"""worker_lane — one number: the cap. `slots`, `enabled` and `autoscale` go. Milestone 422, reshaped by the operator 2026-09-23: "auto should be always on, not a setting, so that idle instances quiet down when not running. the number that is visible and something the user can tweak and manage should be the cap itself the number of running workers is handled by the autoscaling function which is always on." ## What each dropped column was, and why it is not needed **`slots`** — how many workers the lane should run. That is a MEASUREMENT, not a preference: the autoscaler moves the live pool between one and the cap according to the backlog, and reads it back from the worker every minute. Storing it made it look like something to keep in agreement with the cap, which is exactly what the operator had to do. **`autoscale`** — whether the lane was allowed to size itself. It gated the mechanism behind a per-lane opt-in, so a lane nobody enabled simply never gave its slots back. Always on now, which is the only way "idle instances quiet down" can be true of an install nobody has configured. **`enabled`** — whether the lane consumes its queues. Derived from `cap > 0`. It and `slots = 0` were two spellings of one fact and were free to disagree; this migration picks the one an operator can see. ## Why the caps are rewritten rather than preserved The old defaults were 4 / 2 / 2 / 1, chosen when the number meant "the most you may raise SLOTS to" — a bound on a manual control, deliberately loose because moving within it was the ordinary act. The number now means "the most workers this lane may actually use", which is a different promise, and carrying the old figure over would silently quadruple the worker lane on every existing install at the moment this deploys. So every row is reset to the new defaults: **one for each required lane, zero for ML.** That loses whatever an operator had set — which is the honest trade, because what they set was an answer to a different question. The UI now tells a busy lane's operator to raise its cap, which is how the number gets back up on an install that needs it. ML at zero also keeps rule 164's carve-out intact: no consumers, so no model download until someone raises the cap. Revision ID: 0105 Revises: 0104 Create Date: 2026-09-23 """ from typing import Sequence, Union import sqlalchemy as sa from alembic import op revision: str = "0105" down_revision: Union[str, None] = "0104" branch_labels: Union[str, Sequence[str], None] = None depends_on: Union[str, Sequence[str], None] = None # (name, cap) — the same values `services/worker_lanes.LANES` declares. Seeded # here as literals rather than imported: a migration must describe the schema # at ITS point in history, and importing the live table would make this file # change meaning every time that table does. _CAPS = ( ("worker", 1), ("scheduler", 1), ("maintenance_long", 1), ("ml", 0), ) def upgrade() -> None: # The constraint goes first: it names `slots`, so dropping the column out # from under it fails on Postgres. op.drop_constraint("ck_worker_lane_slots_within_cap", "worker_lane", type_="check") op.drop_constraint( "ck_worker_lane_slots_non_negative", "worker_lane", type_="check", ) op.drop_column("worker_lane", "slots") op.drop_column("worker_lane", "enabled") op.drop_column("worker_lane", "autoscale") # Reset to the new meaning. See the docstring: the old value answered a # different question, and carrying it over would raise every lane. for name, cap in _CAPS: op.execute( sa.text("UPDATE worker_lane SET slots_cap = :cap WHERE name = :name") .bindparams(cap=cap, name=name) ) # A lane the old seed never wrote — or one an operator added by hand — is # left alone rather than guessed at. `_rows_by_name` creates any missing # row at the lane's default on first read. def downgrade() -> None: op.add_column( "worker_lane", sa.Column("slots", sa.Integer(), nullable=False, server_default="1"), ) op.add_column( "worker_lane", sa.Column( "enabled", sa.Boolean(), nullable=False, server_default=sa.text("true"), ), ) op.add_column( "worker_lane", sa.Column( "autoscale", sa.Boolean(), nullable=False, server_default=sa.text("false"), ), ) # Restore the pre-0105 invariants. `slots` comes back as 1 everywhere and # the caps are 1/1/1/0, so a lane at cap 0 would violate `slots <= cap` — # hence the clamp before the constraint is added. op.execute(sa.text("UPDATE worker_lane SET slots = 0 WHERE slots_cap = 0")) op.execute(sa.text("UPDATE worker_lane SET enabled = (slots_cap > 0)")) op.create_check_constraint( op.f("ck_worker_lane_slots_non_negative"), "worker_lane", "slots >= 0", ) op.create_check_constraint( op.f("ck_worker_lane_slots_within_cap"), "worker_lane", "slots <= slots_cap", )