The pool exhaustion in issue #15 was fatal only because min_size=10 forced
a transient error to surface at pool creation, and that step was hardcoded
to permanent death. Step is the wrong axis: it conflates "the DSN cannot
be parsed" with "someone else holds all the connections right now".
Failures are now classified by two rules. Fatal means the cause lies
entirely inside this process and cannot change, which only the
construction-time DSN satisfies. Everything else splits on whether the
failure has anything to do with this row's data: row-level failures drop
one row and keep trying, environment-level failures cool down for 60s and
then get exactly one retry, so a restarted database or a DBA creating the
table heals on its own.
42703 (missing column) is the single named exception and stays row-level
even though every row fails alike: issue #13 promised that the manual mode
trims the INSERT and exposes drift per row, and that promise outranks the
rule. Any future exception owes the same argument.
The _failed boolean is gone; the tracker is the only degradation state,
because two copies of the same fact drift apart. Closing stays outside
that state: it is the caller's own decision, not an anomaly to recover
from, so the snapshot reports it through dropped_rows and the drop reason
instead of raising the degraded flag on every clean shutdown.
Closing was the last unbounded wait on the shutdown path: asyncpg's
Pool.close() awaits wait_until_released() on every holder, so a single
in-flight connection parks the caller forever (60s only buys a warning).
It now runs under asyncio.wait_for and terminates the pool on timeout;
external cancellation still propagates untouched.
Closing is also final now. Clearing _pool used to leave the recorder free
to build a fresh pool on the next write - worse in the injected case,
where the owner believes it still holds every connection while the
recorder quietly opened its own. Recovery is a runtime concern (cooldown
retry), not a side effect of shutdown, so writes after aclose short out
and count the dropped row with a reason of their own.
Also covers the release/terminate fallback left untested by the pool
work: the fake pool needed for the close cases makes it nearly free.
The pool was the only external resource in the library that pre-allocated:
asyncpg's default min_size=10 turned pool creation into an all-or-nothing
action, so on a shared instance running low on connection budget the first
thing to fall over was the one component that must not fail silently
(4 clients x 10 = 40 idle connections just to write telemetry).
min_size=0 means "do not pre-connect" - asyncpg only builds holders - so
pool creation becomes free and never touches the database; connection
failures then land on acquire, the path that already drops one row and lets
the pool recover. max_size and the write budget become the library's
explicit statement about its own footprint, configurable through two new
keys whose defaults live in config alone (the recorder parameters are
required keyword-only, same discipline as auto_migrate).
The whole write - prepare, acquire, execute - now runs inside one
asyncio.timeout: acquire used to have no timeout at all, so a full pool
would hang forever on the caller's path. Release is explicit rather than
`async with`, because asyncpg shields release and reuses the acquire
timeout, which would let a single telemetry write consume twice the budget.
Telemetry degradation used to be a single warning and a private boolean.
In a long-running process that is indistinguishable from telemetry working:
issue #15 was only found by hand-reconciling milestone log lines against
llm_calls rows, after 19 calls had silently gone unrecorded. The SQLite
side was worse — once init failed, every write returned without even a
log line.
Degradation now has one shared owner. TelemetryStatusTracker holds the
state machine (enter/recover/drop/should-retry), announces entry and
recovery once each, and repeats the drop count under a row-and-time
double threshold so a degraded backend neither floods the log nor goes
quiet. Both recorders hold one; both count the rows they drop.
For programmatic consumers, TelemetryStatus is a frozen snapshot exposed
as telemetry_status on all three clients, resolved through a single
isinstance check. It is a separate optional port rather than a member of
TelemetryRecorder: that protocol is @runtime_checkable, so adding an
attribute would make every implementation that only defines
record_llm_call stop satisfying it — downstream isinstance assertions
would break on upgrade. The existing assertion in test_ports.py is what
keeps that decision honest.
Failure criteria are deliberately untouched here: Postgres still treats a
pool failure as permanent, only now visibly. `_failed` and the tracker
therefore both carry the verdict for the span of this one change; the
cooldown rework collapses them into the tracker alone.
A client used to close whatever transport, recorder or cache it happened
to hold, injected or not, so the first client to shut down killed the
backend its siblings were still using. That is why the explicit-sharing
path the architecture prescribes was unusable in practice and downstream
projects fell back to one private instance per client. The mirror image
of the same gap: the redis clients the factories build for the limiter
and the breaker were never closed at all, because nobody kept a
reference to them once they were handed to the retry middleware.
Ownership is now stated once, the way RedisLimiter already stated it:
whoever builds a resource closes it, injected ones are left alone. The
constructor is the full-injection path, so it owns nothing by default
and only the factories mark what they built. RedisCache gains the same
rule for its own client, and the three copies of the "probe for aclose,
fall back to close" dance collapse into a single helper so the next
correction cannot land in only one of them.
The telemetry write budget needs asyncio.timeout, whose uncancel accounting
was only fixed after 3.11.1 — pinning the floor at 3.12 removes that hazard
instead of working around it.
Raising ruff's target-version turns on UP047, so gather_bounded,
_anext_within and stream_with_liveness_timeouts move to def f[T](...) and
the two module-level TypeVars go away. That syntax is a SyntaxError on
3.11, so it can only land together with the version bump.
README first, since packaging freezes whatever it says at build time:
version pin bumped, and the capability table now mentions that an open
circuit can wait as well as fail fast. Verified the numeric claims by
measurement rather than memory -- record_llm_call still takes 24 fields,
schema.COLUMNS still has 24, meta still caps at 16 keys.
The GatewayUnavailableError docstring told callers to catch it and
retry later, which reads as an invitation for every downstream to write
its own retry layer. Two layers drift -- the library retunes its
backoff and the caller never hears, the caller changes its patience and
the telemetry cannot see it -- and after that nothing can answer how
long a call actually waited or how many attempts it made.
Call-level retry, backoff, source switching and cooldown waiting all
live in the library. The exception means that budget is spent. Retrying
past it is task-level retry, a different thing, and stays outside
(ARCH 7.2, single-layer retry). Also states what retry_after_s means
now and points at CIRCUIT_OPEN.
on_no_runnable now dispatches on why every source was rejected instead
of falling through two serial branches. Under wait, a fully open circuit
sleeps out the cooldown and comes back for another round; the breaker's
protection is untouched (still not a single request leaves during the
wait, so no quota or money burns) -- what changes is whether the caller
dies on the spot or queues.
Dispatching is not cosmetic. Left serial, wait would fall into the quota
branch and a caller with quota_full=fail_fast would get a
quota_exhausted error while its quota was in fact fine.
_nap sleeps to the cooldown deadline rather than polling every 10ms,
which for a 60s cooldown is 6000 round trips per in-flight call on the
Redis backend. Jitter is added on top instead of scaling the wait, since
waking early before a known deadline just earns another rejection. Both
arms clamp to the remaining stall budget, so the worst case per call is
stall_window plus one poll and does not drift with max_cooldown_s. The
clamp's lower bound is the jitter itself, not poll_interval -- the
latter would have lifted the existing [0.5p, 1.0p] quota polling.
Limiter rejections have always chosen between waiting and failing fast;
breaker rejections had no such choice. The new key is the missing cell
of that matrix, shaped exactly like QUOTA_FULL so there is nothing new
to learn. It defaults to fail_fast: flipping the default would move
every existing deployment's worst-case wall clock from milliseconds to
the stall window, which is the wrong direction to impose on anyone.
Single-source scopes are the ones that want wait, and they now have a
way to say so.
The two keys stay separate despite sharing a domain, because a full
quota is "queue for your share" (your turn always comes) while an open
circuit is "wait for the source to recover" (it might not).
Policy validation collapses into SourceAdmission, the only consumer.
The three client constructors used to each carry their own copy of the
quota_full check; adding a second key there would have made eight
copies of the same two lines. Rejection timing and message are
unchanged -- admission is built inside those constructors.
This commit only wires the key through; the control flow that reads it
lands next.
retry_after_s never had a written definition, so each backend improvised
and they drifted apart. It now answers exactly one question: how long
until a retry is *certainly* worth attempting. OPEN has such a moment
(the cooldown deadline); HALF_OPEN does not, because the probe can come
back at any time -- so it reports 0.0, which already means "retry now"
elsewhere in the library.
Six exits are brought in line. The half-open rejection is the one issue
14 reported: it returned the probe lease remainder, a deadlock-guard
value derived from 2x the slowest timeout, so a 60s cooldown told
callers to wait 600s. Worse, retry.py fed that number into the source
cooldown memo, whose set_until only moves forward -- a source stayed
skipped in-process for the whole lease even after its probe succeeded
and the gate closed. That now writes an already-expired deadline, so
the memo goes back to recording only real OPEN cooldowns.
The other five were pre-existing memory/redis divergences hidden by a
contract-test blind spot (the suite pinned that a second caller gets
rejected, never what number it got): redis reported the probe TTL on
grant and the lease remainder on fenced-out writes, where memory has
always reported 0. Contract cases now pin all four half-open exits on
both backends, with 1:1 real-wait variants for redis since the
fake-clock ones skip there.
_pick_runnable and _on_no_runnable lived in three copies (retry.py,
embedding.py, ocr.py), the latter two being verbatim subsets of the
first. Admission semantics keep evolving -- issue #8 changed the stall
accounting, M2.5 added the AIMD pacer, issue #14 is about to add a wait
policy -- and every round had to be applied three times.
SourceAdmission now owns picking a runnable source and deciding what
happens when none is available. The three loops keep their QuotaGate,
BreakerGate and pacer references because _attempt still needs them for
write-back and pacer.leave(); those instances are shared, not rebuilt
(a second pacer would split the in-flight counter). The cooldown memo
moves in wholesale since only admission consumes it.
Behaviour is unchanged: pick differs from the old chat copy only by the
pacer None-guards, on_no_runnable is verbatim identical, and the suite
reports the same 967 passed / 21 skipped / 32 deselected as before. The
one visible change is the settle-and-release warning text, which had
three variants ("permit", "embedding permit", "OCR permit") and is now
one. Tests importing _demote_call_failures follow it to its new home.
Dates the unreleased section as 1.2.3 (2026-08-19) and moves both version
strings from 1.2.1 in lockstep. The human picked a patch number knowing
this release carries five breaking changes; that is deliberate.
Two lines added to the upgrade hints: the install pin move, matching what
1.2.1 recorded for its own, and a pointer saying the zero-row RLS
self-check now also lives in the README, since CHANGELOG.md never reaches
anyone who only reads the packaged README.
`PGW_TELEMETRY_TEXT_CAP` now reaches the emitter on every assembly path.
Unset means no truncation, which stays the default: a truncated row is
no longer audit evidence and cannot be replayed, and downstreams rely on
that today. The flip side — contracts and bids sitting in `llm_calls`
indefinitely, multi-tenant — is spelled out in `.env.example` so readers
can weigh both.
All three `from_settings` paths are wired (chat, embedding, OCR): they
write the same table, so capping only chat would leave half of it
uncontrolled. `TelemetryEmitter.__init__` now rejects `text_cap <= 0`;
it is the single point where the three clients converge, so the direct
construction path — a public assembly route the settings guard never
sees — is covered too. `0` would otherwise reduce every body to a bare
elision marker.
Chat rows stored full message and response text with no upper bound, so
downstream contracts and tenders lived in llm_calls indefinitely. Add
_cap_text/_cap_messages in the single telemetry exit (_record), applied
after digest_messages and before json.dumps, plus to response/thinking.
Capping is per text, not over the serialized JSON: cutting the whole
string would emit invalid JSON into an unvalidated TEXT column. The cap
builds new dicts and never mutates in place — digest_messages passes
non-list content straight through as the same object, so an in-place cut
would silently poison the caller's messages and the cache key.
text_cap is required on TelemetryEmitter (internal class, three known
construction sites) and defaults to None on the three public clients, so
the default behaviour stays byte-for-byte identical. Settings wiring
lands separately.
PG requires a partitioned table's unique constraints to include the
partition key, so issue #12's RANGE partitioning on created_at forces
the primary key to (call_id, created_at). The old
`ON CONFLICT (call_id) DO NOTHING` then matches no constraint and PG
rejects every row with
there is no unique or exclusion constraint matching the
ON CONFLICT specification
which the recorder swallows as a per-row warning: telemetry would go
silently dark under a partitioned deployment. The target-free form is
valid on both table shapes and is literally equivalent on a plain table
(the primary key is its only unique constraint). SQLite's
`INSERT OR IGNORE` already carries no target and is untouched.
Integration coverage on the real PG instance, both inside self-created
temp schemas: a plain table still keeps one row per call_id, and a
table partitioned by created_at now accepts writes and reads them back.
The second case was red before this change with the error above.
Not related to the schema work. These three fail ruff format --check on
main as well -- the pinned ruff is newer than whatever last formatted
them -- and a red make check makes the per-task quality gate useless for
everything that follows.
DDL, column order and backfill statements lived twice, once in each
recorder. A public telemetry_schema_sql() would have made three copies,
and the drift shows up downstream as "I ran the printed SQL and the
library still reports a missing column".
Move both DDLs, both backfill lists and the 24 INSERT fields into
telemetry/schema.py verbatim; the recorders now import them and build
_INSERT through insert_sql(backend, COLUMNS) at import time. The
generated statements are byte-identical to the previous constants, so
runtime behaviour is unchanged (the postgres conflict target stays
bound to call_id for now).
insert_sql() validates its columns against COLUMNS: from the next task
on those names come from database probing, not from a constant, so the
subset check is the gate on the only injection surface. The new
telemetry_schema_sql() prints a paste-ready migration script; its
postgres backfill deliberately uses ADD COLUMN IF NOT EXISTS while the
library's own statements do not, because that form takes an ACCESS
EXCLUSIVE lock even when the column exists. Both variants are derived
from one declaration list so their column sets cannot drift.
Dating the changelog and bumping both version strings is the cheap half.
The README is the half that gets frozen into the sdist, so it is fixed
first: the install pin now names 1.2.1 (1.2.0 has no tenant dimension),
and the per-source FIELD table finally lists MISSING_DONE and EXTRA_BODY
- the latter was already referenced elsewhere in the same file. The same
table was missing QUOTA_FULL, the embedding-only keys, the memory cache
backend and three optional PGW_* keys; all are reconciled against
_SOURCE_FIELDS and _load_pgw rather than from memory.
The key-count cap exists to catch a whole request body dumped into meta.
That is exactly the shape where the per-key regex runs tens of thousands
of times before the real reason surfaces, so the cheap check goes first.
Also correct two stale docstrings: postgres.py still claimed 22 columns
(it is 24), and _canonical_meta_json promised to raise on non-finite
floats. It is evaluated inside _record's degradation try, so the real
outcome is a warning plus a dropped row -- never an error the caller
sees. What the gate actually buys us is the SQLite side, whose meta is a
TEXT column that would happily store a literal NaN.
OcrClient is the third telemetry path that skips the chat onion: _emit
builds its own ChatRequest purely to reuse the shared TelemetryEmitter,
so wiring chat() and embed() alone left every OCR row without a tenant
while those rows land in the same llm_calls table. Take the dimensions
at both public entries, validate them there (anything failing further
down is degraded to a warning), and thread them through _call ->
_attempt -> _emit so success, rejection, cancellation and retryable
failure rows all carry the same pair.
EmbeddingClient does not go through the chat onion: it builds its own
ChatRequest inside _emit purely to reuse the shared TelemetryEmitter, so
wiring chat() alone left every embed row without a tenant. Validate the
dimensions at the embed() entry (before batching, since anything failing
further down is degraded to a warning) and thread them through
_embed_batch -> _attempt -> _emit so every batch row carries the same
pair.
Validation runs before the request enters the onion: every failure inside it
is downgraded to a warning by the telemetry layer, so validating in there
would not validate anything.
The dimensions stay out of the cache key — cache_namespace already carries
tenant isolation, and folding meta in would cold-start every existing entry.
Both telemetry backends gain tenant_id and meta at the end of the
column list, and TelemetryEmitter fills them from the request. The two
halves ship together because the emitter is the only caller of
record_llm_call: adding the columns without filling them leaves every
row short of two keys, and the backends read those keys outside their
try block, so the KeyError degrades to a warning and the whole table
stops filling.
The columns are appended, never inserted. An old table can only gain
columns through ALTER, which puts them last; a new table built from the
DDL would put them wherever the DDL says. Anywhere but the end and the
two paths produce different physical column orders, while the INSERT
uses positional placeholders.
The two backends spell the default differently for different reasons.
SQLite refuses a NOT NULL column without a non-NULL constant default
outright, so the default is what makes the backfill legal at all. On
Postgres a non-volatile constant default is what keeps the ALTER from
rewriting the table, and NOT NULL DEFAULT '' is what keeps old rows out
of the black hole a NULL tenant_id falls into under an RLS policy.
Normalisation happens in the emitter, not the recorder, matching how
canonical_sampling_json already settles the sampling column: None
becomes the empty string, an empty mapping becomes the literal '{}'.
Keys are sorted so one set of dimensions serialises identically on
every row, and allow_nan=False is a second gate behind the entry
validation -- json.dumps would otherwise write a bare NaN, which JSONB
rejects, and the failed insert would be swallowed as a warning.
All three emit entry points read the request. Cache hits read it too,
rather than the replayed response: the dimensions answer who made this
call, not who made the one whose result is being replayed.
Adds validate_caller_dimensions and the two ChatRequest fields that
carry them. Every limit rejects rather than trims: Langfuse drops
metadata values past 200 characters, which leaves the caller believing
something was recorded when nothing was.
Whitespace on tenant_id is refused outright instead of stripped. " t1"
and "t1" compare unequal inside an RLS policy, so silently rewriting the
caller's value would hand them a tenant whose rows they cannot find.
Non-finite floats are refused for a concrete reason: json.dumps writes
them as the bare literals NaN and Infinity, which are not valid JSON and
which JSONB rejects. Letting one through turns a caller's input mistake
into a failed insert, and the telemetry layer degrades failed inserts to
a warning -- so the mistake would surface as missing rows, nowhere else.
The new fields go after sampling so no positional construction of
ChatRequest shifts. Validation is split across three helpers to keep
each one under the complexity gate.
Issue #10 Task 6. The install pin moves from ==1.1.* to >=1.2,<2 - left
alone, everyone following the README would have stayed silently on
1.1.2 without this fix and without a warning. Telemetry field count
re-measured via inspect.signature: still 22.
Issue #10 Task 4: the OCR side said only 'HTTP 404'. The issue reported
the chat path, but the batch that lost its 400 was reading tables - the
same blind spot, one transport over. Reuses the shared summarizer.
Issue #10 Task 3: five branches each built their own message, so adding
the summary would have meant five copies. Table-driven classification
composes it in one place instead, and the 429 split still parses the
untruncated body - reading the summary would demote an oversized
insufficient_quota to a plain rate limit and stop force_open.
Issue #10 Task 2: head-and-tail rather than a head-only cut, because the
code and request_id that let you chase the provider sit at the very end
of a JSON error body. Cap 2048 follows k8s client-go for the same job.
Issue #10 Task 1: a rejected call's reason had nowhere to live. The
field goes on the base class because these errors all come from one HTTP
response - which class it is and what the peer said are orthogonal.
README first, per the release procedure: the 1.1.* pin still covers this
version, the 22-field count re-checked with inspect.signature, and the
telemetry row now states that an existing table needs no schema CREATE
privilege.
PostgreSQL checks the schema CREATE privilege before the IF NOT EXISTS
existence test, so an account with only table-level INSERT was denied on
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS even though the table was right there and
writable. The denial set _failed and the whole recorder went no-op for
the process lifetime, silently: 150+ calls downstream lost their latency,
token and cost rows with nothing but one warning to show for it.
The probe is the direct fix. The larger fix is the criterion: structural
degradation now means "provably cannot write" (pool creation failed, or
the table is absent and cannot be created), not "something threw during
init" -- a probe or acquire failure just skips the row and retries on the
next call.
SQLite stays as it is on purpose. Measured: it short-circuits the
statement at parse time, so it passes even under another connection's
EXCLUSIVE lock or on a read-only file. A probe there would buy nothing;
the docstring now says so to keep symmetry-minded future edits away.
Three README drifts, none of them about issue #8 alone:
- the telemetry row said 18 fields; record_llm_call takes 22 (verified by
inspect.signature). ports.py claimed 20 in its own docstring, so both
records of the same fact were stale.
- LLMResponse.cost is hardcoded to None on the chat path (retry.py:519).
Cost only ever reaches telemetry. The old doc site named this as a known
trap, so the capability row now says it outright.
- backpressure had no row at all, which is what issue #8 was about.
Patch rather than minor: the error surface is unchanged and no public
signature moved. What downstream must notice is timing, not types — the
worst-case call duration rises to roughly max_attempts * timeout_s now
that the retry budget actually applies.
Pre-release review caught an overreaching promise in the changelog entry:
the 429 bound holds only when the stall verdict can fire at all, i.e. when
the whole scope has no progress. The verdict is a conjunction, so a call
does not die while other calls in the scope are still producing — by
design — which leaves no hard per-call ceiling in that case. That property
predates this fix and is now stated with its precondition instead of as an
unconditional guarantee.
The wiki sync in the release checklist is a no-op again: the doc site has
been down since 2026-08-02 and its landing page names CHANGELOG.md as the
version source of truth, which this commit updates.
Independent verification found the first cut had swapped one bug for a
worse one. The budgets were split by "did we send a request", so a 429
attempt counted as productive — but 429 is exempt from the retry budget,
so its time burned neither budget. Against a queueing gateway that holds
the request for the full timeout before answering 429, a call could hang
for 301 attempts / 25.2 hours, measured, versus 301 seconds before the
change.
The split is now by which budget the time consumes: time that burns
max_attempts is excluded from stall, time that does not (429 attempts
included) belongs to stall. Measured again: back to one attempt / 301s.
Only the chat loop needs this — embedding and ocr count 429 against
max_attempts unconditionally, so the gap never existed there. The stall
verdict moved into _stalled(), which both call sites had duplicated, to
keep __call__ under the complexity gate.
_validate_stall still guards stall_window_s >= max ttft_timeout_s, but its
stated reason no longer holds: TTFT waiting is productive time and never
reaches the stall account. The check is harmless and stays, so the
docstring now says why it is kept rather than implying a live hazard.
.env.example dropped the "must be >= max TTFT" advice for what the window
actually measures.
Same failure path as the embedding loop: one timed-out attempt drains the
wall-clock window, and the next round without a runnable source declares
the scope dead in _on_no_runnable. All three governance loops now meter
stall the same way.
The embedding loop shares the wall-clock entered_at and the same stall
verdict, so it failed the same way through a different path: one timed-out
attempt, then any round with no runnable source, and _on_no_runnable
declared the scope dead. Issue #8 only recorded the chat path; the
regression test pins this one.
Issue #8: with timeout_s >= stall_window_s a single timed-out request
exhausted the stall window before the second attempt was even dispatched,
so LLM_MAX_RETRIES never applied and the whole scope was declared dead.
Root cause is that real attempts and non-productive waiting charged the
same wall clock, while the stall budget is the smaller of the two. The new
StallClock subtracts attempt time from the stall account, leaving the two
budgets orthogonal: attempts bill max_attempts, waiting bills
stall_window_s. The dual-condition verdict, the inf semantics of
progress_age_s, the 429 exemption and the error surface are untouched.
The productive boundary is _attempt itself, telemetry included, so a slow
recorder cannot push a call into a stalled verdict.
Letting SourceNotConfiguredError through the gate wrappers opened a hole
the recheck caught: _record_quietly only degrades GovernanceBackendError,
so an assembly defect raised from the accounting side would now escape and
destroy a response from a call that had already genuinely succeeded. That
inverts the exact invariant _record_quietly exists to hold.
Widening _record_quietly is the right fix rather than narrowing the
wrappers, because that layer degrades by what the path is (accounting, the
call is already done) rather than by which error type shows up. Narrowing
would have left 4 of 9 wrapper methods as exceptions to a rule nobody can
remember.
No backend raises it from an accounting method today, so this is a
guardrail for whoever adds source-name validation to a breaker backend.
The stub that first reported this green was wrong: its record_success
lacked count_attempt, so it raised TypeError and the wrapper relabeled it.
Fixed signature, then the test failed as it should have.
Also finishes the three-to-five leak path correction across the four
remaining spots, including the wiki summary card that indexes this design.
Independent verification caught that the split shipped in the previous
commit did not actually hold on the only path production uses. The gate
wrappers re-raise GovernanceBackendError but nothing else, so
SourceNotConfiguredError fell into the following `except Exception` and
came back out as a governance_backend_down failure with retry_after_s=5.0.
A misconfigured source name would still retry forever and never surface.
The existing tests missed it because both of them call the private _cfg()
directly, one layer below the wrapper the governance loops actually go
through. The regression test goes through QuotaGate.
telemetry.py has to widen its terminal catch in the same commit: once the
wrapper stops relabeling the error, it is no longer a GovernanceBackendError,
and it is raised before any attempt exists, so the path would have recorded
no telemetry at all.
Also corrects the leak path count from three to five. QuotaGate.stats and
BreakerGate.retry_after_s are not wrapped by _record_quietly either.
Minor rather than major: adding a parent class widens what an existing
`except` catches, it does not break one. Callers already catching
GovernanceBackendError keep working untouched.
The wiki sync in the release checklist is a no-op this time. The doc site
was taken down entirely on 2026-08-02 for accuracy reasons, and its
remaining landing page points at CHANGELOG.md as the version source of
truth, which this commit updates.
A fail-closed limiter or breaker backend means the scope cannot emit a
single request, which is exactly scope-level unavailability. But the error
sat directly under PolyGatewayError, so a caller writing only
`except GatewayUnavailableError` dropped it into the catch-all branch:
Redis blips once and a backlog of tasks burns its business failure budget
into the dead letter queue, over a fault a restart would clear.
Three gate paths leak to callers rather than being absorbed by
_record_quietly (try_acquire, try_enter, progress_age_s); each is now
pinned by a test, since none of them had one before.
The two unknown-source sites move to SourceNotConfiguredError instead of
following along. They report a misconfigured source name, not an outage,
and letting them into the retryable family would be the mirror of the bug
being fixed here: the task would retry forever and never surface.
Pure addition ahead of the reparenting, so this commit leaves every
existing caller and test untouched.
SourceNotConfiguredError deliberately stays outside GatewayUnavailableError:
a source name that is not in the limiter's config dict is an assembly
defect, not a transient outage, and folding it into the retryable family
would let a typo retry forever without ever reaching a dead letter queue.
The retry_after_s default is 5.0 rather than 0 because a backlog released
at zero delay would stampede a backend that is already down.
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