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4bc484dac9 perf(eventstore): read projection events per event type (#12753)
# Which Problems Are Solved

- A projection that subscribes to several event types gets slower the
further it falls behind.
- The handler reads its events with one query: `aggregate_type =
ANY(...) AND event_type = ANY(...)`, ordered by position and limited to
the bulk limit.
- The `es_projection` index returns each (aggregate type, event type)
range in position order, but Postgres cannot merge those ranges.
- So each batch reads every matching event after the projection's
position, sorts them all, and keeps only the bulk limit.
- A projection that is N events behind therefore reads about N rows per
batch. Catching up costs about N² in total, and once events arrive
faster than such batches can process them, the projection does not
recover.
- Every query that triggers the projection waits for that catch-up.
Examples are `GetSession` and the notification handlers.

# How the Problems Are Solved

- **New opt-in, `SearchQueryBuilder.ScanEventTypesSeparately()`.** It
applies to event queries for a single instance, ascending and limited,
whose sub-queries filter only by aggregate and event types.
- For such a query, the SQL layer reads each distinct (aggregate type,
event type) combination in its own `ORDER BY … LIMIT` subquery, using
`UNNEST … CROSS JOIN LATERAL`.
  - It then merges the results with the same sort key and limit.
- Each subquery is one `es_projection` range read in position order, so
it stops at the limit. A batch reads at most `limit × combinations`
rows, however far behind the projection is.
  - Every other query renders exactly as before.
- **The projection handler** now passes its real combinations, one
sub-query per aggregate type instead of the cross product of all types,
and sets the opt-in.
- **Results are identical to the single query.**
- The sort key (`position, in_tx_order, instance_id, aggregate_type,
aggregate_id, sequence`) is a total order, and the global top n is
contained in the union of each combination's top n.
- The cursor from #12703 and the open-transaction cap apply inside every
subquery.
- A test against a real Postgres compares both shapes from every cursor
and every position, for several limits. The test events include
positions shared by several transactions, whose `in_tx_order` restarts.

# Additional Changes

This is a separate commit and can be split into its own PR:
- `cmd/defaults.yaml` sets `BulkLimit: 1000` for the `sessions`
projection.
- `projection_state_latency` gets histogram buckets up to one week.
Until now, every projection more than 30 minutes behind was reported in
the same top bucket.

# Additional Context

These numbers come from a local, CPU-pinned sandbox, for comparing
builds only.
- **Database:** Postgres 17 in a VM with 8 vCPUs and 16 GiB. The
`Eventstore.Autovacuum` and `Projections` settings mirror a
production-like setup.
- **Starting state:** `sessions8` 4.8M events behind, restored
byte-identically for every run.

Batch query for `sessions8`, `EXPLAIN ANALYZE`, median of 5 runs,
parallel workers at the default:

| | before | after |
| --- | ---: | ---: |
| at the backlog, limit 1000 | 832 ms | 4.0 ms |
| at the backlog, limit 200 | 832 ms | 1.0 ms |
| at the head (idle poll) | 0.14 ms | 0.19 ms |
| generic plan (`plan_cache_mode=force_generic_plan`), at the backlog |
1,042 ms | 4.0 ms |

Draining `sessions8` from that backlog for 600 s, 3 runs per build
(median, with the range in brackets):

| | before | after |
| --- | ---: | ---: |
| events/s | 975 (932-1,032) | 7,811 (7,523-7,955) |
| mean batch time, including writes | 1.03 s | 0.13 s |
| still behind after 600 s | 4.2M | 17k-277k |

A new index `(instance_id, position, in_tx_order, aggregate_type,
event_type)` with the old query was evaluated as an alternative and
rejected. Under a generic plan, Postgres chose it for projections whose
events are rare and walked the whole event stream: 430 ms instead of
0.15 ms. This is the behaviour that led to dropping
`es_instance_position` in #10626.

- Follow-up for #12703

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
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package handler
import (
"context"
"go.opentelemetry.io/otel/attribute"
"github.com/zitadel/zitadel/backend/v3/instrumentation/logging"
"github.com/zitadel/zitadel/backend/v3/instrumentation/metrics"
)
const (
ProjectionLabel = "projection"
SuccessLabel = "success"
ProjectionEventsProcessed = "projection_events_processed"
ProjectionHandleTimerMetric = "projection_handle_timer"
ProjectionStateLatencyMetric = "projection_state_latency"
)
type ProjectionMetrics struct {
provider metrics.Metrics
}
func NewProjectionMetrics(ctx context.Context) *ProjectionMetrics {
return newProjectionMetrics(ctx, metrics.GlobalMeter())
}
func newProjectionMetrics(ctx context.Context, m metrics.Metrics) *ProjectionMetrics {
projectionMetrics := &ProjectionMetrics{provider: m}
err := projectionMetrics.provider.RegisterCounter(
ProjectionEventsProcessed,
"Number of events reduced to process projection updates",
)
logging.OnError(ctx, err).Error("failed to register projection events processed counter")
err = projectionMetrics.provider.RegisterHistogram(
ProjectionHandleTimerMetric,
"Time taken to process a projection update",
"s",
[]float64{0.005, 0.01, 0.05, 0.1, 1, 5, 10, 30, 60, 120},
)
logging.OnError(ctx, err).Error("failed to register projection handle timer metric")
err = projectionMetrics.provider.RegisterHistogram(
ProjectionStateLatencyMetric,
"When finishing processing a batch of events, this track the age of the last events seen from current time",
"s",
// the upper bounds up to a week make a projection that falls hours or days behind visible,
// instead of reporting every latency above 30 minutes as the 1800s bucket
[]float64{0.1, 0.5, 1, 5, 10, 30, 60, 300, 600, 1800, 3600, 21600, 86400, 604800},
)
logging.OnError(ctx, err).Error("failed to register projection state latency metric")
return projectionMetrics
}
func (m *ProjectionMetrics) ProjectionUpdateTiming(ctx context.Context, projection string, duration float64) {
err := m.provider.AddHistogramMeasurement(ctx, ProjectionHandleTimerMetric, duration, map[string]attribute.Value{
ProjectionLabel: attribute.StringValue(projection),
})
logging.OnError(ctx, err).Error("failed to add projection trigger timing")
}
func (m *ProjectionMetrics) ProjectionEventsProcessed(ctx context.Context, projection string, count int64, success bool) {
err := m.provider.AddCount(ctx, ProjectionEventsProcessed, count, map[string]attribute.Value{
ProjectionLabel: attribute.StringValue(projection),
SuccessLabel: attribute.BoolValue(success),
})
logging.OnError(ctx, err).Error("failed to add projection events processed metric")
}
func (m *ProjectionMetrics) ProjectionStateLatency(ctx context.Context, projection string, latency float64) {
err := m.provider.AddHistogramMeasurement(ctx, ProjectionStateLatencyMetric, latency, map[string]attribute.Value{
ProjectionLabel: attribute.StringValue(projection),
})
logging.OnError(ctx, err).Error("failed to add projection state latency metric")
}