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Rotation-tick pin-precheck reports DRIFT versus the prior tick post-UI pin:

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EduOS Demo-DB Reseed vs Cumulative-Seeding Drift — Discrimination & Live Re-pin Runbook (t462)

0. Incident snapshot

Rotation-tick pin-precheck reports DRIFT versus the prior tick post-UI pin:

metric	prior pin	precheck	delta
users	47	50	+3
quizzes	32426	32558	+132

Halt rule: do not decrement the analytics floor and do not mutate the demo DB. Triage is read-only until the final live re-pin.

1. Root-cause analysis

The divergence is a test-suite seeding artifact, not external/user growth. Two seeding etiologies produce the same count drift and the same fixture e-mail fingerprint (display-test-*, dogfood011-*, sync-test@). They are separated by the age profile of the users table, specifically min(created_at).

Class A — Reseed (whole-table recreate)

A seeding run inside the prior tick window dropped/recreated the table and inserted the deterministic fixture set. Every row, including the oldest, is minutes old. - min(created_at) on users is minutes old (inside the prior tick window). - max(created_at) is fresh and close to min. - Counts change wholesale because the fixture generator's cardinality changed. - The 4 role logins must still pass: the demo path survives reseed even though row identities changed.

Class B — Incremental cumulative-seeding growth (known class)

The suite appended fixtures to a long-lived demo dataset. Pre-existing rows survive. - min(created_at) is OLD (days/weeks — the original demo tenants). - max(created_at) is fresh (minutes). - Counts ratchet upward every tick; parent_links must be stable. - Same fixture e-mail fingerprint as Class A.

The discriminator (single source of truth)

SELECT min(created_at) AS oldest, max(created_at) AS newest FROM users;

oldest recent → Class A (reseed)
oldest old, newest fresh → Class B (incremental display-test)

Why "no decrement" is mandatory in both classes

The demo DB genuinely contains the new rows; the floor stored by the pin is stale, not wrong. Subtracting the delta would fabricate a number the demo DB does not contain and re-create drift on the next tick. The correct action is to re-derive the floor from the live, frozen, self-excluded count. The demo DB is never written to make the pin match.

2. Exact fix — read-only triage then live re-pin

All steps use a read-only DB role and a BEGIN READ ONLY transaction. The only write is the analytics pin, which lives outside the demo DB.

# ---- triage configuration (read-only) ----
export DEMO_DSN="postgresql://eduos_ro@demo-db:5432/eduos_demo"
export ANALYTICS_API="https://analytics.internal/eduos"
export SELF_EMAIL="<email>"          # this triage/rotation identity
export ROTATION_CMD="eduos-e2e-tester --profile demo --rotation"
export TICK_WINDOW_SEC=3600                             # prior tick window

Step 1 — read-only root cause (classify)

psql "$DEMO_DSN" -v ON_ERROR_STOP=1 -P pager=off \
     -v self_email="$SELF_EMAIL" <<'SQL'
BEGIN READ ONLY;
SET LOCAL statement_timeout = '15s';

-- DISCRIMINATOR: age profile of users
SELECT
  count(*)                                       AS n,
  min(created_at)                                AS oldest,
  max(created_at)                                AS newest,
  date_trunc('second', now() - min(created_at))  AS oldest_age,
  date_trunc('second', now() - max(created_at))  AS newest_age
FROM users;

-- FIXTURE FINGERPRINT (proves test-suite origin)
SELECT
  count(*) FILTER (WHERE email LIKE 'display-test-%') AS display_test,
  count(*) FILTER (WHERE email LIKE 'dogfood011-%')   AS dogfood011,
  count(*) FILTER (WHERE email LIKE 'sync-test@%')    AS sync_test,
  count(*)                                            AS total
FROM users;

-- PARALLEL EVIDENCE: quizzes age profile
SELECT count(*) AS n, min(created_at) AS oldest, max(created_at) AS newest
FROM quizzes;
COMMIT;
SQL

Classify (machine-readable):

OLDEST_AGE_SEC=$(psql "$DEMO_DSN" -Atc \
  "SELECT extract(epoch FROM now()-min(created_at))::bigint FROM users")
if [ "$OLDEST_AGE_SEC" -lt "$TICK_WINDOW_SEC" ]; then
  CLASS=reseed        # Class A
else
  CLASS=incremental   # Class B
fi
echo "class=$CLASS oldest_age=${OLDEST_AGE_SEC}s"

Step 2 — exclude self (and fixtures) from the live count

The triage/rotation login is itself a user row. Count the live demo population only after excluding self and the seeding fixtures, otherwise the new floor is inflated by the probe.

-- live_users: replace :self_email with SELF_EMAIL
SELECT count(*) AS live_users
FROM users
WHERE email NOT LIKE 'display-test-%'
  AND email NOT LIKE 'dogfood011-%'
  AND email NOT LIKE 'sync-test@%'
  AND email <> :'self_email';

-- live_quizzes: exclude fixtures owned by excluded users
SELECT count(*) AS live_quizzes
FROM quizzes q
WHERE NOT EXISTS (
  SELECT 1 FROM users u
  WHERE u.id = q.owner_id
    AND (u.email LIKE 'display-test-%'
      OR u.email LIKE 'dogfood011-%'
      OR u.email LIKE 'sync-test@%'
      OR u.email = :'self_email')
);

Step 3 — stability probe: 4 samples × 30 s, must be FROZEN

Prove no seeding/rotation writer is still running. Any change aborts the re-pin.

prev=""; frozen=1
for i in 1 2 3 4; do
  cur=$(psql "$DEMO_DSN" -Atc \
    "SELECT count(*) FROM users
     WHERE email NOT LIKE 'display-test-%'
       AND email NOT LIKE 'dogfood011-%'
       AND email NOT LIKE 'sync-test@%'
       AND email <> '$SELF_EMAIL'")
  echo "sample $i/4 users=$cur"
  [ -n "$prev" ] && [ "$cur" != "$prev" ] && frozen=0
  prev="$cur"
  [ "$i" -lt 4 ] && sleep 30
done
[ "$frozen" -eq 1 ] || { echo "NOT FROZEN — abort re-pin (ongoing writer)"; exit 2; }
LIVE_USERS="$prev"
echo "FROZEN 4/4 users=$LIVE_USERS"

Requirement for both classes: 4/4 FROZEN.

Step 4 — off-by-one discover (404 novel)

Detect the seed-idempotency off-by-one on the boundary row and probe for a novel 404 introduced by the reseed (a fixture route that used to resolve now returns 404).

# boundary rows: inspect the newest / oldest fixture edge
psql "$DEMO_DSN" -P pager=off -c \
  "SELECT id, email, created_at FROM users ORDER BY created_at DESC LIMIT 1;"
psql "$DEMO_DSN" -P pager=off -c \
  "SELECT id, email, created_at FROM users ORDER BY created_at ASC  LIMIT 1;"

# off-by-one check on the max quiz id: max(id) must be 200, max(id)+1 must be 404
MAX_ID=$(psql "$DEMO_DSN" -Atc "SELECT max(id) FROM quizzes")
for id in "$MAX_ID" "$((MAX_ID + 1))"; do
  code=$(curl -s -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' "$DEMO_API/quizzes/$id")
  echo "quizzes/$id -> $code"
done
# Expected: max(id) -> 200, max(id)+1 -> 404.
# A 404 on a previously-200 fixture id is the "novel 404": record it and attach to the
# incident. It does not block re-pin; it is evidence the reseed renamed/dropped identities.

Step 5 — live re-pin via the rotation battery (4 role logins)

Run the rotation battery; its four role logins (admin, teacher, student, parent) verify the demo path survived the reseed/incremental seeding. Only a 4/4 pass authorizes the re-pin.

$ROTATION_CMD --roles admin,teacher,student,parent --json > /tmp/rotation.json
# Parse pass count (adjust to the battery's JSON schema)
PASS=$(python3 -c "import json;print(sum(r['ok'] for r in json.load(open('/tmp/rotation.json'))['roles']))")
[ "$PASS" -eq 4 ] || { echo "rotation battery $PASS/4 — abort re-pin"; exit 3; }
echo "rotation battery 4/4 OK"

Re-pin the analytics floor to the live, frozen, self-excluded count — in the analytics store, never in the demo DB:

curl -sS -X POST "$ANALYTICS_API/pins" \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d "{\"tick\":\"$(date -u +%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ)\",
       \"class\":\"$CLASS\",
       \"floor\":{\"users\":$LIVE_USERS,\"quizzes\":$LIVE_QUIZZES},
       \"demo_db_mutated\":false,
       \"novel_404\":[\"$NOVEL_404_IDS\"]}"

3. Decision table

Observation	Class	Decrement?	parent_links	Stability	Re-pin path
`min(created_at)` minutes old	A reseed	No	rebuilt by seed	4/4 FROZEN	rotation battery → live count
`min(created_at)` old, `max(created_at)` fresh	B incremental	No	must be stable	4/4 FROZEN	rotation battery → live count

Both classes converge on the same re-pin path; only the root-cause label and the parent_links evidence differ. The new analytics floor is always the live count.

4. Verification

Run these after the pin. All must pass.

# (1) class was determined by the reseed signature, not by the delta
psql "$DEMO_DSN" -Atc "SELECT (now()-min(created_at)) < interval '1 hour' FROM users" \
  | grep -qx t && echo "A: reseed" || echo "B: incremental"

# (2) self + fixtures excluded from the pinned floor
psql "$DEMO_DSN" -Atc "SELECT count(*) FROM users
  WHERE email LIKE 'display-test-%' OR email LIKE 'dogfood011-%'
     OR email LIKE 'sync-test@%' OR email = '$SELF_EMAIL'"
# -> these rows exist in the DB and are NOT part of the floor

# (3) stability probe was FROZEN 4/4 (rerun; must equal the pinned floor)
for i in 1 2 3 4; do
  psql "$DEMO_DSN" -Atc "SELECT count(*) FROM users
    WHERE email NOT LIKE 'display-test-%' AND email NOT LIKE 'dogfood011-%'
      AND email NOT LIKE 'sync-test@%' AND email <> '$SELF_EMAIL'"
  sleep 30
done

# (4) rotation battery 4/4 role logins
python3 -c "import json;print(json.load(open('/tmp/rotation.json')))"

# (5) new analytics floor == live count
curl -sS "$ANALYTICS_API/pins/current" | python3 -m json.tool
# floor.users == LIVE_USERS and floor.quizzes == LIVE_QUIZZES

# (6) demo DB was NOT mutated: pre/post row counts identical
psql "$DEMO_DSN" -Atc "SELECT (SELECT count(*) FROM users), (SELECT count(*) FROM quizzes)"
# same values before and after the pin; no UPDATE/DELETE was issued

# (7) Class B only: parent_links stable across the tick
psql "$DEMO_DSN" -Atc "SELECT count(*) FROM parent_links"   # unchanged vs prior tick

# (8) novel 404 recorded and attached to the incident
echo "$NOVEL_404_IDS"   # non-empty only if a fixture route regressed

Acceptance checklist

[ ] Root cause classified read-only from min(created_at) (Class A or B).
[ ] Self and all fixture identities (display-test-*, dogfood011-*, sync-test@) excluded.
[ ] Stability probe 4/4 FROZEN (30 s spacing).
[ ] Off-by-one boundary confirmed and any novel 404 documented.
[ ] Rotation battery 4/4 role logins pass.
[ ] New analytics floor = live count; no decrement.
[ ] Demo DB row counts unchanged before/after the pin (no mutation).
[ ] Class B: parent_links stable.

Never mutate the demo DB to re-pin.

Note on verification limits: the provided environment has no reachable EduOS demo DB (no local Postgres containing it, and eduos-hermes/cube-root is unresolvable with no SSH key), so the commands above are the executable runbook rather than captured live output. Replace the export values with the real rotation host's read-only DSN, API base, and battery JSON schema; the logic and discrimination criterion are exact and self-contained.

Evidence & signatures

# Evidence
- Problem class: eduos-demo-db-reseed-vs-cumulative-seeding-drift-discrimination
- Model: openrouter/deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash
- Solved: 2026-09-14T00:41:23.039Z
- Verification: solution produced by pi in sandbox; see signatures.json

{"description": "EduOS rotation-tick pin-precheck DRIFT triage: demo-DB counts diverge from the prior tick post-UI pin (users 47->50, quizzes 32426->32558). Discriminate reseed vs the known cumulative-seeding growth class by the reseed signature: SELECT min(created_at) FROM users. If the OLDEST user row is minutes old, the whole table was recreated by a test-suite seeding run inside the PRIOR tick window (fixture emails display-test-*/dogfood011-*/sync-test@) - not external growth. Remedy order t462: read-only root cause, exclude self, stability probe 4 samples x 30s (FROZEN), off-by-one discover (404 novel), then live re-pin by running the rotation battery whose 4 role logins verify the demo path survived reseed; new analytics floor = live count. If min(created_at) is OLD but the newest row is fresh, it is the incremental display-test class instead: no decrement + parent_links stable + 4/4 frozen, same re-pin path. Never mutate the demo DB to re-pin.", "environment": "", "language": "", "model": "openrouter/deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash", "problem_class": "eduos-demo-db-reseed-vs-cumulative-seeding-drift-discrimination", "provider": "openrouter", "solved_at": "2026-09-14T00:41:23.039Z", "version": ""}

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