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What does this PR do?

Ref ENG-3420 (https://linear.app/formbricks/issue/ENG-3420) — the Hub half. The Formbricks gateway/MCP half follows in a separate PR once this ships in a release.

Adds updated_since / updated_until to GET /v1/feedback-records and /count, so a consumer (Electrolux, first) can extract only what was created or changed since its last run. Until now the list could only bound collected_at and created_at, so corrections, re-imports and enrichment results on existing records were invisible to an incremental sync.

• Sort by updated_at, ascending only. Syncs page with sort=updated_at&order=asc (desc, or no order, is a 400 in validation and in the repository). A record that changes mid-run normally moves ahead of the cursor and comes back (a duplicate to upsert). A write that started before the cursor and commits after it can still land behind; the run-start watermark recovers it next run, and the docs and spec say so. Why not just filter: ordering by created_at while filtering on updated_at left the planner guessing the match count. It multiplies the tenant's share by the window's and can't see that recent activity belongs to other tenants, so it walked a 200k-record tenant per page (29–61 ms) even with per-call plans.

• Index. Migration 027 adds (tenant_id, updated_at, id) CONCURRENTLY: the filter, the order and the keyset in one range. The ascending keyset is now a row comparison (col, id) > ($t, $id) (same semantics, verified for every row as cursor on tied data), so it's an index condition and a deep page reads 5 buffers instead of discarding 150k rows. Cost: every writer sets updated_at, so the table loses HOT updates; translation writes and metadata-only PATCHes now insert into twenty-odd of the 29 indexes. A 20k-record translation backfill through hub-worker drained at the same rate either way (~105/s at concurrency 5, ~570–600/s at 50); the cost is WAL (114 vs 81 MB) and bloat. Details are in the migration header. If you applied an earlier version of this branch: run goose down-to 26 && goose up to rebuild the index with the new shape.

• Per-execution plans. List, cursor pages and count now run on pgx's unnamed statement (QueryExecModeCacheDescribe). On a named statement Postgres switches to a generic plan from the sixth call per connection, and on a large tenant among small ones that took a sync page from <1 ms to ~15 ms (reproduced on 200k + 2,000 small tenants). It's still one round trip; the cost is a plan per call.

• One clock. PATCH stamped updated_at from the pod's time.Now() while every enrichment write and the insert default used Postgres NOW(). It now uses NOW() too, so pod clock skew cannot hide an edit from a watermark.

• Docs. "Incremental extraction" in core-concepts/filtering-and-sorting covers:

  • what stamps updated_at;
  • sort=updated_at&order=asc, bounded by updated_until = the run's start;
  • the next watermark: the run's start (first response's Date header) minus an overlap longer than any write, never the largest updated_at received;
  • latest-fetch-wins and one sync at a time;
  • deletions via a full-id sweep that upserts and only removes records created before the sweep began.

  The Airbyte guide no longer calls updated_at a perfect cursor.

No SDK version bump needed: 0.14.0 (the first Hey API release) isn't on npm yet and will carry these params.

Request/response examples (live hub-api against Postgres 18)

records: untouched, patched, enriched; cutoff=2026-10-05T17:37:09.238046Z (DB clock)
PATCH patched -> {"updated_at":"2026-10-05T17:37:09.256217Z"}
# list updated_since=cutoff sort=created_at asc
[{"value_text":"patched",...},{"value_text":"enriched",...},{"value_text":"created-after",...}]
# count updated_since=cutoff
{"count":3}
# list updated_until=cutoff
["untouched"]
# updated_since > updated_until
400 {"invalid_params":[{"name":"updated_since","reason":"must be less than or equal to updated_until"}]}
# updated_since=yesterday
400 {"invalid_params":[{"name":"updated_since","reason":"must be in RFC3339 (ISO 8601) format"}]}
# sort=updated_at
400
# updated_since= (empty) -> ignored, {"count":4}

EXPLAIN, 200k-row tenant, 50 recently updated, ORDER BY created_at, id LIMIT 1001:

with idx:    Index Scan using idx_feedback_records_tenant_updated_at  Buffers: shared hit=5     Execution Time: 0.094 ms
without idx: Parallel Seq Scan on feedback_records  Rows Removed by Filter: 66849  Buffers: shared hit=3743  Execution Time: 66.314 ms

How should this be tested?

Against a throwaway pgvector/pgvector:pg18 with goose up (027 also verified down-to 26 → up) plus river migrate-up:

• make tests (full integration suite) — green. New: TestFeedbackRecordFilters_UpdatedSinceSelectsCreatedAndChanged (insert, PATCH, SetSentiment, SetEmotions, SetTranslation, plus an untouched record kept out, with count parity), …_UpdatedSincePaginationSurvivesUpdates (records PATCHed mid-traversal under sort=created_at, and a pre-cutoff record never returned), and …_UpdatedSinceWatermarkFromRunStart (the documented two-run procedure; it first asserts that the "largest updated_at" watermark really would skip the change, and that an unchanged record stays out). Tenant-isolation table gains the updated_at range.

• Unit: inverted-range pairing (reflection guard), placeholder/arg alignment, and TestBuildUpdateQuery_StampsUpdatedAtFromDatabaseClock.

• After review: TestFeedbackRecordFilters_ListAndCountAvoidNamedStatements (single connection, 7 rounds of list, cursor page and count; asserts no named statement remains; fails without the fix) and TestOpenAPIDocumentsEveryFilterByItsFormName (form tags ↔ list/count parameters in both directions, timestamps as date-time; a form:"updated_untl" typo fails it). The pagination test now runs under both asc and desc.

• After round 2:

  • updated_at asc added to the pagination-invariant traversal.
  • The updates-mid-traversal test runs created_at asc, created_at desc and updated_at asc, each on its own tenant. Under updated_at asc the first-touched record must come back twice.
  • Two mutations confirm it can fail: mapping updated_at to created_at fails the updated_at case, and ordering created_at by updated_at fails both created_at cases.
  • Asc-only validation is covered in both layers, and an invalid order is reported once.

• Red when reverted: dropping the updated_at condition fails …SelectsCreatedAndChanged; binding time.Now() again fails …StampsUpdatedAtFromDatabaseClock; prescribing the max-received watermark fails …WatermarkFromRunStart.

• go vet ./..., go test -race on models, repository, validation and the filter integration tests, Spectral lint, docs pnpm check + pnpm build, SDK pnpm generate/build/check/test (85/85, updated_since present in the generated types).

• Sort smoke on a skewed dataset (200k-record tenant with 69 recent changes, plus 2,000 small tenants), DB time per call from Postgres's own statement log:

  • sort=created_at&order=asc + updated_since: 15–28 ms.
  • sort=updated_at&order=asc + updated_since: 0.15–0.18 ms.
  • Full 200k extraction by updated_at asc: 200 pages in 1.9 s, every record exactly once, 1–2 ms DB per 1,000-row page at any depth.
  • HTTP checks: desc and omitted order return 400 naming order; an updated_at cursor is refused under created_at. 6/6 pass.
  • 027 down/up on 240k rows: index valid.

• Live end to end, 31/31 (re-run at the final head, plus sort=updated_at&order=asc with cursor pagination): hub-api + hub-worker from this branch, real enrichment through the worker against an OpenAI-compatible stub, and a local webhook receiver. It covers:

  • translation, sentiment and emotions each moving updated_at;
  • the feedback_record.updated webhook carrying the PATCH's DB-stamped updated_at;
  • a Date-header cutoff with cursor pagination at limit=1 returning exactly {patched, new}, and count agreeing;
  • a record's own updated_at fed back as updated_since including it, and +1 µs excluding it;
  • +02:00 offsets, fractional seconds and nanoseconds accepted; an unencoded +, date-only, no-zone and epoch values rejected with 400;
  • tenant isolation over HTTP;
  • single delete, delete by user and tenant purge never surfacing, with the full sweep returning exactly the survivors.

  No errors in either service log, and filter values aren't logged.

• Migration on real data: 027 applied to a 2M-row table (1M-row tenant) under a 7k-TPS pgbench write load. It took 10.6 s, the index came out valid, and no writes failed.

• Live smoke: the commands above against hub-api built from this branch. (The smoke's "enriched" record is a direct SQL write; the real repository writers — SetSentiment, SetEmotions, SetTranslation — are covered by the integration test.)

Not verified: production-sized data. The largest run here is 2M rows on Docker Desktop, whose fsync and 128 MB shared_buffers exaggerate I/O stalls. Also not verified: sentiment and emotions bursts against a real LLM; the burst test above covers the translation copy path.

Risks

• Migration 027 builds the index CONCURRENTLY, so writes continue, but the build is a WAL burst. Locally it caused one 6 s checkpoint stall. Expect a short write-latency spike on large deployments. Re-running replaces an INVALID index if the build is interrupted.
• Translation writes and metadata-only PATCHes lose HOT updates: about 40% more WAL on a translation backfill, plus index bloat and vacuum work. Throughput was unchanged in the burst test. Watch WAL volume and bloat after rollout.
• Planning every list/count call adds parse and plan time to each request (sub-millisecond for these queries locally).
• PATCH responses and feedback_record.updated webhooks now carry the DB's updated_at instead of the pod's; same value up to clock skew.

Checklist

Required

• Filled out the "How to test" section in this PR
• Read Repository Guidelines
• Self-reviewed my own code
• Commented on my code in hard-to-understand bits
• Ran make build
• Ran make tests (integration tests in tests/)
• Ran make fmt and make lint; no new warnings
• Removed debug prints / temporary logging
• Merged the latest changes from main onto my branch with git pull origin main
• If database schema changed: added migration in migrations/ with goose annotations and ran make migrate-validate

Appreciated

• If API changed: added or updated OpenAPI spec and ran contract tests (make tests or API contract workflow)
• If API behavior changed: added request/response examples or Swagger UI screenshots to this PR
• Updated docs in docs/ if changes were necessary
• Ran make tests-coverage for meaningful logic changes (measured the touched functions instead: InvertedRanges, appendTimeConditions, addTimeRange 100%, buildUpdateQuery 88%)

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Feedback-record list and count operations now accept inclusive updated_since and updated_until filters. Updates set updated_at using the database clock, and a migration adds an index on tenant and update time. Tests cover filtering, pagination, and repeated synchronization. Documentation describes incremental extraction and separate reconciliation for deletions.

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1 major · 3 minor · 1 trivial · +1 pre-existing — reviewed at 1afb2704ee

Checked

• go vet, unit tests, integration suite on pg18 — pass
• Migration 027 round-trips down-to 26 → up; index valid
• Every feedback_records writer stamps updated_at from NOW()
• List and count both apply the new bounds, tenant-scoped
• collected_at isn't patchable, so the recommended sort keys stay immutable
• Listed record carries no taxonomy or embedding fields

Findings

• 🟠 Major · performance · confidence: medium migrations/027_feedback_records_updated_at_index.sql:37 — The new index stops being used once pgx's cached list statement switches to a generic plan
• 🟡 Minor · tests internal/models/feedback_records_filters.go:108 — No test pins the public parameter names updated_since / updated_until
• 🟡 Minor · drift · confidence: medium migrations/027_feedback_records_updated_at_index.sql:26 — The write-cost rationale assumes LLM-bound translation writes, but the common case makes no LLM call
• 🟡 Minor · drift openapi.yaml:2737 — The updated_since API description misses the overlap limit and sweep upsert that 1afb270 added to the docs
• 🔵 Trivial · tests tests/feedback_record_filters_test.go:394 — The pagination test's comment names a skip that order=asc can't produce, so one touch is inert
• 🟡 Minor · drift · pre-existing docs/src/content/docs/guides/hub-airbyte.mdx:24 — The Airbyte guide prescribes the max-updated_at cursor that the new section forbids
  • hub-airbyte.mdx:24,211,218 calls updated_at "a perfect cursor"; filtering-and-sorting.mdx:153 now says a results-derived watermark skips late-committing writes
  • Breaks when: two enrichment writes on one record commit out of start order — Airbyte's next updated_at > max read misses the earlier-stamped one; deletes never propagate
  • Fix: a caution in the guide linking the new section

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[BhagyaAmarasinghe]

Requesting changes for the 🟠 major finding in the review above: after a statement's 5th run on a connection, Postgres can switch the list query to a generic plan that bypasses the new (tenant_id, updated_at) index (reproduced: ~0.4 ms → ~15 ms on a 200k-row tenant). The minor and trivial findings there don't block.

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Thanks for the thorough review @BhagyaAmarasinghe 🙏 Every finding is addressed and the threads are answered inline. The big change since your review: the generic-plan fix wasn't enough on its own, so syncs now use sort=updated_at&order=asc (ascending only) on a (tenant_id, updated_at, id) index, with a row-comparison keyset. Sync pages went from 15–61 ms to ~0.15 ms. Details and evidence are in the PR description.

• Airbyte guide (pre-existing): fixed in 920c940 and 70bb1cc. It no longer calls updated_at a perfect cursor, and a caution explains the late-commit, out-of-order and delete gaps and that only a remove-records refresh repairs them.
• Code Quality is red for a reason unrelated to this diff: govulncheck now flags 11 new Go 1.27.1 / x/net v0.59 advisories on every Hub PR and on main. Your fix(security): patch Hub image vulnerabilities [ENG-3805] #145 fixes exactly that (ENG-3805 tracks it), so I'll merge main in here once it lands.
• If you ran an earlier version of migration 027 locally: goose down-to 26 && goose up rebuilds the index with the new shape.

Re-requesting your review when you have a moment.

[BhagyaAmarasinghe]

Approving, please check the failing pr check