The gallery cursored on COALESCE(post.post_date, image_record.created_at)
across the Post outer join — an expression spanning two tables that no
index can serve, so every /scroll sorted a large slice of the library
(and the old frontend fired ten serially). Materialize it:
- image_record.effective_date column + ix_image_record_effective_date
(effective_date DESC, id DESC); alembic 0035 backfills
COALESCE(primary post's post_date, created_at) for existing rows.
- gallery_service._effective_date_col() now returns the column, so scroll
/ timeline / jump / neighbors all order off the index instead of
re-deriving the COALESCE. _neighbors reads record.effective_date
directly (drops an extra Post lookup).
- importer._apply_sidecar maintains it: when a primary post with a date is
linked, effective_date = post.post_date; plain inserts keep the
created_at-equivalent server default.
Tests: sidecar import asserts effective_date == post.post_date; gallery
ordering/timeline/jump test seeds set effective_date alongside created_at.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
gallery_service._provenance_clause artist branch was correlating its bare
Post reference to the outer query's primary_post_id outer-join, so the
artist filter silently matched zero rows for images with no primary post.
Alias Post inside the EXISTS subquery so SQLAlchemy adds it to the inner
FROM rather than treating it as a correlated outer table.
Five sidecar/import tests still asserted that a synthetic Source row
appears after a filesystem import. Alembic 0030 retired that behavior;
the Post sits null-source and the artist linkage lives on Post.artist_id.
Updated test_sidecar_creates_provenance, test_reimport_same_post_idempotent,
test_sidecar_artist_used_when_no_folder_artist, test_supersede_applies_new_file_sidecar,
and test_apply_sidecar_recovers_from_integrity_error to assert
post.source_id IS NULL + post.artist_id linkage instead.
bvandeusen