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Size a person release condition from a sample of the person keyspace, behind flags-blast-radius-query-v2, so the count stops crossing the per-query memory limit on large projects. The sampling and memory-bounded settings move out of the workflows audience service into products/feature_flags, which both products now share. Generated-By: PostHog Desktop Task-Id: be8e214b-4146-4efa-8f3c-5bd3bd59210a
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products/feature_flags/backend/person_sampling.py |
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products/feature_flags/backend/test/test_blast_radius_v2.py |
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products/feature_flags/backend/test/test_person_sampling.py |
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products/workflows/backend/api/test/test_hog_flow.py |
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products/feature_flags/backend/user_blast_radius.py |
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change adds shared sampled-or-exact person counting with bounded-memory ClickHouse settings. Feature-flag blast-radius requests use the sampling path when the team gate is enabled for person conditions. Audience v2 reuses the shared counting, sampling, and query-setting helpers. Tests cover count parity, sampled extrapolation, timeout handling, and separate workflows and feature-flag routing. Priority: ➖ Normal Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Filtered blast-radius counts on sufficiently large projects can exceed query memory rather than honoring the intended bounded-memory behavior. Use a spillable deduplication query shape before merging. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 1✅ Passed checks (1 passed)
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In `@products/feature_flags/backend/person_sampling.py`:
- Around line 40-42: Set timeout_overflow_mode to "throw" in both
HogQLGlobalSettings constructors, including the constructor in the
person-sampling settings and the v2 exact person-pagination path using
bounded_memory_settings(), so timed-out queries reject partial results.
In `@products/workflows/backend/services/audience_v2.py`:
- Line 112: Move the sample_predicate call in build_dedupe_count_query from the
persons WHERE conditions to a stage after latest-person collapse, so sampling
evaluates the current email_dedupe_group_expr rather than filtering raw
historical rows. Add a regression test covering a person whose email changes
where only the historical email hashes into the sample, and assert that the
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get_user_blast_radius is shared with workflows, which gates its own audience counts on workflows-audience-query-v2. The flags gate sat inside that shared function, so flags-blast-radius-query-v2 alone switched the workflows preview and the internal node endpoint to the sampled count, outside the workflows rollout. Move the gate to the flag API action and give the sampled count its own entry point, mirroring how workflows routes to its v2 count. Generated-By: PostHog Desktop Task-Id: b2a878ba-b8a2-442e-b16a-788f09a68e1a
timeout_overflow_mode was left unset, so both settings constructors inherited the cluster profile's overflow behavior. Under a "break" profile a timed-out aggregate returns whatever it read so far, and the sampled count then multiplies that partial tally by the modulus and reports it as an audience size. The exact person page has the same problem: a short page is a send that silently skips recipients. Set timeout_overflow_mode="throw" in both constructors, as the setting's contract in posthog/hogql/constants.py prescribes for sampling queries whose output feeds further computation. Generated-By: PostHog Desktop Task-Id: b2a878ba-b8a2-442e-b16a-788f09a68e1a
_get_person_blast_radius_persons has no production caller: the only route into get_user_blast_radius_persons is the workflows batch audience, which delegates just its group branch, and that lands in the group query. Passing the bounded settings there read a flags feature flag inside a function workflows shares, for a page nothing requests. Restore the call to its previous form. Generated-By: PostHog Desktop Task-Id: be8e214b-4146-4efa-8f3c-5bd3bd59210a
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This person-processing optimization uses a boolean feature flag keyed by the team UUID. The repository requires optimizations that affect person data processing to use a percentage rollout on person IDs, and that requirement must be satisfied before merging.
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Moderate issues remain around candidate-set memory bounds, v2 denominator coverage, timeout propagation, and nontrivial extrapolation coverage.
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Pull request overview
This PR adds memory-bounded, sampled blast-radius counts for feature flags while preserving workflows’ independent rollout behavior.
Changes:
- Extracts shared sampling and ClickHouse settings helpers.
- Adds the feature-flag rollout gate and v2 counting path.
- Updates workflows integrations and coverage tests.
File summaries
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products/workflows/backend/test/test_audience_v2.py |
Updated shared-helper references and tests. |
products/workflows/backend/services/audience_v2.py |
Uses shared sampling helpers. |
products/workflows/backend/api/test/test_hog_flow.py |
Verifies independent feature gates. |
products/workflows/backend/api/hog_flow.py |
Uses shared memory settings. |
products/feature_flags/backend/user_blast_radius.py |
Provides the flags v2 blast-radius entry point. |
products/feature_flags/backend/test/test_person_sampling.py |
Tests timeout settings. |
products/feature_flags/backend/test/test_blast_radius_v2.py |
Tests flags v2 counting and routing. |
products/feature_flags/backend/person_sampling.py |
Implements shared sampling and query-building logic. |
products/feature_flags/backend/api/feature_flag.py |
Routes through the feature gate. |
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products/feature_flags/backend/person_sampling.py:73
- The exact fallback is selected only from the sampled match count, but property filters can still materialize an
id INset containing every historical candidate person. A churny property can therefore have fewer thanMIN_SAMPLED_MATCHEScurrent matches while the exact rerun still exceeds the ClickHouse memory limit and returns the same 400 this change is meant to avoid. Please bound or avoid that candidate set, or make the fallback account for its size before choosing an exact result.
return run_count(None)
products/feature_flags/backend/person_sampling.py:97
- The timeout guarantee is tested only on the settings factory, not at this call site. If this
settingsargument were dropped or the sampled/exact mode were swapped, the current tests would still pass while ClickHouse could return a partial tally that is then multiplied. Add a boundary test for the public count path (or_run_person_count) that asserts the executed sampled and exact queries receive the corresponding throwing settings.
settings=count_settings(sample_modulus),
products/feature_flags/backend/test/test_blast_radius_v2.py:51
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SAMPLE_MODULUSset to 1, the multiplication is a no-op, so this test does not catch removing the extrapolation (sampled * SAMPLE_MODULUS) or using the wrong factor. Use a modulus greater than 1 with a deterministic sampled result, or coversampled_or_exact_countdirectly with such a case.
patch("products.feature_flags.backend.person_sampling.SAMPLE_MODULUS", 1),
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The release-conditions editor calls the sizing endpoint once per condition group, so a gate that can fall back to a network fetch puts a flag round trip in front of an interactive request. Read the flag locally only, and target the project group rather than a synthetic distinct id: local evaluation can resolve a group property carried on the call, where a person property would need the fetch it is meant to avoid. Same shape the recent-activity sizing gate uses. Generated-By: PostHog Desktop Task-Id: be8e214b-4146-4efa-8f3c-5bd3bd59210a
The comment read as though a v2-pinned team would cap this count near 101 rows. It cannot: the team_id condition sends the query down the persons table's prefilter path, which emits the v1 argmax dedup whatever the modifier says. Keep the pin, since losing that path would silently under-report the denominator, but say that it only matters in that case so a reader does not take it for an active guard. Generated-By: PostHog Desktop Task-Id: be8e214b-4146-4efa-8f3c-5bd3bd59210a
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Nice! Found some issues, but nothing blocking imo
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This gates on how many persons match, not on how big the table is. A team with 50M persons and a condition matching 600k samples about 9,375, falls under the threshold, and reruns exact over the whole table. That is the query this change exists to avoid. Has the exact rerun been timed on a team that size?
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Measured now, from the ClickHouse query log rather than wall clock. Your scenario is live rather than hypothetical, and the answer splits in two.
The exact rerun you asked about is fine. On our largest internal project a channel-type person condition matches ~608k persons. Sampled 1-in-64 that is 9,554, under the 10,000 threshold, so it takes exactly the fallback path. That fallback runs 5.5-5.7 s and peaks at 3.1-3.6 GiB, nowhere near the per-query ceiling. Page cache is worth about 12%, so it is CPU-bound on decompression, not disk-bound. The id prefilter holds the dedup to the matched candidate set, which is why it survives.
The query that does fail is the other one. Every sizing request also runs the unfiltered denominator count over the whole person table, on both the empty-condition and the filtered code paths. On the largest projects that count fails with MEMORY_LIMIT_EXCEEDED at the per-query ceiling, in every observed run across a week. So a person condition on those projects has no working estimate today, and the fallback you flagged is not what is broken.
Your cost concern still stands, and the data sharpens it in a way I did not expect. person has no SAMPLE BY key, so the sampling predicate prunes no granules — every sampling rate reads the same rows and the same marks, confirmed by SelectedMarks. Sampling divides the aggregation state and nothing else. It cannot reduce scan cost, which means the probe you flagged in your other comment costs a full extra scan, and no change to the sampling rate would fix that. Computing both counts in one scan would; that is a follow-up, not this PR.
Worth knowing for the rollout: the same query log shows flags sizing queries on other projects failing on timeout and on the simultaneous-query limit rather than on memory. This PR does not help those, and the extra scan could hurt them.
One result came out clean. Three sampling rates against the same exact count of 608,628:
- 1-in-64 — 9,554 sampled, estimate 611,456, +0.46%
- 1-in-32 — 19,057 sampled, estimate 609,824, +0.20%
- 1-in-8 — 76,198 sampled, estimate 609,584, +0.16%
All inside the predicted standard error, and well inside the ~3% the comment claims.
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Below the threshold this probe runs, gets discarded, and the exact query runs anyway. Any team under roughly 640k persons pays two counts where v1 paid one, and the editor calls this once per condition group. Worth keeping the flag scoped to teams that fail today.
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Correct, and it is two counts per number rather than per request: a filtered condition sizes both the numerator and the denominator, so it is up to four queries where v1 ran two.
The query log makes this worse than it looks. person has no SAMPLE BY key, so the sampling predicate prunes no granules — the discarded probe reads the same rows and the same marks as the exact count that replaces it. It is a full extra scan, not a 64th of one, and no change to the sampling rate would fix that.
Not fixed in code here, because deciding to skip the probe needs the team size, which is what the probe is for. The fix that does work is computing both counts in one scan with a countDistinctIf, which drops the pair to one pass. That is a follow-up rather than this PR.
Taking your suggestion for the meantime: the rollout note on flags-blast-radius-query-v2 now records this as a rollout cost and says to step through projects large enough to fail today rather than a blanket ramp to 100.
TestSampledOrExactCount::test_a_small_sample_is_discarded_for_an_exact_count asserts moduli == [SAMPLE_MODULUS, None], so the discarded probe is visible in a test rather than only in the code.
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With modulus 1 the multiply is a no op, so this still passes if the extrapolation is dropped entirely. A plain unit test driving the count callable with a stub would pin the multiplier and the threshold boundary.
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Right, and the modulus-1 test was worth less than it looked. Replaced with TestSampledOrExactCount in test_person_sampling.py, which drives the callable with a stub and needs no database.
Checked by mutation rather than by eye:
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* SAMPLE_MODULUSfails both extrapolation cases >in place of>=fails the "at the threshold" case alone
The ClickHouse test keeps its own job (that the gated path agrees with the v1 counts) and no longer carries the extrapolation claim.
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Worth asserting this stays true. A regression here is silent, it just puts a flags fetch in front of an interactive request. The cache gates in this product already pin these two kwargs in their tests.
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Added TestBlastRadiusGate, following test_both_gates_evaluate_locally_and_capture_nothing as you pointed at.
It pins a third thing alongside the two kwargs: groups and group_properties. The flag targets the project group, and local evaluation can only resolve that condition from the ids carried on the call, so dropping them makes the gate read False for every team whatever the rollout says — the same silent failure, one step further along.
All three checked by mutation: removing only_evaluate_locally, removing groups, or flipping send_feature_flag_events each fail it.
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This also reaches the workflows batch person enumeration path, where a timed out page used to come back short and quietly end pagination. Right change, but it flips a workflows failure mode with no workflows test. It also surfaces as a 500 there, because that handler catches every exception.
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Both parts are right, and the second one is why the change is worth making: has_more is len(page) == PERSON_BATCH_SIZE, so a short page reads as the end of the audience and the send skips every recipient after it. Silent truncation beats a loud failure only if nobody is counting on the recipients.
test_internal_user_blast_radius_persons_uses_workflows_query is now parameterized over the gate and asserts the settings the enumeration path actually receives, so gated on it must carry throw-on-timeout. Passing None there again fails the new case and leaves the gate-off case green. An actual ClickHouse timeout is not something I can force in a test, so this pins the wiring; TestPersonSamplingSettings pins the mode itself.
I left the 500 alone. That handler catching everything is pre-existing, and for this path a 500 is the outcome we want — the resolver sees the page failed instead of treating a short page as the end. Happy to narrow it if you would rather it were its own error class, but that felt like a separate change to the workflows error taxonomy.
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This says HogQL cannot spill to disk, but the settings these counts use set a spill threshold and describe it as degrading to disk. Both cannot be true. The claim holds only for the default settings, which this path overrides.
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You are right, and the defaults are the resolution: HogQLGlobalSettings().max_bytes_before_external_group_by is 0, so an un-overridden query does not spill, which is what kills it. This path sets 4 GiB.
Reworded to say the default settings set no spill threshold, and that the fallback stays bounded because count_settings overrides them. The same sentence was in the PR description, so I fixed it there too.
…meration timeout The extrapolation test drove the count with SAMPLE_MODULUS patched to 1, where the multiply is a no-op, so dropping the extrapolation entirely still passed. Drive sampled_or_exact_count with a stub instead, which pins the multiplier and both sides of the threshold boundary without a database. Add the two cases nothing covered. The gate's only_evaluate_locally and send_feature_flag_events kwargs now have a test, following the one the cache gates already carry: dropping either is silent, and dropping the group ids makes local evaluation read False for every team. The workflows enumeration path now has one too, because throw-on-timeout changed its failure mode from a short page that ends pagination quietly to a raise. Also correct two comments. The blast radius docstring said HogQL cannot spill to disk while the settings it uses set a spill threshold; only the defaults do not spill. The threshold comment called the exact rerun cheap without saying the scan is still full-table, which reads as a full-table dedup. Generated-By: PostHog Desktop Task-Id: be8e214b-4146-4efa-8f3c-5bd3bd59210a
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🟠 Major · Use a spillable deduplication plan for filtered person counts. · person_sampling.py:130
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🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy liftUse a spillable deduplication plan for filtered person counts.
build_person_count_queryemits scalarcount(DISTINCT persons.id).ClickHousePrinterrenders this ascount(DISTINCT persons.id), while the configured settings are appended to the top-level query. ClickHouse keeps the exact distinct values in one aggregate state.max_bytes_before_external_group_byspills GROUP BY hash-table entries, but it does not spill that state.optimize_aggregation_in_orderdoes not make it bounded.The sampled query still grows with the number of matched sampled persons. The exact rerun grows with the full matched-person count. Large teams can therefore exceed the query memory limit despite the configured spill threshold.
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persons.id, preserves the existing filters and sample predicate, and groups bypersons.id. Make the outer query count the inner rows. Add a generated-query regression test for this shape.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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count()over the person table for the denominator, whichever properties the condition sets. That count dedupes the whole table with a hashGROUP BY, holding one entry per person.MEMORY_LIMIT_EXCEEDEDat the per-query ceiling, in every observed run across a week. Those projects have no working path to a condition estimate today.ExposedCHQueryError, andunevaluable_filters_as_validation_errorsturns it into a 400 onfilters, so it reaches the editor and never reaches an issue.Changes
personhas noSAMPLE BYkey, so the hash predicate prunes no granules: every sampling rate reads the same rows and the same marks, confirmed bySelectedMarks. Sampling is a memory lever only.~and an estimate tooltip, so nothing in the UI changes.flags-blast-radius-query-v2. With the flag off every query runs exactly as it does today. The flag exists and starts on for project 2, with the catch-all at 0.get_user_blast_radius. Workflows shares that function and gates the same counts on its own flag, so a gate inside it would move workflows counts outside the workflows rollout.count_persons_seen_so_fardoes. Without the pin a project pinned to v2 reads a total capped near 101 (fix(hogql): stop v2 persons limit pushdown breaking aggregates #87323).products/workflows/backend/services/audience_v2.pytoproducts/feature_flags/backend/person_sampling.py, and both products import them. Workflows keeps its own gate and its own dedupe query.Note
The shared module is the part worth a look. The alternative was a second copy of the sampling inside flags. The memory bound depends on the sampling predicate reaching the raw person scan, and one test pins that, so a second copy would have been one query builder with no guard.
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products/feature_flags/backend/test/test_blast_radius_v2.pyis new. It pins the gated path to the v1 counts for a filtered and an empty condition. Sizing a condition from the wrong count fails it.TestBlastRadiusexercises the endpoint with the gate off, and these cases need it patched on.TestSampledOrExactCountdrives the count callable with a stub, so it pins the multiplier and both sides of the threshold boundary without a database. Checked by mutation: dropping the* SAMPLE_MODULUSfails two cases, and>in place of>=fails the boundary case alone.TestBlastRadiusGatepins the gate'sonly_evaluate_locally,send_feature_flag_events, and group ids, following the test the cache gates already carry. Dropping any one of the three is silent otherwise; each was checked by mutation.Nonethere again fails the new case and leaves the gate-off case green.test_sampling_predicate_reaches_raw_person_prefilternow guards the shared query builder, so it covers both products.TestBlastRadiuswith its ClickHouse snapshots, the hog flow blast-radius tests, repo-wide mypy, andhogli ci:preflight --strict.query_log_archive: the exact filtered fallback runs 5.5-5.7s and peaks at 3.1-3.6 GiB, against 1.0 GiB for the sampled shapes. Page cache is worth about 12%, so the query is CPU-bound on decompression rather than disk-bound.MEMORY_LIMIT_EXCEEDEDat the per-query ceiling on the largest projects, in every observed run across a week, and both the empty-condition and the filtered code paths call it. The sampled replacement was run against one of those projects and returned.Warning
The same query log shows a second failure mode this PR does not address: flags sizing queries that fail on query timeout and on the simultaneous-query limit rather than on memory. Sampling does not help those, because it does not reduce scan cost, and the sampled probe adds a scan per count. Enabling this on a project that already times out could make it worse. Roll out to the projects failing on memory first.
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