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Overview

When a Removed event names a block the positional indexer doesn't hold, the indexer stops right there and skips every block after it. Those blocks stay indexed and keep scoring for a worker that evicted them. This makes it skip just the missing hash, the way RadixTree and CRTC already do.

Key Changes

About 5 lines of core logic, plus one shared test.

• positional.rs: remove_blocks_impl records BlockNotFound and moves on to the next hash instead of returning. It still returns the error after the loop, so the warning and the block_not_found metric don't change.
• tests.rs: test_remove_batch_continues_past_missing_blocks runs on all four backends in the shared matrix.

Validation

Removed batch after storing [1, 2, 3]	flat / flat_binary before	after	single, concurrent_compressed
[999, block 3, block 2]	3	1	1
[block 3, block 3, block 2]	2	1	1

The new test fails on main for both positional variants (left: Some(3), right: Some(1)) and passes for the other two. cargo test -p dynamo-kv-router passes (1153 passed). cargo fmt --check is clean. Clippy with -D warnings is clean apart from three lints that fire the same way on main with my local 1.99 toolchain. Pre-commit passes on both files.

Issues and Ongoing Work

• Closes [BUG]: PositionalIndexer stops a Removed event at the first block it doesn't hold #17969
• Related to fix(kv-router): drop emptied entries from the positional indexer #17962. It's the same function but a separate bug, and the two merge cleanly in either order. I checked with git merge-file, and both tests pass on the merged file.
• I didn't find an open PR or issue for this. Eight open PRs touch positional.rs and none of them changes the removal loop.

Pull Request Checklist

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Block removal batches now continue processing after encountering a missing block, so later blocks in the batch can still be removed. The operation reports a missing-block error if any requested block was absent; otherwise, it completes successfully.

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Walkthrough

The positional indexer now continues processing a removal batch after a missing hash. It returns BlockNotFound if any hash was missing. A test checks batches with a missing hash or a repeated hash.

Changes

Positional index removal

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Continue removal batches after missing hashes lib/kv-router/src/indexer/positional.rs, lib/kv-router/src/indexer/tests.rs	remove_blocks_impl records missing hashes and processes later hashes before returning. The test checks that blocks 3 and 2 are removed in both tested batch orders.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Merge Risk: Moderate · up to 7d88f

Removal batches with unknown hashes now remove later blocks, as intended. That can leave a gap in a worker's cached prefix, and positional search can then overstate another worker's cache overlap, which skews routing. The gap-handling flaw already existed, so resolve it or explicitly accept it before merge.

Pre-merge checks: 4 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 50.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documenta…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

Passed checks: 4 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: positional removals now continue after an unknown block.
Description check		The description includes all required sections, explains the behavior change, identifies the affected files, documents validation results, and references the related issue and checklist.
Linked Issues check		Issue #17969 is the only active direct link. Its requirement: PositionalIndexer::remove_blocks_impl must skip a missing hash and still process the later hashes in the same Removed event. The diff at…
Out of Scope Changes check		The whole-PR diff against the merge base changes two files. positional.rs changes only the missing-hash handling in remove_blocks_impl, and the change is limited to the loop. tests.rs adds one share…

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Explanation

Issue #17969 is the only active direct link. Its requirement: PositionalIndexer::remove_blocks_impl must skip a missing hash and still process the later hashes in the same Removed event. The diff at lib/kv-router/src/indexer/positional.rs (base 23ff72c to head 7d88f7d) implements this. A missing hash now sets result = Err(BlockNotFound) and runs continue. The loop no longer returns early. The function returns result after the loop, so the warning and the block_not_found metric are kept. The issue's acceptance scenarios are [999, block 3, block 2] and [block 3, block 3, block 2] after storing [1, 2, 3], with expected score 1. For the first batch, 999 is skipped and blocks 3 and 2 are removed. For the second batch, the repeated block 3 is skipped and block 2 is removed. In both cases only block 1 remains. The diff adds test_remove_batch_continues_past_missing_blocks in lib/kv-router/src/indexer/tests.rs. It runs both batches through matching_indexer_template and asserts score 1 for all backends. The PR reports that this test fails on main for both positional variants. This assessment relies on the reported test run. It did not run the test itself.

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Explanation

The whole-PR diff against the merge base changes two files. positional.rs changes only the missing-hash handling in remove_blocks_impl, and the change is limited to the loop. tests.rs adds one shared test that covers the same behavior across the four backends. The new comment explains the behavior change. No unrelated files, API declarations, or refactors appear in the reviewed diff. The PR description's related-issue note (#17962) is a separate bug in the same function. It is not implemented here. No out-of-scope change was found.

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Explanation

Docstring coverage is 50.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documentation-only edits and deletions within surviving functions are included; unchanged diff context and fully deleted functions are excluded. Analyzed 2 functions across 2 files.

Resolution

Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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Follow-up Comments

Reconcile when an active worker is missing, not only when lengths differ.

706-706: Major · Functional Correctness · Heavy lift

Reconcile when an active worker is missing, not only when lengths differ.

Continuing past a missing hash can leave a gap in a worker's prefix. Example: worker A stores [1, 2] and worker B stores [1, 2, 3]. If B removes [unknown, block 2], block 2 is removed and block 3 stays. At position 2, only B holds block 3. Both sets have length 1, so the workers.len() != active.len() check in linear_scan_drain skips reconciliation. A stays active and can be scored 3 instead of 2.

The jump search has the same flaw in its num_workers_at_next == active.len() check. The over-score predates this change: removing block 2 alone produces the same state. This change makes it reachable from batches that include an unknown hash.

Reconcile whenever an active worker is absent from the workers at that position, not only when the lengths differ. Apply the same membership check before the jump search skips a range. Add the two-worker case from above to the removal tests for both positional variants.

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Review comment at @lib/kv-router/src/indexer/positional.rs at line 706:
Update `linear_scan_drain` and the jump-search range-skip check to reconcile
whenever any active worker is absent from the workers at the position, rather
than relying only on worker-count equality. Add the two-worker removal case to
tests for both positional variants: worker A has [1, 2], worker B has [1, 2, 3],
and B removes [unknown, block 2]; verify the resulting scores do not leave A
incorrectly scored as 3.

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