perf(cohorts): re-key the cohort summary MVs for the criteria that read them - #458
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profile_event_summary_mv is ordered (project_id, profile_id, name,
event_date), and the property variant similarly with property_key after
name. Cohort criteria filter on name, a date range and optionally a
property, then GROUP BY profile_id. They never filter profile_id, so with
profile_id second the usable key prefix ends at project_id and every
criterion reads the project's entire slice of the MV however narrow the
criterion is. Cohorts run one such query per criterion, on a schedule.
Measured on a ~100M-row summary MV: a criterion that can only prune on
project_id reads 103,985,861 rows (10.9s); the same criterion with name
and event_date in the key prefix reads 115,141 rows (0.11s). Reproduced
from scratch on a seeded 373K-row MV: 373,500 rows read vs 28,348.
A sort key cannot be altered in place, so migration 20 creates
replacement MVs keyed for the consumer:
event_profile_summary_mv
(project_id, name, event_date, profile_id)
event_property_profile_summary_mv
(project_id, name, property_key, property_value, event_date, profile_id)
The SELECT bodies, the identity filter and the aggregate columns are
copied verbatim, so the new tables hold exactly the same rows as the old
ones and only the physical order differs. Verified locally: both old and
new MVs receive identical row counts from the same inserts.
populate: false, with history backfilled by a companion script that is
deliberately not a numbered migration so it cannot run inside the
migration container. These are AggregatingMergeTree tables, so re-running
a populated range double counts; the script is month-partition-aligned
with an explicit --replace retry path and requires --until to avoid
double counting the window the live trigger already covers.
The old MVs are left in place and keep receiving inserts, so this is
reversible by pointing cohort.service back at them. Dropping them is a
one-line follow-up migration once the new ones are verified.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The backfill was a hand-run script: it appended to the MVs, so it needed an exact --until to avoid double counting rows the live trigger had already written, and it refused to run without one. It also mixed topologies, resolving its target to the node-local <mv>_replicated while reading from the Distributed events. Make it migration 21 and rebuild rather than append. Each month's partition is dropped and rebuilt from events, which is idempotent by construction: an evicted migration pod is resumed by running again, and a month that was double counted heals on the next pass. That in turn removes the need to know when the MVs were created, so no operator input is required and a small deployment gets working cohorts with no flags. The bound is now read per month, straight after that month's drop. A run can take hours and the current month is dropped at the end of it, so a single bound taken at the start would delete every row the trigger wrote during the run and then decline to rebuild them. Boundary strings keep milliseconds for the same reason: created_at is DateTime64(3), and truncating the final batch to whole seconds drops the events in the boundary second after their trigger rows are gone. Reads and writes both go through the Distributed tables, so one run from one node covers every shard. DROP PARTITION is the exception, since the Distributed engine rejects partitioning, so it goes ON CLUSTER against the local table. Rebuilding a large events table unattended is still not wanted, so it steps aside above COHORT_BACKFILL_MAX_EVENTS rows and prints the manual command. The same file remains directly executable for supervised runs. Verified on standalone 26.1.3 and a keeper-backed 2-shard cluster 25.3: fresh install no-ops, history plus live-trigger overlap matches ground truth computed from events for both tables, one run writes both shards, re-runs from either node are stable, and a deliberately double-counted month returns to exact. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughChangesCohort summary materialized views
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The migration switches cohort reads to replacement summary views while monthly history is dropped and rebuilt. At the current head, live-write overlap, fixed-bound rebuilds, or interrupted parallel batches can leave cohort aggregates duplicated or incomplete, and consumers can read those states during cutover; merge should wait for these safeguards to be fixed or explicitly accepted. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Migration21
participant EventsTable
participant DistributedSummaryTables
participant ReplicatedSummaryTables
Migration21->>ReplicatedSummaryTables: Drop monthly partition
Migration21->>EventsTable: Read bounded event batches
EventsTable-->>Migration21: Return aggregate input rows
Migration21->>DistributedSummaryTables: Insert rebuilt summary batches
DistributedSummaryTables->>ReplicatedSummaryTables: Distribute inserted rows
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In `@packages/db/code-migrations/21-backfill-cohort-summary-mvs.ts`:
- Around line 361-380: Before the dropPartition call in the month loop, validate
that fixedUntil is at or after monthStart(nextMonth(month)) for every selected
month; reject the migration with an error when it is earlier. Leave dynamic
cutoff resolution and monthBatches processing unchanged for valid or non-fixed
cutoffs.
- Around line 221-233: Update the batch execution around
chMigrationClient.command to assign each worker query a unique query_id, cancel
sibling server queries when any batch fails, and await Promise.allSettled for
all workers before propagating the original failure. Do not rely solely on
abort_signal, since it does not cancel already-running server queries; preserve
the existing batch processing and onDone behavior for successful workers.
- Around line 141-176: Update summarySelect and propertySelect to construct
their ClickHouse data reads with the project’s custom query builder and query
functions instead of interpolated raw SQL, preserving the existing filters,
grouping, selected fields, and time bounds. Apply the same conversion to the
additional affected query functions near the referenced section, while leaving
migration DDL and metadata statements unchanged.
Apply the same fix in `@packages/db/src/services/cohort.service.ts` around lines
193 - 202: The same query-construction issue applies to all four changed cohort
read queries.
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| function summarySelect(start: string, end: string): string { | ||
| return `SELECT | ||
| project_id, | ||
| profile_id, | ||
| name, | ||
| toStartOfDay(created_at) AS event_date, | ||
| countState() AS event_count, | ||
| minState(created_at) AS first_event_time, | ||
| maxState(created_at) AS last_event_time, | ||
| sumState(duration) AS total_duration | ||
| FROM ${TABLE_NAMES.events} | ||
| WHERE created_at >= toDateTime64('${start}', 3) | ||
| AND created_at < toDateTime64('${end}', 3) | ||
| AND profile_id != device_id | ||
| GROUP BY project_id, profile_id, name, event_date`; | ||
| } | ||
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| function propertySelect(start: string, end: string): string { | ||
| return `SELECT | ||
| project_id, | ||
| profile_id, | ||
| name, | ||
| property_key, | ||
| property_value, | ||
| toStartOfDay(created_at) AS event_date, | ||
| countState() AS event_count, | ||
| minState(created_at) AS first_event_time, | ||
| maxState(created_at) AS last_event_time | ||
| FROM ${TABLE_NAMES.events} | ||
| ARRAY JOIN mapKeys(properties) AS property_key, mapValues(properties) AS property_value | ||
| WHERE created_at >= toDateTime64('${start}', 3) | ||
| AND created_at < toDateTime64('${end}', 3) | ||
| AND profile_id != device_id | ||
| AND property_key != '' | ||
| AND property_value != '' | ||
| GROUP BY project_id, profile_id, name, property_key, property_value, event_date`; |
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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
Use the required ClickHouse query builder for data reads.
These migration reads and the changed cohort-service reads construct raw SELECT SQL with template literals. Route the data and scalar queries through the repository’s query builder and query functions; retain raw SQL only for migration DDL and metadata statements.
Also applies to the changed SELECT paths in packages/db/src/services/cohort.service.ts.
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packages/db/code-migrations/21-backfill-cohort-summary-mvs.ts#L141-L176(this comment)packages/db/src/services/cohort.service.ts#L193-L202
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In `@packages/db/code-migrations/21-backfill-cohort-summary-mvs.ts` around lines
141 - 176, Update summarySelect and propertySelect to construct their ClickHouse
data reads with the project’s custom query builder and query functions instead
of interpolated raw SQL, preserving the existing filters, grouping, selected
fields, and time bounds. Apply the same conversion to the additional affected
query functions near the referenced section, while leaving migration DDL and
metadata statements unchanged.
Apply the same fix in `@packages/db/src/services/cohort.service.ts` around lines
193 - 202: The same query-construction issue applies to all four changed cohort
read queries.
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| await Promise.all( | ||
| Array.from( | ||
| { length: Math.max(1, Math.min(parallel, batches.length)) }, | ||
| async () => { | ||
| while (next < batches.length) { | ||
| const batch = batches[next++]!; | ||
| const startedAt = Date.now(); | ||
| await chMigrationClient.command({ query: batch.sql }); | ||
| onDone(batch, Math.round((Date.now() - startedAt) / 1000)); | ||
| } | ||
| }, | ||
| ), | ||
| ); |
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ClickHouse concurrent INSERT SELECT DROP PARTITION behavior query finishes after DROP PARTITION
💡 Result:
In ClickHouse, concurrent INSERT, SELECT, and DROP PARTITION operations are designed to coexist, though they interact through the system's storage and locking mechanisms. Behavior Overview: 1. SELECT queries: When a DROP PARTITION operation is initiated, it tags the affected data parts as inactive [1][2]. SELECT queries that are already in progress and using those parts can continue to read from them [3][4]. The physical deletion of the underlying data files from the filesystem occurs only after active queries finish using them [3][4]. 2. INSERT operations: Generally, INSERT operations and DROP PARTITION operations operate independently because they target different data parts or partitions [5]. They do not typically block one another. However, internal race conditions can occasionally occur in complex scenarios, such as when DROP PARTITION interacts with ongoing mutations or metadata synchronization in ReplicatedMergeTree [6][7]. 3. DROP PARTITION execution: The query itself is metadata-heavy and marks partitions as inactive almost immediately [1][2]. While it previously involved a more synchronous and potentially time-consuming file removal process, modern ClickHouse implementations handle the cleanup of data parts in a way that aims to be efficient and non-blocking for concurrent read/write traffic [3][4]. Potential Issues: - While designed for concurrency, extreme cases (such as high-frequency concurrent operations or specific cluster states) have historically seen rare errors like "Cancelled mutating parts" or connection resets if metadata synchronization conflicts occur [6][7][5]. - In ReplicatedMergeTree, ensuring that DROP PARTITION and INSERT operations do not conflict regarding block numbers or partition metadata is managed by the system, though developers should be aware that these are complex distributed operations [7][8]. In summary, you should expect these operations to complete successfully without blocking each other in normal production use, as ClickHouse handles the lifecycle of "inactive" data parts to allow concurrent SELECTs to complete their work before final file removal [3][4].
Citations:
- 1: https://clickhouse.com/docs/concepts/features/operations/delete/drop-partition
- 2: https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/blob/master/docs/en/sql-reference/statements/alter/partition.md
- 3: GitHub issue 33457 in ClickHouse/ClickHouse (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)
- 4: GitHub issue 43808 in ClickHouse/ClickHouse (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)
- 5: https://groups.google.com/g/clickhouse/c/tSMOh4wNIgQ
- 6: GitHub issue 57750 in ClickHouse/ClickHouse (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)
- 7: GitHub pull request 94123 in ClickHouse/ClickHouse (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)
- 8: GitHub issue 58925 in ClickHouse/ClickHouse (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)
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@clickhouse/client JavaScript command AbortSignal query_id documentation
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In the @clickhouse/client JavaScript/TypeScript library, both AbortSignal and query_id are parameters that can be passed to query methods like query(), command(), exec(), and insert() [1][2]. AbortSignal The abort_signal parameter accepts a standard AbortSignal instance (from the AbortController API) to cancel a request in progress [1][3]. - By default, aborting the signal cancels the client-side HTTP request but does not necessarily cancel the query executing on the ClickHouse server [4]. - To ensure read-only queries are cancelled on the server when the client-side request is aborted, you can enable the cancel_http_readonly_queries_on_client_close setting in the client configuration [4]. - For non-read-only queries (like INSERT) or more granular control, you must explicitly cancel the query on the server (e.g., using a KILL QUERY statement) [4][5]. Query ID The query_id parameter serves as a unique identifier for a query [1][2]. - If you do not provide one, the client generates a random identifier automatically [1][2]. - Providing a custom query_id is useful for tracking queries in the system.query_log table or for manually cancelling long-running queries using the KILL QUERY SQL statement [1][5]. - When manually overriding query_id, you must ensure it remains unique for every operation to avoid conflicts [2][5]. Example usage: const controller = new AbortController; const query_id = crypto.randomUUID; // Optional: generate a custom ID const result = await client.query({ query: 'SELECT sleep(3)', abort_signal: controller.signal, query_id: query_id, }); // To cancel: controller.abort;
Citations:
- 1: https://github.com/ClickHouse/clickhouse-docs/blob/main/docs/integrations/language-clients/js.md
- 2: https://clickhouse.com/docs/integrations/language-clients/js
- 3: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/AbortSignal
- 4: https://github.com/ClickHouse/clickhouse-js/blob/main/examples/abort_request.ts
- 5: https://github.com/ClickHouse/clickhouse-js/blob/main/examples/node/troubleshooting/cancel_query.ts
Cancel and settle sibling batches before recovery.
When one chMigrationClient.command call fails, Promise.all rejects but does not cancel or await other workers. An in-flight INSERT can finish after a retry drops the same partition and duplicate aggregate states. Use unique query_id values, explicitly cancel sibling server queries, and await Promise.allSettled before propagating the failure. abort_signal alone only closes the client request.
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In `@packages/db/code-migrations/21-backfill-cohort-summary-mvs.ts` around lines
221 - 233, Update the batch execution around chMigrationClient.command to assign
each worker query a unique query_id, cancel sibling server queries when any
batch fails, and await Promise.allSettled for all workers before propagating the
original failure. Do not rely solely on abort_signal, since it does not cancel
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| for (const month of months) { | ||
| // Drop first, then take the bound, so anything the trigger writes from | ||
| // here on is kept by the trigger and excluded from the rebuild. | ||
| await runClickhouseMigrationCommands([ | ||
| dropPartition(target.table, month, isClustered), | ||
| ]); | ||
| const until = | ||
| fixedUntil ?? (await scalar('SELECT toString(now64(3)) AS t')); | ||
| if (!until) { | ||
| throw new Error(`${month}: could not resolve the rebuild upper bound`); | ||
| } | ||
| const batches = monthBatches( | ||
| month, | ||
| until, | ||
| batchDays, | ||
| target.table, | ||
| target.select, | ||
| ); | ||
| if (batches.length === 0) { | ||
| continue; |
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Reject fixed cutoffs that do not cover every dropped month.
If --until is inside a selected month, Line 364 drops the full partition, but monthBatches rebuilds only rows before that cutoff. If --until precedes a later selected month, batches is empty and Line 380 leaves that partition empty. The migration then reports success with incomplete cohort summaries.
Validate before dropPartition that a fixed --until is at or after monthStart(nextMonth(month)) for every selected month.
Proposed guard
for (const month of months) {
+ if (
+ fixedUntil &&
+ new Date(`${fixedUntil.replace(' ', 'T')}Z`) <
+ new Date(`${monthStart(nextMonth(month)).replace(' ', 'T')}Z`)
+ ) {
+ throw new Error(
+ `--until must cover the complete rebuilt month: ${month}`,
+ );
+ }
+
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| for (const month of months) { | |
| // Drop first, then take the bound, so anything the trigger writes from | |
| // here on is kept by the trigger and excluded from the rebuild. | |
| await runClickhouseMigrationCommands([ | |
| dropPartition(target.table, month, isClustered), | |
| ]); | |
| const until = | |
| fixedUntil ?? (await scalar('SELECT toString(now64(3)) AS t')); | |
| if (!until) { | |
| throw new Error(`${month}: could not resolve the rebuild upper bound`); | |
| } | |
| const batches = monthBatches( | |
| month, | |
| until, | |
| batchDays, | |
| target.table, | |
| target.select, | |
| ); | |
| if (batches.length === 0) { | |
| continue; | |
| for (const month of months) { | |
| if ( | |
| fixedUntil && | |
| new Date(`${fixedUntil.replace(' ', 'T')}Z`) < | |
| new Date(`${monthStart(nextMonth(month)).replace(' ', 'T')}Z`) | |
| ) { | |
| throw new Error( | |
| `--until must cover the complete rebuilt month: ${month}`, | |
| ); | |
| } | |
| // Drop first, then take the bound, so anything the trigger writes from | |
| // here on is kept by the trigger and excluded from the rebuild. | |
| await runClickhouseMigrationCommands([ | |
| dropPartition(target.table, month, isClustered), | |
| ]); | |
| const until = | |
| fixedUntil ?? (await scalar('SELECT toString(now64(3)) AS t')); | |
| if (!until) { | |
| throw new Error(`${month}: could not resolve the rebuild upper bound`); | |
| } | |
| const batches = monthBatches( | |
| month, | |
| until, | |
| batchDays, | |
| target.table, | |
| target.select, | |
| ); | |
| if (batches.length === 0) { | |
| continue; |
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In `@packages/db/code-migrations/21-backfill-cohort-summary-mvs.ts` around lines
361 - 380, Before the dropPartition call in the month loop, validate that
fixedUntil is at or after monthStart(nextMonth(month)) for every selected month;
reject the migration with an error when it is earlier. Leave dynamic cutoff
resolution and monthBatches processing unchanged for valid or non-fixed cutoffs.
The COHORT_BACKFILL_MAX_EVENTS threshold and its --force escape hatch are gone. The constant was an invented number standing in for "how long will this take", which row count is a poor proxy for, and it made the automatic path conditional on a guess. Months now rebuild newest first. Cohort criteria mostly use relative timeframes, so the recent months are the ones that make cohorts correct again, and an interrupted run leaves the useful end done. Also drop the caveat about cohorts under-counting mid-rebuild needing attention: the cohortRefresh cron already recomputes every non-static cohort every 30 minutes, so it resolves on its own. Re-verified on standalone 26.1.3 and a 2-shard cluster 25.3 from empty databases: both tables match ground truth computed from events, re-runs from either node are stable, and a deliberately double-counted month returns to exact. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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339-353: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy liftSerialize live writes with the partition rebuild
An event inserted after
DROP PARTITIONand before the per-monthnow64(3)bound can be written by the live materialized view and also included bymonthBatcheswhen itscreated_atis earlier thanuntil. The two aggregate states then merge, which inflates counts and durations. Quiesce writes or otherwise exclude trigger-captured events from the source scan. Add an integration test for this interval.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@packages/db/code-migrations/21-backfill-cohort-summary-mvs.ts`:
- Around line 339-353: Update the migration flow around dropPartition, the until
bound, and monthBatches to serialize or quiesce live writes during the rebuild,
or otherwise exclude events captured by the live materialized view from the
source scan so they cannot be aggregated twice. Preserve correct rebuild bounds
and add an integration test covering an insert between DROP PARTITION and bound
resolution.
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profile_event_summary_mvis ordered(project_id, profile_id, name, event_date), and the property variant similarly withproperty_keyaftername.Cohort criteria filter on
name, a date range and optionally a property, thenGROUP BY profile_id. They never filterprofile_id. Becauseprofile_idsits second in the key, the usable prefix ends atproject_id, so every criterion reads the project's entire slice of the MV however narrow the criterion is. Cohorts run one such query per criterion, on a schedule.Measured on a ~100M-row summary MV:
project_idcan prunename+event_datein the prefixReproduced from scratch on a seeded 373K-row MV, both keys side by side on identical data: 373,500 rows read vs 28,348.
Change
A sort key can't be altered in place, so migration 20 creates replacement MVs keyed for the consumer:
The SELECT bodies, the
profile_id != device_idfilter and the aggregate columns are copied verbatim. The new tables hold exactly the same rows as the old ones; only the physical order differs.cohort.servicereads the new tables;delete.servicecleans them up.Migration 21 fills them with history.
Migration 21, the backfill
populate: false, so the live trigger only indexes events inserted after CREATE and everything older has to be aggregated fromevents.It rebuilds rather than appends. Each month's partition is dropped and rebuilt. These are AggregatingMergeTree tables, so an append overlapping rows the trigger already wrote would double count them; a rebuild can't, because the trigger's copies for that month are dropped first. Three things follow:
now64(3)read immediately after that month's drop: older rows had their trigger-written copies dropped and are rebuilt, newer rows stay the trigger's.The bound has to be per month rather than per run. A run can take hours and the current month is dropped at the end of it, so a single bound captured at the start would delete every row the trigger wrote during the run and then decline to rebuild them. Taking it after each drop narrows the exposure to the round trip between the drop and the read.
Months are rebuilt newest first, since cohort criteria mostly use relative timeframes: the recent months are the ones that make cohorts correct again, and an interrupted run leaves the useful end done.
The same file stays directly executable for supervised runs, with
--from/--to/--until/--only/--batch-days/--parallel/--dry.The tradeoff a rebuild makes is visibility: while a month is being rebuilt its partition is incomplete, so a cohort computed in that window under-counts that month. Nothing needs doing about it,
cohortRefreshalready recomputes every non-static cohort every 30 minutes.Clusters
Reads and writes both go through the Distributed tables, so one run from one node covers every shard, which keeps this to a single migration pod doing the whole job.
The one statement that can't be distributed is
DROP PARTITION: the Distributed engine rejects partitioning outright (Code: 48. Table engine Distributed doesn't support partitioning). That one goesON CLUSTERagainst<mv>_replicatedinstead, which clears every shard in a single statement. Still one run.Testing
Standalone ClickHouse 26.1.3 and a keeper-backed 2-shard cluster on 25.3, migrations applied from an empty database each time. Ground truth is computed directly from
eventsrather than from a previous run, so each check is independent.The cluster testing is also what caught two boundary bugs in earlier revisions of this PR, both silent: a run-scoped bound that would have deleted everything the trigger wrote during a long run, and batch boundaries truncated to whole seconds against a
DateTime64(3)column.Operational notes
The old MVs are left in place and keep receiving inserts. That makes this reversible by pointing
cohort.serviceback at them, at the cost of writing both sets until you're satisfied. Dropping the old ones is a one-line follow-up migration whenever you want it, and I'm happy to send that separately.Not touched:
cohort_events_mvand the retention path that reads it. Our fork consolidated that away too, but I didn't want to change how retention is served without knowing your preference, so this PR is scoped to the two profile summary MVs.Naming
I used
event_profile_summary_mv/event_property_profile_summary_mvbecause the name then reflects the key order, and because the old names have to stay valid while both exist. Happy to rename if you'd rather have something else.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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