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Issue being fixed or feature implemented

The document update walker disagrees with the insert and delete walkers about where a unique index entry lives when some of its indexed fields are null.

The insert walker (add_reference_for_index_level_for_contract_operations_v0) stores an entry in the non-unique layout — a [0] tree keyed by document id — whenever the index is non-unique or any indexed field is null (uniqueness can't be enforced on null), and writes no entry at all when every field is null on a nullSearchable: false index. The delete walker uses the same dispatch. The update walker instead dispatched on all_fields_null (AND-accumulated across the indexed fields) for its write/refresh sites, and its old-entry delete used bare !index.unique with no null handling at all.

Consequence: for a unique index where some (not all) indexed fields are null, updating the document deletes the old entry with the wrong key and rewrites the new entry as a bare reference at key [0] — the unique layout, which no query and no later delete ever reads for null-bearing entries. The document silently becomes unfindable through that index. The divergence reproduces from PV1 onward (verified empirically at PV1, PV13, and PV14); it was noticed during the time-range indexes work (#3740) but is independent of it.

What was done?

Fixed the v1 update walker (update_document_for_contract_operations_v1), which only PV14 dispatches to — PV14 has never activated, so no released consensus behavior changes; the v0 walker stays frozen for PV1–13:

  • Track four null accumulators — any/all × new/old document — since an update can change a field's nullness, and the old entry lives in the layout the insert walker chose from the old document's values while the new entry must go where queries will look based on the new document's values.
  • Old-entry delete now dispatches on !index.unique || old_any_fields_null, and is skipped entirely when the insert walker would never have written an entry (old_all_fields_null on a nullSearchable: false index).
  • The write and refresh sites dispatch on !index.unique || any_fields_null, with the same all-null skip — matching the insert walker's terminator dispatch exactly.

How Has This Been Tested?

  • New regression test test_update_document_with_unique_index_when_some_indexed_fields_are_null: a unique index on [firstName, lastName] with lastName null; the document is inserted, then firstName is updated. Before the fix the updated document was unfindable by index query (0 results instead of 1); it also confirms no entry remains under the old index value. The same test pinned to PV1 and PV13 fails identically, confirming how far back the divergence goes (those pins are not committed — v0 is frozen).
  • Full cargo test -p drive --lib: 3337 passed, 0 failed.

Breaking Changes

Consensus-affecting for PV14 only (never activated): document updates touching unique indexes with null-bearing fields now write/delete different GroveDB state than the previous dev code. No released protocol version changes behavior; v0 (PV1–13) is untouched.

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  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved document index updates when indexed fields contain null values.
    • Corrected unique-index handling during document updates, including removal of outdated index entries.
    • Ensured all-null index entries are omitted when they are not searchable.
    • Preserved correct aggregate and reference behavior during index updates.
  • Tests

    • Added regression coverage for updating documents with null-valued unique-index fields.

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The insert and delete walkers store a unique index entry in the
non-unique layout (a [0] tree keyed by document id) whenever ANY
indexed field is null, since uniqueness cannot be enforced on null,
and skip the entry entirely when ALL fields are null on a
nullSearchable: false index. The update walker instead dispatched on
all_fields_null (AND across fields) for its write/refresh sites and on
bare !index.unique for its old-entry delete.

For a unique index where some (not all) indexed fields are null,
updating the document deleted the old entry with the wrong key and
rewrote the new entry as a bare reference at key [0] — a location no
query or later delete looks at, so the document became unfindable
through the index. Reproduces from PV1 through PV13.

Fix the v1 update walker (dispatched at PV14, which has never
activated; v0 stays frozen) to use the insert walker's dispatch on
both sides: the old entry's layout is computed from the old document's
field nullness, the new entry's from the new document's, and both
sides mirror the nullSearchable all-null skip.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The v1 document update path tracks null indexed fields separately for old and new documents. It applies insert-walker-compatible layouts, skips omitted all-null entries, and adds regression coverage for partially null and all-null unique indexes.

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Null-aware index updates

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Null-aware dispatch and index layouts
packages/rs-drive/src/drive/document/update/internal/update_document_for_contract_operations/...
The update path detects null indexed values, tracks old and new document nullness, skips non-searchable all-null entries, and selects the correct unique or non-unique index layout.
Null-bearing unique-index regression coverage
packages/rs-drive/src/drive/document/update/mod.rs
Tests cover partially null updates and all-null-to-value and value-to-all-null transitions for nullSearchable: false indexes.

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This PR aligns PV14 document-update index handling for unique indexes with null fields, preventing affected documents from becoming unfindable; it is limited to an unreleased protocol version, and the supplied tests pass. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains beyond normal checks and review.

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✅ Final review complete — no blockers (commit dcc49a9)

QuantumExplorer and others added 2 commits August 13, 2026 19:51
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Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Walks one document through all three all-null skip arms: all-null to
all-null (nothing to refresh), all-null to value (no old entry to
delete), and value to all-null (no new entry written).

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764-764: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Pin both regression tests to protocol version 14.

Set platform_version with PlatformVersion::get(14).expect("protocol version 14 exists") before setup, and pass it to setup_drive_with_initial_state_structure(Some(platform_version)). This keeps the entire test on the protocol-version-14 walker instead of using PlatformVersion::latest().

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In `@packages/rs-drive/src/drive/document/update/mod.rs` at line 764, Update both
regression tests to pin the protocol version by obtaining it with
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Final validation — Codex/Sol only (Phase 2 disabled)

The implementation correctly aligns old-entry deletion, new-entry writes, and unchanged-index refreshes with the insert walker's null-aware layout while preserving the existing PV14-only dispatch. One corrected consensus-relevant refresh path remains untested: an unchanged, partially null unique index.
Source: reviewer backend gpt-5.6-sol (Codex); final verifier backend gpt-5.6-sol (Codex). openclaw-agent/cliproxy/gpt-5.6-sol is orchestration-only and not reviewer evidence.

Validated zero-blocker Codex/Sol precheck evidence was promoted to final because Phase 2 (Sonnet/Opus) is temporarily disabled. This is Codex/Sol-only final validation, not Codex + Sonnet/Opus coverage.

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In `packages/rs-drive/src/drive/document/update/internal/update_document_for_contract_operations/v1/mod.rs`:
- [SUGGESTION] packages/rs-drive/src/drive/document/update/internal/update_document_for_contract_operations/v1/mod.rs:783-797: Add coverage for refreshing an unchanged partial-null unique index
  The partial-null regression test changes `firstName`, so it exercises only the changed-index delete/write path. The `nullSearchable: false` test reaches the unchanged-index branch only when every indexed field is null, which exits through the skip at line 783. No test therefore reaches the corrected `!index.unique || any_fields_null` refresh branch at line 786. Add a PV14 regression case that inserts a document with one null field in a unique compound index, updates only its revision or a non-indexed field, and verifies that the update succeeds and the document remains queryable through that index. Before this fix, this path attempted to refresh the unique-layout key `[0]` rather than the actual `[0]/<document_id>` entry.

…x entry

A revision-only update leaves the index untouched and takes the
refresh path, which must address the non-unique layout the entry
lives in when any indexed field is null.

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Final validation — Codex/Sol only (Phase 2 disabled)

The PV14-only update walker now mirrors insert/delete semantics for partially null and non-searchable all-null index entries, and no in-scope defects remain in the reviewed changes. The added revision-only update verifies the corrected unchanged partially-null unique-index refresh path, resolving the prior test-coverage finding. Source: reviewer backend gpt-5.6-sol; final verifier backend gpt-5.6-sol. openclaw-agent/cliproxy/gpt-5.6-sol is orchestration-only and not reviewer evidence.

Validated zero-blocker Codex/Sol precheck evidence was promoted to final because Phase 2 (Sonnet/Opus) is temporarily disabled. This is Codex/Sol-only final validation, not Codex + Sonnet/Opus coverage.

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  • Verifier: gpt-5.6-sol — verifier
  • Sonnet/Opus: not run (Phase 2 disabled — temporary Codex/Sol-only final)
  • Secondary pass: disabled (temporary_phase2_sonnet_disable)

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reviewed, all good with mainnet and testnet

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QuantumExplorer merged commit 6495991 into v4.2-dev Aug 13, 2026
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