Reverses a shipped, tested, merged decision (D4/PR #2) rather than building
on it — see docs/DECISIONS.md D15 for the full record: what was rejected
(Postgres as a second container; Postgres+PostGIS bundled inside the single
container via a supervisor), what this costs (no database-level RLS, no
PostGIS, procrastinate needs replacing — all stated as a concern before this
was decided, and reaffirmed anyway, which is the user's call to make about
their own instance).
The one invariant-critical consequence: isolation between users now rests
entirely on the repository-layer scope (db.py's `Scope.select()`), not two
layers. CLAUDE.md's invariant #4 is revised accordingly. This is not a
downgrade-and-hope — `Scope` is built so an unfiltered query against a
user-owned table is structurally harder to write than a scoped one (there is
no method on `Scope` that returns one), and
tests/test_auth.py::test_scoped_session_blocks_cross_user_reads replaces the
old RLS proof with the same empirical standard: it doesn't trust the query
builder filters correctly because the code reads correctly, it registers two
real users and checks.
test_unscoped_session_can_see_every_user_when_misused is the deliberately
alarming companion — it demonstrates exactly what a reviewer must now catch,
since nothing else will.
Six real, non-obvious SQLite behaviours found and fixed by actually running
this against a real file, not assumed from docs:
- Foreign keys, ON DELETE CASCADE included, are OFF by default per
connection — deleting a user silently left orphaned sessions/api_tokens,
no error either way. Fixed with PRAGMA foreign_keys=ON on every connect.
- Transactions default to DEFERRED, which only takes a write lock on the
first actual write — a real check-then-act race for invite redemption
(two concurrent redemptions could both read used_count < max_uses as true
before either commits). Fixed by disabling the driver's implicit BEGIN and
issuing BEGIN IMMEDIATE ourselves — SQLAlchemy's own documented recipe for
this, not improvised.
- DateTime(timezone=True) does NOT round-trip tzinfo on SQLite — a tz-aware
datetime goes in, a naive one comes back out, and every
`expires_at < datetime.now(UTC)` comparison in auth/service.py then raises
TypeError. Fixed once at the Base level with a UTCDateTime TypeDecorator
rather than per-column.
- Uuid(as_uuid=True) stores as 32-char hex with NO hyphens on SQLite, not
str(uuid)'s hyphenated form. A test fixture that raw-inserted the
hyphenated form left rows the ORM's own later UPDATE (via
invite.used_count += 1's autoflush) could never match by primary key,
updating zero rows and raising StaleDataError. Fixed by using .hex to
match exactly what the ORM itself writes.
- BEGIN IMMEDIATE applies to every transaction, reads included — a
long-lived test fixture that autobegins a transaction via a bare read and
never explicitly closes it holds SQLite's exclusive write lock for the
rest of the test, and a later scoped_session() call fails with "database
is locked". Not an app-code bug (every real session block closes cleanly
on exit), but real enough to document since the next person writing a
test against the db_auth fixture will hit it too.
- Python's sqlite3 module deprecates its own implicit datetime adapter as of
3.12 — silent today, warns on every raw-SQL datetime bind. Only ever hit
test fixture code (the ORM path never uses it, confirmed by running the
ORM-only health test with warnings promoted to errors and it stayed
clean); fixed there with an explicit .isoformat() rather than left for a
future Python version to turn into a real failure.
Also, since with_for_update() silently no-ops on SQLite (confirmed —
SQLAlchemy emits no SQL for it, no error either) rather than actually
locking anything: removed it from register()'s invite-redemption query and
corrected the comment to attribute the concurrency guarantee to BEGIN
IMMEDIATE, where it now actually lives.
One PR, not several, for the same reason PR #2 was: the migration, the
models, db.py, and the docs recording why are five views of one decision —
splitting them wouldn't make review easier, just disconnected. 552
insertions / 548 deletions across 17 files, most of it necessarily touching
what PR #2 shipped rather than net-new code.
Deliberately deferred, not solved here: PostGIS's replacement for spatial
storage, procrastinate's replacement for background jobs, and the
EXCLUDE USING gist constraint's replacement for component_installs — none
of those tables exist yet (Phase 1-2), so none of it is broken, and
docs/DECISIONS.md D15 records exactly what each future phase needs to
decide before it can be built. .gitea/workflows/deploy pipeline (PR #4,
built for the old 3-container Postgres compose stack) was closed as
superseded rather than merged; the single-container image build is
follow-up work, not part of this change.
Verified: ruff check, ruff format --check, and mypy --strict all clean.
13/13 pytest passing against a real SQLite file, including with
DeprecationWarning promoted to an error (confirms the sqlite3 adapter
deprecation fix actually holds, not just that it's quiet by default). Full
alembic upgrade -> downgrade -1 -> upgrade cycle run clean. alembic check
clean with no include_object filter needed at all now (SQLite starts with
nothing but what our own migrations create — no PostGIS/TIGER noise to
filter out in the first place). CI's exact migration command sequence
reproduced locally end to end before touching the workflow file.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>