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@nicoloboschi nicoloboschi changed the title chore(db): drop 9 unused/redundant indexes (~39 GB) chore(db): drop 9 unused/redundant indexes May 26, 2026
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Code audit identified 9 indexes on memory_links, entities, documents, and
unit_entities that are either dead (no code path exercises them) or fully
covered by composite indexes the planner already prefers. See the migration
docstring for the per-index rationale.

Also fixes two stale comments that referenced indexes which no longer
match the code paths:

- link_expansion_retrieval.py claimed entity expansion uses
  idx_memory_links_entity_covering, but the CTE traverses unit_entities,
  not memory_links — that's why the covering index has no code path
  exercising it.
- memory_engine.py referenced idx_memory_links_bank_link_type, which
  was never created on PostgreSQL (only the bank_id column exists).

The skills/hindsight-docs/ regen is a drive-by from the pre-commit hook
catching up with embeddings-provider docs that landed on main earlier.
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…on main

#1762 landed e1b2c3d4f5a6_drop_unused_indexes between this PR opening and
CI run, which also drops idx_memory_links_entity_covering. Our migration's
down_revision still pointed at the prior head, leaving Alembic with two
heads and tripping test_alembic_dag.test_single_head.

Re-parent to e1b2c3d4f5a6 to unify the head. The DROP INDEX IF EXISTS line
becomes a defensive no-op (since #1762 already dropped it), but is retained
in case this migration runs against a snapshot taken before #1762.
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…izing them (#1766)

* chore: regenerate docs skill (sync Tigris S3 config notes)

Drift picked up by the generate-docs-skill pre-commit hook — keeps
skills/hindsight-docs/ in sync with the upstream hindsight-docs/ sources.

* perf(api): derive entity edges from unit_entities instead of materializing them

Stop writing link_type='entity' rows to memory_links and derive entity edges
on demand in the /graph endpoint (from the unit_entities self-join recall
already uses) and in /stats (by replicating the historical writer cap).

Why: on the recall-perf-medium bench bank (10k units), entity rows were 53%
of all memory_links — 345k rows, ~190 MB of table+index — and recall never
read them (entity expansion in link_expansion_retrieval.py uses unit_entities,
not memory_links). Retain was running a synchronous pairwise loop per shared
entity to write rows nothing read; per-unit entity degree was uncapped (max
326 outgoing on a single unit), and overall per-unit total degree averaged
130 with a p99 of 462.

Changes:
- Drop Phase 3 entity-link build/insert from retain orchestrator. Keep
  entity_resolver.flush_pending_stats() so entity_cooccurrences (which feeds
  /entities/graph) still updates.
- Delete build_entity_links_from_resolved, insert_entity_links_batch,
  MAX_LINKS_PER_ENTITY, EntityLink, Phase3Context, and the now-dead
  fetch_entity_unit_fanout op (PG + Oracle).
- /graph: filter memory_links query to link_type <> 'entity'; broaden the
  existing observation-inferred entity-pair loop to cover all visible units;
  cap at 10 units per entity to bound hot entities.
- /stats: split link_breakdown into a memory_links query (non-entity) and a
  unit_entities-based derivation for entity, sized to the historical writer
  cap so link_counts.entity stays in the same magnitude.
- Migration e9b2c7d1f3a4: drop idx_memory_links_entity_covering and
  chunk-delete existing entity rows (PG + Oracle paths).
- Tests: rewrite test_entity_links_creation and test_all_link_types_together
  to assert via /graph + /stats; assert no entity rows in memory_links.

API response shapes (graph edges, stats link_counts/links_breakdown) are
unchanged at the boundary, so SDKs and the control plane do not need to be
regenerated.

* fix(graph): cap entity edges per unit, not per entity list

The previous derivation kept only the first 10 units per entity before
pairing, so any unit beyond #10 for a hot entity had zero entity edges in
/graph — even though it shared the entity with many visible units.

Switch to a sliding window: each unit links to its next N neighbors in the
per-entity list. Every unit that shares an entity with another visible unit
gets edges (its successors directly, predecessors via their pairs), and
total edges stay bounded at ~N * cap per entity instead of N².

Adds a regression test that retains 15 facts mentioning the same person and
asserts every retained unit appears in at least one entity edge in /graph.

* fix(migration): re-parent entity-link drop after e1b2c3d4f5a6 landed on main

#1762 landed e1b2c3d4f5a6_drop_unused_indexes between this PR opening and
CI run, which also drops idx_memory_links_entity_covering. Our migration's
down_revision still pointed at the prior head, leaving Alembic with two
heads and tripping test_alembic_dag.test_single_head.

Re-parent to e1b2c3d4f5a6 to unify the head. The DROP INDEX IF EXISTS line
becomes a defensive no-op (since #1762 already dropped it), but is retained
in case this migration runs against a snapshot taken before #1762.
nicoloboschi added a commit that referenced this pull request May 27, 2026
- Merge entity-edge-derivation (#1766), unused-index drops (#1762), and
  async link recompute into a single "Graph Storage & Maintenance"
  section that leads with the ~50% storage reduction.
- Merge "Targeted Consolidation by Scope" and "Consolidation Quality
  Rewrite" into one "Consolidation Improvements" section; drop prompt
  internals.
- Rewrite the multilingual section at a higher level (concepts, not env
  vars) and link out to /developer/multilingual.
nicoloboschi added a commit that referenced this pull request May 27, 2026
* docs: add 0.7.0 changelog and release blog post

Documents the 0.7.0 release: ParadeDB pg_search BM25 backend
(Citus-compatible), PGroonga + configurable BM25 language for
multilingual/CJK search, async link recompute that fixes outgoing-link
staleness after deletes, Control Plane i18n in 8 locales, targeted
consolidation by observation scope, an observation-consolidation prompt
rewrite, a clear-mental-model endpoint, ZeroEntropy + Codex OAuth
embeddings, and a long tail of bug fixes.

Also fixes release.sh to refresh the root package-lock.json after
workspace version bumps. Without this, npm ci in CI fails because the
lock pins the previous workspace versions and the publish + docs-deploy
jobs break (which is what happened to the initial v0.7.0 tag).

* docs(blog): tighten 0.7.0 release post

- Merge entity-edge-derivation (#1766), unused-index drops (#1762), and
  async link recompute into a single "Graph Storage & Maintenance"
  section that leads with the ~50% storage reduction.
- Merge "Targeted Consolidation by Scope" and "Consolidation Quality
  Rewrite" into one "Consolidation Improvements" section; drop prompt
  internals.
- Rewrite the multilingual section at a higher level (concepts, not env
  vars) and link out to /developer/multilingual.

* docs(blog): rewrite 0.7.0 release post in announcement tone

Rewrite each section in the same voice as prior major-release posts
(0.5.0, 0.6.0): lead with what the user gets and why it matters,
drop implementation internals (queue tables, FK cascades, JSON
predicates, AST walkers), keep concrete config knobs and code
examples where they help, and link out to docs for deep dives.

* docs(blog): move ParadeDB section to last; reorder intro to match

* docs(blog): demote Clear Mental Model from feature section to Other Notable Changes
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