, not merely a
shorter window, and the rustdoc now says that rather than the milder
version. Separating the halves needs per-contributor provenance
AggregateResultdoes not carry: Carry observation time on AggregateResult instead of reading it from provider state after the tick #959, where this consequence isrecorded.
Two clocks, because the store is asked two questions (round 5). The TTL
asks "how old is this price?" and reads
as_of, which this PR backdates fora relayed rate. The within-TTL "is stale" warning asks "did our tick refresh
it?", and reading
as_ofthere made it fire on a healthy node for everyrelayed currency whose event arrived older than one interval (@Catrya,
reproduced with a 400 s event and a 300 s interval).
AggregatedPricenowcarries
written_at, the storing tick's clock on every write that lands;observe_freshnessmeasures from it, and the TTL is unchanged. @arkanoiderpushed this as
a28536c, the shape she proposed. A write the guard dropsleaves
written_atalone, so a currency no tick refreshed — thenostr_anchor_dependentcase above — still warns, then ages out.Known limitations, not fixed here
A relay stuck on one event gets no early warning.
nostr-sdkre-deliversan already-seen event to each tick's query, so the same
created_atpassesthe guard (equal stamps apply) and
written_atmoves every tick. Thewithin-TTL warning stays quiet, and the first signal is the TTL refusal with
its own warning. That matches the warning's behaviour on
main, where thesame relay was also served forever; here it is at least refused at one TTL.
Not refreshing
written_aton a re-observation of the same event would bringthe early warning back, at the cost of intermittent warnings whenever the
upstream publishes slightly slower than our tick — the false alarm this round
removed. Left as it is, and open to the reviewers.
max_ageis still the full TTL, so an event arriving at nearly TTL age isaccepted and stamped effectively dead-on-arrival. Tightening the acceptance
window is a separate decision from fixing the double-count, and I would
rather it be settled on the issue than smuggled in here. What is fixed is
the observability half @Catrya flagged: such a currency is no longer
counted as fresh while
get_pricerefuses it.Observation time is read from provider state after the tick rather than
travelling with the quotes. Safe today, and — as @Catrya pointed out, this
note undersold it — for both halves of the partition, on the same
guarantee.
contributors.contains(&Nostr)states it outright;nostr_anchor_dependentcomes fromanchor_uses_nostr, i.e.kept_contributorsover this tick's direct quotes afterrestrict_nostr_to_fallback, so it cannot be true unless Nostr's quotesurvived this tick either. The doc comment now says so.
Threading the stamp through
fetch— or ontoAggregateResult— wouldstill remove the coupling, drop the map split (and with it the two
per-tick
HashMaps), and let the store write from one borrowed map. Filed as Carry observation time on AggregateResult instead of reading it from provider state after the tick #959rather than left as a comment nobody would find.
Test plan
The previous version of this section claimed every new test fails against the
pre-fix code. That was false for two of the four. @Catrya ran them rather
than take my word for it and was right; I reproduced her table before writing
anything, and each test now names the state it actually fails against.
relayed_currency_is_stamped_from_observation_not_ingestionnostr_anchor_dependent_currency_is_also_backdateda_relayed_event_older_than_the_stored_value_does_not_regress_as_ofa_tick_without_a_nostr_contribution_is_not_backdatedcontributors, not onobserved_at.is_some(). Worth having, but not a regression testa_relayed_rate_stamped_past_the_ttl_is_not_reported_freshaggregates.len()a_backwards_clock_step_does_not_freeze_direct_writesupdatetooupdate_never_regresses_as_of_and_drops_the_value_with_itwritten_aton the drop pathwritten_atalonea_served_but_stale_read_re_arms_the_refusal_warningage <= one_intervalservable_count_agrees_with_geta_partial_outage_counts_last_known_good_not_just_this_ticka_tick_with_no_aggregates_still_reports_last_known_goodreturn reporton the empty-aggregate patha_dropped_write_neither_warns_nor_swallows_the_real_single_sourceobserve_warningsrunning before the write, off the aggregate's own counta_past_ttl_relayed_single_source_does_not_latch_the_warningan_unservable_currency_re_arms_the_single_source_warningcontinue, which also bypassedclear_warneda_healthy_relayed_tick_does_not_warn_is_staleas_of— applied alone to3862c81, it failsupdate_observed_stamps_written_at_from_the_tick_clockmain@e5ea779(0.18.7, mostro-core 0.14.6, fix: validate the dispute initiator before refunding the escrow (#805) #825included) merged with this branch:
cargo fmt --all --checkclean,cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features -- -D warningsclean,cargo test1354 passed / 0 failed / 3 ignored. On the branchalone, 1260 passed. No CI ran on this head — ci.yml runs on push only, so pull requests are never built #929, which is also how a
commit that did not compile reached an approval on this PR.
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