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# Which Problems Are Solved
Bulk unique-constraint deletes (org, IDP with many links, user, project)
reconstruct every uniqueness key in Go and emit N `DELETE`s. That can
OOM on large tenants.
A one-shot owner backfill is also not enough: during a rolling deploy,
older binaries still insert `owners = '{}'`, so a later owner-only
delete would miss those rows.
Owner-only org/user/grant delete only matches rows whose `owners` bag
contains that tag. Several grant and member types stamped the aggregate
resource owner, which is not always the user’s home org or the granted
org. Username-scope rewrites also dropped `user:` tags, so owner-only
user delete could miss rewritten username rows.
Command must not switch to owner-only delete on the first 79 of a
version, because leftover `'{}'` rows from rolling-update overlap are
only backfilled on a later 79. A failed 79 must not turn owner-delete
on, and backfill joins must not stamp the wrong org (unverified domains,
org-scoped usernames colliding with instance-scoped ones).
# How the Problems Are Solved
Uniqueness stays the existing primary key `(instance_id, unique_type,
unique_field)`. `owners` is only a lifecycle bag of tags (`org:<id>`,
`user:<id>`, `idp:<id>`, `project:<id>`, `grant:<id>`).
- Add `owners TEXT[] NOT NULL DEFAULT '{}'` on
`eventstore.unique_constraints` (init SQL for greenfield, setup 78 for
existing clusters).
- Create `unique_constraints_owners_gin` with `CREATE INDEX
CONCURRENTLY` **outside a transaction** (same pattern as step 76).
Built-in `GIN (owners)` only; no `btree_gin`.
- Stamp `WithOwners` on **add** events. Field-level removes ignore
owners. `RemoveByOwner` stores the tag in `Owners` and both v1/v3 and v2
pushers run `DELETE … WHERE instance_id = $1 AND owners @>
ARRAY[$tag]::text[]`.
- Setup 79 backfills `owners` from projections via numbered
`cmd/setup/79/*.sql` files. Table names are interpolated from
`internal/query/projection` constants. Matches use `unique_field IN (x,
lower(x))` so the primary key can be used. Missing projection tables
(`42P01`) are skipped.
- Org domains are tagged only when `is_verified`. Instance-scoped
usernames join only users that are not org-scoped (organization settings
or domain policy `user_login_must_be_domain`). Every username row still
gets `org:` + `user:` of that user.
- 79 is a **repeatable** migration. `Check` re-runs when
`lastRun["version"]` changed or when setup-only `ForceFinalize` is set
and `lastRun["finalized"]` is still false. `Finalized` is written only
after Execute succeeds.
- Failed setup events keep the last successful `lastRun`. Command reads
`finalized` only from `system.migration.repeatable.done`.
- Org / user / project remove skip N-key event replay **when that
`finalized` bit is true**. Otherwise they keep today’s N-key lists
**and** still emit `RemoveByOwner`. The “ready” result is cached in
memory once true.
Setup writes `finalized` on the 79 repeatable.done payload:
- First 79 of a version: backfill only, `finalized=false` (unless
`ForceFinalize` is already set).
- Later 79: version change or
`BackfillUniqueConstraintOwners.ForceFinalize` /
`ZITADEL_BACKFILLUNIQUECONSTRAINTOWNERS_FORCEFINALIZE` after the rolling
update is done. That run backfills leftovers and writes
`finalized=true`.
Member and grant owner bags now include every org that should delete the
row:
- Instance, org, and project members also stamp
`org:<user_resource_owner>`.
- User grants stamp grant, user, project, and granted orgs.
- Project grant members stamp the project org, user org, and granted
org.
- Project grants stamp both orgs plus `grant:<id>`. Grant remove emits
`RemoveByOwner(grant)`.
- Username-scope rewrites keep `user:<id>` as well as `org:`.
- User/grant orgs are carried as unexported add-event fields (not
persisted JSON). `WithOwners` skips empty and duplicate tags.
# Additional Changes
- Table-driven owner-tag tests, including project grant (two `org:` tags
plus `grant:`), cross-org members, user grants, and username-scope
rewrite `user:` tags.
- Table-driven 79 `Check` + `finalizeAfterSuccess` tests for version
change, sequential version bumps, ForceFinalize restart, and
already-finalized skip.
- Command tests: a failed 79 event with `finalized=true` does not enable
owner-delete.
- Integration fixtures (verified vs unverified org domain;
instance-scoped `bob` vs org-scoped `bob`).
- Instance-only and global unique types stay untagged (`'{}'`). Instance
wipe still uses `UniqueConstraintInstanceRemove`.
- Pusher owner cases live in `eventstore_pusher_owners_test.go` so
`eventstore_pusher_test.go` stays under 1k lines.
# Additional Context
A later cleanup can delete the N-key replay helpers once a release that
ran 79 a second time (or an operator who set `ForceFinalize`) is in
production. That is not required for correctness.
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Co-authored-by: Silvan <[email protected]>
# Which Problems Are Solved
Currently ZITADEL defines organization and instance member roles and
permissions in defaults.yaml. The permission check is done on API call
level. For example: "is this user allowed to make this call on this
org". This makes sense on the V1 API where the API is permission-level
shaped. For example, a search for users always happens in the context of
the organization. (Either the organization the calling user belongs to,
or through member ship and the x-zitadel-orgid header.
However, for resource based APIs we must be able to resolve permissions
by object. For example, an IAM_OWNER listing users should be able to get
all users in an instance based on the query filters. Alternatively a
user may have user.read permissions on one or more orgs. They should be
able to read just those users.
# How the Problems Are Solved
## Role permission mapping
The role permission mappings defined from `defaults.yaml` or local
config override are synchronized to the database on every run of
`zitadel setup`:
- A single query per **aggregate** builds a list of `add` and `remove`
actions needed to reach the desired state or role permission mappings
from the config.
- The required events based on the actions are pushed to the event
store.
- Events define search fields so that permission checking can use the
indices and is strongly consistent for both query and command sides.
The migration is split in the following aggregates:
- System aggregate for for roles prefixed with `SYSTEM`
- Each instance for roles not prefixed with `SYSTEM`. This is in
anticipation of instance level management over the API.
## Membership
Current instance / org / project membership events now have field table
definitions. Like the role permissions this ensures strong consistency
while still being able to use the indices of the fields table. A
migration is provided to fill the membership fields.
## Permission check
I aimed keeping the mental overhead to the developer to a minimal. The
provided implementation only provides a permission check for list
queries for org level resources, for example users. In the `query`
package there is a simple helper function `wherePermittedOrgs` which
makes sure the underlying database function is called as part of the
`SELECT` query and the permitted organizations are part of the `WHERE`
clause. This makes sure results from non-permitted organizations are
omitted. Under the hood:
- A Pg/PlSQL function searches for a list of organization IDs the passed
user has the passed permission.
- When the user has the permission on instance level, it returns early
with all organizations.
- The functions uses a number of views. The views help mapping the
fields entries into relational data and simplify the code use for the
function. The views provide some pre-filters which allow proper index
usage once the final `WHERE` clauses are set by the function.
# Additional Changes
# Additional Context
Closes#9032
Closes https://github.com/zitadel/zitadel/issues/9014https://github.com/zitadel/zitadel/issues/9188 defines follow-ups for
the new permission framework based on this concept.
This implementation increases parallel write capabilities of the eventstore.
Please have a look at the technical advisories: [05](https://zitadel.com/docs/support/advisory/a10005) and [06](https://zitadel.com/docs/support/advisory/a10006).
The implementation of eventstore.push is rewritten and stored events are migrated to a new table `eventstore.events2`.
If you are using cockroach: make sure that the database user of ZITADEL has `VIEWACTIVITY` grant. This is used to query events.
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