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The published 0.6.2 Python wheel can segfault after its asyncio operation completes because a native completion callback still owns Python objects during interpreter finalization. Awa now fences new bridge work, cancels pending native async tasks, and joins tasks and completion callbacks at atexit with the GIL released. Rejected install/start/shutdown calls leave client lifecycle state unchanged. After five seconds of stalled shutdown, a native stderr diagnostic reports outstanding work while retaining the safety join; returning on timeout would reopen the finalization race. Applications still explicitly shut down workers and close pools.

This also resolves two storage-upgrade caveats without a migration:

#485 carries the library and upgrade fixes onto the 0.6 release line, where unfinalized clusters need them before upgrading to 0.7.

Validation (current head 0d6772ef):

  • Seven quiesced-transition and 28 CEL callback tests pass on PostgreSQL 17/18. New regressions reproduced incomplete-substrate activation, premature freshness expiry, and missing retry notifications before the fixes. The shared TLC model verifies snapshot locking and exposes the unlocked counterexample.
  • The preceding review corrections passed all 28 Python shutdown/startup tests on both branches. Current head passes all six shutdown regressions on CPython 3.12.3/3.14 and backport 3.13, including stalled-callback diagnostics and cancellation of a native query blocked on a database lock. The rejected-operation test reproduced the prior stuck installation state.
  • Rust fmt, all-target/all-feature clippy and workspace build, plus Python clippy/wheel builds pass on both branches.
  • Current full CI and current nightly are running. Earlier c21b3275 passed 321 local Python tests and 1,000 exit probes; baseline 0d1a9d6 passed full CI and the complete nightly. Those earlier results do not certify this latest commit.

Native crash evidence and reproduction. Historical schema probes retain pinned wheel bytes and use verified CPython 3.13.12. Current wheels are separately tested on 3.12.3. Child failures fail immediately, with native evidence retained; a completion marker is never a successful process exit.

Fixes #462. Implements #457 proposal 2; live runtime engine switching remains separate. Addresses the Python crash blocker in #383. The published SQLx 0.9 regression remains a separate release blocker.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added --quiesced to support mixed-storage transitions for stopped fleets without a live target runtime.
    • Added configurable compatibility-test repetitions and pinned Python-version checks.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved Python shutdown handling to prevent crashes, wait for native work to finish, and report stalled shutdown diagnostics.
    • Preserved callback lifecycle state and routing across mixed-storage transitions, retries, rollbacks, and lease changes.
    • Improved transition validation for storage readiness and heartbeat freshness.
  • Documentation

    • Added upgrade and operations guidance for quiesced transitions and callback compatibility.

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Storage transition lifecycle

Layer / File(s) Summary
Quiesced transition command and validation
awa-cli/src/main.rs, awa-model/src/storage.rs, awa-model/tests/quiesced_transition_test.rs, CHANGELOG.md, docs/upgrade-*.md, skills/awa-operations/SKILL.md
Adds --quiesced, validates the complete substrate and precise runtime freshness, preserves transition gates, and documents the procedure.
Canonical callback resolution
awa-model/src/admin.rs, awa/tests/cel_callback_test.rs, CHANGELOG.md, docs/upgrade-0.5-to-0.6.md
Routes callback operations by canonical ownership during mixed transition and tests leases, rollback, payload cleanup, retries, and finalized-state behavior.
Formal quiescence model
correctness/storage/*, correctness/run-tlc-suite.sh
Adds TLC models and checks for locked and unlocked snapshot-transition behavior.

Python interpreter shutdown

Layer / File(s) Summary
Native async shutdown bridge
awa-python/src/async_bridge.rs, awa-python/src/lib.rs
Tracks native tasks and callbacks, fences shutdown, waits without the GIL, and registers the shutdown handler.
Python API bridge migration
awa-python/src/client.rs, awa-python/src/job.rs, awa-python/src/transaction.rs
Moves asynchronous Python APIs to the shared shutdown-aware future bridge.
Shutdown regression validation
awa-python/tests/test_interpreter_shutdown.py, .github/workflows/ci.yml, .github/workflows/nightly-chaos.yml, CHANGELOG.md
Adds subprocess and CI coverage for safe completion, shutdown fencing, lifecycle preservation, diagnostics, and clean exits.

Compatibility diagnostics

Layer / File(s) Summary
Pinned wheel probes and shutdown reproduction
scripts/compat-matrix.sh, scripts/compat/run_python.py, scripts/compat/shutdown_probe.py
Pins compatibility interpreters, records wheel metadata and hashes, captures signal backtraces, and probes client shutdown.
Compatibility workflow execution and artifact retention
.github/workflows/nightly-chaos.yml, .github/workflows/release-gate.yml
Adds repetition controls, longer matrix execution, GDB and core-dump setup, shutdown checks, and retained crash artifacts.
Shutdown crash evidence and operator records
correctness/evidence/python-shutdown-2026-09-07/*
Records CPython shutdown traces, wheel metadata, diagnosis, and stalled-shutdown behavior.

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~90 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 90b67

The shutdown, callback-routing, and quiesced-transition changes have targeted regression coverage with no actionable merge-blocking risk identified.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Operator
  participant awaCLI
  participant StorageModel
  participant RuntimeInstances
  participant TransitionState
  Operator->>awaCLI: enter-mixed-transition --quiesced
  awaCLI->>StorageModel: enter_mixed_transition_quiesced
  StorageModel->>RuntimeInstances: check fresh snapshots
  StorageModel->>TransitionState: flip to mixed_transition
  TransitionState-->>awaCLI: status report
  awaCLI-->>Operator: print status
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sequenceDiagram
  participant PythonCode
  participant AsyncBridge
  participant NativeTask
  participant PythonInterpreter
  PythonCode->>AsyncBridge: create async future
  AsyncBridge->>NativeTask: track task and callback
  PythonInterpreter->>AsyncBridge: begin atexit shutdown
  AsyncBridge->>NativeTask: abort and wait
  NativeTask-->>AsyncBridge: release Python state
  AsyncBridge-->>PythonInterpreter: shutdown complete
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A rabbit checks the storage gate,
Fresh runtimes must now wait.
Canonical callbacks keep their place,
Native tasks finish before shutdown’s face.
Crash traces rest in artifacts bright.

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Out of Scope Changes check ⚠️ Warning The pull request contains substantial changes outside directly linked issue #462. Python interpreter-shutdown hardening, compatibility probes, CI workflow changes, and the quiesced storage-transition … Split unrelated Python shutdown and quiesced storage-transition work into separate pull requests, or link the issues that explicitly require those changes.
Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 61.42% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 127 functions across 15 files. (2 skipped… Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly summarizes the two primary changes: Python shutdown hardening and storage upgrade caveat resolution.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The callback changes satisfy issue #462. During an unfinalized mixed transition, callback operations use canonical storage when queue-storage lookup misses. The implementation preserves transaction ha…
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The pull request contains substantial changes outside directly linked issue #462. Python interpreter-shutdown hardening, compatibility probes, CI workflow changes, and the quiesced storage-transition command and model are not part of the callback canonical-fallback requirement.

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In `@awa-model/src/storage.rs`:
- Around line 130-131: Update the schema validation query in the
routing-transition logic to reuse the executor-compatible helper implementing
the complete queue_storage_schema_ready predicate, rather than checking only
queue_ring_state, ready_entries, and leases. Ensure the transition transaction
validates all required queue-storage relations, sequences, columns, and the
claim_ready_runtime contract before activating runtime_storage_backends, and add
coverage for a partial custom schema containing only those three relations.
- Around line 144-145: Update the quiescence cutoff expression near
make_interval so snapshot_interval_ms retains fractional-second precision
instead of truncating through integer division by 1000. Preserve the existing
minimum interval and three-times multiplier while ensuring values such as 30,999
milliseconds produce the intended millisecond-accurate cutoff.

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Additional review follow-up in 0d6772ef (0.6 backport 83372d90):

  • The indefinite join is intentional for native work still executing synchronous Python code. Returning from a timed-out atexit hook would permit that code to touch a finalizing interpreter and reopen the captured crash. After five seconds we now emit a native stderr diagnostic with outstanding task/callback counts, then retain the safety join. The library does not force process termination.
  • A new controlled callback regression reproduces the silent stall on the previous wheel, observes the diagnostic on the fixed wheel, verifies the process remains alive, then releases the callback and verifies safe exit. A separate regression holds a native query behind a PostgreSQL advisory lock and proves that cancellation lets interpreter exit complete while the blocking transaction remains alive.
  • run_migrations_offthread uses raw Tokio spawn_blocking, outside the bridge's tracked completion callbacks. Aborting the tracked waiter detaches that Rust/SQLx task; the blocking body does not attach to Python. Thus it is not the proposed example of an indefinitely joined bridge callback.
  • State mutation before bridge acceptance was already fixed in 60b449f2 / 1a24ee03, with a lifecycle regression.
  • The schema and millisecond-freshness weaknesses do also exist in the live SQL path (v014_storage_transition_role.sql); these were inherited checks, not newly invented SQL regressions. We intentionally strengthened the new quiesced path using the existing complete readiness predicate and precise intervals. Historical migrations are unchanged; this PR does not claim to fix those legacy SQL checks.

All six shutdown subprocess tests pass on main CPython 3.12.3/3.14 and backport 3.13. Required build/lint checks pass. Fresh CI/nightly runs are pending. The previously addressed callback review threads are now resolved.

…robe

The rejected-bridge lifecycle regression read the queue-storage schema from
runtime_storage_backends, which the shared suite database does not keep in
step with the transition state. After test_dlq installs and then drops
awa_py_dlq, the row still names it while the runtime resolves the schema from
storage_transition_state, so the probe runtime refused to start on CI.

Normalise with install_queue_storage(reset=True) like the other runtime
suites, so the check depends only on bridge behaviour.
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