Delete messages for hidden devices from device_inbox

changelog.d/11199.bugfix

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Delete `to_device` messages for hidden devices that will never be read, reducing database size.

synapse/storage/databases/main/deviceinbox.py

@@ -557,6 +557,7 @@ def _add_messages_to_local_device_inbox_txn(
 class DeviceInboxBackgroundUpdateStore(SQLBaseStore):
     DEVICE_INBOX_STREAM_ID = "device_inbox_stream_drop"
     REMOVE_DELETED_DEVICES = "remove_deleted_devices_from_device_inbox"
+    REMOVE_HIDDEN_DEVICES = "remove_hidden_devices_from_device_inbox"
 
     def __init__(self, database: DatabasePool, db_conn, hs: "HomeServer"):
         super().__init__(database, db_conn, hs)
@@ -577,6 +578,11 @@ def __init__(self, database: DatabasePool, db_conn, hs: "HomeServer"):
             self._remove_deleted_devices_from_device_inbox,
         )
 
+        self.db_pool.updates.register_background_update_handler(
+            self.REMOVE_HIDDEN_DEVICES,
+            self._remove_hidden_devices_from_device_inbox,
+        )
+
     async def _background_drop_index_device_inbox(self, progress, batch_size):
         def reindex_txn(conn):
             txn = conn.cursor()
@@ -672,6 +678,89 @@ def _remove_deleted_devices_from_device_inbox_txn(
 
         return number_deleted
 
+    async def _remove_hidden_devices_from_device_inbox(
+        self, progress: JsonDict, batch_size: int
+    ) -> int:
+        """A background update that deletes all device_inboxes for hidden devices.
+
+        This should only need to be run once (when users upgrade to v1.47.0)
+
+        Args:
+            progress: JsonDict used to store progress of this background update
+            batch_size: the maximum number of rows to retrieve in a single select query
+
+        Returns:
+            The number of deleted rows
+        """
+
+        def _remove_hidden_devices_from_device_inbox_txn(
+            txn: LoggingTransaction,
+        ) -> int:
+            """stream_id is not unique
+            we need to use an inclusive `stream_id >= ?` clause,
+            since we might not have deleted all hidden device messages for the stream_id
+            returned from the previous query
+
+            Then delete only rows matching the `(user_id, device_id, stream_id)` tuple,
+            to avoid problems of deleting a large number of rows all at once
+            due to a single device having lots of device messages.
+            """
+
+            last_stream_id = progress.get("stream_id", 0)
+
+            sql = """
+                SELECT device_id, user_id, stream_id
+                FROM device_inbox
+                WHERE
+                    stream_id >= ?
+                    AND (device_id, user_id) IN (
+                        SELECT device_id, user_id FROM devices WHERE hidden = ?
+                    )
+                ORDER BY stream_id
+                LIMIT ?
+            """
+
+            txn.execute(sql, (last_stream_id, True, batch_size))
+            rows = txn.fetchall()
+
+            num_deleted = 0
+            for row in rows:
+                num_deleted += self.db_pool.simple_delete_txn(
+                    txn,
+                    "device_inbox",
+                    {"device_id": row[0], "user_id": row[1], "stream_id": row[2]},
+                )
+
+            if rows:
+                # We don't just save the `stream_id` in progress as
+                # otherwise it can happen in large deployments that
+                # no change of status is visible in the log file, as
+                # it may be that the stream_id does not change in several runs
+                self.db_pool.updates._background_update_progress_txn(
+                    txn,
+                    self.REMOVE_HIDDEN_DEVICES,
+                    {
+                        "device_id": rows[-1][0],
+                        "user_id": rows[-1][1],
+                        "stream_id": rows[-1][2],
+                    },
+                )
+
+            return num_deleted
+
+        number_deleted = await self.db_pool.runInteraction(
+            "_remove_hidden_devices_from_device_inbox",
+            _remove_hidden_devices_from_device_inbox_txn,
+        )
+
+        # The task is finished when no more lines are deleted.
+        if not number_deleted:
+            await self.db_pool.updates._end_background_update(
+                self.REMOVE_HIDDEN_DEVICES
+            )
+
+        return number_deleted
+
 
 class DeviceInboxStore(DeviceInboxWorkerStore, DeviceInboxBackgroundUpdateStore):
     pass

synapse/storage/schema/main/delta/65/03remove_hidden_devices_from_device_inbox.sql

@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+/* Copyright 2021 The Matrix.org Foundation C.I.C
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+
+-- Remove messages from the device_inbox table which were orphaned
+-- because a device was hidden using Synapse earlier than 1.47.0.
+-- This runs as background task, but may take a bit to finish.
+
+INSERT INTO background_updates (ordering, update_name, progress_json) VALUES
+  (6503, 'remove_hidden_devices_from_device_inbox', '{}');

tests/storage/databases/main/test_deviceinbox.py

@@ -88,3 +88,77 @@ def test_background_remove_deleted_devices_from_device_inbox(self):
         )
         self.assertEqual(1, len(res))
         self.assertEqual(res[0], "cur_device")
+
+    def test_background_remove_hidden_devices_from_device_inbox(self):
+        """Test that the background task to delete hidden devices
+        from device_inboxes works properly."""
+
+        # create a valid device
+        self.get_success(
+            self.store.store_device(self.user_id, "cur_device", "display_name")
+        )
+
+        # create a hidden device
+        self.get_success(
+            self.store.db_pool.simple_insert(
+                "devices",
+                values={
+                    "user_id": self.user_id,
+                    "device_id": "hidden_device",
+                    "display_name": "hidden_display_name",
+                    "hidden": True,
+                },
+            )
+        )
+
+        # Add device_inbox to devices
+        self.get_success(
+            self.store.db_pool.simple_insert(
+                "device_inbox",
+                {
+                    "user_id": self.user_id,
+                    "device_id": "cur_device",
+                    "stream_id": 1,
+                    "message_json": "{}",
+                },
+            )
+        )
+        self.get_success(
+            self.store.db_pool.simple_insert(
+                "device_inbox",
+                {
+                    "user_id": self.user_id,
+                    "device_id": "hidden_device",
+                    "stream_id": 2,
+                    "message_json": "{}",
+                },
+            )
+        )
+
+        # Insert and run the background update.
+        self.get_success(
+            self.store.db_pool.simple_insert(
+                "background_updates",
+                {
+                    "update_name": "remove_hidden_devices_from_device_inbox",
+                    "progress_json": "{}",
+                },
+            )
+        )
+
+        # ... and tell the DataStore that it hasn't finished all updates yet
+        self.store.db_pool.updates._all_done = False
+
+        self.wait_for_background_updates()
+
+        # Make sure the background task deleted hidden devices from device_inbox
+        res = self.get_success(
+            self.store.db_pool.simple_select_onecol(
+                table="device_inbox",
+                keyvalues={},
+                retcol="device_id",
+                desc="get_device_id_from_device_inbox",
+            )
+        )
+        self.assertEqual(1, len(res))
+        self.assertEqual(res[0], "cur_device")