The throughput bottleneck was curator-side, not the network. lease() claimed the
lowest-id pending/expired jobs with `... ORDER BY id LIMIT n`, but with only a
plain `status` index Postgres walked the primary key from id=1, skipping the
entire prefix of already done/error rows before reaching pending ones. As `done`
grew (69k+), every lease became an O(done) scan — leasing crawled, the DB
saturated, and even /status (the queue GROUP BY count) stalled the agent.
- Migration 0070 adds two partial indexes over just the live slice: pending rows
indexed by id (hot path), and leased rows by lease_expires_at (crash-recovery
+ orphan sweep). They stay tiny no matter how large the done/error history.
- lease() split into two phases so each uses a partial index: claim pending
first (id-ordered, O(batch)); reclaim expired leases only when pending can't
fill the batch. Same semantics (SKIP LOCKED, attempts++, expired reclaim).
- Model __table_args__ declares the indexes so ORM and schema agree.
- Test: a done-prefix at low ids must not stop the lease reaching pending.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ttrj5P7upUTueSfoJcxEqa
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