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fix(plan): account for stored parent changes when categorizing indirect snapshots - #6214
When a model is indirectly modified, the plan builder decides its change category (INDIRECT_BREAKING, INDIRECT_NON_BREAKING or METADATA) from the categories of its direct parents. That decision only looks at parents that are new in the current plan. A parent that already exists in state, but differs from the parent the child was last deployed with, is ignored whenever at least one other direct parent is new.
In this description, a stored parent is a parent snapshot that already exists in state (it is in context_diff.snapshots but not in context_diff.new_snapshots) because an earlier plan created and categorized it, even though the environment being planned has not deployed it yet. A new parent is one created by the current plan.
A typical way to end up with a stored parent: a breaking change to model A is applied to a dev environment and then waits for review. prod still has the old A. The change to A is stored in state, but nothing downstream of it in prod has been rebuilt.
Example, with a child C that selects from parents A and B:
prod runs A0, B0 and C0, where C0 was built from A0 + B0.
A breaking change to A is planned and applied to dev. This creates A1 (categorized BREAKING) and C1 (INDIRECT_BREAKING) in state. prod is unchanged and still runs C0. A1 is now a stored parent.
Someone then makes a metadata-only change to B, for example changing its owner, with A1 still in the project, and plans prod. B1 is new and categorized METADATA.
C is now A1 + B1. That combination has never been seen, so C2 is a new snapshot, and it needs a category.
Before this change, C2 was categorized from {B1} only. Every contributing parent was METADATA, so C2 became METADATA. A METADATA snapshot reuses the physical table of the previous version, so prod keeps C0's table and the breaking change to A is never applied to C. No backfill is planned, and the data in C silently no longer matches its definition.
The expected result is INDIRECT_BREAKING: relative to what prod currently runs, C is downstream of a breaking change.
This is a gap between two existing code paths:
If no direct parent is new, _get_orphaned_indirect_change_category already compares each parent against the previous version of the child and walks the parent's version history. This is what handles "two parents changed independently in different plans, then merged".
If at least one direct parent is new, only the new parents are consulted and that history comparison is skipped. That is the case above.
Fix
When an indirectly modified snapshot has at least one new direct parent, also collect categories from its stored direct parents that changed relative to the previous version of the child.
For each such parent, the categories of all of its versions created after the one the previous child was built from (excluding that previous version, including the current one) are added to the set that decides the child's category. The version history walk is the one _get_orphaned_indirect_change_category already uses; it is extracted into _get_parent_categories_since and shared.
Notable properties:
Stored parents that are unchanged relative to the previous child are ignored, even if they were breaking in the past. The previous child already includes that change, so no unnecessary rebuild is introduced.
Versions at or before the baseline (the version the previous child was built from) are ignored for the same reason.
If the history does not reach back to the baseline (it only keeps the most recent versions), a breaking change cannot be ruled out, so the result is INDIRECT_BREAKING. This matches _get_orphaned_indirect_change_category.
The existing behavior that a directly changed NON_BREAKING intermediate model stops breaking changes from propagating further downstream is unchanged, because only the history of direct parents is inspected.
Materialized views, seeds and breaking kind changes are handled before this code and are unaffected.
Resulting categories
For a child with one stored changed parent and one new parent (test_stored_changed_parent_with_new_parent):
Stored parent
New parent
Child before
Child now
BREAKING
METADATA
METADATA
INDIRECT_BREAKING
BREAKING
NON_BREAKING
INDIRECT_NON_BREAKING
INDIRECT_BREAKING
NON_BREAKING
METADATA
METADATA
INDIRECT_NON_BREAKING
METADATA
METADATA
METADATA
METADATA (unchanged)
The second row is worth highlighting: it is the same bug with a different new parent, and now also ends in a rebuild.
None of the parents above are forward-only. The forward-only combinations (test_stored_breaking_parent_with_new_forward_only_parent and test_stored_forward_only_parent_with_new_parent):
Stored parent
New parent
Child before
Child now
BREAKING, not forward-only
BREAKING, forward-only
INDIRECT_BREAKING, forward-only: previous version reused, no rebuild
INDIRECT_BREAKING, not forward-only: rebuilt
BREAKING, forward-only
METADATA
METADATA: previous version reused, no rebuild
INDIRECT_BREAKING, forward-only: previous version reused, no rebuild
BREAKING, forward-only
NON_BREAKING
INDIRECT_NON_BREAKING: previous version reused, no rebuild
INDIRECT_BREAKING, forward-only: previous version reused, no rebuild
BREAKING, forward-only
BREAKING, not forward-only
INDIRECT_BREAKING: rebuilt
INDIRECT_BREAKING: rebuilt (unchanged)
The first row is why stored parents also have to be part of the forward-only decision: without it, the child would get the category that requires a rebuild but be flagged forward-only, and categorize_as would reuse the previous physical version anyway. Rows 2 and 3 show that a metadata or non-breaking change to a sibling does not undo a forward-only parent: the child is still not rebuilt, as before this change. Row 4 is a sibling change that does require history to be recomputed, so the child is rebuilt.
Does a metadata-only sibling change the result?
A metadata-only change to another parent shouldn't change what happens to the child. The table compares each stored-parent history (all applied to dev in earlier plans) in three situations: with nothing else changing (alone, the child was already categorized by those dev plans), with a metadata-only sibling change on main, and with the same sibling change on this branch. The values were measured on main and on this branch with sushi.orders as the stored parent, sushi.items as the sibling and sushi.order_items as the child. "Rebuild" means the child has missing intervals in the prod plan. The rows with a sibling are covered by test_stored_forward_only_parent_with_new_parent, test_stored_parent_history_with_earlier_non_forward_only_change and test_stored_pinned_parent_switched_to_full_virtual_environment_mode, which also runs the pinned case without the sibling.
Stored parent history
Alone
With sibling, main
With sibling, this PR
Behavior vs main
One forward-only BREAKING change
INDIRECT_BREAKING, forward-only, keeps prod's table, no rebuild
METADATA, not forward-only, keeps prod's table, no rebuild
INDIRECT_BREAKING, forward-only, keeps prod's table, no rebuild
Same data result; category and flag now match "alone"
Two forward-only BREAKING changes
same as above
same as above
same as above
Same data result; category and flag now match "alone"
BREAKING (not forward-only), then forward-only BREAKING
INDIRECT_BREAKING, forward-only, no rebuild (the table built in dev for the first change is promoted)
METADATA, keeps prod's table: the first change is never applied
INDIRECT_BREAKING, not forward-only, rebuild
Changed: the stale data is fixed. Still differs from "alone", see below
Pinned physical_version model switched from DEV_ONLY to FULL (requires a rebuild)
INDIRECT_BREAKING, not forward-only, rebuild
METADATA, keeps prod's table: the change is never applied
INDIRECT_BREAKING, not forward-only, rebuild
Changed: the stale data is fixed and now matches "alone"
Only the third row still differs from "alone". Without the sibling, the child dev already built for the first change is the one that gets promoted, so nothing is recomputed. A child created because of the sibling change is a different snapshot that is derived from what prod currently runs, and nothing in the plan builder can find the table dev already built for it. The two options are to rebuild (this PR) or to keep what main does, which silently serves stale data. I chose to rebuild: it costs compute only for a stored parent history that mixes forward-only and non-forward-only breaking changes, and it is the same direction _get_orphaned_indirect_change_category takes when it can't prove a change is safe. Reusing the table built in dev would need to be looked up in state and is a separate change.
Behavior worth reviewing
Forward-only. A forward-only snapshot reuses the previous physical version (categorize_as treats forward_only as "no rebuild"), so the forward-only decision has to see the stored parents too. Otherwise a breaking change to a stored parent combined with a new forward-only parent would be categorized INDIRECT_BREAKING, but the child would still be flagged forward-only and skip the rebuild that category requires.
When a stored parent has changed since the previous child, the forward-only decision is therefore made over the changes that require downstream history to be recomputed: the new parents whose category is not METADATA, NON_BREAKING or INDIRECT_NON_BREAKING, and every breaking version of the stored parent since the previous child was built. The child is forward-only only if all of those are forward-only. A metadata or non-breaking change doesn't require anything downstream to be rebuilt, so it can't undo a forward-only change:
stored non-forward-only breaking parent + new forward-only parent: the child is rebuilt (test_stored_breaking_parent_with_new_forward_only_parent);
stored forward-only breaking parent + new METADATA or NON_BREAKING parent: the child is forward-only and keeps its table; with a new non-forward-only BREAKING parent it is rebuilt (test_stored_forward_only_parent_with_new_parent).
The latest version of the stored parent being forward-only isn't enough. If the history is A0 (what the previous child was built from), A1 (breaking, not forward-only) and A2 (forward-only), A1's change was never applied to the child, so the child has to be rebuilt (test_stored_parent_history_with_earlier_non_forward_only_change).
Past versions don't record whether they were forward-only (SnapshotDataVersion has no such field, and I didn't want to change what is stored in state in a bug fix). The flag can't be reliably inferred from the version either: a forward-only version normally reuses the version before it, but a pinned physical_version or a DEV_ONLY virtual environment gives a version that doesn't depend on the fingerprint. So ContextDiff.create reads it from state: for each stored parent of a new modified snapshot that changed since the child's previous version, it loads the snapshots of the parent's versions after that point (the history keeps at most 10 versions) and records their is_forward_only in ContextDiff.stored_parent_forward_only. The parent's latest version uses its own flag. This is one extra get_snapshots call, and only when such a parent exists.
If a version can't be found in state, or the history of a stored parent can't be traced back to the previous child, the stored parent counts as not forward-only, so the child is rebuilt. Versions with a missing or the deprecated FORWARD_ONLY category are treated as breaking changes, and their forward-only flag is read the same way.
When no stored parent has changed, the forward-only decision is exactly what it was before.
Possible follow-up, deliberately not part of this PR. When both parents are new in the same plan, the existing forward-only decision still counts metadata and non-breaking changes. For example, a forward-only breaking change to one parent together with a metadata-only change to another parent, in the same plan, gives a child that is not forward-only and is rebuilt (the same on main). The same two changes get the opposite result in this PR if one of them was applied in an earlier plan. If we agree that metadata and non-breaking changes shouldn't prevent a forward-only change from being forward-only, I think that should be a separate PR that applies the rule to both cases and removes the "only when a stored parent has changed" distinction, so that it isn't mixed with this bug fix. I kept this PR to the stored-parent case so the existing both-new behavior is unchanged.
Conservatism. Where the history cannot prove a change was safe, the result is INDIRECT_BREAKING. The cost of being wrong in that direction is an extra rebuild. The cost of being wrong in the other direction is stale data being served without any plan output hinting at it.
Test Plan
New tests, which fail without the change to builder.py and context_diff.py and pass with it:
tests/core/integration/test_change_scenarios.py
test_stored_changed_parent_with_new_parent: the four rows in the table above, using sushi.orders (stored parent), sushi.items (new parent) and sushi.order_items (child). Asserts which snapshots are new, the child's category, whether it gets a new version and whether it has missing intervals.
test_unchanged_historic_breaking_parent_with_new_parent: a parent that was breaking and is already deployed does not force a rebuild of the child when a sibling changes its metadata. Passes with and without the change; it guards against over-triggering.
test_stored_breaking_parent_with_new_forward_only_parent: a stored non-forward-only breaking parent with a new forward-only parent. Fails without the change: the child is categorized INDIRECT_BREAKING but flagged forward-only, so it keeps its old version and gets no backfill.
test_stored_forward_only_parent_with_new_parent: a stored forward-only breaking parent with a new METADATA, NON_BREAKING or non-forward-only BREAKING parent (rows 2 to 4 of the forward-only table).
test_stored_parent_history_with_earlier_non_forward_only_change: a stored parent whose latest version is forward-only but an earlier breaking version was not. Fails without the per-version rule: the child is categorized INDIRECT_BREAKING but is flagged forward-only and keeps its old version.
test_stored_pinned_parent_switched_to_full_virtual_environment_mode: a pinned forward-only parent switched from DEV_ONLY to FULL in dev, planned to prod with and without a metadata-only sibling change. Both must rebuild the child. Fails without reading the stored flag: with the sibling the child is flagged forward-only and keeps prod's table.
tests/core/test_plan.py: test_indirect_change_with_stored_parent_history_and_new_parent, five cases over the stored parent's version history: breaking after the baseline with a metadata latest version; breaking at the baseline only (ignored); breaking at the baseline followed by non-breaking; non-breaking, breaking, non-breaking; and a baseline missing from the history. test_indirect_change_forward_only_with_stored_parent_history covers the recorded forward-only flags of an earlier and the latest version of the stored parent, an earlier version that can't be found in state, and the deprecated FORWARD_ONLY category.
Results (unmodified main vs. this branch, python -m pytest -n 0):
Without the change, the new tests that cover the bug fail; the cases that are controls (an unchanged historic breaking parent, METADATA + METADATA, and a stored forward-only parent with a new breaking parent) pass either way.
make fast-test on Ubuntu 24.04 (Python 3.12), unmodified: all steps pass (2851 passed, 6 skipped in the first step).
ruff check, ruff format --check and mypy sqlmesh/core/plan/builder.py sqlmesh/core/context_diff.py pass.
Checklist
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I have added tests for my changes (if applicable)
All existing tests pass (make fast-test)
My commits are signed off (git commit -s) per the DCO
…ct snapshots
When an indirectly modified snapshot had at least one direct parent that is
new in the plan, only new parents were used to determine its category. A
parent that already exists in state (categorized by an earlier plan, e.g. a
breaking change applied to dev) but differs from the parent the previous
child version was built from was ignored. A new metadata-only sibling could
then make the child METADATA, reusing the old physical table and silently
skipping the breaking change.
Also collect categories from such stored parents by walking their version
history back to the previous child's parent, reusing the walk of
_get_orphaned_indirect_change_category through a shared helper. Unchanged
parents and history at or before the baseline are ignored; a history that
does not reach the baseline is treated as INDIRECT_BREAKING.
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The plan builder now uses stored direct-parent version history to classify indirect snapshot changes and determine forward-only status. Missing prior-version history yields an indirect-breaking classification. Unit and integration tests cover categorization and resulting plan behavior.
Changes: Indirect snapshot categorization
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Summary
Collect stored parent version flags sqlmesh/core/context_diff.py
ContextDiff records forward-only flags for available earlier versions of changed parents.
Classify indirect changes from parent history sqlmesh/core/plan/builder.py
The builder combines stored parent categories and forward-only flags with current upstream changes. It treats missing history as indirect breaking and uses the shared history lookup for orphaned indirect categorization.
Validate categorization and plan outcomes tests/core/test_plan.py, tests/core/integration/test_change_scenarios.py
Unit and integration tests cover history-based categories, forward-only status, child version changes, missing intervals, and virtual-environment mode changes.
sequenceDiagram
participant ContextDiff
participant StateReader
participant PlanBuilder
ContextDiff->>StateReader: Read stored parent snapshots
StateReader->>ContextDiff: Return available version flags
ContextDiff->>PlanBuilder: Supply stored parent flags
PlanBuilder->>PlanBuilder: Combine parent history and upstream categories
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Indirect snapshot categorization now takes stored parent history into account, and a breaking intermediate parent change is no longer hidden by a later forward-only version. Missing history leads to a rebuild rather than silent reuse of stale data. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains.
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A stored parent with a non-forward-only breaking change combined with a new
forward-only parent left the child flagged forward-only, since only new
parents were considered. The child was categorized INDIRECT_BREAKING but
reused its previous physical version, skipping the required rebuild.
Add the forward-only flags of stored parents that changed since the previous
child version to the forward-only decision, and cover both forward-only
parent combinations with tests.
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Consider a child whose previous parent is A0. In dev, apply a non-forward-only breaking change A1, then a forward-only change A2. Leave prod unchanged. ContextDiff.create retains A0 and A1 in A2's history. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
Now combine stored A2 with a new forward-only parent B in a prod plan. This line contributes only A2's current True flag. Both parents therefore permit forward-only propagation, although A1's breaking change still requires the child to rebuild. The history lookup correctly produces INDIRECT_BREAKING, but the child's forward_only flag remains true. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
Snapshot.categorize_as then reuses the child's previous physical version despite that category. The child retains historical data from before A1. Determine rebuild safety across the stored-parent history, not only from the latest flag. Add coverage for this two-change stored-parent sequence. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
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…ly for stored parents
When a stored parent has changed since the previous child version, decide
whether the child is forward-only only from the changes that require
downstream history to be recomputed. New parents categorized METADATA,
NON_BREAKING or INDIRECT_NON_BREAKING no longer count against a forward-only
stored parent, and stored parents only count when their history contains a
breaking change. A stored parent whose history can't be traced counts as not
forward-only. Plans without a changed stored parent decide exactly as before.
Extend the forward-only test to cover metadata, non-breaking and breaking
new parents.
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…d parent
A stored parent only voted with the forward-only flag of its latest version.
If an earlier breaking version since the previous child was not forward-only
and the latest one was, the child was flagged forward-only and kept its old
version, so the earlier change was never applied to it.
A stored parent now votes forward-only only if every breaking version since
the previous child was applied forward-only. Past versions don't record the
flag, so it is inferred from whether the version reused the one before it.
That inference is only used when virtual_environment_mode is FULL, since
other modes don't derive versions from the fingerprint.
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…state
The forward-only decision for a child with a stored parent inferred whether
earlier versions of that parent were forward-only from their version and
fingerprint. That is wrong for pinned versions, which are not derived from the
fingerprint: a pinned parent switched from DEV_ONLY to FULL was a rebuild, but
looked forward-only, so its child reused the old table.
ContextDiff now loads the stored snapshot of each earlier version of a stored
parent after the baseline and records its forward-only flag. The plan builder
uses that flag, and the parent's own flag for its latest version. A version
that can't be found in state is not considered forward-only. Categories that
are not assigned today (none, or the deprecated FORWARD_ONLY) are treated as
breaking.
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Description
Problem
When a model is indirectly modified, the plan builder decides its change category (
INDIRECT_BREAKING,INDIRECT_NON_BREAKINGorMETADATA) from the categories of its direct parents. That decision only looks at parents that are new in the current plan. A parent that already exists in state, but differs from the parent the child was last deployed with, is ignored whenever at least one other direct parent is new.In this description, a stored parent is a parent snapshot that already exists in state (it is in
context_diff.snapshotsbut not incontext_diff.new_snapshots) because an earlier plan created and categorized it, even though the environment being planned has not deployed it yet. A new parent is one created by the current plan.A typical way to end up with a stored parent: a breaking change to model
Ais applied to adevenvironment and then waits for review.prodstill has the oldA. The change toAis stored in state, but nothing downstream of it inprodhas been rebuilt.Example, with a child
Cthat selects from parentsAandB:prodrunsA0,B0andC0, whereC0was built fromA0+B0.Ais planned and applied todev. This createsA1(categorizedBREAKING) andC1(INDIRECT_BREAKING) in state.prodis unchanged and still runsC0.A1is now a stored parent.B, for example changing itsowner, withA1still in the project, and plansprod.B1is new and categorizedMETADATA.Cis nowA1+B1. That combination has never been seen, soC2is a new snapshot, and it needs a category.Before this change,
C2was categorized from{B1}only. Every contributing parent wasMETADATA, soC2becameMETADATA. AMETADATAsnapshot reuses the physical table of the previous version, soprodkeepsC0's table and the breaking change toAis never applied toC. No backfill is planned, and the data inCsilently no longer matches its definition.The expected result is
INDIRECT_BREAKING: relative to whatprodcurrently runs,Cis downstream of a breaking change.This is a gap between two existing code paths:
_get_orphaned_indirect_change_categoryalready compares each parent against the previous version of the child and walks the parent's version history. This is what handles "two parents changed independently in different plans, then merged".Fix
When an indirectly modified snapshot has at least one new direct parent, also collect categories from its stored direct parents that changed relative to the previous version of the child.
For each such parent, the categories of all of its versions created after the one the previous child was built from (excluding that previous version, including the current one) are added to the set that decides the child's category. The version history walk is the one
_get_orphaned_indirect_change_categoryalready uses; it is extracted into_get_parent_categories_sinceand shared.Notable properties:
INDIRECT_BREAKING. This matches_get_orphaned_indirect_change_category.NON_BREAKINGintermediate model stops breaking changes from propagating further downstream is unchanged, because only the history of direct parents is inspected.Resulting categories
For a child with one stored changed parent and one new parent (
test_stored_changed_parent_with_new_parent):BREAKINGMETADATAMETADATAINDIRECT_BREAKINGBREAKINGNON_BREAKINGINDIRECT_NON_BREAKINGINDIRECT_BREAKINGNON_BREAKINGMETADATAMETADATAINDIRECT_NON_BREAKINGMETADATAMETADATAMETADATAMETADATA(unchanged)The second row is worth highlighting: it is the same bug with a different new parent, and now also ends in a rebuild.
None of the parents above are forward-only. The forward-only combinations (
test_stored_breaking_parent_with_new_forward_only_parentandtest_stored_forward_only_parent_with_new_parent):BREAKING, not forward-onlyBREAKING, forward-onlyINDIRECT_BREAKING, forward-only: previous version reused, no rebuildINDIRECT_BREAKING, not forward-only: rebuiltBREAKING, forward-onlyMETADATAMETADATA: previous version reused, no rebuildINDIRECT_BREAKING, forward-only: previous version reused, no rebuildBREAKING, forward-onlyNON_BREAKINGINDIRECT_NON_BREAKING: previous version reused, no rebuildINDIRECT_BREAKING, forward-only: previous version reused, no rebuildBREAKING, forward-onlyBREAKING, not forward-onlyINDIRECT_BREAKING: rebuiltINDIRECT_BREAKING: rebuilt (unchanged)The first row is why stored parents also have to be part of the forward-only decision: without it, the child would get the category that requires a rebuild but be flagged forward-only, and
categorize_aswould reuse the previous physical version anyway. Rows 2 and 3 show that a metadata or non-breaking change to a sibling does not undo a forward-only parent: the child is still not rebuilt, as before this change. Row 4 is a sibling change that does require history to be recomputed, so the child is rebuilt.Does a metadata-only sibling change the result?
A metadata-only change to another parent shouldn't change what happens to the child. The table compares each stored-parent history (all applied to
devin earlier plans) in three situations: with nothing else changing (alone, the child was already categorized by thosedevplans), with a metadata-only sibling change onmain, and with the same sibling change on this branch. The values were measured onmainand on this branch withsushi.ordersas the stored parent,sushi.itemsas the sibling andsushi.order_itemsas the child. "Rebuild" means the child has missing intervals in theprodplan. The rows with a sibling are covered bytest_stored_forward_only_parent_with_new_parent,test_stored_parent_history_with_earlier_non_forward_only_changeandtest_stored_pinned_parent_switched_to_full_virtual_environment_mode, which also runs the pinned case without the sibling.mainmainBREAKINGchangeINDIRECT_BREAKING, forward-only, keepsprod's table, no rebuildMETADATA, not forward-only, keepsprod's table, no rebuildINDIRECT_BREAKING, forward-only, keepsprod's table, no rebuildBREAKINGchangesBREAKING(not forward-only), then forward-onlyBREAKINGINDIRECT_BREAKING, forward-only, no rebuild (the table built indevfor the first change is promoted)METADATA, keepsprod's table: the first change is never appliedINDIRECT_BREAKING, not forward-only, rebuildphysical_versionmodel switched fromDEV_ONLYtoFULL(requires a rebuild)INDIRECT_BREAKING, not forward-only, rebuildMETADATA, keepsprod's table: the change is never appliedINDIRECT_BREAKING, not forward-only, rebuildOnly the third row still differs from "alone". Without the sibling, the child
devalready built for the first change is the one that gets promoted, so nothing is recomputed. A child created because of the sibling change is a different snapshot that is derived from whatprodcurrently runs, and nothing in the plan builder can find the tabledevalready built for it. The two options are to rebuild (this PR) or to keep whatmaindoes, which silently serves stale data. I chose to rebuild: it costs compute only for a stored parent history that mixes forward-only and non-forward-only breaking changes, and it is the same direction_get_orphaned_indirect_change_categorytakes when it can't prove a change is safe. Reusing the table built indevwould need to be looked up in state and is a separate change.Behavior worth reviewing
Forward-only. A forward-only snapshot reuses the previous physical version (
categorize_astreatsforward_onlyas "no rebuild"), so the forward-only decision has to see the stored parents too. Otherwise a breaking change to a stored parent combined with a new forward-only parent would be categorizedINDIRECT_BREAKING, but the child would still be flagged forward-only and skip the rebuild that category requires.When a stored parent has changed since the previous child, the forward-only decision is therefore made over the changes that require downstream history to be recomputed: the new parents whose category is not
METADATA,NON_BREAKINGorINDIRECT_NON_BREAKING, and every breaking version of the stored parent since the previous child was built. The child is forward-only only if all of those are forward-only. A metadata or non-breaking change doesn't require anything downstream to be rebuilt, so it can't undo a forward-only change:test_stored_breaking_parent_with_new_forward_only_parent);METADATAorNON_BREAKINGparent: the child is forward-only and keeps its table; with a new non-forward-onlyBREAKINGparent it is rebuilt (test_stored_forward_only_parent_with_new_parent).The latest version of the stored parent being forward-only isn't enough. If the history is A0 (what the previous child was built from), A1 (breaking, not forward-only) and A2 (forward-only), A1's change was never applied to the child, so the child has to be rebuilt (
test_stored_parent_history_with_earlier_non_forward_only_change).Past versions don't record whether they were forward-only (
SnapshotDataVersionhas no such field, and I didn't want to change what is stored in state in a bug fix). The flag can't be reliably inferred from the version either: a forward-only version normally reuses the version before it, but a pinnedphysical_versionor aDEV_ONLYvirtual environment gives a version that doesn't depend on the fingerprint. SoContextDiff.createreads it from state: for each stored parent of a new modified snapshot that changed since the child's previous version, it loads the snapshots of the parent's versions after that point (the history keeps at most 10 versions) and records theiris_forward_onlyinContextDiff.stored_parent_forward_only. The parent's latest version uses its own flag. This is one extraget_snapshotscall, and only when such a parent exists.If a version can't be found in state, or the history of a stored parent can't be traced back to the previous child, the stored parent counts as not forward-only, so the child is rebuilt. Versions with a missing or the deprecated
FORWARD_ONLYcategory are treated as breaking changes, and their forward-only flag is read the same way.When no stored parent has changed, the forward-only decision is exactly what it was before.
Possible follow-up, deliberately not part of this PR. When both parents are new in the same plan, the existing forward-only decision still counts metadata and non-breaking changes. For example, a forward-only breaking change to one parent together with a metadata-only change to another parent, in the same plan, gives a child that is not forward-only and is rebuilt (the same on
main). The same two changes get the opposite result in this PR if one of them was applied in an earlier plan. If we agree that metadata and non-breaking changes shouldn't prevent a forward-only change from being forward-only, I think that should be a separate PR that applies the rule to both cases and removes the "only when a stored parent has changed" distinction, so that it isn't mixed with this bug fix. I kept this PR to the stored-parent case so the existing both-new behavior is unchanged.Conservatism. Where the history cannot prove a change was safe, the result is
INDIRECT_BREAKING. The cost of being wrong in that direction is an extra rebuild. The cost of being wrong in the other direction is stale data being served without any plan output hinting at it.Test Plan
New tests, which fail without the change to
builder.pyandcontext_diff.pyand pass with it:tests/core/integration/test_change_scenarios.pytest_stored_changed_parent_with_new_parent: the four rows in the table above, usingsushi.orders(stored parent),sushi.items(new parent) andsushi.order_items(child). Asserts which snapshots are new, the child's category, whether it gets a new version and whether it has missing intervals.test_unchanged_historic_breaking_parent_with_new_parent: a parent that was breaking and is already deployed does not force a rebuild of the child when a sibling changes its metadata. Passes with and without the change; it guards against over-triggering.test_stored_breaking_parent_with_new_forward_only_parent: a stored non-forward-only breaking parent with a new forward-only parent. Fails without the change: the child is categorizedINDIRECT_BREAKINGbut flagged forward-only, so it keeps its old version and gets no backfill.test_stored_forward_only_parent_with_new_parent: a stored forward-only breaking parent with a newMETADATA,NON_BREAKINGor non-forward-onlyBREAKINGparent (rows 2 to 4 of the forward-only table).test_stored_parent_history_with_earlier_non_forward_only_change: a stored parent whose latest version is forward-only but an earlier breaking version was not. Fails without the per-version rule: the child is categorizedINDIRECT_BREAKINGbut is flagged forward-only and keeps its old version.test_stored_pinned_parent_switched_to_full_virtual_environment_mode: a pinned forward-only parent switched fromDEV_ONLYtoFULLindev, planned toprodwith and without a metadata-only sibling change. Both must rebuild the child. Fails without reading the stored flag: with the sibling the child is flagged forward-only and keepsprod's table.tests/core/test_plan.py:test_indirect_change_with_stored_parent_history_and_new_parent, five cases over the stored parent's version history: breaking after the baseline with a metadata latest version; breaking at the baseline only (ignored); breaking at the baseline followed by non-breaking; non-breaking, breaking, non-breaking; and a baseline missing from the history.test_indirect_change_forward_only_with_stored_parent_historycovers the recorded forward-only flags of an earlier and the latest version of the stored parent, an earlier version that can't be found in state, and the deprecatedFORWARD_ONLYcategory.Results (unmodified
mainvs. this branch,python -m pytest -n 0):METADATA+METADATA, and a stored forward-only parent with a new breaking parent) pass either way.make fast-teston Ubuntu 24.04 (Python 3.12), unmodified: all steps pass (2851 passed, 6 skipped in the first step).ruff check,ruff format --checkandmypy sqlmesh/core/plan/builder.py sqlmesh/core/context_diff.pypass.Checklist
make styleand fixed any issues (ranruff check,ruff format --checkandmypyon the changed files)make fast-test)git commit -s) per the DCOGenerated with Claude Code