Until now the target came from whatever search_path resolved to. The
script printed what it found, but that print and the DELETE happen in
the same run with nobody in between, so it only ever helped the person
who ran a dry-run first. Swap the role that runs it and "$user" can
resolve somewhere else entirely.
--table takes the whole qualified name and resolves it directly. The
table half has to be llm_calls: a version that accepts any name turns
one typo into a general purpose row deleter, and any table with a
created_at and a tenant_id would go through the same batched DELETE
without complaint.
The tests that run it now run as a role that owns its own scratch table
and holds nothing on the shared one, so the row-count snapshot could
go. What replaced it is a case that lets the script fall through to the
shared table on purpose and asserts it exits 2 having deleted nothing.
That one has no red-first path, since making it red means running it as
the superuser, which is the thing being prevented; the finding's probe
covers it instead.
Five of the new usage tests passed before the flag existed, because
argparse rejects an unknown --table with exit 1 and the word --table in
stderr, which is exactly what they asserted. They now also assert the
error is not "unrecognized", which is the difference between testing
the validation and testing argparse.
The library only ever SELECTs/INSERTs into llm_calls (D15), so expiring
rows has to live outside it — holding DELETE would contradict the
REVOKE UPDATE, DELETE the deployment template recommends.
tools/telemetry_retention.py is dry-run by default and prints the row
count, the created_at window and the tenant_id spread so an operator can
tell whether the rows about to go are the intended ones. The Postgres
branch refuses partitioned targets with exit code 3 (DETACH/DROP
PARTITION is O(1); DELETE is not) and otherwise deletes in per-batch
transactions. Missing asyncpg exits 2 rather than degrading quietly:
this is an ops tool, and a silent "0 rows" reads as "already clean".
Exit codes are the contract with the scheduler, so argparse errors were
moved off 2 (now 1) to keep "bad flags" distinguishable from "cannot
reach the database".
The Postgres cases run against the real instance in throwaway schemas —
never public.llm_calls — and the batch case asserts the shared table's
row count is unchanged, so a search_path that failed to apply lands as a
red test instead of a deletion.
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