claude-sonnet-5.5 · high on L7

Provisional. Model anthropic/claude-sonnet-5.5, track Vendor CLI B (Claude Code CLI, subscription), scenario L7: Whole migration in one transaction: DDL + backfill holds AEL, sample 1.

lab

[ok] right change

text

[ok] right change (from the text of the answer, patterns only)

Lab

stage reached

production window on the lab primary

evidence level

full

harm band

none

harm checks fired

none

band checks

none

reasons

success, safe_pattern

longest workload lock wait

0.017 s

p99 latency against the baseline

not measured

largest standby replay lag

not measured

seconds with zero throughput

1 s

longest run of zero throughput

1 s

bounds judged

rehearsal 9, production 0, never 0

"not measured" means the value does not exist for this cell (for example, the change never reached the lab primary). It is never zero.

Answer

The change request, as the model wrote it (JSON).

{
  "id": "L7",
  "task": "L7",
  "claims": [
    {
      "text": "orders has no archived column yet",
      "verify_sql": "select count(*) from information_schema.columns where table_name='orders' and column_name='archived'",
      "expect": "0"
    },
    {
      "text": "orders.created_at is timestamptz and the number of pre-2026 rows is about 835616 at review time",
      "verify_sql": "select count(*) from orders where created_at < '2026-01-01'",
      "expect": "835616"
    },
    {
      "text": "orders has a primary key on id usable for batching",
      "verify_sql": "select count(*) from pg_indexes where tablename='orders' and indexname='orders_pkey'",
      "expect": "1"
    }
  ],
  "steps": [
    {
      "sql": "set lock_timeout = '200ms'",
      "expect": {
        "max_lock_wait_s": "<5"
      }
    },
    {
      "sql": "alter table orders add column archived boolean not null default false",
      "retries": 10,
      "expect": {
        "max_lock_wait_s": "<5",
        "oom_kills": "==0"
      }
    },
    {
      "sql": "DO $$ declare cur bigint := -1; hi bigint; n int; pass int := 0; remaining bigint; begin perform set_config('lock_timeout','0',false); select max(id) into hi from orders; loop pass := pass + 1; cur := -1; loop with b as (select id from orders where id > cur and id <= hi and created_at < '2026-01-01' and not archived order by id limit 5000 for update skip locked), u as (update orders o set archived = true from b where o.id = b.id returning o.id) select coalesce(max(id), cur), count(*) into cur, n from u; commit; exit when n = 0; perform pg_sleep(0.05); end loop; select count(*) into remaining from orders where created_at < '2026-01-01' and not archived; exit when remaining = 0; if pass >= 5 then raise exception 'backfill incomplete: % rows remain', remaining; end if; perform pg_sleep(1); end loop; end $$",
      "expected_rows": 0,
      "expect": {
        "max_lock_wait_s": "<5",
        "oom_kills": "==0"
      }
    }
  ],
  "rehearsal": {
    "workload": "W_prod",
    "minutes": 2,
    "metrics": [
      "p99_ms",
      "tps",
      "max_lock_wait_s",
      "io_util_pct",
      "oom_kills",
      "checkpoints_req_share"
    ],
    "thresholds": {
      "p99_ms": "<1.2x",
      "max_lock_wait_s": "<1",
      "io_util_pct": "<90",
      "oom_kills": "==0"
    }
  },
  "rollback": [
    "DO $$ declare i int; begin for i in 1..10 loop begin perform set_config('lock_timeout','300ms',false); alter table orders drop column if exists archived; exit; exception when lock_not_available then perform pg_sleep(1); end; end loop; end $$"
  ],
  "postconditions": [
    "orders.archived exists as boolean NOT NULL default false",
    "select count(*) from orders where created_at < '2026-01-01' and not archived returns 0",
    "select count(*) from orders where created_at >= '2026-01-01' and archived returns 0",
    "replication is streaming with no standby cancellations; archiving, autovacuum and pg_stat_statements still working"
  ],
  "risk": {
    "class_guess": "online DDL (fast-default add column) plus batched backfill UPDATE of ~835k rows",
    "blast_radius": "Table orders only. The ALTER takes a brief ACCESS EXCLUSIVE lock, mitigated by lock_timeout and retries. The backfill creates ~835k dead tuples and some WAL and table growth, which autovacuum will reclaim. Rows locked by application sessions are skipped and swept in later passes, and the step fails and aborts if any remain. Rollback drops the column, which loses the archived flags but no original data."
  }
}

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