Prune sliding_sync_connection_required_state table

changelog.d/19306.misc

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Prune stale entries from `sliding_sync_connection_required_state` table.

synapse/storage/databases/main/sliding_sync.py

@@ -450,6 +450,9 @@ def _get_and_clear_connection_positions_txn(
 
         # Now that we have seen the client has received and used the connection
         # position, we can delete all the other connection positions.
+        #
+        # Note: the rest of the code here assumes this is the only remaining
+        # connection position.
         sql = """
             DELETE FROM sliding_sync_connection_positions
             WHERE connection_key = ? AND connection_position != ?
@@ -485,9 +488,10 @@ def _get_and_clear_connection_positions_txn(
             ),
         )
 
-        required_state_map: dict[int, dict[str, set[str]]] = {}
+        # Map from required_state_id -> event type -> set of state keys.
+        stored_required_state_id_maps: dict[int, dict[str, set[str]]] = {}
         for row in rows:
-            state = required_state_map[row[0]] = {}
+            state = stored_required_state_id_maps[row[0]] = {}
             for event_type, state_key in db_to_json(row[1]):
                 state.setdefault(event_type, set()).add(state_key)
 
@@ -512,7 +516,44 @@ def _get_and_clear_connection_positions_txn(
         ) in room_config_rows:
             room_configs[room_id] = RoomSyncConfig(
                 timeline_limit=timeline_limit,
-                required_state_map=required_state_map[required_state_id],
+                required_state_map=stored_required_state_id_maps[required_state_id],
+            )
+
+        # Clean up any required state IDs that are no longer used by any
+        # connection position on this connection.
+        #
+        # We store the required state config per-connection per-room. Since this
+        # can be a lot of data, we deduplicate the required state JSON and store
+        # it separately, with multiple rooms referencing the same required state
+        # ID. Over time as the required state configs change, some required
+        # state IDs may no longer be referenced by any room config, so we need
+        # to clean them up.
+        #
+        # We do this by noting that we have pulled out *all* rows from
+        # `sliding_sync_connection_required_state` for this connection above. We
+        # have also pulled out all referenced required state IDs for *this*
+        # connection position, which is the only connection position that
+        # remains (we deleted the others above).
+        #
+        # Thus we can compute the unused required state IDs by looking for any
+        # required state IDs that are not referenced by the remaining connection
+        # position.
+        used_required_state_ids = {
+            required_state_id for _, _, required_state_id in room_config_rows
+        }
+
+        unused_required_state_ids = (
+            stored_required_state_id_maps.keys() - used_required_state_ids
+        )
+        if unused_required_state_ids:
+            self.db_pool.simple_delete_many_batch_txn(
+                txn,
+                table="sliding_sync_connection_required_state",
+                keys=("connection_key", "required_state_id"),
+                values=[
+                    (connection_key, required_state_id)
+                    for required_state_id in unused_required_state_ids
+                ],
             )
 
         # Now look up the per-room stream data.

tests/storage/test_sliding_sync_tables.py

@@ -3120,6 +3120,111 @@ def test_lazy_loading_room_members_last_seen_ts(self) -> None:
         # The timestamp for user1 should be updated.
         self.assertGreater(lazy_member_entries[user1_id], prev_timestamp)
 
+    def test_pruning_sliding_sync_connection_required_state(self) -> None:
+        """Test that we prune old entries from
+        `sliding_sync_connection_required_state`.
+        """
+
+        user1_id = self.register_user("user1", "pass")
+        user1_tok = self.login(user1_id, "pass")
+
+        room_id = self.helper.create_room_as(user1_id, tok=user1_tok, is_public=True)
+        self.helper.send_state(
+            room_id, EventTypes.Name, {"name": "A room"}, tok=user1_tok
+        )
+
+        # Do an initial sync, this will pull down the above room and thus cause
+        # us to store a single required state entry for the room.
+        sync_body = {
+            "lists": {
+                "foo-list": {
+                    "ranges": [[0, 1]],
+                    "required_state": [
+                        [EventTypes.Member, StateValues.LAZY],
+                    ],
+                    "timeline_limit": 1,
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        _, from_token = self.do_sync(sync_body, tok=user1_tok)
+
+        # Check that we have an entry in sliding_sync_connection_required_state
+        connection_pos1 = self.get_success(
+            SlidingSyncStreamToken.from_string(self.store, from_token)
+        ).connection_position
+
+        connection_key = self.get_success(
+            self.store.db_pool.simple_select_one_onecol(
+                table="sliding_sync_connection_positions",
+                keyvalues={"connection_position": connection_pos1},
+                retcol="connection_key",
+            )
+        )
+
+        required_state_entries = self.get_success(
+            self.store.db_pool.simple_select_list(
+                table="sliding_sync_connection_required_state",
+                keyvalues={"connection_key": connection_key},
+                retcols=("required_state_id", "required_state"),
+            )
+        )
+
+        # We expect a single entry here for the one room ID.
+        self.assertEqual(len(required_state_entries), 1)
+        first_required_state_id = required_state_entries[0][0]
+
+        # Update the sync body to request more required state, so that we get
+        # another entry in the table.
+        sync_body = {
+            "lists": {
+                "foo-list": {
+                    "ranges": [[0, 1]],
+                    "required_state": [
+                        [EventTypes.Name, ""],
+                        [EventTypes.Member, StateValues.LAZY],
+                    ],
+                    "timeline_limit": 1,
+                }
+            }
+        }
+
+        # We need to send a message to cause the room to come down the next
+        # sync. This shouldn't be necessary, but we don't currently implement
+        # immediately sending down the room when required_state is updated.
+        self.helper.send(room_id, "msg1", tok=user1_tok)
+
+        _, from_token = self.do_sync(sync_body, since=from_token, tok=user1_tok)
+
+        required_state_entries = self.get_success(
+            self.store.db_pool.simple_select_list(
+                table="sliding_sync_connection_required_state",
+                keyvalues={"connection_key": connection_key},
+                retcols=("required_state_id", "required_state"),
+            )
+        )
+
+        # We expect two entries here, one for old state and one for new state.
+        # The old entry doesn't get pruned yet as the previous from_token could
+        # still be used.
+        self.assertEqual(len(required_state_entries), 2)
+
+        # Sync again with the latest token. This time we expect the old
+        # entry to be pruned.
+        self.do_sync(sync_body, since=from_token, tok=user1_tok)
+
+        required_state_entries = self.get_success(
+            self.store.db_pool.simple_select_list(
+                table="sliding_sync_connection_required_state",
+                keyvalues={"connection_key": connection_key},
+                retcols=("required_state_id", "required_state"),
+            )
+        )
+
+        self.assertEqual(len(required_state_entries), 1)
+
+        # Double check that we have pruned the old entry.
+        self.assertNotEqual(required_state_entries[0][0], first_required_state_id)
+
 
 class SlidingSyncTablesBackgroundUpdatesTestCase(SlidingSyncTablesTestCaseBase):
     """