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Fix duplicate keys in RangeResult reverse pagination (#73) - #74

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Fix duplicate keys in RangeResult reverse pagination (#73)#74
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Summary

RangeResult reverse pagination yielded each boundary key twice when a
range span more than one server page. The iterator advanced the upper
bound at every batch boundary with KeySelector::firstGreaterOrEqual,
an inclusive selector, so the last key returned in batch N was
returned again as the first key in batch N+1.

The forward branch already uses firstGreaterThan and is unaffected;
this PR makes the reverse branch do the same.

Reproducer (before the fix)

$result = $db->getRangeStartsWith('p/', new RangeOptions(reverse: true));
// $result has duplicates — every page-seam key appears twice.

Fix

src/RangeResult.php — flip the reverse branch from
KeySelector::firstGreaterOrEqual() to
KeySelector::firstGreaterThan(), mirroring the forward
branch.

Tests

tests/Integration/RangeReadTest.php — two new tests over a 1000-key,
~50-byte value range (forces multiple server pages):

  1. getRangeReversePaginationYieldsEachKeyOnce — full reverse range,
    asserts count == 1000, first is p/0999, last is p/0000,
    no duplicates, exact ordering.
  2. getRangeReversePaginationWithLimitAcrossBatcheslimit: 750 on
    the same range size, asserts count == 750, no duplicates,
    last-key == first of new batch.

Both tests fail under the old behavior and pass after the fix.

Checklist

  • composer test:unit — 429 tests, 874 assertions, OK
  • composer cs — clean
  • composer rector — clean (also applied SortCallLikeNamedArgsRector)
  • composer phpstan — clean
  • composer test:integration — local environment has no FDB
    cluster; covered by CI against docker-compose up
  • CHANGELOG updated under Unreleased / Fixed with the [[Bug] RangeResult pagination yields duplicate keys when iterating in reverse #73] anchor
  • New branch fix/issue-73-rangeresult-reverse-duplicates from
    master

When iterating a range in reverse across multiple server pages, the
iterator advanced the upper bound selector using
KeySelector::firstGreaterOrEqual($lastKey) at every batch boundary,
an *inclusive* selector. That selector targets the boundary key
again, so the first key of every subsequent batch was a duplicate
of the last key yielded by the previous batch.

Mirror the forward branch: use firstGreaterThan so the key just
produced is excluded from the next batch. Add two integration tests
covering reverse pagination both with and without an explicit limit
over 1000 keys, large enough to force multiple server pages.
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s2x commented Aug 18, 2026

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Closing this PR as outdated.

The fix for #73 was already merged in #75 (commit c41822e). That PR took a different approach:

  • It kept firstGreaterOrEqual in the reverse branch (changing it to firstGreaterThan was verified to cause an infinite loop on a live FDB cluster).
  • It extracted RangeResult::paginate() for testability and added both unit tests (tests/Unit/RangeResultTest.php) and integration tests (tests/Integration/ReversePaginationTest.php).

This PR's proposed change (firstGreaterOrEqualfirstGreaterThan) would reintroduce the infinite-loop bug, so it should not be merged.

Thanks for the work on this — the analysis in the PR description was useful for understanding the issue, even though the final fix went in a different direction.

@s2x s2x closed this Aug 18, 2026
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