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ADR-0013: spans carries no derived columns — drop duration_ms - #87
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The VIRTUAL generated duration_ms column is the root cause of the DuckDB filter-pushdown wrong-results trap: it takes a logical slot but no storage slot, so later columns collide with the physical index of an indexed column and a bare `col = <constant>` silently returns zero rows. Decides to drop the column outright and compute the duration at the four query sites that read it, rather than restating it as a stored column. The migration then moves no data, stays a single idempotent DROP that composes with the ADR-0010 re-apply guard, and leaves start_time/end_time as the one source of truth. The export CSV is unaffected - writeSpansCSV already derives duration in Go and the export query never selects the column. Co-Authored-By: Daedalus <daedalus@agents.flopbut.local> Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughAdded ADR-0013 to document removal of the derived ChangesSpan duration column decision
Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~5 minutes Merge Risk:🟡 Moderate · up to The ADR describes rollback as a simple additive migration, but restoring the prior generated-column behavior would require a table rebuild or a different migration with backfill and invariant work. That inaccurate recovery guidance should be corrected before merge. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5✅ Passed checks (5 passed)
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In `@docs/decisions/0013-spans-has-no-derived-columns.md`:
- Around line 120-121: Correct the rollback statement in the ADR: do not
describe restoring duration_ms as a plain additive migration. State that
restoring the generated-column behavior requires rebuilding the table, or, if
rollback uses a stored DOUBLE, document the required backfill and invariant and
clarify that it is not equivalent to the removed virtual column.
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Correct the rollback statement.
This ADR states that re-adding duration_ms later is a plain additive migration. Lines 56-59 state that DuckDB rejects adding GENERATED ALWAYS columns after table creation. If rollback means restoring the current generated-column behavior, it requires a table rebuild. If the intended rollback is a stored DOUBLE, document the required backfill and write invariant because that is not equivalent to the removed virtual column.
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In `@docs/decisions/0013-spans-has-no-derived-columns.md` around lines 120 - 121,
Correct the rollback statement in the ADR: do not describe restoring duration_ms
as a plain additive migration. State that restoring the generated-column
behavior requires rebuilding the table, or, if rollback uses a stored DOUBLE,
document the required backfill and invariant and clarify that it is not
equivalent to the removed virtual column.
…e path The "why D over C" comparison claimed the migration was a single idempotent ALTER. It is not: DuckDB refuses to ALTER a table an index depends on, so the four secondary indexes are dropped and rebuilt around the column drop, and the ADR-0010 guard re-pays that 138 ms on every future schema edit rather than once. The conclusion is unchanged — an index rebuild is not a full-table rewrite — but the stated reason was wrong, and the decisive bullet of a decision record has to survive being checked. Also records that there is no downgrade path: an older binary opens a v10 database but errors on every query naming duration_ms. Co-Authored-By: Daedalus <daedalus@agents.flopbut.local> Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Records the CTO decision on the root-cause fix for the DuckDB filter-pushdown wrong-results trap. Docs only — no code change here; the implementation follows in its own PR.
The call
spans.duration_msis a VIRTUAL generated column declared mid-table. It takes a logical slot but no storage slot, so every later column has logical index = physical index + 1, and a column whose logical index collides with an indexed column's physical index gets its bareWHERE col = <constant>answered with zero rows. That is how/api/v1/bash-commandsshipped permanently empty.Decision: drop
duration_msfromspansentirely and computeepoch_ms(end_time) - epoch_ms(start_time)at the four query sites that read it, aliased back toduration_ms.Chosen over restating it as a plain stored column appended last, because:
ALTER TABLE spans DROP COLUMN IF EXISTS duration_ms. A merge here is a production deploy, so a migration with nothing to interrupt beats one with a full-table backfill.schema.sqlcomposes badly with the ADR-0010 guard, which re-applies the whole file on any edit to it — including a comment-only one. That would rewrite the table on every future schema edit unless wrapped in bespoke one-shot machinery.start_time/end_time; a computed one cannot.writeSpansCSValready derives duration in Go (export.go:135) and the export query never selects the column.Cost is four SQL call sites instead of zero. Known, bounded, one-off — against a landmine that is neither.
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duration_mscolumn from span data.