feat(postgres,mariadb)!: drop plaintext user passwords - #4078

NOT LGTM. Two things break outside the charts: a restore hands the target a credentials Secret Postgres won't accept, and a MariaDB rotation doesn't reach the server until the operator's next scheduled tick.

Business context: tenant values, and so git, could hold managed-database passwords in plaintext via users[].password. This makes both engines generate them instead, with passwordRotation as the way to change one.

Rotation coverage is fine now. I checked the new credentials_lookup_test.yaml suites aren't vacuous: forcing $rotate to false reddens the postgres bump case, dropping the root guard reddens the MariaDB one, and dropping the empty-marker guard reddens the legacy-baseline case. Both charts green on 9191068c (40 and 33).

Blockers

B1: restore leaves the target with passwords the database rejects

File: internal/backupcontroller/postgresapp/types.go:119

Issue: the snapshot used to carry users[].password, so a to-copy restore wrote the source password into the target spec and it matched the role hashes recovery brought back. Now it carries replication only. The target chart generates fresh random passwords, the init-job that would run ALTER ROLE ... WITH PASSWORD is skipped while bootstrap.enabled is true, and nothing ever sets that flag back to false.

Evidence: buildPostgresAppRestorePatch sets Bootstrap.Enabled = true at cnpgstrategy_controller.go:1121, and that's the only assignment to it in the file. init-job.yaml:13 gates the Job on not .Values.bootstrap.enabled. init-script.yaml:26-30 generates a password for every user missing from the empty target Secret. The demo won't catch it either: psql_exec connects as the local postgres superuser, so run-all.sh never logs into the restored target as an application user. On a source that already had a generated password this predates the PR, but now it's the only path, and the demo change removes what would have shown it.

Impact: <target>-credentials advertises passwords that fail authentication, and the chart README tells tenants to read their password from that exact Secret.

Fix: carry the credentials across. Either copy the source Secret entries for the snapshot's users into <target>-credentials before resuming the HelmRelease so lookup adopts them, or clear bootstrap.enabled after recovery so the init-job re-converges roles onto the target Secret. Either way put an application-user login back into the postgres demo. If neither fits here, say so in the release note and in docs/operations/backup-classes.md, because right now restore breaks silently.

B2: MariaDB rotation waits for the operator's requeue, up to 11 hours

File: packages/apps/mariadb/templates/secret.yaml:49

Issue: the description says application users get reconciled through the User CR's passwordSecretKeyRef. The operator does re-apply the password on reconcile, but a Secret change only triggers one if the Secret carries the k8s.mariadb.com/watch label. This Secret has no labels and the User CRs set no spec.requeueInterval, so after a bump nothing wakes the operator.

Evidence: the vendored CRD says it at packages/system/mariadb-operator/charts/mariadb-operator/charts/mariadb-operator-crds/templates/crds.yaml:1226: "If the referred Secret is labeled with k8s.mariadb.com/watch, updates may be performed to the Secret in order to update the password". Upstream at the vendored 25.10.2, api/v1alpha1/user_indexes.go registers that watch behind predicate.PredicateWithLabel(metadata.WatchLabel) and pkg/predicate/predicate.go drops every event on an unlabeled object. cmd/controller/main.go defaults --requeue-sql to 10h plus a random offset up to 1h, and the operator deployment passes no override. Nothing under packages/ sets that label on a Secret today.

Impact: the Secret advertises a password the server rejects while the old one keeps working, which is backwards for anyone rotating after a leak.

Fix: one labels line on the Secret, plus an assert on it.

Non-blocking

1. The description still says the live rotation path is uncovered because helm-unittest can't mock lookup, and still counts 37 and 30 tests. Both stale after the new suites.
2. Website is missing from the downstream checklist. content/en/docs/next/cozystack-api/go-types.md:88-92 is hand-written and shows Password: in the Go examples, and the application pages regenerate from these READMEs but still document users[name].password until someone reruns that.
3. init-script.yaml:24 and the MariaDB twin: default a missing marker to "0" and compare plainly. Same guarantee for the default value, but a legacy release rotates on its first bump, and the "bump it once more afterwards" sentence drops out of four field descriptions and two READMEs.
4. "Increment it" in the field description, but any change rotates, including a decrement or a reset to zero.
5. secret.yaml:31-37: the root-exclusion comment states a fact about the operator that holds at 25.10.2 and is already false on its main, where a root-password reconciler exists. Pin it to the version or keep only the consequence.
6. The same nine-line rationale block sits in both charts and again in the passwordRotation description.
7. examples/backups/mariadb/00-helpers.sh:159: jsonpath={.data.${MARIADB_APP_USER}} breaks on a username with a dot in it. Bracket form doesn't.
8. Pre-existing, outside this diff: every CNPG Backup made before this change still has the tenant's plaintext users[].password in status.underlyingResources, since the snapshot serialised spec.users whole. New ones stop, old objects stay readable to anyone who can get backups. Separate from this PR, but somebody should pick it up.

Actionable comments posted: 2

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Inline comments:
In `@docs/operations/backup-classes.md`:
- Line 58: Rewrite the restore-into-a-copy guidance to explicitly require
clearing bootstrap.enabled before reconciliation, then running a helm upgrade or
the applicable reconciliation step so the role-reconciling init-job executes.
Preserve the existing explanation of the temporary credential mismatch and
convergence behavior, while removing wording that implies a later upgrade alone
reconciles roles when bootstrap.enabled remains true.

In `@packages/system/postgres-rd/cozyrds/postgres.yaml`:
- Line 11: Update the nested user object under the users schema to set
additionalProperties to false, so undeclared fields such as password are
rejected while the existing replication property remains supported. Regenerate
the OpenAPI/schema output after this change.

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Verdict

NOT LGTM

The removed users[].password stays stored and live on every upgraded release, and nothing tells the operator. Restoring either engine into a copy now advertises credentials that cannot work, permanently so for MariaDB's root.

Findings

• [MAJOR] api/apps/v1alpha1/mariadb/types.go:102, the removed users[].password is still accepted, still stored, and still the live password
• [MAJOR] internal/backupcontroller/postgresapp/types.go:118, a Postgres restore into a copy now publishes credentials that cannot work, and nothing reports it
• [MAJOR] packages/apps/mariadb/templates/secret.yaml:12, a MariaDB restore into a copy now always advertises credentials the restored grant table does not contain
• [MINOR] packages/apps/mariadb/templates/secret.yaml:51, the label comment overclaims what mariadb-operator re-applies
• [MINOR] packages/system/mariadb-rd/cozyrds/mariadb.yaml:11, conflicts with main; resolve by regenerating, not by hand-merging the JSON blob
• [MINOR] docs/operations/backup-classes.md:58, the "in-place restore is unaffected" exception stops holding once a rotation has happened
• [MINOR] packages/apps/postgres/templates/init-script.yaml:38, the rotation marker lives in the Helm-managed Secret, so a rollback rewinds it and the next upgrade rotates again

Claim mismatches

[PARTIAL] "a password: left in values is silently ignored": no HelmRelease fails validation, but that value is still the live credential.

Caveats

• Checked and sound: cozyrds resourceNames match dashboard-resourcemap.yaml; values.schema.json and both cozyrds schemas agree property-for-property; go build/vet/test green; 40 postgres and 33 mariadb unit tests green; kubeconform clean.
• The new guards are mutation-tested: both $rotate conjuncts, the rotation switch, the annotation, the root exemption and the watch label each redden the suite when reverted. Corners rendered: passwordRotation 0/3/7, replication and bootstrap.enabled both ways, replicas=1, empty users, plus a base-vs-head render-diff over five mariadb corners.
• Nothing ran against a cluster. No upgrade was replayed through helm-controller, so "lookup re-reads the credentials Secret on upgrade" rests on helm-unittest's kubernetesProvider, and the new mariadb labels never met SSA.

Recommended follow-ups

• cozystack-pr-test: an N-1 upgrade of an existing mariadb and postgres app, then a counter bump landing on the live database.

Actionable comments posted: 1

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only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
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Inline comments:
In `@examples/backups/mariadb/00-helpers.sh`:
- Line 180: Update mysql_root_login in examples/backups/mariadb/00-helpers.sh at
line 180 to require TLS with the expected CA and verify the MariaDB server
identity when connecting to ${cr}-primary. Apply the equivalent enforced TLS and
certificate-verification policy to the authentication check in
examples/backups/postgres/00-helpers.sh at line 174, using the target service
and client’s established configuration.

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Separate from my line-level review: a note on the shape of the solution rather than its implementation. I held this back until I could render it rather than argue it.

The stated goal does not hold in the end state

The PR removes users[].password so passwords are no longer pinned in tenant values or committed to git. The diff does that. But the property the title claims is about the system, and rendering the chart shows the generated password in cleartext twice:

$ helm template pg-demo packages/apps/postgres --show-only templates/init-script.yaml
kind: Secret
  name: pg-demo-credentials
stringData:
  "app": "iaR22C6w4kyE8y1r"
---
kind: Secret
  name: pg-demo-init-script
    ALTER ROLE "app" WITH PASSWORD 'H2rBGkGREEk2c52x' LOGIN INHERIT NOREPLICATION;

Both land verbatim in the Helm release manifest. helm-controller v1.5.0 runs with the default secret storage driver and no storageNamespace override for tenant apps, and this repo sets MaxHistory explicitly (rest.go:1633, default 5 from cmd/cozystack-operator/main.go:136).

The consequence is specific to the feature this PR adds: a passwordRotation bump performed in response to a leak does not retire the leaked password. It stays in up to four stored release revisions until enough unrelated upgrades push it out of history. Rotation that does not revoke is not rotation. Before this change the credential lived in one place the tenant controlled and could scrub; now it lives in several the tenant cannot see.

lookup is load-bearing but is not storage

Rotation state is a counter compared against a value read back with lookup. That function returns empty during helm template and any render without API access, and the template cannot distinguish "no Secret yet, first install" from "the read did not happen": both paths generate new passwords and overwrite the Secret while the database keeps the old ones. The failure mode is a silent credential split, not an error. Generating a password this way is fine on its own. Rotating one is what the pattern does not carry, because rotation needs durable state and a way to report that it landed.

The feature has no completion signal

A tenant writes an integer and nothing observable follows. No status, no condition, no event, no way to answer "did the new password reach the database". If the post-upgrade Job fails, the Secret advertises a credential the database never received and nothing says so. The documented sharp edge, where the first bump on a pre-rotation release is swallowed as a baseline and a second is required, is the same absence showing through: there is no state to consult, so the first bump has to be spent establishing it.

One field, two mechanisms, and root outside both

Postgres converges through a post-upgrade hook Job; MariaDB through the operator reacting to a watch-labelled Secret. Different windows, different failure modes, one values field. MariaDB root is excluded from rotation permanently, so the feature does not cover the most privileged account on that engine.

Where this goes

Split it, and land the half that is ready.

In this PR. Take the password out of the init-script SQL: have the init Job read each user's password from <release>-credentials through env or a mounted volume and interpolate it at run time rather than at render time. That removes one of the two cleartext copies without touching the design. With that in, removing the plaintext field is a real improvement and I am happy to merge it on its own.

Not in this PR: rotation. As long as the credentials Secret is rendered by the chart, its cleartext value is part of the release manifest and is retained for MaxHistory revisions. That is Helm's behaviour, not something the template can work around, so a rotation feature built on a chart-rendered Secret cannot revoke. I do not want to merge a rotation that leaves the old password in stored history, and I do not want it documented as a known limitation either: the whole point of the feature is the leak response.

What rotation needs is an owner outside the render, something that creates and holds the Secret with the chart referencing it by name, applies the change, and reports the outcome in status. That also dissolves the two problems above: the swallowed first bump exists only because there is nowhere to keep the baseline, and the missing completion signal only because there is nothing to carry it. Worth its own PR and its own design discussion.

Each claim above has a command behind it. Point me at a revision that changes the answer and I will re-run them.

scooby87 NOT LGTM. The Grant-name test is fixed. The migration paragraph and the commit messages are closer, but each still has something wrong.

The Grant-name length guard is pinned now. The new fixture uses a short database and a 250-character role member, so the Grant name is 262 characters and the render stops at db.yaml:65 instead of at the 64-character cap. The assertion names that guard's message through errorPattern. Raising the bound to 100000 reddens only fails when the Grant name exceeds 253 characters though the database name fits, rewording the message does the same, and the other 149 stay green.

One sentence in the comment above that test has to go. The parenthetical that starts "An earlier fixture used a ~240-char database name" is the history of the test, and contributing.md puts a comment that logs a change on the blocker list. The sentence after it, about asserting the guard's own message, is worth keeping.

The migration paragraph still claims one thing the chart does not do. The collision guards are described correctly now (they are install-only at secret.yaml:65, db.yaml:31 and db.yaml:71), and the missing-Secret guard and users.postgres are named. The wrong part is the first group, which says an out-of-charset name "stops at render on both install and upgrade, because such a name never applied correctly either way". That holds for the MariaDB names, which were resource names on the merge base, and for the Postgres username charset, which matches the Secret-key rule the apiserver already applied on the merge base.

It is not true for Postgres database names. On the merge base such a name only reaches the init-script, every use there is quoted, and the values schema has no pattern for the key. With databases: {"app+v2": ...} the merge base renders CREATE DATABASE "app+v2", CREATE ROLE "app+v2_admin" and GRANT "app+v2_admin" TO "app", which is valid SQL. On this head, helm template --is-upgrade with the same values stops at init-script.yaml:47. So at least three guards can block the upgrade of a release that installed cleanly, not two. The closing sentence, "A release using only lowercase, non-colliding names ... upgrades untouched", is false for app+v2.

This case needs more than a new count. The obvious reaction to the error is to change the key in values. The init-job's delete pass then finds a managed database that is no longer declared and runs DROP DATABASE IF EXISTS "$db" WITH (FORCE) on it (init-script.yaml:207). The paragraph should name the case, say that changing only the key drops the database, and give the safe path. The guard itself is right to run on upgrade, because a ' in that name reaches the superuser DO block. Only the text is wrong.

The (C18) tags are gone, but more commit messages have the same problem. Last round I listed three commits because I searched for the tag and not for the class, so that list was incomplete. After going through all 81 messages, these still carry review or branch vocabulary:

• 5869e99a2 and 08a8a2bc2 end with "Closes the ... finding from" and the name of a review tool.
• cc9d73959: "Closes lexfrei's NOTES flag-lifetime finding."
• 7d1e6aa25: "The previous round scoped the Grant name by role" and "a CRITICAL data-plane regression flagged by review".
• 074c1bec2: "Two things review flagged on the post-restore convergence step."
• a2c18f12a: "The postgres helper was moved off jsonpath to jq this round".
• 2b877c8cc: "the corollary a reviewer asked about".
• 010f0687f: the subject, "drop the reviewer and PR reference from a test comment".
• "This PR" in 9a4a96389, 10015436f and 9b2bb52e5.
• "this branch" in 4781b0d51, 43030e647, 712c381a6, 8ccfd0f2f, 7c8c84674 and d7cb2f6ad.
• The rebase, in the subjects of 1a3749f11 and f40402cb1.
• The PR release note, named in 548f116cd and c96b2f278, and "the PR is presented as" in 5869e99a2.

The ones that point at the PR or the branch are the softer form, but they mean nothing once the commit is on main. Many of these commits rework an earlier one, so rewriting the branch into logical commits would remove most of them instead of rewording each.

Not blocking: 10015436f and 9a4a96389 say that reverting the guard "turns them green". It turns those tests red. Both messages are getting rewritten anyway.

CI

pre-commit is green on e87a00c3d (run created 13:53:06Z, attempt 1). E2E Tests has not finished yet. Its run was created at 13:53:06Z on attempt 1 and has been in "Run E2E tests" since 14:38:28Z. The only red check is the API owner gate, which is still right to hold this for api/apps/v1alpha1.

Method

git range-diff against 775610f3b shows that the base did not move, four commits changed only their message, and e87a00c3d is the one new commit. The tree under it is identical to 775610f3b. It touches no Go code, so I did not rerun the Go suites. Postgres (108 tests) and mariadb (150) are green here.

I ran six one-line mutations and wrote the expected result down before each run. All six matched. The Grant bound and the Grant message each redden only the Grant test. Dropping IsInstall from the database-collision guard reddens renders on upgrade for two database names that collide on install. Disabling the missing-Secret guard reddens fails an upgrade when the credentials Secret is missing. Gating users.postgres on not bootstrap.enabled reddens rejects users.postgres even while bootstrap.enabled is true. Moving the Grant bound to 261 stays green, because the fixture is 262 characters.

Verdict

LGTM with non-blocking notes

Reviewed at b672a657b against 95ece888b. Of the 22 items I had left open, 21 are closed, and I checked each by running something rather than by reading it: a mutation, a render, or a database in a container. Nothing below blocks. Several of the notes sit inside fixes that are themselves right.

Findings

• [MINOR] internal/backupcontroller/cnpgstrategy_controller.go:1019, the bootstrap-disable grace window is measured from convergence, so one late error terminates Failed claiming 30m of retries

• [MINOR] packages/apps/postgres/templates/init-script.yaml:217, for db in $ALL_DBS word-splits, and ALL_DBS is a catalog-wide query the charset guard never sees

• [MINOR] packages/apps/postgres/templates/init-job.yaml:48, backoffLimit 0 makes any pod-level failure terminal where the merge-base retried six times

• [MINOR] packages/apps/postgres/templates/init-script.yaml:29, the >63 grandfather clause keys on the target's own Secret, so a to-copy restore of a source carrying such a user cannot render

• [MINOR] pkg/registry/apps/application/rest_warn_removed_password_callsite_test.go:231, the rewritten table test asserts only that a warning happened, so the message content is unpinned

• [MINOR] internal/backupcontroller/postgresapp/types.go:123, dropping User.Password is load-bearing for this PR's goal and nothing pins it

• [MINOR] packages/apps/mariadb/templates/db.yaml:31, the 80-character boundary is unpinned, and it is the one that decides an existing customer's upgrade

• [MINOR] packages/apps/mariadb/templates/db.yaml:64, the admin/readonly collapse widens a live privilege and nothing but the release note surfaces which users it touched

• [MINOR] packages/apps/postgres/templates/init-script.yaml:219, the delete sweep reassigns a dropped user's tables to postgres, so the database's admin role cannot run DDL on them

• [NIT] packages/apps/mariadb/tests/root_password_ignored_test.yaml:9, the header names a mutation that does not redden the suite

Caveats

• Neither red check is about this change. Step Check for an API owner approval wants lllamnyp or kvaps. Step Run unit and controller tests fails on hack/mariadb-first-boot-waits.bats 10 and 11, and it fails the same way on the merge-base, on the same diverged copy, examples/backups/kafka/00-helpers.sh. This PR's own two wait_hr_ready copies carry the majority hash.
• Four things I looked at are pre-existing, and each belongs in its own issue rather than here. A terminal Failed leaves bootstrap.enabled set and no message says so (cnpgstrategy_controller.go:1125 and :1144). users.<name> still reaches ALTER ROLE for every CNPG-managed role except postgres, so streaming_replica or cnpg_pooler_pgbouncer can be taken over and replication stops. A role member named only under databases.<db>.roles renders a Grant the operator cannot apply; MariaDB answers 1133. And users: null or databases: null crashes both renders, the same way on the merge-base.
• Two things I could not settle offline, both worth a dev-cluster run before merge: a to-copy restore driven through convergence, and whether the grant pass fits the 540s upgrade deadline on a large restored database. That ceiling is documented, and it was 600s before.
• Two comments credit the wrong component. cnpgstrategy_controller.go:795 attributes a constraint to a CNPG CRD validation the pinned 1.30.0 does not carry, and templates/NOTES.txt:9 credits the restore driver with removing an annotation only the chart renders.

scooby87 NOT LGTM. Two of my three points are closed. The seven commit messages are clean and hack/check-commit-trailers.sh origin/main..HEAD passes. Both history sentences are gone, the one in the Grant test and the one in run-all.sh. The migration paragraph now handles app+v2 correctly, but it still misses one guard that can stop an upgrade. The new delete-users pass drops only what the description says. The new blocker is the restore path, which now runs the init-job on a restored cluster.

Blockers

1. A quoted extension name fails the upgrade

A Postgres extension written with its own quotes worked before and stops the upgrade now. On the merge base the chart rendered CREATE EXTENSION IF NOT EXISTS {{ $extension }} without quotes, so a plain uuid-ossp was a syntax error. The only way to get that extension was to put the quotes into the value, extensions: ['"uuid-ossp"']. On 95ece888b that renders CREATE EXTENSION IF NOT EXISTS "uuid-ossp";, which is valid SQL. On this head helm template --is-upgrade with the same values stops at init-script.yaml:61 with invalid extension name "\"uuid-ossp\"".

This makes two sentences in the description false: "A Postgres extension name outside the charset was rendered unquoted into CREATE EXTENSION and failed there", and the closing "upgrades without an edit". The tenant fix is harmless here, because the init-script has no DROP EXTENSION: remove the quotes from the value. Either list this as a fourth guard with that fix, or strip one pair of surrounding " before the charset check so these releases keep upgrading. The body becomes the merge commit message, so it has to be right before merge.

2. A restore can drop databases that the recovery brought back

After a restore past the Backup's own point in time, the init-job drops databases that were recovered from WAL. The chain, step by step:

1. buildPostgresAppRestorePatch replaces spec.databases and spec.users with the snapshot in Backup.status.underlyingResources (cnpgstrategy_controller.go:1324). That snapshot is taken when the Backup is created.
2. The Cluster gets a recoveryTarget only when recoveryTime is set (db.yaml:224). Without it, recovery replays the archive to its end. A database the chart created after the Backup comes back, and it still carries database managed by helm, because that comment is in the catalog. The same happens for any recoveryTime later than the Backup.
3. This PR adds disablePostgresAppBootstrap (:999), which clears bootstrap.enabled once recovery converges, for in-place and to-copy restores alike. On the merge base nothing cleared it, so the init-job stayed skipped on a restored app.
4. The next init-job run finds that database managed but not declared and runs DROP DATABASE IF EXISTS ... WITH (FORCE) (init-script.yaml:233).

An example: a Backup is taken with databases: {orders: {}}, then the tenant adds invoices, then the primary is lost. An in-place RestoreJob from that Backup with no recoveryTime recovers both databases and reports Succeeded. The next reconcile drops invoices with its data. Users created after the Backup are dropped as well, by the new delete-users pass, but their objects go to postgres, so no data is lost there.

I did not run this end to end, but every step above is in the code. The comment at cnpgstrategy_controller.go:755 already names the delete pass as the reason the patch must carry the source spec. A backup-time snapshot is still not the recovered state. I see two ways out: the driver merges the recovered catalog's managed databases and users into the target spec before it clears bootstrap, or the first init-job run after a restore skips the delete passes. Either one needs a test.

Delete-users pass

I ran the rendered init.sh against PostgreSQL 18 with a seeded catalog. Only roles with the comment user managed by helm are candidates, and only the create-users loop writes that comment (init-script.yaml:192). A role created by hand, a streaming_replica role and an app role with some other comment were left alone.

The removed user owned tables in two managed databases and also owned an unmanaged database. After the run every table belonged to postgres with its rows intact, and the database was still there, now owned by postgres. DROP USER succeeded and a second run changed nothing. A role stored under its 63-byte prefix is kept when the declared list carries the truncated name. The old \du+ parse returns nothing on 18, because the header is Role name | Attributes | Description. On 13-15 the Member of column is still there, so the old pass did match, and it ran REASSIGN OWNED / DROP OWNED only in the database it was connected to.

Not blocking: "needs no tenant action" leaves out one case. A client that still logs in as a user removed from values loses that login on the first upgrade, and adding the user back mints a new password. The to-copy section of docs/operations/backup-classes.md should also say that a source user the target does not declare is now dropped.

MariaDB caps

The limits are right. MariaDB allows 128-character account names from 10.6, the oldest version the chart ships. The mariadb-operator CRDs in packages/system/mariadb-operator set maxLength: 80 on User.spec.name and Database.spec.name and nothing on Grant.spec.username, which matches the comments. Both lookups use the exact names the Database and the Grant are rendered under.

The gates are pinned. I wrote down the expected red tests before each mutation and restored the file after it:

• Cap 128 to 129 reddens the three over-128 tests. Cap 128 to 127 reddens renders normally for a role member at the 128-character boundary.
• Database lookup forced true reddens renders on upgrade for a 65-character database whose Database already exists. Dropping IsInstall from that gate reddens still fails on install for a 65-character database a stale Database carries.
• Grant lookup forced true reddens renders on upgrade for an over-128 role member whose Grant already exists.
• Hard cap 80 to 100000 reddens still fails on upgrade for an 81-character database name.

Everything else

Nothing rotates on upgrade. Replacing if not (index $passwords $user) with if true reddens preserves an existing password across renders in postgres, plus renders on upgrade for a 64-character user the credentials Secret already carries, which asserts the kept value. In mariadb it reddens preserves existing passwords (including root) across renders. Removing the classoid join from the delete-users query and removing trunc 63 each redden one named test in delete_users_test.yaml.

app+v2 checked both ways: the merge base renders CREATE DATABASE "app+v2", this head stops at init-script.yaml:57, and the message gives the safe path. cozyvalues-gen v1.7.0 is a published release and pre-commit.yml on main pins it.

Green here on b672a657b: postgres 122, mariadb 161, hack/postgres-backup-app-login_test.bats, and go test for pkg/registry/apps/application, internal/backupcontroller and internal/migrationcontroller.

CI

The Pull Request run on this head (created 09:59:21Z, attempt 1) fails Unit & controller tests on tests 10 and 11 of hack/mariadb-first-boot-waits.bats. Both fail because examples/backups/kafka/00-helpers.sh has diverged from the MariaDB copy. This PR does not touch that file, and the kafka copy lacks the same lines on 95ece888b and on current main, so this is not the diff. It still means E2E (in-tree) was skipped and E2E Tests has no result for this head. pre-commit is green. The API owner gate is red and still needs lllamnyp or kvaps.

scooby87 NOT LGTM, but both blockers from my last review are closed. What is left is another form of the first one, which I missed last round.

Closed

The quoted extension names now upgrade. I rendered each value on 4b6933c56 and with --is-upgrade on this head. '"uuid-ossp"', '"UUID-OSSP"' and '"pg_trgm"' render the same CREATE EXTENSION line as on the base, with the case kept inside the quotes. Plain uuid-ossp, a syntax error on the base, now renders quoted, and PostGIS becomes "postgis". '"a"b"', '"x', 'x"', '""' and '"x"; DROP TABLE t; --"' all stop the render. On the base the last one rendered CREATE EXTENSION IF NOT EXISTS "x"; DROP TABLE t; --";. The body no longer says these releases failed before.

A restore no longer drops the databases that recovery brought back. The driver derives newServerName from the RestoreJob UID, on the one code path that in-place and to-copy restores share, and disablePostgresAppBootstrap changes only bootstrap.enabled. With an empty newServerName the script renders RESTORE_MARK= and no record pass, and an undeclared managed database is dropped as before. I ran the rendered init.sh against PostgreSQL 18:

1. Your three steps behave as you describe. I added a user created after the snapshot that owns tables in the released database. It is dropped, and its tables go to postgres with their rows. Declaring the database again puts it and both roles back under management.
2. I archived WAL, recorded a mark, took a base backup, then created a managed database with data. Recovery to the end of the archive brought that database back still commented database managed by helm, and pg_db_role_setting held the source's mark. The run with a new mark released the database with its data and recorded the new mark.
3. A run that fails after the release pass exits before the record pass. I used a missing extension in a declared database. Running it again releases nothing new, drops nothing and keeps the old mark, and the fixed run then records the new one.
4. A newServerName with a quote, $(...), backticks, a backslash and a newline is stored verbatim and nothing in it runs. The next run matches it and takes the drop branch.
5. ALTER DATABASE postgres SET cozystack.adopted_restore without a placeholder is accepted on 14 and 18.

A tenant can set bootstrap.newServerName without a restore. That moves the WAL archive prefix, as it did before. On the init-job side it only releases databases for one run, and the release branch has no DROP, so nothing is lost.

The new paragraph in docs/operations/backup-classes.md says undeclared users are dropped with their objects reassigned to postgres, and "needs no tenant action" is gone from the body.

Blocker: an extension value with a clause after the name fails the upgrade

A value like earthdistance CASCADE worked on the base and stops the upgrade now. The base put the value into CREATE EXTENSION IF NOT EXISTS {{ $extension }} as is, and the schema had no pattern for it. On 4b6933c56 that renders CREATE EXTENSION IF NOT EXISTS earthdistance CASCADE;, and PostgreSQL 18 runs it and installs cube on the way. hstore SCHEMA public and "uuid-ossp" CASCADE render and run too. On this head all three stop helm template --is-upgrade with invalid extension name. CASCADE is the usual way to get an extension that depends on another one, like earthdistance or postgis_topology, so this is a realistic value.

This makes the body sentence "An unquoted Postgres extension name outside the charset was rendered as is into CREATE EXTENSION and failed there" false for these values, and the closing "upgrades without an edit" does not hold for them. I would not teach the guard to accept clauses. List this as a fourth guard that can block an upgrade, with the fix: remove the clause from the value. That is safe because the init-script has no DROP EXTENSION, and the installed extension makes IF NOT EXISTS a no-op. For a new database the dependency goes into the list before it, [cube, earthdistance]. The same hint in the reject message would help.

Everything else

Nothing rotates on upgrade. Replacing if not (index $passwords $user) with if true reddens preserves an existing password across renders and renders on upgrade for a 64-character user the credentials Secret already carries in postgres, and preserves existing passwords (including root) across renders in mariadb.

The new code is pinned. I wrote down the expected red test before each mutation and restored the file after it:

• Never stripping the quote pair reddens strips one pair of surrounding quotes from an extension name, renders on upgrade for an extension name written with its own quotes and keeps the case of an extension name written with its own quotes.
• != to = in the adoption gate reddens releases undeclared databases instead of dropping them until the restore is adopted.
• Emptying the mark read reddens the same test on its second assert.
• Moving the record pass before the orphaned-roles pass reddens records the adopted restore after the last pass.

The rebase onto ce3eb30e0 changes only the import block in rest.go, the rest of the PR's own diff is the same. Green here on ce74fdeea: postgres 131, mariadb 161, postgres-rd 2, hack/postgres-backup-app-login_test.bats, and go test for pkg/registry/apps/application and internal/backupcontroller. The seven commit messages are clean and signed off, and hack/check-commit-trailers.sh passes.

CI

The runs on this head were created at 15:13Z (attempt 1) and are still in progress, so pre-commit and E2E Tests have no result yet. On the previous head pre-commit was green. The API owner gate still needs lllamnyp or kvaps.

scooby87 LGTM. The last blocker is closed, and nothing else moved since my previous review.

The base is still ce3eb30e0, so there is no rebase to separate out. The only change since ce74fdeea is 237f2e2bb, which touches the reject message and database_extension_validation_test.yaml.

The extension clause

A value with a clause now fails the upgrade with a message that says what to write instead. I rendered with --is-upgrade again. On ce3eb30e0, earthdistance CASCADE, hstore SCHEMA public and "uuid-ossp" CASCADE render as is, e.g. CREATE EXTENSION IF NOT EXISTS earthdistance CASCADE;. On this head all three stop at init-script.yaml:62, and the error ends with the hint. The suggested fix works: [cube, earthdistance] renders two CREATE EXTENSION lines in list order on both commits, quoted on this head. The guard and its charset did not change, so no new input gets through.

The body lists the clause as the fourth guard that can block an upgrade, with the fix and why it is safe. The unquoted-value sentence, the closing sentence and the release note agree with it, and #4464 exists for the preflight.

Tests

Green here: postgres 133, mariadb 161, postgres-rd 2, and hack/postgres-backup-app-login_test.bats. The new commit does not touch Go, so I did not rerun the Go packages. Mutations, each restored afterwards:

• Dropping the hint from the message reddens the five tests that assert it.
• reverse $d.extensions in the create loop reddens creates extensions in the order they are listed.
• if true in place of if not (index $passwords $user) still reddens the two preserve tests in postgres and the one in mariadb.

All eight commits are signed off, and hack/check-commit-trailers.sh ce3eb30e0..237f2e2bb passes. The message of 237f2e2bb stands on its own. Merge commits keep it in main either way, so folding it into feat(postgres)! is up to you.

CI

The runs on 237f2e2bb were created at 21:03Z, attempt 1. pre-commit and E2E Tests are green. The only red check is the API owner gate, which still needs lllamnyp or kvaps and is not caused by the diff.