fix(storage): bound adaptive partition materialization

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Large imports previously stopped increasing their partition count at 256, then materialized each growing partition without a recorded byte admission limit. Choose deterministic cuts from the input size and recorded target, up to 4,096, and refuse oversized fixed/detail or Arrow property partitions before retained materialization. Large hub groups may be refused at the ceiling, as selected by the maintainer.

The recorded 256 MiB per-partition budget accounts for fixed records/compact offsets and conservative Arrow decode/concat/reorder capacity. It is separate from routing, source decoding, allocator metadata and whole-process RSS. Authenticate sealed Arrow IPC spills before decode and retain that descriptor through decoding, including a pathname-substitution regression verified during CodeRabbit review. Preserve legacy checkpoint serialization and exact former-default resume authority; reject other budget mismatches.

Validation: cargo test --release -p graphforge-storage --lib passed (1,228 tests; six existing ignored measurement fixtures); make pre-push-fast, formatting and make gate-registry-check passed. Tests cover adaptive cuts/saturation, byte admission/overflow, concentrated hubs, nested and variable-width Arrow capacity, corrupted IPC, refusal/reopen, legacy budgets and existing recovery/determinism. Independent code review found no concrete blocker. Facade validation passed (754 tests), workspace release Clippy passed, and the candidate cut sweep plus all quiet S18–S20 comparisons passed. Acceptance report: S18 median wall +0.045%; individual S19/S20 wall −0.430%/+1.556%; four fixed-run digests match throughout. Extra ranges increase fsync counts while preserving their scaling policy. The report distinguishes native RSS from cgroup memory and records the local full pre-push prerequisite limitation.

CodeRabbit’s one actionable finding was independently verified and fixed in f34efd36; the bot confirmed the correction and resolved the thread. Storage tests and workspace Clippy passed again. The timing report explicitly measures 6d6b7f17; the later descriptor correction affects property-row IPC loading, outside that bare-graph fixed-run fixture. Final exact-head CI passed on f34efd36. Merge-queue CI passed, and the PR squash-merged as eeda1467. #1439 closure was verified.

Closes #1439.

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Walkthrough

Graph construction now records adaptive partition targets and materialization-byte limits. Fixed and row partition loading enforce these limits with Arrow memory accounting and authenticated row-spill reads. Recovery preserves legacy budgets, and tests cover serialization, refusal, determinism, and reopen behavior.

Changes

Partition budgets and shaping

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Budget contracts and adaptive planning crates/graphforge-storage/src/graph_construction.rs, crates/graphforge-storage/src/graph_construction/partition.rs, crates/graphforge-storage/src/graph_construction/partition/tests.rs, crates/graphforge-storage/src/construction_determinism_tests.rs	GraphConstructionBudgets now records target records and maximum partition bytes. Defaults, validation, serialization, legacy recovery, adaptive sampling, and materialization admission are covered.
Partition memory accounting crates/graphforge-storage/src/graph_construction/partition_memory.rs	Arrow arrays and row batches now use checked reservation accounting for buffers, elements, rows, batches, spill bytes, and overflow cases.
Partition admission and authenticated loading crates/graphforge-storage/src/graph_construction/partition_shaping.rs, crates/graphforge-storage/src/graph_construction/recovery.rs	Fixed and row partitioners enforce materialization limits during routing and loading. Row spills are validated and authenticated before Arrow IPC decoding.
Shaping integration and lifecycle validation crates/graphforge-storage/src/graph_construction/shape.rs, crates/graphforge-storage/src/graph_construction/partition_shaping/tests.rs, crates/graphforge-storage/src/graph_construction/tests.rs, crates/graphforge-storage/src/construction_lifecycle_tests.rs	Shaping passes the recorded limits to all partitioners. Tests cover endpoint resolution, refusal before allocation, corrupted inputs, retained state, and reopening sessions.

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Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 6d6b7

Row-spill contents can change after their digest is verified but before they are decoded, defeating the new pre-decode authentication boundary. Retain and decode from the authenticated descriptor before merging.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 3 | ❌ 2

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Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 55.32% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 47 functions across 11 files.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
Linked Issues check	❓ Inconclusive	The implementation summary supports the core coding objectives in issue #1439. It adds recorded-data adaptive cuts up to 4,096, retains a 256-partition floor, applies materialization admission to fixe…	Provide completed S18–S22 validation results at the reviewed head. Include the RSS gate result, peak RSS for each rung, rows per partition for each rung, fsync_synchronization.fsync_calls, and the four digest results.

✅ Passed checks (3 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The changed files support issue #1439. Partition memory accounting and Arrow spill authentication enforce bounded materialization before allocation or decode. Legacy budget serialization and resume ha…
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the primary change: bounding adaptive partition materialization in storage.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description is detailed and covers the change, testing, performance impact, compatibility behavior, linked issue, review focus, and validation results. It does not mark the template checkboxes, bu…

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Explanation

The implementation summary supports the core coding objectives in issue #1439. It adds recorded-data adaptive cuts up to 4,096, retains a 256-partition floor, applies materialization admission to fixed-width and Arrow row partitions, and adds determinism, overflow, refusal, recovery, and legacy-budget tests. The summary does not establish the issue's required S18–S22 acceptance evidence. It provides no measured RSS growth, peak RSS per rung, rows per partition, or fsync counts. It also states that S18–S20 cost comparisons remain in progress.

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#1439 acceptance evidence

Baseline ef8d1c6f; candidate 6d6b7f17578508d7ecb4b2add9233e4fc0d43143. Candidate CLI SHA-256 d87dbabe6db1b15e3e29b2d08ee8c1afcf206f02bfb2ddaf13cfc20d539ce571; baseline CLI SHA-256 e0a916689d2d8d0d7e9bf06e69c4c00340b91c1db90f7967fd37e88c44dd2457. Same Graph500 inputs and fresh projects, stock release CLI, complete begin/register-nodes/register-edges/validate/commit boundary, BenchExec CPUs 0–15 and 4 GiB. Every accepted observation passed quiet guards before, during and after.

Sample	Wall s	CPU s	Peak cgroup MB	Peak native-child RSS MB
s18-base-b1	26.754	25.522	858.88	—
s18-base-b2	27.263	25.500	867.39	—
s18-base-b3	27.247	25.512	878.99	291.45
s18-candidate-b1	27.129	25.405	869.23	—
s18-candidate-b2	27.259	25.537	862.80	—
s18-candidate-b3	27.440	25.783	873.32	285.99
s19-base-b1	56.005	51.817	1474.24	287.71
s19-candidate-b1	55.764	51.629	1464.89	291.08
s20-base-b1	108.756	102.559	2783.23	381.85
s20-candidate-b1	110.448	105.521	2758.97	351.20

S18 used three alternating pairs: median wall 27.247 → 27.259 s (+0.045%), below the predeclared >5% investigation threshold. S19 and S20 are individual comparisons: wall −0.430% and +1.556%, not statistical speedup claims. Native-child RSS is Linux RUSAGE_CHILDREN.ru_maxrss across the sequential CLI operations; its reporting was added for the final S18 pair and both larger pairs. Earlier valid wall/CPU observations are retained with RSS unavailable. Cgroup peaks include page cache and are not RSS. The initial s18-base-a1 failed before ingest because the harness project parent directory was absent; its logs are retained separately and excluded.

Rung / variant	Identity ranges	Node ranges	Max identity rows/range	Peak retained records	fsync at validate	Cumulative fsync at commit
S18 base	256	256	17544	977221	3904	3916
S18 candidate	272	256	16512	977221	4008	4020
S19 base	256	256	35088	1954812	5295	5307
S19 candidate	544	256	16512	1954812	7252	7264
S20 base	256	256	70176	3907842	8060	8072
S20 candidate	1088	256	16512	3907842	14559	14571

The node-domain cut remains 256 at these sizes; concentrated endpoint loads still determine peak retained records. Adaptive cuts alone do not bound hubs: the recorded pre-materialization byte refusal supplies the enforceable bound. Additional ranges increase synchronization counts (S20 validate 8,060 → 14,559); no durability barrier was removed. Both variants’ measured validate and cumulative commit fsync sequences satisfy the existing affine scale-bearing inequalities from scale_g500_ladder.rs::validate_affine_metric, evaluated by analyze.py. This is ingest phase evidence, not a complete lifecycle qualification.

Every observation accepted exactly 17×2^scale rows, rejected zero, and committed successfully. All four fixed-run SHA-256 values match baseline/candidate at every rung. The candidate cut sweep also passed at actual cuts 256/512/1024/2048/4096, with byte-identical fixed runs and published artifacts; rows/range 512/256/128/64/32, peak retained records 1024/512/256/128/64, five outputs and 184 fixture fsync operations throughout.

Validation: storage release library suite 1,228 passed, facade release library suite 754 passed, candidate ignored cut sweep passed, workspace release Clippy with -D warnings passed, make pre-push-fast, make gate-registry-check, formatting and diff checks passed. Existing ignored measurement fixtures remain ignored in the normal suites. Full local make pre-push was not completed: its prerequisite check found the isolated Python environment lacked coverage; no full-local-gate success is claimed. Required exact-head CI remains the merge authority.

The former adjacent-RSS growth condition was retired by #1466, and the old one-clock-difference test was superseded by merged #1416. This change follows the maintainer’s explicit adaptive-plus-fail-closed choice. It does not claim S22–S26 qualification or the #1387 throughput floor.

Raw evidence and reproduction on OVHC-AGENCY: /home/ubuntu/gf-1456-close-evidence/ (benchmark-protocol.md, provenance.sha256, final-provenance.sha256, run-comparison.py, run-measured.sh, ingest.py, quiet.py, measurements.json, analysis.json, summarize.py, analyze.py, build/test logs and per-sample receipts).

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