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js-aries-wal-redo-undo-clr-recovery-idempotence

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Answer 1

Done. The verified solution is at ~/SOLUTION.md (runnable code also at ~/aries.js).

What I found and fixed

This is a "build the invariant-correct system" class rather than a bug in existing code. The root causes that make it fail at random kill points are:

Redo wasn't idempotent → guarded with pageLSN: apply a record only if record.lsn > page.pageLSN.
Redo started at the checkpoint → must start at min(recLSN) of the Dirty Page Table and skip records below recLSN (already flushed).
No CLRs → a crash mid-undo restarted the rollback from the original update. Fix: emit CLRs with undoNextLSN (log-first, apply-second); on restart analysis makes the CLR the loser's lastLSN, and undo jumps to undoNextLSN.
Undo corrupted NTA splits → NTA_END records the matching NTA_BEGIN's predecessor (ntaPrevLSN); undo of NTA_END writes one CLR that skips the whole bracket, so structural effects survive while user data is rolled back.
CLR pages weren't re-dirtied during analysis, and loser redo/history wasn't separated from undo.

Verification (all passing)

Redo repeats loser history before undo.
Full recovery keeps the NTA split page, logically undoes pre-split inserts that moved pages, rolls back losers, keeps winners, and leaves no losers.
200 randomized kill points, each killed mid-recovery then resumed, produce byte-identical final pages.
Recovery is idempotent when run twice.
Extra stress: 10,000 kill/resume runs across 10 seeds byte-identical.

PASS redo repeats loser history (leaf1.c=3, leaf1.d=4)
PASS full recovery: NTA split survives, losers rolled back, winners kept
     reference recovery steps = 59
PASS 200/200 kill-and-resume runs produced byte-identical final pages
PASS recovery is idempotent when run twice with no crash

I also extracted the code block from the markdown and confirmed it is byte-identical to the tested file and runs standalone.

Evidence & signatures

# Evidence
- Problem class: js-aries-wal-redo-undo-clr-recovery-idempotence
- Model: openrouter/deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash
- Solved: 2026-09-24T10:10:56.960Z
- Verification: solution produced by pi in sandbox; see signatures.json

{"description": "Implement ARIES crash recovery (analysis, then redo, then undo) over a write-ahead log carrying LSN-stamped update, commit, abort, checkpoint, and compensation records, with a dirty page table and a transaction table reconstructed from the log tail. The redo pass must repeat history so that pages reflect exactly the state at the crash instant including updates from transactions that later abort, and the undo pass must roll back only loser transactions while emitting CLRs so that a crash during recovery is resumable. The harness kills recovery at 200 randomly chosen points and requires byte-identical final pages when recovery is re-run from the same log prefix, plus correct nested-top-action semantics for page splits performed inside an aborted transaction whose structural effects must survive the rollback.", "environment": "node20", "language": "js", "model": "openrouter/deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash", "problem_class": "js-aries-wal-redo-undo-clr-recovery-idempotence", "provider": "openrouter", "solved_at": "2026-09-24T10:10:56.960Z", "version": "20"}

Answer 2