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 plan's one irreversible risk is the worst-case test itself. It
deliberately lets the script fall through to the shared table, and the
account in .env is a superuser, so running it before the sandbox role
exists would delete every expired row in there. All eleven rows on that
table predate any cutoff the tests use.
That forces the order: factory, then the retention tests move onto an
owner role, and only then does the case get written. Review caught that
the original order also made the --table integration cases impossible
to fail first, since the tool would already be implemented by the time
they were written. Same fix resolves both.
The worst-case case has no red-first path at all. Turning it red means
running it as the superuser, which is the thing being prevented, so its
evidence is the probe in the finding instead, and the plan says so
rather than calling it verified.
One acceptance criterion in the design turned out to be unrunnable: the
hint line only prints on the Postgres branch, so no unit test that
never connects can assert it. Corrected in place.
The failing assertion was never testing the script. It compared the row
count of a table three other projects also write to, before and after
the run, and the failure it reported (61 rows became 12) landed while
the script under test was demonstrably confined to its own schema.
A row count cannot carry the property that assertion stood in for. It
goes red when anyone else writes, and green when an outside insert
happens to cancel out a wrong delete. The second half is the one that
was guarding against a dropped audit table.
So the property moves to where the database enforces it: the script
runs as a role that owns its scratch table and holds no grant at all on
the shared one. Falling back to public stops being something a later
assertion might notice and becomes permission denied. Measured, along
with the rest of the Postgres semantics this rests on.
The tool grows --table so the target stops being whatever search_path
resolves to. The table half is pinned to llm_calls: without that, one
typo turns a telemetry cleaner into a general purpose row deleter.
Codex raised six problems and all are folded in. The one place this
still disagrees with it is recorded with the reason.