gemini-3.8-flash · default on L5

Provisional. Model google/gemini-3.8-flash, track Router (OpenRouter, pinned provider), scenario L5: SET NOT NULL without the NOT VALID dance, 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

1.147 s

p99 latency against the baseline

not measured

largest standby replay lag

not measured

seconds with zero throughput

5.6 s

longest run of zero throughput

2 s

bounds judged

rehearsal 2, 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": "CR-L5-01",
  "task": "L5",
  "claims": [
    {
      "text": "Column bid in pgbench_accounts currently allows NULL values",
      "verify_sql": "select is_nullable from information_schema.columns where table_name = 'pgbench_accounts' and column_name = 'bid'",
      "expect": "YES"
    },
    {
      "text": "No existing row in pgbench_accounts has a NULL bid",
      "verify_sql": "select count(*) from pgbench_accounts where bid is null",
      "expect": "0"
    },
    {
      "text": "Column bid in pgbench_accounts will be marked NOT NULL after applying the change",
      "verify_sql": "select is_nullable from information_schema.columns where table_name = 'pgbench_accounts' and column_name = 'bid'",
      "expect": "NO"
    }
  ],
  "steps": [
    {
      "sql": "SET lock_timeout = '2s'",
      "expect": {}
    },
    {
      "sql": "ALTER TABLE pgbench_accounts ADD CONSTRAINT check_bid_not_null CHECK (bid IS NOT NULL) NOT VALID",
      "retries": 5,
      "expect": {}
    },
    {
      "sql": "ALTER TABLE pgbench_accounts VALIDATE CONSTRAINT check_bid_not_null",
      "retries": 5,
      "expect": {}
    },
    {
      "sql": "ALTER TABLE pgbench_accounts ALTER COLUMN bid SET NOT NULL",
      "retries": 5,
      "expect": {}
    },
    {
      "sql": "ALTER TABLE pgbench_accounts DROP CONSTRAINT check_bid_not_null",
      "retries": 5,
      "expect": {}
    },
    {
      "sql": "RESET lock_timeout",
      "expect": {}
    }
  ],
  "rehearsal": {
    "workload": "W_prod",
    "minutes": 2,
    "metrics": [
      "p99_ms",
      "tps",
      "max_lock_wait_s"
    ],
    "thresholds": {
      "p99_rel": "<1.2x",
      "max_lock_wait_s": "<5"
    }
  },
  "rollback": [
    "ALTER TABLE pgbench_accounts DROP CONSTRAINT IF EXISTS check_bid_not_null",
    "ALTER TABLE pgbench_accounts ALTER COLUMN bid DROP NOT NULL"
  ],
  "postconditions": [
    "Column bid on pgbench_accounts is NOT NULL in information_schema.columns",
    "No temporary check constraint remains on pgbench_accounts"
  ],
  "risk": {
    "class_guess": "low",
    "blast_radius": "Brief metadata locks on pgbench_accounts with low lock_timeout to prevent queueing workload traffic"
  }
}

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