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glm-5.3-flash 009de420e1 docs(tasks): decompose wave 6 — the fleet GC mechanism, the architecture's most intricate state machine under concurrency
- store-fleet-construction: the fleet: true declaration slotting into
  the fleet-capable constructors (the recorded non-event), the
  composite fleet-validity predicate enforced at the constructor
  (kv=postgres AND pg-lo-same-instance OR local-on-declared-shared-
  media OR kv-only re-routing), the TTL/owner-id fleet state, the
  same-instance probe design point
- engine-pg-lo-joint: the pg-lo joint contribution — staged-put
  mechanics (512 KiB knee, CAS, transactional LO creation) into the
  store-held PgJointTx, the wave-5 deferred API-shape design point
- store-fleet-put: the joint entry+pin tx driver (amendment A1's
  drop discipline lands here — its recorded owner), the pin guard's
  TTL/3 renewal form, the dedup upsert-renewal, pin-first/
  publish-second for large=local, the consolidation one-tx put
- store-fleet-sweep: the SQL sweep lease (ADR-013 §2 semantics),
  SQL-level delete arbitration on the direct + window-execution
  paths, the expired-pin reaping clause (the seam as the named home
  for fleet-clause growth), the fleet liveness registration verb,
  the two-domain arbitration composition
- suite-column-fleet: the fleet column — two-instance factories over
  one schema, the exact-count fleet sweep rows (the wave's gate),
  lease contention, cross-instance arbitration, TTL/renewal rows,
  the fleet-validity predicate rows
- review-wave-6: the fleet gate per the plan, plus a standing
  code-smell/hygiene block — cargo doc --no-deps asserted clean
  (the twice-bitten PGLO-1 rustdoc private-link class), the
  allow(dead_code) scope notes audited against their remainder,
  stale wave-6 forward references, and task-Summary-vs-diff
  correctness

Harness server cited in every server-touching task: dockerized
pglo-poc (postgres:16-alpine) on :15432, db blobs, postgres/poc
(verified live 2026-10-12); env-driven ALKBLOBS_PG_* settings, clean
server-less skips, acceptance requires green against the server.

Dependency graph validated: two parallel roots (construction, pg-lo
joint), put merging them, sweep parallel to put, the fleet column
merging, the review gate last; no cycles.
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---
id: engine-pg-lo-joint
name: the pg-lo joint contribution — staged-put mechanics into the store-held tx
status: pending
depends_on: []
scope: moderate
risk: high
impact: component
level: implementation
tags: [wave-6, engines, pg-lo, gc]
---
## Description
Land the **pg-lo engine's joint contribution** — the wave-5 deferred
design point, recorded in `src/pg_lo.rs`'s scope boundary ("the *fleet*
joint form (wave 6's store-held tx, ADR-012 §4/§5's ruling that pg-lo
contributes LO writes + companion-row insert into it) is a wave-6
design point") and in `src/gc.rs`'s `EngineFleetState::joint_put`
clause doc ("an engine-task contribution against this `JointTx`
type"). Under the fleet consolidation posture (kv = postgres +
large = pg-lo, same pg instance — admitted by
`store-fleet-construction`'s predicate), a large entry's content
reaches the **same store-held transaction** the pin row commits in:
one tx over the shared instance — the pg-lo engine contributes its
staged-put mechanics (chunked `lowrite` + companion-row insert) into
it; the pin-row insert and the commit stay the store's (`pin_commit`,
the postgres host's clause — landed wave 4, unchanged here).
- **The one-tx ruling** (ADR-012 §4): the store core holds one
transaction over the shared instance; the pg-lo engine contributes
LO writes + companion-row insert; the pin-row insert is the store's.
The engine sees pins only as rows; never as semantics (ADR-010 §2's
correction of ADR-009's ownership statement — nothing of
`EngineFleetState` lands on pg-lo itself; the contribution is
mechanics the store core drives).
- **The contribution's API shape** — the named design point wave 5
deferred. The engine's existing staged put holds its own tx (the
held-tx posture: the staging cursor owns a pool checkout with an
explicit session-level `BEGIN`); the joint form inverts the
ownership — the store core's `PgJointTx` (the postgres engine's
held checkout, wave 4's recorded shape) is the tx the LO writes
ride. **Named design point — the contribution's API home**: decide
the shape consistent with the seam's ownership rule (the store
holds the tx; the engine contributes mechanics into it) — the
natural shapes are a crate-internal pg-lo method taking
`&mut PgJointTx` (the engine writes `lo_create`/`lowrite` +
the companion-row insert through the held checkout) or a joint
staging-cursor variant handed out against the held tx; decide,
record, and keep the public trait surface untouched (the
contribution is crate-internal, like every seam clause). The
`JointTx` type is the postgres engine's `PgJointTx` — the
consolidation posture's one shared instance is what makes the
type shareable (ADR-012 §4's checkable clause;
`store-fleet-construction` enforces it).
- **The staged-put mechanics, re-shaped not re-written**: the 512 KiB
`lowrite` knee (`LOWRITE_CHUNK`, the C2 citation), the CAS
existence check first (a re-put commits an empty contribution,
never `lo_create`), the companion-row insert, transactional LO
creation (zero crash orphans — C6, structurally: the LO lives and
dies with the store-held tx) — the engine's landed bodies carry;
what changes is whose tx they run in. The engine-level held-tx
staging cursor is **unchanged** (the non-fleet put path keeps its
own tx; the wave-5 hygiene tests stay green untouched).
- **Failure discipline**: every failure path inside the contribution
leaves the store-held tx in a state the driver can terminate — the
contribution never commits, never rolls back the store's tx
unilaterally (the driver owns termination; amendment A1's
discipline — the driver task owns the catch-propagate-terminate
design; this task's duty is that the contribution's error paths
compose with it: no partial LO state that outlives the tx's
rollback, which transactional LO creation already guarantees).
- **Contract tests** (engine-level, in `src/pg_lo.rs`'s test module,
the established env-driven convention): the contribution writes LO
content + the companion row into a `begin_joint_tx`-held tx and
`pin_commit` publishes entry + pin row in one step (byte-exact
round-trip after commit); a forced failure mid-contribution aborts
the whole tx with zero residue (no LO pages, no companion row, no
pin row, no kv row — the stage-hygiene invariant's tx form, the
wave-4 joint-atomicity test's pg-lo edition); the CAS re-put form
(a second contribution of the same key commits an empty
contribution; the pin row upsert-renews); the 512 KiB knee rides
(a multi-chunk contribution). **Tests need a live server** — the
alkstore harness convention: env-driven (`ALKBLOBS_PG_*`), skip
cleanly server-less, acceptance requires green against the harness
server (`pglo-poc`, :15432, db `blobs`, `postgres`/`poc` — verified
live 2026-10-12). Adopt the `SchemaJanitor`/per-test-database
isolation posture from the start (amendment A2's lesson — the
wave-4 leak is not re-learned).
- **Scope boundary**: the store-core driver that calls this
contribution on the fleet put path is `store-fleet-put`; this task
ships the engine-side mechanics and their contract tests. The
non-fleet pg-lo put path is untouched.
## Acceptance Criteria
- [ ] The pg-lo joint contribution exists behind the crate-internal
seam (the public trait surface untouched; nothing of
`EngineFleetState` implemented on pg-lo itself)
- [ ] The contribution's API shape decided and recorded (the
store-held `PgJointTx` is the tx the LO writes ride; the
ownership rule honored — the engine contributes, never owns)
- [ ] One-tx publish: LO content + companion row + pin row + kv row
commit in one step; byte-exact round-trip after `pin_commit`
(contract-tested)
- [ ] Zero residue on any failure path (no LO pages, no companion
row, no pin row, no kv row — contract-tested with a forced
failure); the contribution's error paths compose with the
driver's termination discipline (A1)
- [ ] The CAS re-put form (empty contribution, upsert-renewal) and
the 512 KiB knee contract-tested
- [ ] The non-fleet held-tx staging path and its wave-5 hygiene tests
unchanged and green
- [ ] `cargo test --features "pg-lo,postgres"` green server-less
(skipping) and against the harness server at acceptance;
`cargo clippy --all-targets -- -D warnings` and
`cargo fmt --check` green (default + the pg-lo variants);
`cargo doc --no-deps` clean
## References
- src/pg_lo.rs (the scope boundary recording this task; the held-tx
staging bodies this re-shapes; `LOWRITE_CHUNK`)
- src/gc.rs (`EngineFleetState::joint_put`'s clause doc — the
contribution's seam home; `JointTx`'s ownership rule)
- src/postgres.rs (`PgJointTx` — the held-checkout tx type; the
wave-4 recorded design points)
- docs/architecture/decisions/012-pre-decomposition-consistency-rulings.md
§4 (the one-tx ruling; the same-instance clause)
- docs/architecture/decisions/010-backend-io-seams-and-fleet-state-home.md
§2 (the ownership rule; the pg-lo correction)
- docs/architecture/decisions/009-pg-lo-large-tier-engine.md (the
engine shape the mechanics carry)
- docs/research/poc-pglo-findings.md (C2 the knee, C6 zero orphans)
- tasks/engine-pg-lo.md (the staged-put bodies this extends)
- tasks/review-wave-4.md (amendment A1 — the drop discipline the
contribution composes with)
## Notes
> To be filled by implementation agent
## Summary
> To be filled on completion