revive flagged the if/else where the else branch was a return — invert
the condition and return the non-stale skip path early so the reap
flow drops one indent level.
Extracts the in-flight check + scan-start logic from handleTriggerScan
into a shared library.TryStartScan helper used by both manual and
(future) scheduled paths. Folds in the lazy 1-hour stuck-scan
reaper: in-flight rows older than StuckScanThreshold get
FinishScanRun-ed with error_message="reaped (stale)" and the new
scan proceeds.
handleTriggerScan becomes a thin wrapper preserving the same
external HTTP behavior (202/409/500). Operators no longer need to
manually clear stuck rows after a server crash — the next manual
trigger reaps it.
Tests gated on MINSTREL_TEST_DATABASE_URL: no-in-flight starts;
fresh-in-flight skips with row pointer; stale-in-flight reaps
(verified via finished_at + error_message); DB error propagates.
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