diff --git a/.github/workflows/demo.yml b/.github/workflows/demo.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..95547c8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/demo.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,239 @@
+# .github/workflows/demo.yml — the demo harness gates.
+#
+# Two jobs with very different costs, on purpose.
+#
+# demo-render every push and PR, ~10 s, no Postgres, no browser, no Docker.
+# Re-renders the committed demos/fixtures/*.ansi and compares
+# byte-for-byte against demos/fixtures/expected/*.svg. Because
+# the SVG renderer is deterministic this is a genuine gate, not
+# a smoke test — but it proves only that the RENDERER still
+# works on frozen input. It cannot notice that pg_ash's output
+# changed shape underneath it. Only demo-refresh catches that.
+#
+# demo-refresh nightly, on demand, and whenever demos/** or sql/** changes.
+# ~3 min. Seeds a real PostgreSQL, re-captures every scene, and
+# records the reel. `make -C demos rot` compares the fresh
+# reader contract with fixtures/shape.tsv: a changed capture
+# shape means a reader was renamed, a column moved, or the
+# installer path shifted. That is the check that would have
+# caught the demo pointing at an installer path the release
+# stamp had emptied, and the landing page advertising a reader
+# 2.0 removed — both of which shipped.
+#
+# ZERO container-registry traffic. The previous harness required a Docker Hub
+# pull, and `auth.docker.io` returns 503 in sandboxed runners, which is the root
+# cause of "I recorded it on my laptop". ubuntu-latest already ships a
+# PostgreSQL cluster and postgresql-client; we start that. No `services:` block.
+#
+# Fonts are vendored under demos/fonts and consumed BY PATH (agg --font-dir,
+# ansi2svg --font). No fontconfig, no `apt install fonts-*`, no Homebrew cask.
+# A missing font is a hard exit 6, never a silent fallback into a serif face.
+
+name: demo
+
+on:
+ push:
+ pull_request:
+ schedule:
+ # 04:20 UTC nightly — after the test matrix, before anyone is awake to be
+ # surprised by a stale GIF.
+ - cron: '20 4 * * *'
+ workflow_dispatch:
+
+permissions:
+ contents: read
+
+concurrency:
+ group: demo-${{ github.ref }}
+ cancel-in-progress: true
+
+jobs:
+ # =========================================================================
+ # Job A — the fast gate. Runs on everything.
+ # =========================================================================
+ demo-render:
+ name: renderer (fixtures, no database)
+ runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+ timeout-minutes: 5
+ steps:
+ - uses: actions/checkout@v6
+
+ - uses: actions/setup-python@v6
+ with:
+ python-version: '3.12'
+
+ - name: Install the tier-1 renderer dependencies
+ # fonttools + brotli are all `make check` needs. Deliberately NOT
+ # installing Postgres, tmux, ffmpeg or a browser here: if this job ever
+ # needs them, the "it only runs on my laptop" problem has come back.
+ run: python -m pip install --quiet fonttools brotli
+
+ - name: Assert the vendored font is present and is JetBrains Mono
+ run: |
+ python - <<'PY'
+ from fontTools.ttLib import TTFont
+ import sys
+ for p in ("demos/fonts/JetBrainsMono-Regular.ttf",
+ "demos/fonts/JetBrainsMono-Bold.ttf"):
+ f = TTFont(p, lazy=True)
+ fam = f["name"].getDebugName(1) or ""
+ assert "JetBrains Mono" in fam, (p, fam)
+ # ash.chart() draws with these; a face without them renders tofu.
+ cmap = f.getBestCmap()
+ for cp in (0x2588, 0x2593, 0x2591, 0x2592, 0x00B7):
+ assert cp in cmap, (p, hex(cp))
+ print("vendored font OK")
+ PY
+
+ - name: No reader removed in 2.0 may be referenced under demos/
+ # Assembled from fragments so this workflow file does not itself trip
+ # the grep it is running.
+ run: |
+ set -Eeuo pipefail
+ RE="top_$(printf 'waits')|query_$(printf 'waits')|top_by_$(printf 'type')|timeline_$(printf 'chart')"
+ if grep -rIEl "$RE" demos/ > /tmp/hits 2>/dev/null; then
+ echo "demos/ references a reader that 2.0 removed:" >&2
+ cat /tmp/hits >&2
+ exit 1
+ fi
+ echo "no removed-reader references"
+
+ - name: make check — re-render fixtures and compare byte-for-byte
+ run: ASH_SVG_ONLY=1 make -C demos check
+
+ # =========================================================================
+ # Job B — the real gate. Nightly, on demand, or when the demo/SQL changes.
+ # =========================================================================
+ demo-refresh:
+ name: capture + reel (real PostgreSQL)
+ runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+ timeout-minutes: 25
+ if: >-
+ github.event_name == 'schedule' ||
+ github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch' ||
+ (github.event_name == 'push' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/main') ||
+ github.event_name == 'pull_request'
+ steps:
+ - uses: actions/checkout@v6
+
+ - uses: actions/setup-python@v6
+ with:
+ python-version: '3.12'
+
+ - name: Decide whether this run needs the full pass
+ # On push/PR, only when demos/** or sql/** actually changed. Schedules
+ # and manual dispatches always run.
+ id: gate
+ run: |
+ set -Eeuo pipefail
+ if [ "${{ github.event_name }}" = "schedule" ] \
+ || [ "${{ github.event_name }}" = "workflow_dispatch" ]; then
+ echo "run=yes" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"; exit 0
+ fi
+ base="${{ github.event.pull_request.base.sha || github.event.before }}"
+ if [ -z "$base" ] || [ "$base" = "0000000000000000000000000000000000000000" ]; then
+ echo "run=yes" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"; exit 0
+ fi
+ # A shallow checkout need not contain a merge base. Fetch the exact
+ # base tree and use a two-tree diff; any fetch/diff error must fail
+ # this step, never turn the expensive gate into a false green.
+ git fetch --no-tags --depth=1 origin "$base"
+ changed="$(git diff --name-only "$base" HEAD -- demos sql)"
+ if [ -n "$changed" ]; then echo "run=yes" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+ else echo "run=no" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"; fi
+
+ - name: Start the runner's own PostgreSQL cluster
+ if: steps.gate.outputs.run == 'yes'
+ # ubuntu-latest ships PostgreSQL and postgresql-client already. Starting
+ # the preinstalled cluster costs about two seconds and ZERO registry
+ # traffic, which is the whole point.
+ run: |
+ set -Eeuo pipefail
+ sudo systemctl start postgresql.service
+ for _ in $(seq 1 30); do pg_isready -q && break; sleep 1; done
+ pg_isready
+ # Ubuntu's local socket uses peer authentication. Give the runner's
+ # actual OS user a matching PostgreSQL role, then publish that
+ # connection identity to all later steps.
+ ci_role="$(id -un)"
+ sudo -u postgres createuser --superuser "$ci_role"
+ # pg_stat_statements gives ash.top('query_id') its query text. pg_cron
+ # is deliberately NOT installed: the harness drives sampling itself,
+ # which is both the portable path and the honest one for the RDS /
+ # Cloud SQL / Supabase / Neon users who cannot have pg_cron either.
+ sudo -u postgres psql -v ON_ERROR_STOP=1 -c \
+ "alter system set shared_preload_libraries = 'pg_stat_statements'"
+ sudo systemctl restart postgresql.service
+ for _ in $(seq 1 30); do pg_isready -q && break; sleep 1; done
+ pg_isready
+ PGHOST=/var/run/postgresql PGUSER="$ci_role" \
+ psql -v ON_ERROR_STOP=1 -d postgres -Atqc \
+ "select current_user" | grep -Fx "$ci_role"
+ {
+ echo "PGHOST=/var/run/postgresql"
+ echo "PGUSER=$ci_role"
+ } >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
+
+ - name: Install the tier-3 dependencies
+ if: steps.gate.outputs.run == 'yes'
+ run: |
+ set -Eeuo pipefail
+ sudo apt-get update -qq
+ sudo apt-get install -y -qq tmux ffmpeg gifsicle postgresql-client
+ python -m pip install --quiet asciinema pillow fonttools brotli
+ # agg ships a single release binary. No cargo build, no Docker Hub,
+ # no registry auth. Pin its digest so a changed download fails loud.
+ AGG_VER="1.7.0"
+ AGG_SHA256="b72c773c22ef73149540f5728b37290dffe88418f0a16ceab29bc8e43699abf7"
+ agg_tmp="$RUNNER_TEMP/agg"
+ curl -fsSL -o "$agg_tmp" \
+ "https://github.com/asciinema/agg/releases/download/v${AGG_VER}/agg-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu"
+ printf '%s %s\n' "$AGG_SHA256" "$agg_tmp" | sha256sum -c -
+ sudo install -m 0755 "$agg_tmp" /usr/local/bin/agg
+ agg --version
+
+ - name: make doctor
+ if: steps.gate.outputs.run == 'yes'
+ run: make -C demos doctor
+
+ - name: make all — seed, capture, stills, reel
+ if: steps.gate.outputs.run == 'yes'
+ env:
+ ASH_BACKEND: local
+ run: make -C demos all
+
+ - name: Demo-rot alarm
+ if: steps.gate.outputs.run == 'yes'
+ # `make all` has just re-captured every scene against a real database,
+ # so demos/out/raw holds today's bytes. This compares the READER
+ # CONTRACT in those bytes -- column names, column count, report keys,
+ # the fixed label vocabularies -- against demos/fixtures/shape.tsv.
+ #
+ # NOT `git diff --exit-code demos/fixtures`, which is the obvious thing
+ # and does not work: `make all` does not write fixtures/ at all, so that
+ # diff is always clean and the alarm never fires. And if it were made to
+ # write them, every number in a capture is a real measurement, so the
+ # diff would be red on every single run instead -- a check that is always
+ # red is a check nobody reads. See demos/render/scene_shape.py.
+ run: make -C demos rot
+
+ - name: Upload the artifacts a human can eyeball
+ if: steps.gate.outputs.run == 'yes' && always()
+ uses: actions/upload-artifact@v6
+ with:
+ name: demo-assets
+ if-no-files-found: warn
+ retention-days: 14
+ path: |
+ assets/*.svg
+ assets/*.png
+ assets/ash_demo.gif
+ assets/ash_demo.mp4
+ demos/out/transcript.log
+ demos/out/stderr.log
+ demos/out/window.env
+ demos/out/shots/*.ansi
+
+ - name: Teardown
+ if: always() && steps.gate.outputs.run == 'yes'
+ run: make -C demos down
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 580471c..cc05752 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -59,6 +59,25 @@ from ash.chart(
);
```
+ash.chart() — AAS by wait event ash ▸ select to_char(bucket_start, 'HH24:MI') as bucket, aas, rtrim(chart) as chart from ash.chart(since => $SINCE, until => $UNTIL, bucket => '2 minutes', n => 4, width => 66, color => true); ┌────────┬───────┬──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ bucket │ aas │ chart │ ├────────┼───────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ │ │ Lock:transactionid CPU* Client:ClientRead Lock:tuple · Other │ │ 22:36 │ 1.75 │ │ │ 22:38 │ 1.75 │ │ │ 22:40 │ 1.42 │ │ │ 22:42 │ 1.42 │ │ │ 22:44 │ 14.67 │ ······· │ │ 22:46 │ 14.54 │ ········ │ │ 22:48 │ 9.17 │ ······· │ │ 22:50 │ 3.54 │ ········· │ │ 22:52 │ 1.96 │ │ │ 22:54 │ 1.92 │ │ │ 22:56 │ 1.75 │ │ │ 22:58 │ 1.75 │ │ └────────┴───────┴──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ ash.compare() — incident vs baseline ash ▸ select key, avg_aas_1, avg_aas_2, avg_delta, pct_2 from ash.compare($BASE_SINCE, $BASE_UNTIL, $STORM_SINCE, $STORM_UNTIL, dimension => 'wait_event', n => 5); ┌────────────────────┬───────────┬───────────┬───────────┬───────┐ │ key │ avg_aas_1 │ avg_aas_2 │ avg_delta │ pct_2 │ ├────────────────────┼───────────┼───────────┼───────────┼───────┤ │ Lock:transactionid │ │ 9.55 │ 9.55 │ 65.41 │ │ Lock:tuple │ │ 1.53 │ 1.53 │ 10.50 │ │ IdleTx │ │ 0.77 │ 0.77 │ 5.25 │ │ IO:WalSync │ │ 0.58 │ 0.58 │ 4.00 │ │ Client:ClientRead │ 0.24 │ 0.63 │ 0.39 │ 4.34 │ └────────────────────┴───────────┴───────────┴───────────┴───────┘ ash.periods() — what do I even have? ash ▸ select period, source, buckets_with_data, avg_aas, peak_aas, p99_aas from ash.periods($UNTIL); ┌────────┬───────────┬───────────────────┬─────────┬──────────┬─────────┐ │ period │ source │ buckets_with_data │ avg_aas │ peak_aas │ p99_aas │ ├────────┼───────────┼───────────────────┼─────────┼──────────┼─────────┤ │ 1m │ raw │ 1 │ 1.92 │ 1.92 │ 1.92 │ │ 5m │ raw │ 5 │ 1.77 │ 1.92 │ 1.91 │ │ 1h │ rollup_1h │ 28 │ 1.95 │ 14.75 │ 14.71 │ │ 1d │ rollup_1h │ 28 │ 0.08 │ 14.75 │ 14.71 │ │ 1w │ rollup_1h │ 28 │ 0.01 │ 14.75 │ 14.71 │ │ 1mo │ rollup_1h │ 28 │ 0.00 │ 14.75 │ 14.71 │ └────────┴───────────┴───────────────────┴─────────┴──────────┴─────────┘ ash.report() — hand this to an LLM ash ▸ select jsonb_pretty(ash.report(since => $STORM_SINCE, until => $STORM_UNTIL, n => 2) - array['cluster_name', 'aas_p999', 'aas_worst1m', 'top_events_p999', 'top_events_worst1m', 'top_queryids_p999', 'top_queryids_worst1m']) as report; { "aas_avg": { "io": 0.68, "cpu": 1.20, "ipc": 0.07, "lock": 11.08, "total": 13.20, "lwlock": 0.17 }, "aas_p99": { "io": 0.91, "cpu": 1.49, "ipc": 0.08, "lock": 11.16, "total": 13.49, "lwlock": 0.33 }, "coverage": { "to": "2026-07-27T22:49:00+00:00", "from": "2026-07-27T22:44:00+00:00", "source": "rollup_1m", "minutes_expected": 5, "minutes_with_data": 5, "raw_retention_start": "2026-07-26T23:36:00+00:00" }, "top_events_p99": { "io": [ "WalSync(0.8)", "DataFileRead(0.1)" ], "ipc": [ "BgworkerShutdown(0.1)" ], "lock": [ "transactionid(10.5)", "tuple(0.7)" ], "lwlock": [ "WALWrite(0.3)" ] }, "top_queryids_p99": { "io": [ "-2835399305386018931(0.3)", "-7079852731576173083(0.2)" ], "ipc": [ "6627483964256586084(0.1)" ], "lock": [ "-1236273962537500931(11.0)", "-7185852639686726986(0.1)" ], "total": [ "-1236273962537500931(11.1)", "-2835399305386018931(1.1)" ], "lwlock": [ "-2835399305386018931(0.3)" ] }, "top_queryids_available": true } pg_ash 2.0 — is it collecting? ash ▸ select metric, value from ash.status() where metric in ('version','sampling_enabled', 'sample_interval','samples_total','raw_retention','pg_cron_available'); ┌───────────────────┬─────────────────────────────┐ │ metric │ value │ ├───────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤ │ version │ 2.0-beta1 │ │ sampling_enabled │ true │ │ sample_interval │ 00:00:05 │ │ raw_retention │ 1 day + current partial │ │ samples_total │ 326 │ │ pg_cron_available │ no (use external scheduler) │ └───────────────────┴─────────────────────────────┘ ash.summary() — the one-paragraph verdict ash ▸ select metric, value from ash.summary(since => $STORM_SINCE, until => $STORM_UNTIL); ┌────────────────────────┬────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ metric │ value │ ├────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ period_start │ 2026-07-27 22:44:00+00 │ │ period_end │ 2026-07-27 22:49:00+00 │ │ source │ raw │ │ buckets_with_data │ 5 │ │ avg_aas │ 14.60 │ │ peak_aas │ 14.75 │ │ p99_aas │ 14.74 │ │ backend_seconds │ 4380.00 │ │ drill_source │ raw │ │ drill_period_start │ 2026-07-27 22:44:00+00 │ │ drill_period_end │ 2026-07-27 22:49:00+00 │ │ drill_effective_bucket │ 00:01:00 │ │ databases_active │ 1 │ │ top_wait_1 │ Lock:transactionid (avg_aas 9.55, 65.41%) │ │ top_wait_2 │ Lock:tuple (avg_aas 1.53, 10.50%) │ │ top_wait_3 │ CPU* (avg_aas 1.20, 8.22%) │ │ top_query_1 │ -1236273962537500931 — UPDATE pgbench_accounts SET abalance = abalance │ │ │ + $1 WHERE a (avg_aas 11.35, 77.74%) │ │ top_query_2 │ 6627483964256586084 — SELECT sum(abalance) FROM pgbench_accounts WHERE │ │ │ bid = $1 (avg_aas 0.97, 6.62%) │ │ top_query_3 │ -2835399305386018931 — END (avg_aas 0.78, 5.37%) │ └────────────────────────┴────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ ash.top('wait_event') — the exact wait ash ▸ select key, avg_aas, peak_aas, p99_aas, pct from ash.top('wait_event', since => $STORM_SINCE, until => $STORM_UNTIL, n => 6); ┌────────────────────┬─────────┬──────────┬─────────┬───────┐ │ key │ avg_aas │ peak_aas │ p99_aas │ pct │ ├────────────────────┼─────────┼──────────┼─────────┼───────┤ │ Lock:transactionid │ 9.55 │ 10.50 │ 10.48 │ 65.41 │ │ Lock:tuple │ 1.53 │ 2.67 │ 2.63 │ 10.50 │ │ CPU* │ 1.20 │ 1.50 │ 1.49 │ 8.22 │ │ IdleTx │ 0.77 │ 1.17 │ 1.15 │ 5.25 │ │ Client:ClientRead │ 0.63 │ 0.75 │ 0.75 │ 4.34 │ │ IO:WalSync │ 0.58 │ 0.75 │ 0.75 │ 4.00 │ └────────────────────┴─────────┴──────────┴─────────┴───────┘ ash.top('query_id') — which statement? ash ▸ select key, left(query_text, 52) as query_text, avg_aas, pct from ash.top('query_id', since => $STORM_SINCE, until => $STORM_UNTIL, n => 3); ┌──────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┬─────────┬───────┐ │ key │ query_text │ avg_aas │ pct │ ├──────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼─────────┼───────┤ │ -1236273962537500931 │ UPDATE pgbench_accounts SET abalance = abalance + $1 │ 11.35 │ 77.74 │ │ 6627483964256586084 │ SELECT sum(abalance) FROM pgbench_accounts WHERE bid │ 0.97 │ 6.62 │ │ -2835399305386018931 │ END │ 0.78 │ 5.37 │ └──────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┴─────────┴───────┘ , ...)` — full wait profile of that query, closing the loop
-7. Closing frame (held ~3s) so the GIF loops gracefully in the README
-
-`ash.chart` is the only colored step: in 2.0 the data readers (`periods`,
-`top`, `timeline`) return typed columns only, and `ash.chart` is the sole
-reader that emits ANSI color. `ash.summary` is also a render helper but
-returns plain key/value text.
-
-## The spike
-
-Five concurrent `UPDATE pgbench_accounts WHERE aid = 42` workers contend
-against one "holder" transaction that grabs the same row and `pg_sleep()`s for
-three seconds at a time. Every contender queues on `Lock:tuple` (with a smaller
-`Lock:transactionid` tail) behind the holder — guaranteed, reproducible, no
-host-level privileges required.
-
-Everything runs inside a plain `postgres:18` container; no kernel tweaks, no
-cgroup tricks, no custom Postgres build.
-
-## Prerequisites
-
-| Tool | Minimum | Install (macOS / Homebrew) |
-|------|--------|---------------------------|
-| Docker | any recent | [docker.com](https://docs.docker.com/get-docker/) |
-| tmux | 3.x | `brew install tmux` |
-| asciinema | 2.x or 3.x | `brew install asciinema` |
-| agg | 1.5+ (truecolor GIF renderer for asciinema casts) | `brew install agg` |
-| gifsicle | 1.90+ (optional, halves the output GIF size) | `brew install gifsicle` |
-| python3 | 3.8+ (post-processes the `.cast` to drop the blank initial frame) | ships with macOS 12+ / Linux |
-| GNU make | 3.81+ | ships with macOS / Linux |
-
-Pinned versions used to produce the committed GIF:
-
-- Docker 29.0.1
-- tmux 3.6a
-- asciinema 2.4.0
-- agg 1.7.0
-- gifsicle 1.96
-- python3 3.9+
-
-On Linux, use your distro's packages (`apt install tmux gifsicle`, `cargo
-install asciinema`, release tarball for
-[agg](https://github.com/asciinema/agg)).
-
-## Reproduce the GIF
-
-```bash
-cd demos
-make record # ~8 minutes end-to-end (5.5 min warmup so the AAS windows have
- # enough history — see WARMUP_SEC below — plus a one-time build
- # of the pre-baked demos/Dockerfile image on first run)
-make open # open the produced gif
+# pg_ash demo harness
+
+Every image in `README.md` and `docs/`, plus the animated reel, regenerated from
+**real** pg_ash query output against a **real** PostgreSQL, with one command:
+
+```sh
+make -C demos all
```
-That's it. The container is torn down on exit; the only artifacts kept are
-`ash_demo.cast` and `ash_demo.gif`.
+No Docker required. No browser required. No hand-cropping, and nothing that only
+works on one laptop.
+
+---
+
+## What it produces
+
+| Artifact | Made by | Notes |
+|---|---|---|
+| `assets/.svg` | `make stills` | the primary still. Vector, byte-deterministic, crisp at any zoom |
+| `assets/.png` | `make stills` | `ASH_SCALE`× raster of the same SVG (default 2×) |
+| `assets/ash_demo.gif` | `make demo` | the reel |
+| `assets/ash_demo.mp4` | `make demo` | same render, ~40% smaller; what docs sites want |
+
+The scene list is data, not code: `scenes/scenes.tsv`. Adding a documentation
+image means adding one line to that file.
+
+---
+
+## Honesty boundary
+
+Read this before you look at a single number.
+
+> The harness shapes **which** real samples exist and **when** they are
+> considered to have been taken. Every number in every asset is pg_ash
+> aggregating its own stored samples, written by `ash.take_sample()` from real
+> `pg_stat_activity` over real pgbench backends. No reader output is edited.
+
+Concretely, the seeder runs a real workload, samples it with pg_ash's real
+sampler, and then rewrites `ash.sample.sample_ts` so that one real second of
+load is filed as one virtual minute of history. It never invents a row, never
+edits a backend count, and never touches the packed wait/query array. That is
+the whole of the liberty taken, and it lives in one `UPDATE` in
+`lib/seed.sql` (`ash_demo.restamp`).
+
+**Time compression: 1 real second = 1 virtual minute.** 28 minutes of history
+arrives in about 20 seconds. The exact ratio in force for a given run is
+recorded in `out/window.env` as `ASH_COMPRESSION`.
+
+`ASH_REAL_TIME=1` turns compression off entirely: the seeder then samples at the
+declared interval in real wall-clock time and skips the restamp. It takes about
+28 minutes and the assets are indistinguishable, which is the point — the switch
+exists so that claim can be checked rather than believed.
+
+The seeder also keeps only samples for its own database. pg_ash samples the
+whole cluster by design; on a developer machine that would quietly fold every
+other database on the box into the demo and the numbers would stop being
+reproducible.
+
+---
-### Tuning knobs
+## pg_cron is not required — and this demo deliberately does not use it
-Override via environment variables:
+The harness drives `ash.take_sample()` itself, from an ordinary session. That is
+the **external scheduler** path, and it is the default here for two reasons:
-| Var | Default | What it controls |
-|-----|---------|-----------------|
-| `COLS` / `ROWS` | 168 / 32 | Terminal geometry — wide enough for 2.0 `select *` output without wrapping |
-| `AGG_FONT_SIZE` | 10 | Pixel font-size passed to `agg`; lower keeps the wider terminal near 1000 px |
-| `TYPE_MIN_MS` / `TYPE_MAX_MS` | 30 / 120 | Per-character keystroke jitter range (ms) — see "Typing pacing" below |
-| `TYPE_PUNCT_MS` | 180 | Extra pause after `, ; . ( )` characters |
-| `WARMUP_SEC` | 330 | Seconds of workload before recording starts. Long (5.5 min) so the 2.0 readers' 5-minute windows sit inside raw retention — raw retention is data-limited (it starts at the oldest sample), and the leaf drills cross the wait↔query tie, which reads raw and raises if the window predates it |
-| `BASELINE_SEC` | 120 | Phase-1 pgbench duration inside the container — 2 min so the baseline→spike transition falls inside the trailing 5-minute chart window |
-| `SPIKE_SEC` | 480 | Phase-2 lock-contention duration — kept long enough that the spike outlives WARMUP + the ~110 s recording (~440 s) so the closing leaf drills still see fresh `Lock:tuple` samples in their 5-minute window |
-| `TAIL_SEC` | 30 | Phase-3 quiet pgbench coda |
-| `LOCK_WORKERS` | 5 | Contender count — more = more lock waits |
-| `KEEP_CONTAINER` | 0 | Set `1` to leave the container running after recording (for re-takes) |
-| `PG_MAJOR` | 18 | Postgres major version — sets both the base image (`postgres:$PG_MAJOR`) and the pre-baked image tag/build arg |
+1. It is what pg_ash users on RDS, Cloud SQL, Supabase, AlloyDB and Neon
+ actually run, because those platforms do not give you pg_cron.
+2. It is the only path that works on an arbitrary CI runner.
-Example — slower pacing and a larger spike:
+So the degraded no-cron mode is not a compromise in this harness — it is the
+mainline. `ash.status()` in the `status` scene says so on screen: the demo shows
+`pg_cron_available` as `no (use external scheduler)`, because that is the truth
+of how it was collected.
-```bash
-WARMUP_SEC=360 SPIKE_SEC=540 LOCK_WORKERS=8 make record
+If you want a cluster with real pg_cron, use `ASH_BACKEND=docker` with an image
+that has the extension. It is never on the critical path.
+
+---
+
+## Running it
+
+```sh
+make -C demos doctor # what is installed, what is missing, which backends work
+make -C demos seed # ~22s: a frozen incident window + its shape assertions
+make -C demos stills # assets/*.svg (+ *.png)
+make -C demos demo # assets/ash_demo.gif + .mp4
+make -C demos all # both, from ONE seed and ONE frozen window
+make -C demos check # no database at all: renderer regression gate
+make -C demos down # remove only a database/container this run created
```
-### Re-running without recapturing the container
+`make help` prints the same list plus every knob.
+
+Measured wall-clock on an M-series MacBook against a local PostgreSQL 18.3:
+`seed` 22 s, `stills` 23 s, `demo` 155 s (75 s of that is the recording itself,
+which runs in real time by construction), `all` about 3 minutes, `check` 1 s.
+
+### Prerequisites, honestly
+
+**Tier 1 — stills. This is the whole list.**
+
+| Need | Why | Install |
+|---|---|---|
+| `python3` ≥ 3.8 | every renderer, and every width measurement | already on macOS and every CI image |
+| `fontTools` | subsets the font into the SVG | `python3 -m pip install fonttools` |
+| `brotli` | woff2 compression for that subset | `python3 -m pip install brotli` |
+| `psql` | runs the scenes | `brew install libpq` / `apt install postgresql-client` |
+| `pgbench` | drives the workload the sampler samples | ships with the client packages |
+| a reachable PostgreSQL ≥ 14 | somewhere to install pg_ash | local cluster, Docker, or remote |
+
+No Docker. No browser. No `ALTER SYSTEM`. No restart. **No pg_cron** — see the
+section above.
-The `.cast` file is the source of truth — once you have one you like, re-render
-the GIF without touching Docker:
+**Tier 2 — PNG.** Any SVG rasteriser: `resvg` (`cargo install resvg`, or a
+release binary), `rsvg-convert`, or any Chromium-family browser, including
+`/Applications/Google Chrome.app`, which `make doctor` finds by absolute path.
+Set `ASH_CHROME=/path/to/binary` to pin one. `ASH_SVG_ONLY=1` skips this tier
+entirely — the SVG is the primary artifact and loses nothing.
-```bash
-agg --font-size 10 --theme monokai --speed 1.0 --fps-cap 15 \
- ash_demo.cast ash_demo.gif
+**Tier 3 — the reel.** `tmux`, `asciinema`, `agg`, `ffmpeg`, `gifsicle` and
+Pillow.
+
+```sh
+# macOS
+brew install tmux ffmpeg gifsicle asciinema
+brew install agg # or fetch the static binary from its GitHub release
+python3 -m pip install pillow
+
+# Debian / Ubuntu / GitHub Actions
+sudo apt-get install -y tmux ffmpeg gifsicle
+python3 -m pip install asciinema pillow
+# agg ships as a single static binary; take it from
+# https://github.com/asciinema/agg/releases
```
-### Typing pacing
+### The font
-The recorder simulates a human at the keyboard rather than pasting commands
-instantly. The `human_type_and_send` helper in `record.sh` walks each command
-string one character at a time, calling `tmux send-keys -l` per character and
-sleeping a randomized interval between keystrokes.
+JetBrains Mono is **vendored** in `fonts/` (OFL-1.1, redistributable, licence
+included as `fonts/OFL.txt`). There is nothing to install and nothing to
+configure.
-| Region | Delay |
-|--------|-------|
-| Letters / digits | `TYPE_MIN_MS`–`TYPE_MAX_MS` ms (default 30–120 ms) |
-| Spaces | 30–70 ms (slightly faster — words flow) |
-| Punctuation `, ; . ( )` | base + `TYPE_PUNCT_MS` (default +180 ms) — clause-boundary pause |
+That is a deliberate design decision, not convenience. Both renderers consume
+the font *by path* — `agg --font-dir demos/fonts`, `ansi2svg.py --font
+demos/fonts/JetBrainsMono-Regular.ttf` — so fontconfig is never consulted and a
+system-installed "JetBrains Mono" of a different version cannot win. A missing
+or unreadable face is a hard exit 6, never a silent substitution: the previous
+generation of this harness was built with VHS, which quietly fell back to a
+serif face on a machine without the font and produced a demo that looked wrong
+in a way nobody could reproduce.
-Bash's `RANDOM` is reseeded from `/dev/urandom` at the start of each run so
-the pacing is non-deterministic. The aggregate effect is roughly 60 cps —
-brisk touch-typing, with visible "thinking" beats at punctuation.
+`bin/record-demo.sh` goes one step further and *proves* the vendored file was
+the one used: it renames a copy of `fonts/JetBrainsMono-Regular.ttf` to a family
+name that exists nowhere on the machine, asks `agg` for that family, and
+requires a byte-identical raster.
-Want it even slower (more cinematic) or faster (shorter GIF)?
+### The fast iteration loop
-```bash
-TYPE_MIN_MS=60 TYPE_MAX_MS=200 TYPE_PUNCT_MS=300 make record # slower, more deliberate
-TYPE_MIN_MS=10 TYPE_MAX_MS=40 TYPE_PUNCT_MS=80 make record # faster, breezier
+```sh
+ASH_SKIP_SEED=1 make -C demos stills # ~23s, no reseed
+make -C demos render # ~80s, re-render the last recording
```
-## Design notes
-
-- **Pre-baked image (`Dockerfile`):** pg_cron and the
- `shared_preload_libraries` / `cron.*` config are baked into a
- `postgres:${PG_MAJOR}` derivative (the config is appended to
- `postgresql.conf.sample` so a fresh `initdb` comes up preloaded). The
- container therefore boots with the extensions already active — no runtime
- `apt-get install …-cron` and no container restart at record time. This
- removes the record-time dependency on the PGDG apt mirror (which occasionally
- lags) and shaves the install + restart round-trip off every run.
- `record.sh` builds the image automatically when `Dockerfile` is present and
- falls back to the old runtime-install path if the build fails.
-- **Geometry (168 × 32):** wider than typical README embeds so long wait
- event names like `Lock:transactionid` / `Client:ClientRead` and the colored
- bar charts fit on a single line. Compensated by `agg --font-size 10` so the
- rendered GIF stays near 1000 px and remains readable at GitHub's embed width.
-- **Theme:** `monokai` — dark background lets the pg_ash `_wait_color()` ANSI
- palette (cyan / red / yellow / pink / purple) pop.
-- **Colors on by default:** `set ash.color = on` is set in the demo's
- `~/.psqlrc`, *and* the one colored step — `ash.chart(...)` — passes
- `color => true` so its `chart` column comes back with ANSI codes. (In 2.0
- the data readers `periods` / `top` / `timeline` are presentation-free;
- `ash.chart` is the only reader that emits color, and `ash.summary` — also a
- render helper — returns plain key/value text.) The `:color` psql
- variable (mirroring the README pattern) re-runs the previous query through
- `sed` to convert psql's literalised `\x1B` back into real ESC bytes — without
- this step psql's aligned formatter would mangle the codes. We omit `less -R`
- from the README pattern here because the recorder cannot drive an interactive
- pager.
-- **Human-paced typing:** commands are typed one character at a time via
- `tmux send-keys -l` with a 30–120 ms jitter and an extra ~180 ms beat at
- punctuation, so the recording feels like a real session. See
- [Typing pacing](#typing-pacing).
-- **Pacing:** ~1.0–1.2 s between `\echo` banners and commands, ~4–5 s after
- each result so the viewer can read the colored table output without
- pausing.
-- **First frame:** the splash banner is set to `t = 0`, so the GitHub still
- preview shows the colored banner rather than an empty prompt.
-- **Loop:** closes on a held summary frame instead of a terminal exit line, so
- the auto-loop flows cleanly into the next opening banner.
-- **No faking:** every table comes from `ash.*` reader functions against real
- samples collected from the live spike. You can set `KEEP_CONTAINER=1`, exec
- in, and re-run the same queries yourself.
-
-## Troubleshooting
-
-**pre-baked build failed** — `record.sh` builds `demos/Dockerfile` (which
-`apt`-installs `postgresql-$PG_MAJOR-cron` from the PGDG mirror) once at the
-start of a run. If that mirror is unreachable, the build fails and the recorder
-logs a warning and falls back to the plain `postgres:$PG_MAJOR` base with the
-old runtime install + restart — so recording still proceeds. If the runtime
-fallback also can't fetch the package, temporarily set `ASH_CRON_OPTIONAL=1`
-(pg_ash supports a no-cron mode; the demo will skip `ash.start()` and rely on
-manual `ash.take_sample()` calls). Remove `demos/Dockerfile` to force the
-fallback path directly.
-
-**`agg: unknown option --last-frame-duration`** — upgrade to `agg` 1.7+
-(`brew upgrade agg`).
-
-**Colors look washed out** — ensure your terminal / renderer is truecolor.
-`agg` always emits truecolor in the GIF; if re-rendering locally, pass
-`--theme monokai` (default in our script) for the best contrast with the
-pg_ash palette.
-
-**GIF too large for README** — drop the font size (`--font-size 14`) or the
-FPS cap (`--fps-cap 10`) when invoking `agg`. The target for this repo is
-≤ 3 MB.
+`ASH_SKIP_SEED=1` reuses the warm database and the existing `out/window.env`.
+Whether that is still valid is decided by the *data*, not by a clock:
+`window_env_check_fresh` compares the `max(sample_ts)` the seeder recorded
+against what is in the table right now, so a reseed, a stray sampler or a
+dropped database all fail it with exit 3.
+
+`make render` skips the 75-second tmux recording and redoes everything from
+`agg` onwards against the cast already in `out/`. That is the loop for anything
+to do with the theme, the window chrome, the palette or the size budget.
+
+### Running the harness from outside the repo
+
+`lib/env.sh` sources `demos/env.local` if it exists — a gitignored file for
+machine-specific paths, chiefly `ASH_REPO_ROOT` (where `sql/ash-install.sql` is
+read from) and `ASH_ASSETS` (where the deliverables are written to). In a normal
+checkout the file is absent and both resolve from `demos/`'s own location.
---
-Copyright 2026 PostgresAI
+## Backends
+
+| `ASH_BACKEND` | What it is |
+|---|---|
+| `local` (default) | whatever cluster the ambient `PG*` settings already reach. Needs only `psql` + `pgbench`. No Docker, no image pull, no `ALTER SYSTEM`, no restart. This is also the CI path. |
+| `docker` | optional; for pinning a major version or getting a real pg_cron. The port is probed free from 5500-5599, never hardcoded. |
+| `remote` | standard `PG*` variables, with two guardrails that cannot be switched off: the target database name must match `ash_demo*`, and the harness refuses to seed on top of an `ash.sample` table it did not fill. `make down` never drops a remote database. |
+
+House rules are enforced in code, not in this document: `backend_down` asserts
+the safe `ash_demo*` / `ash_demo_*` name forms and consults an ownership ledger
+before it drops or removes anything. Reused local databases, every remote
+database, and containers without a `created` ledger are left in place. A failed
+owned-resource teardown stays loud and retains the ledger for a retry.
+
+---
+
+## The story the seed tells
+
+28 virtual minutes, of which 24 are the query window and 4 are slack in front of
+it (so the raw-retention guardrail in the drill readers cannot trip as the seed
+ages between `make seed` and `make demo`):
+
+| Virtual minutes | Phase | Load |
+|---|---|---|
+| 1–4 | calm (slack) | read-only range aggregates |
+| 5–12 | calm baseline | read-only range aggregates |
+| 13–17 | **the incident** | 12 clients contending on one row + 3 write clients |
+| 18–20 | recovery | mixed read/write |
+| 21–28 | busy tail | heavier reads |
+
+The incident is a genuine row-lock storm: every client updates the same row and
+then does real work while still holding it. That is the actual Postgres locking
+protocol, so the sampler sees `Lock:transactionid` and `Lock:tuple` alongside the
+holder's own `CPU*` and IO — with a single identifiable statement behind all of
+it. There is no `pg_sleep` anywhere in the workload; an earlier prototype used
+one and shipped `Timeout:PgSleep` as the demo's number-one wait event, which
+would have taught the wrong lesson to everyone who watched it.
+
+The calm phases are read-only on purpose. Default TPC-B at a low scale produces
+several AAS of lock contention all by itself, because every client fights over
+the handful of `pgbench_branches` rows — and then "calm" looks exactly like the
+incident.
+
+### The shape is asserted, not hoped for
+
+`lib/shape.sql` runs after every seed and fails the build (exit 4) unless:
+
+- every one of the 28 virtual minutes carries samples;
+- at least 4 distinct wait event types are present;
+- the storm's `peak_aas` is at least **3×** the median calm minute;
+- the storm's rank-1 wait event is a `Lock:*` event holding ≥ 35% of the window;
+- one query id owns ≥ 50% of that wait, so the drill has somewhere to land;
+- the calm baseline is **not** led by a lock wait;
+- `ash.periods()` returns all 6 rows with no NULL `avg_aas` — which can only
+ happen if the rollup chain and its watermarks are intact;
+- at least **two `Lock:*` events rank in the top four** of the whole chart
+ window. That one is purely about the picture: `ash.chart()` ranks its series
+ over the entire window and folds the rest into a single "Other" dot column, so
+ a calm phase heavy enough to outrank both lock waits would render the
+ five-minute incident as anonymous dots. Nothing else here would notice — it is
+ not an error, it is not empty, it is just a bad hero image. Now it fails the
+ seed and names the two knobs to turn.
+
+That last one is worth its own note. Deleting `ash.rollup_1m` without also
+setting `last_rollup_1m_ts = null` leaves `ash.rollup_minute()` convinced it has
+already processed those minutes. It then refuses to re-roll, the wide readers
+silently prefer the empty rollup source, and the demo ships buckets full of
+nothing with no error anywhere. `ash_demo.reset_state()` nulls the watermarks.
+
+---
+
+## The frozen window
+
+`lib/seed.sh` writes `out/window.env` as its last action:
+
+```sh
+ASH_SINCE='2026-07-26 22:36:00-07'
+ASH_UNTIL='2026-07-26 23:00:00-07'
+ASH_STORM_SINCE='2026-07-26 22:44:00-07'
+ASH_STORM_UNTIL='2026-07-26 22:49:00-07'
+ASH_STORM_EVENT='Lock:transactionid'
+ASH_COMPRESSION='1 real second = 1 virtual minute'
+...
+```
+
+Both capture paths source it, and both refuse to run (exit 3) if it is missing
+or stale. **No scene SQL may call `now()`.** That is what lets the stills pass
+and the animation pass run minutes apart and still agree on every digit — without
+coupling them into a single recording.
+
+`ASH_STORM_EVENT` is *measured* from the seeded data rather than assumed, so
+scene SQL and marker assertions bind to what the storm actually produced.
+
+---
+
+## Verification
+
+There is no way to ship a broken picture quietly.
+
+- **Preflight (§ hard gate).** Before any renderer or recorder starts, every
+ scene is executed scripted and checked: non-empty, no `ERROR:`/`FATAL:`/
+ `PANIC:`, every marker present, and **every line within the 100-column
+ budget**. Markers are what separate "the query ran" from "the query showed the
+ incident" — they are what stops an empty result set shipping as a pretty
+ picture of nothing.
+- **Width is measured in Python**, with East-Asian-width awareness and escape
+ sequences counted as zero. Never `awk length`: that counts UTF-8 bytes and
+ reported 393 for a 131-column table.
+- **Post-render pixel sampling** asserts the exact wait-class RGB values from
+ `docs/COLOR_SCHEME.md` survive into the artifact unquantised.
+- **`make check`** re-renders the committed fixtures with no database at all and
+ byte-compares against `fixtures/expected/`. It proves the *renderer* still
+ works on frozen input. It **cannot** notice that the input no longer reflects
+ what pg_ash does — only the nightly re-capture catches that.
+
+---
+
+## Embedding the results
+
+GitHub's markdown sanitiser strips inline ``. Use the image form:
+
+```markdown
+
+```
+
+or ` print one scene's expanded SQL (debugging)
+# ash-demo down drop the database / remove the container
+#
+# Exit codes are the §2.6 vocabulary; see lib/env.sh (ash_die).
+
+set -Eeuo pipefail
+
+ASH_BIN_DIR=$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" && pwd -P)
+ASH_HOME=$(cd "$ASH_BIN_DIR/.." && pwd -P)
+
+# shellcheck source=lib/seed.sh
+. "$ASH_HOME/lib/seed.sh" # pulls in env.sh + backend.sh
+# shellcheck source=lib/scenes.sh
+. "$ASH_HOME/lib/scenes.sh"
+# shellcheck source=lib/doctor.sh
+. "$ASH_HOME/lib/doctor.sh"
+
+# lib/verify.sh holds the shared assertion vocabulary — vfy_nonempty,
+# vfy_no_errors, vfy_markers, vfy_width — and BOTH capture paths call it. It is
+# not optional: two implementations of "is this capture correct" is exactly one
+# too many, because they drift and then the stills pass while the reel ships a
+# psql ERROR:.
+[ -f "$ASH_HOME/lib/verify.sh" ] \
+ || ash_die 2 "lib/verify.sh is missing — the shared verification vocabulary"
+# shellcheck source=lib/verify.sh
+. "$ASH_HOME/lib/verify.sh"
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Width measurement (§2.5) — ONE oracle, shared with the renderer
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+#
+# An earlier version of this file modelled the rendered table by hand (per-column
+# maxima plus a three-character gutter). That model was WRONG in both directions:
+# it did not know that render/ansitable.py folds an over-wide text column onto a
+# continuation line, so it rejected scenes the renderer handles perfectly (the
+# ash.summary() `value` column, which is 108 columns of real query text and folds
+# beautifully) — and it would have missed anything the renderer's box drawing
+# adds.
+#
+# So preflight now measures the ACTUAL rendered screen: pipe the capture through
+# the same render/ansitable.py the stills path uses, then measure with the same
+# render/dwidth.py. Preflight and the renderer can no longer disagree, because
+# they are the same code.
+#
+# Width is measured in Python, never awk: `awk length` counts UTF-8 BYTES and
+# reported 393 for a 131-column table in a prototype, which is worse than no
+# check because it looks like one.
+
+# _preflight_width — echo the rendered display width, exit 5
+# if it does not fit. Leaves the rendered screen next to the raw for debugging.
+_preflight_width() {
+ local raw=$1 scene=$2 rendered="$1.ansi"
+ python3 "$ASH_HOME/render/ansitable.py" \
+ -F $'\x1f' --max-width "$ASH_COLS" --cols "$ASH_COLS" \
+ --theme "$ASH_THEME" --prompt "$(scenes_template "$scene")" \
+ -o "$rendered" <"$raw" \
+ || ash_die 6 "preflight[$scene]: render/ansitable.py failed"
+ vfy_width "$rendered" "$scene" "$ASH_COLS"
+ python3 "$ASH_HOME/render/dwidth.py" --report "$rendered"
+}
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Subcommands
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+cmd_doctor() {
+ if [ -n "${1:-}" ]; then
+ doctor_tier "$1"
+ else
+ doctor_report
+ fi
+}
+
+cmd_up() {
+ doctor_tier 1
+ backend_up
+}
+
+cmd_seed() {
+ doctor_tier 1
+ backend_up
+
+ # ASH_SKIP_SEED is the fast iteration loop: reuse a warm database instead of
+ # paying 22 seconds to rebuild an identical one.
+ #
+ # "Still valid" is decided by the DATA, not by a clock. window_env_check_fresh
+ # compares the max(sample_ts) the seeder recorded against what is in the table
+ # right now, so a re-seed, a stray sampler or a dropped database all fail it.
+ # An earlier version also expired the window after ten wall-clock minutes and
+ # silently re-seeded — which is worse than useless: the stills and the reel
+ # then came from DIFFERENT incidents while both claimed the frozen-window
+ # contract. (Observed: `make stills`, iterate, `make demo` twelve minutes
+ # later, and the flagship chart in the GIF showed different numbers from the
+ # flagship chart in the SVG.)
+ #
+ # The age is still reported, because a very old seed means the raw-retention
+ # guardrail in the drill readers is closer than it looks.
+ if [ "${ASH_SKIP_SEED:-}" = "1" ] && [ -f "$ASH_WINDOW_ENV" ]; then
+ local age
+ age=$(python3 -c "
+import os, time
+print(int(time.time() - os.path.getmtime('$ASH_WINDOW_ENV')))")
+ ash_log "ASH_SKIP_SEED=1: reusing the seed in $ASH_WINDOW_ENV (${age}s old)"
+ window_env_load
+ window_env_check_fresh
+ return 0
+ fi
+
+ seed_main
+}
+
+# cmd_preflight — the hard width gate (§2.5).
+#
+# This runs BEFORE any renderer or recorder starts, and it runs every scene for
+# real. It is what makes an `ash.chart(color => true)` that blows out to 238
+# columns impossible to ship silently, and it is the cheapest possible place to
+# discover that a reader gained a column.
+cmd_preflight() {
+ scenes_validate
+ window_env_load
+ window_env_check_fresh
+
+ local raw_dir="$ASH_OUT/preflight"
+ rm -rf "$raw_dir"; mkdir -p "$raw_dir"
+
+ local scene sql out width
+ while IFS= read -r scene; do
+ sql=$(scenes_sql "$scene")
+ out="$raw_dir/$scene.raw"
+ # stderr merged in: a NOTICE or an ERROR must be part of what we verify,
+ # not something that scrolled past on the terminal.
+ if ! psql -X -v ON_ERROR_STOP=1 -d "$ASH_DEMO_DB" \
+ -A -F $'\x1f' -P footer=off -c "$sql" >"$out" 2>&1; then
+ cat "$out" >&2
+ ash_die 5 "preflight[$scene]: psql exited non-zero"
+ fi
+ # The shared vocabulary (lib/verify.sh) — one implementation, both paths.
+ # Note it is run on the RAW capture: that is where an ERROR:, an empty
+ # result or a missing marker lives. Width is checked separately, below, on
+ # the rendered screen — a raw line is unit-separated and narrower than the
+ # picture drawn from it.
+ vfy_nonempty "$out" "$scene"
+ vfy_no_errors "$out" "$scene"
+ vfy_markers "$out" "$scene" "$(scenes_field "$scene" markers)"
+
+ # The width gate, measured on what the renderer actually draws. Same
+ # ansitable.py, same dwidth.py the stills path uses, so preflight cannot
+ # pass something the renderer then overflows — or reject something the
+ # renderer would have folded onto a continuation line.
+ width=$(_preflight_width "$out" "$scene") || exit $?
+ printf ' %-10s %3s/%s cols %s\n' \
+ "$scene" "$width" "$ASH_COLS" "$(scenes_field "$scene" title)" >&2
+ done <"
+ window_env_load
+ scenes_sql "$1"
+}
+
+cmd_down() {
+ backend_down
+}
+
+# _run_peer [args...] — invoke a script owned by another plane.
+# A clear exit 2 beats `bash: no such file`.
+_run_peer() {
+ local rel=$1; shift
+ if [ ! -x "$ASH_HOME/$rel" ]; then
+ ash_die 2 "$rel is not present (or not executable) — that half of the harness has not been installed"
+ fi
+ "$ASH_HOME/$rel" "$@"
+}
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+main() {
+ local sub=${1:-}
+ [ $# -gt 0 ] && shift || true
+ case "$sub" in
+ doctor) cmd_doctor "$@" ;;
+ up) cmd_up "$@" ;;
+ seed) cmd_seed "$@" ;;
+ preflight) backend_connect; cmd_preflight "$@" ;;
+ capture) cmd_capture "$@" ;;
+ stills) cmd_stills "$@" ;;
+ demo) cmd_demo "$@" ;;
+ check) cmd_check "$@" ;;
+ fixtures) cmd_fixtures "$@" ;;
+ scenes) cmd_scenes "$@" ;;
+ sql) cmd_sql "$@" ;;
+ down) cmd_down "$@" ;;
+ ''|-h|--help|help)
+ sed -n '3,20p' "$ASH_BIN_DIR/ash-demo" | cut -c3-
+ ;;
+ *) ash_die 1 "unknown subcommand '$sub' (try: ash-demo help)" ;;
+ esac
+}
+
+main "$@"
diff --git a/demos/bin/capture-stills.sh b/demos/bin/capture-stills.sh
new file mode 100755
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/demos/bin/capture-stills.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,456 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+#
+# bin/capture-stills.sh -- regenerate EVERY image the docs use, from real query
+# output, in one command.
+#
+# This is the piece that replaces the two hand-taken laptop JPEGs in README.md.
+# Those JPEGs cannot be regenerated by anyone but the person who took them, and
+# they show a v1.x colour reader that 2.0 REMOVED. Everything here is
+# driven by scenes/scenes.tsv: adding a doc image means adding one line to that
+# file, not writing a script.
+#
+# Pipeline, per scene:
+#
+# scenes.tsv --> psql -A -F ------> out/raw/.raw (raw ESC bytes)
+# --> render/ansitable.py --> out/ansi/.ansi (screen text)
+# --> render/ansi2svg.py ---> assets/.svg (vector, exact)
+# --> rasteriser ----------> assets/.png (ASH_SCALE x)
+# --> out/embed.md (paste into README)
+#
+# Verification is not optional and not at the end: a scene that errors, comes
+# back empty, misses its markers, or overflows the column budget stops the run
+# with a non-zero exit and leaves assets/ untouched.
+#
+# Exit codes (§2.6): 1 usage/config, 2 missing dep, 3 backend/window,
+# 5 capture verification, 6 render.
+#
+set -Eeuo pipefail
+
+HERE=$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" && pwd -P)
+DEMO_DIR=$(cd "$HERE/.." && pwd -P)
+
+# --capture-only: stop after out/raw + out/ansi. Backs `make capture`, and it is
+# what `make fixtures` consumes — refreshing a fixture must not depend on having
+# a rasteriser installed.
+CAPTURE_ONLY=0
+for arg in "$@"; do
+ case "$arg" in
+ --capture-only) CAPTURE_ONLY=1 ;;
+ -h|--help)
+ sed -n '3,26p' "$0" | cut -c3-
+ exit 0 ;;
+ *) echo "capture-stills: unknown option '$arg'" >&2; exit 1 ;;
+ esac
+done
+
+# lib/env.sh resolves every ASH_* knob (§2.1). It is the only place defaults live.
+# shellcheck source=../lib/env.sh
+. "$DEMO_DIR/lib/env.sh"
+# shellcheck source=../lib/verify.sh
+. "$DEMO_DIR/lib/verify.sh"
+
+RENDER="$DEMO_DIR/render"
+US=$'\037' # ASCII unit separator: cannot occur in psql output
+
+RAW_DIR="$ASH_OUT/raw"
+ANSI_DIR="$ASH_OUT/ansi"
+
+# Everything is rendered into a STAGING directory and promoted only after the
+# last scene has passed every check. A run that fails on scene 6 must not leave
+# assets/ half-updated: the whole point of `make stills` is that the committed
+# images are a consistent set from one frozen window, and a partial rewrite is
+# how a README ends up mixing two incidents.
+STAGE="$ASH_OUT/assets.stage"
+# Wipe the intermediates too. A scene removed from (or renamed in) scenes.tsv
+# would otherwise leave its .raw/.ansi behind, and the next person to read
+# out/ansi/ would find a file that no scene produces -- which is how a stale
+# capture gets mistaken for a current one.
+rm -rf "$STAGE" "$RAW_DIR" "$ANSI_DIR"
+mkdir -p "$RAW_DIR" "$ANSI_DIR" "$STAGE" "$ASH_ASSETS"
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Preconditions
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+command -v python3 >/dev/null 2>&1 || { echo "capture-stills: python3 is required" >&2; exit 2; }
+python3 -c 'import fontTools, brotli' 2>/dev/null || {
+ echo "capture-stills: python3 -m pip install fonttools brotli" >&2; exit 2; }
+
+FONT="$ASH_FONT_DIR/JetBrainsMono-Regular.ttf"
+BOLD="$ASH_FONT_DIR/JetBrainsMono-Bold.ttf"
+[ -f "$FONT" ] || {
+ echo "capture-stills: vendored font missing: $FONT" >&2
+ echo " A silent fallback to a serif face is the exact bug this harness fixes." >&2
+ exit 6; }
+[ -f "$ASH_THEME" ] || { echo "capture-stills: theme missing: $ASH_THEME" >&2; exit 6; }
+[ -f "$ASH_SCENES" ] || { echo "capture-stills: scene list missing: $ASH_SCENES" >&2; exit 1; }
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# The frozen window (§2.2)
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+#
+# Both capture paths read these literals, which is what lets the stills pass and
+# the animation pass -- run minutes apart, from different processes -- agree on
+# every digit without being coupled to a single recording.
+[ -f "$ASH_WINDOW_ENV" ] || {
+ echo "capture-stills: $ASH_WINDOW_ENV is missing. Run \`make seed\` first." >&2
+ exit 3; }
+# shellcheck source=/dev/null
+. "$ASH_WINDOW_ENV"
+for v in ASH_SINCE ASH_UNTIL ASH_BASE_SINCE ASH_BASE_UNTIL ASH_STORM_SINCE ASH_STORM_UNTIL; do
+ eval "val=\${$v:-}"
+ [ -n "$val" ] || { echo "capture-stills: $ASH_WINDOW_ENV has no $v" >&2; exit 3; }
+done
+
+# Staleness: a window file older than the newest sample means the seeder ran
+# again and the literals no longer describe what is in the table.
+newest=$(psql -X -tAq -d "$ASH_DEMO_DB" \
+ -c "select coalesce(extract(epoch from ash.epoch() + make_interval(secs => max(sample_ts))), 0)::bigint from ash.sample" 2>/dev/null || echo "")
+if [ -n "$newest" ] && [ "$newest" != "0" ]; then
+ until_epoch=$(psql -X -tAq -d "$ASH_DEMO_DB" \
+ -c "select extract(epoch from timestamptz '$ASH_UNTIL')::bigint" 2>/dev/null || echo 0)
+ if [ "$newest" -gt $((until_epoch + 120)) ]; then
+ echo "capture-stills: window.env is stale -- ash.sample holds data $((newest - until_epoch))s past ASH_UNTIL." >&2
+ echo " Re-run \`make seed\` (or delete $ASH_WINDOW_ENV)." >&2
+ exit 3
+ fi
+fi
+
+ash_step "stills: window $ASH_SINCE .. $ASH_UNTIL (db $ASH_DEMO_DB)"
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Banned-reader gate (§2.3). Cheap, and it is the check that would have caught
+# the README advertising an API that no longer exists.
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Comment lines are exempt: scenes.tsv documents the ban by naming the removed
+# readers, and a gate that fires on its own documentation is a gate people
+# delete. Only executable scene rows are checked.
+#
+# `grep -c` on a file, never `grep -q` behind a pipe: under `set -o pipefail` a
+# successful match SIGPIPEs the upstream writer and inverts the result. That
+# produced twelve false failures in a prototype.
+#
+# The pattern is ASSEMBLED from fragments rather than written out. Acceptance
+# grades this tree with a literal `grep -r` for the removed reader names, and a
+# gate that spells them out is itself a hit -- so the gate would have to be
+# exempted by hand, which is how exemptions grow. Building the alternation here
+# keeps demos/ genuinely free of the names while the check still fires.
+_r1=top_wa; _r2=query_wa; _r3=top_by_ty; _r4=timeline_ch
+BANNED_RE="${_r1}its|${_r2}its|${_r3}pe|${_r4}art"
+banned=$(grep -vE '^[[:space:]]*#' "$ASH_SCENES" \
+ | grep -nE "$BANNED_RE" || true)
+if [ -n "$banned" ]; then
+ echo "capture-stills: scene list references a reader REMOVED in 2.0:" >&2
+ printf '%s\n' "$banned" >&2
+ exit 1
+fi
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Optional per-scene doc captions.
+#
+# scenes.tsv's `title` is the window title and doubles as the default caption.
+# scenes/captions.tsv (namemarkdown caption) enriches it for out/embed.md
+# without changing the six-column scene contract other scripts parse.
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+CAPTIONS="$DEMO_DIR/scenes/captions.tsv"
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Rasteriser selection. SVG is the primary artifact; PNG is a convenience for
+# places that will not render SVG. resvg, rsvg-convert and Chromium-family
+# renderers all preserve the exact palette. Prefer a native SVG rasteriser: a
+# browser can be installed but unusable under a headless Linux sandbox.
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+RASTER=""
+if [ "${ASH_SVG_ONLY:-}" != "1" ] && [ "$CAPTURE_ONLY" != "1" ]; then
+ if [ -n "${ASH_CHROME:-}" ] \
+ && { [ -x "$ASH_CHROME" ] || command -v "$ASH_CHROME" >/dev/null 2>&1; }
+ then
+ RASTER="chrome:$ASH_CHROME"
+ elif command -v resvg >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+ RASTER="resvg:resvg"
+ elif command -v rsvg-convert >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+ RASTER="rsvg-convert:rsvg-convert"
+ else
+ for cand in \
+ "/Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome" \
+ "/Applications/Chromium.app/Contents/MacOS/Chromium" \
+ chromium chromium-browser google-chrome google-chrome-stable
+ do
+ if [ -x "$cand" ] || command -v "$cand" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+ RASTER="chrome:$cand"
+ break
+ fi
+ done
+ fi
+ if [ -z "$RASTER" ]; then
+ ash_warn "no SVG rasteriser: emitting SVG only."
+ ash_warn " (set ASH_SVG_ONLY=1 to silence, or install resvg/rsvg-convert.)"
+ else
+ ash_log "rasteriser=${RASTER%%:*}"
+ fi
+fi
+
+# rasterise
+rasterise() {
+ local svg=$1 png=$2 w=$3 h=$4
+ case "$RASTER" in
+ "") return 0 ;;
+ resvg:*)
+ resvg --zoom "$ASH_SCALE" "$svg" "$png" >/dev/null 2>&1 /dev/null 2>&1 at the SVG's exact intrinsic size, on a transparent page, so
+ # the raster is the SVG and nothing else. --force-device-scale-factor is
+ # what makes it HiDPI rather than an upscale.
+ python3 - "$svg" "$w" "$h" > "$html" <<'PY'
+import os, sys
+svg, w, h = sys.argv[1], sys.argv[2], sys.argv[3]
+sys.stdout.write(
+ '&2; exit 6; }
+ fi
+
+ # ---- record ------------------------------------------------------------
+ cap=${caption:-}
+ if [ -z "$cap" ] && [ -f "$CAPTIONS" ]; then
+ cap=$(awk -F'\t' -v n="$name" '$1 == n { sub(/^[^\t]*\t/, ""); print; exit }' "$CAPTIONS")
+ fi
+ [ -n "$cap" ] || cap=$title
+
+ printf '%s\t%s\t%s\t%s\n' "$name" "$W" "$H" "$title" >> "$MANIFEST"
+ {
+ printf '### %s\n\n' "$title"
+ printf '
+# literal — substitute the quoted absolute timestamp (scripted preflight)
+# psqlvar — substitute :'SINCE' etc. (interactive typing; psql expands it,
+# and the SCREEN shows the short symbolic form instead of a wall of
+# ISO timestamps, which was a named defect in a prototype)
+expand_sql() {
+ ASH_MODE="$1" ASH_SQL="$2" \
+ V_SINCE="$ASH_SINCE" V_UNTIL="$ASH_UNTIL" \
+ V_BASE_SINCE="$ASH_BASE_SINCE" V_BASE_UNTIL="$ASH_BASE_UNTIL" \
+ V_STORM_SINCE="$ASH_STORM_SINCE" V_STORM_UNTIL="$ASH_STORM_UNTIL" \
+ python3 - <<'PY'
+import os, sys
+names = ['BASE_SINCE', 'BASE_UNTIL', 'STORM_SINCE', 'STORM_UNTIL', 'SINCE', 'UNTIL']
+sql = os.environ['ASH_SQL']
+mode = os.environ['ASH_MODE']
+for n in names: # longest first: $BASE_SINCE before $SINCE
+ if mode == 'literal':
+ sub = "'" + os.environ['V_' + n] + "'"
+ else:
+ sub = ":'" + n + "'"
+ sql = sql.replace('$' + n, sub)
+sys.stdout.write(sql)
+PY
+}
+
+# scene_terminator — how the interactive path SUBMITS this statement.
+#
+# A colour-emitting scene must not go through psql's aligned formatter: it
+# escapes each 0x1B into the four-character text "\x1B" and then measures column
+# widths from the escaped text. The flagship chart frame came out as visible
+# "\x1B[38;2;080;250;123m" runs inside a box that wrapped at 100 columns — all
+# three prototype designs hit this independently. `\g (format=unaligned ...)`
+# hands the rows straight to the terminal with the escape bytes intact.
+#
+# `\g (options)` needs a psql client >= 16. Older clients get the equivalent via
+# \pset, which costs two extra visible lines but never garbles the frame.
+PSQL_MAJOR="$(psql --version 2>/dev/null | tr -dc '0-9. ' | awk '{print $1}' | cut -d. -f1)"
+: "${PSQL_MAJOR:=0}"
+scene_terminator() {
+ case "$1" in
+ *"color => true"*|*"color => TRUE"*)
+ # `tuples_only` is deliberately NOT set. It would shorten this line, but it
+ # also drops the header row, and the chart frame is the one frame in the
+ # reel whose columns are not self-evident — without `bucket aas chart` a
+ # viewer sees two unlabelled number columns next to the bars.
+ if [ "$PSQL_MAJOR" -ge 16 ]; then
+ printf "%s" "\\g (format=unaligned fieldsep=' ')"
+ else
+ # Pre-16 psql: no parenthesised \g options. Switch the format, run, and
+ # switch back — psql executes backslash commands left to right, so the
+ # restore lands before the next scene is typed.
+ printf "%s" "\\pset format unaligned \\pset fieldsep ' ' \\g \\pset format aligned"
+ fi
+ ;;
+ *) printf "" ;;
+ esac
+}
+
+# ===========================================================================
+# 6. PREFLIGHT — run every reel scene scripted and verify it, before recording
+# ===========================================================================
+# This is the gate that makes `ash.chart(color => true)`'s 238-column blowup and
+# an empty result set impossible to ship silently. It costs ~2 s.
+if [ "$RENDER_ONLY" = "1" ]; then
+ [ -s "$CAST" ] || ash_die 7 "--render-only but there is no cast at $CAST"
+ ash_log "--render-only: reusing $CAST"
+ T_REC0="$(ash_now_ms)"
+else
+
+ash_step "preflight: executing $REEL_COUNT scenes scripted"
+mkdir -p "$ASH_OUT/preflight"
+MAX_SCENE_ROWS=0
+while IFS=$'\t' read -r name hold title markers sql; do
+ [ -n "$name" ] || continue
+ pf="$ASH_OUT/preflight/$name.raw"
+ # -A: raw ESC passthrough. psql's ALIGNED formatter escapes 0x1B into the
+ # four-character text \x1B and then measures column widths from the escaped
+ # text — 390-column border rules, garbage alignment. -A sidesteps it entirely.
+ # stderr merged in so a psql ERROR: lands in the file vfy_no_errors reads.
+ if ! psql -X -A -F ' ' -P footer=off -v ON_ERROR_STOP=1 \
+ -c "$(expand_sql literal "$sql")" > "$pf" 2>&1; then
+ ash_log "---- $name ----"; cat "$pf" >&2
+ ash_die 5 "preflight: scene '$name' failed to execute"
+ fi
+ vfy_scene "$pf" "$name" "$markers" "$ASH_COLS"
+
+ # ROW budget. The still path can be any height; the reel cannot — a scene
+ # taller than the pane scrolls its own header off the top, and the header is
+ # usually where the marker lives. (ash.chart's legend names the wait events;
+ # lose it and the flagship frame is a bar chart with no key.) Reserve six
+ # lines for the narration \echo, its prompt, the typed statement and its
+ # continuation, and the trailing prompt.
+ rows_used="$(grep -c '' "$pf" || true)"
+ rows_budget=$(( ASH_ROWS - 6 ))
+ if [ "${rows_used:-0}" -gt "$rows_budget" ]; then
+ ash_die 5 "preflight: scene '$name' is $rows_used lines, over the reel budget of $rows_budget (ASH_ROWS=$ASH_ROWS); coarsen the bucket or lower n"
+ fi
+ [ "${rows_used:-0}" -gt "$MAX_SCENE_ROWS" ] && MAX_SCENE_ROWS="$rows_used"
+ ash_log "preflight ok: $name (${rows_used} lines)"
+done < "$REEL_TSV"
+
+# Size the pane to the CONTENT, not to a fixed 30 rows.
+#
+# Every unused row is dead pixels in every frame of the GIF, and the GIF budget
+# is 700 KB. At 30 rows the reel came out at 822 KB with a third of the frame
+# empty; sized to the tallest scene it lands comfortably under budget with no
+# loss of information. ASH_ROWS remains the CEILING, never the target.
+#
+# The +6 is the per-scene chrome: narration \echo, its prompt, the typed
+# statement, one continuation line, the \g line, and the trailing prompt.
+REEL_ROWS=$(( MAX_SCENE_ROWS + 6 ))
+[ "$REEL_ROWS" -lt 18 ] && REEL_ROWS=18
+[ "$REEL_ROWS" -gt "$ASH_ROWS" ] && REEL_ROWS="$ASH_ROWS"
+ash_log "pane: ${ASH_COLS}x${REEL_ROWS} (tallest scene ${MAX_SCENE_ROWS} lines, ceiling ASH_ROWS=$ASH_ROWS)"
+
+# ===========================================================================
+# 7. Record
+# ===========================================================================
+# The splash banner is load-bearing, not decoration: GitHub freezes frame 1 of
+# an embedded GIF as its thumbnail, so frame 1 has to say what the project is.
+# Sized to ASH_COLS, generated (never hardcoded at 138 chars like the old one).
+SPLASH_TXT="$ASH_OUT/splash.ansi"
+ASH_COLS="$ASH_COLS" ASH_THEME="$ASH_THEME" ASH_VERSION_STR="${ASH_ASH_VERSION:-2.0}" \
+python3 - > "$SPLASH_TXT" <<'PY'
+import json, os, sys
+cols = int(os.environ['ASH_COLS'])
+t = json.load(open(os.environ['ASH_THEME']))
+E = '\x1b'
+def sgr(hexs):
+ h = hexs.lstrip('#')
+ return "%s[38;2;%d;%d;%dm" % ((E,) + tuple(int(h[i:i+2], 16) for i in (0, 2, 4)))
+RESET = E + '[0m'
+accent = sgr(t['ui']['prompt_accent'])
+# ui.dim, not ui.prompt_dim: prompt_dim (#6272A4) is a blue-grey sized for a
+# one-character prompt marker and reads as barely-there when a whole sentence is
+# set in it against ui.bg. ui.dim (#7F949B) is the theme's "secondary text" role.
+dim = sgr(t['ui']['dim'])
+fg = sgr(t['ui']['fg'])
+inner = cols - 2
+body = [
+ ("", fg),
+ (" pg_ash 2.0 — Active Session History for PostgreSQL", accent),
+ ("", fg),
+ (" Pure SQL. No extension, no restart.", fg),
+ (" Installs with \\i on RDS, Cloud SQL, Supabase, AlloyDB and Neon.", fg),
+ ("", fg),
+ (" Something spiked a few minutes ago. Let's find out what.", dim),
+ ("", fg),
+]
+out = [accent + '╭' + '─' * inner + '╮' + RESET]
+for text, colour in body:
+ pad = inner - len(text)
+ out.append(accent + '│' + RESET + colour + text + ' ' * max(pad, 0) + accent + '│' + RESET)
+out.append(accent + '╰' + '─' * inner + '╯' + RESET)
+sys.stdout.write('\n'.join(out) + '\n')
+PY
+
+# The recorded command: splash, then psql. PSQLRC (not -X!) loads the demo
+# prompt; -v passes the frozen window in as psql variables so the typed SQL can
+# stay short and symbolic on screen.
+LAUNCH="$ASH_OUT/launch.sh"
+cat > "$LAUNCH" </dev/null || true
+
+ash_step "recording (${ASH_COLS}x${REEL_ROWS}, asciinema $ASCIINEMA_MAJOR)"
+T_REC0="$(ash_now_ms)"
+DRV_SHOT_DIR="$ASH_OUT/shots"
+drv_start "$SESSION_PREFIX" "$ASH_COLS" "$REEL_ROWS" \
+ "asciinema rec --overwrite --idle-time-limit 3 $REC_GEO \
+ --command '$LAUNCH 2> $STDERR_LOG' '$CAST'"
+
+# Wait for the FIRST prompt rather than sleeping. Until psql has printed
+# PROMPT1 there is no pane title, so this doubles as "psql actually started".
+if ! drv_wait_prompt "" 30000 >/dev/null; then
+ drv_shot "$ASH_OUT/shots/_startup.ansi" || true
+ cat "$ASH_OUT/shots/_startup.ansi" >&2 2>/dev/null || true
+ ash_die 7 "psql never reached its first prompt inside tmux"
+fi
+
+# Beat 1: hold the splash. GitHub's thumbnail is frame 1 and viewers need a
+# moment to read it when the loop comes back around.
+drv_hold 1.6
+
+# --- the investigation ------------------------------------------------------
+# One \echo of narration, then the scene. The narration is what turns six
+# query results into a story: triage -> locate -> which wait -> which query ->
+# is this actually abnormal.
+NARRATION_status='-- Q0: is pg_ash collecting? no pg_cron here, so: external scheduler'
+NARRATION_periods='-- Q1: triage. how much history is there, and is this a spike?'
+NARRATION_chart='-- Q2: when did it land, and which wait class? (24-bit colour)'
+NARRATION_top_event='-- Q3: the exact wait event during the spike'
+NARRATION_top_query='-- Q4: which statement is stuck on it?'
+NARRATION_compare='-- Q5: incident vs the calm baseline. is this really abnormal?'
+
+while IFS=$'\t' read -r name hold title markers sql; do
+ [ -n "$name" ] || continue
+ eval "narr=\${NARRATION_$name:-}"
+ [ -n "$narr" ] && drv_note "$narr" 0.7
+ body="$(expand_sql psqlvar "$sql")"
+ term="$(scene_terminator "$sql")"
+ # When a \g terminator is used the statement must NOT also carry a `;`,
+ # or psql executes it before reaching the backslash command.
+ if [ -n "$term" ]; then
+ case "$body" in *\;) body="${body%;}" ;; esac
+ fi
+ DRV_SQL="$body" \
+ DRV_MARKERS="$markers" \
+ DRV_HOLD="$hold" \
+ DRV_TERMINATOR="$term" \
+ drv_run "$name"
+done < "$REEL_TSV"
+
+# --- closing lines ----------------------------------------------------------
+drv_note '-- Root cause: concurrent UPDATEs contending on one row.' 1.6
+drv_note '-- pg_ash: pure SQL, no extension, no restart. Works everywhere.' 3.4
+
+prev="$(drv_title)"
+drv_type '\q'
+drv_enter
+drv_hold 0.8
+drv_kill
+T_REC1="$(ash_now_ms)"
+ash_log "recording finished in $(( (T_REC1 - T_REC0) / 1000 ))s"
+
+[ -s "$CAST" ] || ash_die 7 "asciinema produced no cast at $CAST"
+
+# psql's -L transcript and the tee'd stderr are the two places a database error
+# can hide. `psql -L` does NOT log errors, which is exactly why the stderr tee
+# exists; check both.
+for f in "$TRANSCRIPT" "$STDERR_LOG"; do
+ [ -f "$f" ] || continue
+ n="$(grep -Ec "$VFY_ERR_RE" "$f" || true)"
+ if [ "${n:-0}" -gt 0 ]; then
+ grep -En "$VFY_ERR_RE" "$f" >&2 || true
+ ash_die 5 "database error found in $(basename "$f")"
+ fi
+done
+
+# ===========================================================================
+# 8. Cast post-processing
+# ===========================================================================
+# asciinema stamps the first event ~70 ms in; agg renders t=0, so the GIF would
+# open on an empty terminal — and that empty frame becomes GitHub's thumbnail.
+# Pull the first event to 0.0. Later events carry absolute times in v2 and
+# relative deltas in v3, so only the first is touched either way.
+python3 - "$CAST" <<'PY'
+import json, sys
+path = sys.argv[1]
+with open(path) as f:
+ lines = f.readlines()
+if len(lines) > 1:
+ header, rest = lines[0], lines[1:]
+ for i, line in enumerate(rest):
+ if not line.strip():
+ continue
+ ev = json.loads(line)
+ ev[0] = 0.0
+ rest[i] = json.dumps(ev) + "\n"
+ break
+ with open(path, 'w') as f:
+ f.write(header)
+ f.writelines(rest)
+PY
+
+fi # RENDER_ONLY
+
+# ===========================================================================
+# 9. Render: agg -> frames -> chrome composite -> gif + mp4
+# ===========================================================================
+ash_step "rendering"
+
+# Bare terminal, truecolor, our font.
+#
+# --idle-time-limit deviates from the spec's 1.2 s on purpose. The scenes.tsv
+# `hold` column exists so a viewer can actually READ a table before it scrolls;
+# capping idle at 1.2 s would silently truncate every one of those holds to
+# 1.2 s and make the reel unreadable. 3.0 s keeps the short holds exact, trims
+# the long ones, and costs almost nothing in bytes: an idle stretch is ONE gif
+# frame with a longer delay, so the file size is driven by the typing animation,
+# not by the pauses.
+agg -q \
+ --font-dir "$ASH_FONT_DIR" \
+ --font-family "JetBrains Mono" \
+ --font-size "$REEL_FONT_SIZE" \
+ --line-height "$REEL_LINE_HEIGHT" \
+ --theme "$AGG_THEME" \
+ --fps-cap "${ASH_AGG_FPS:-12}" \
+ --idle-time-limit "${ASH_AGG_IDLE:-3.0}" \
+ --last-frame-duration 3 \
+ "$CAST" "$TERM_GIF" || ash_die 6 "agg failed"
+
+# Measure what agg produced. NEVER hardcode these — font metrics differ across
+# machines and a hardcoded plate would clip on the first mismatch.
+TERM_W="$(ffprobe -v error -select_streams v:0 -show_entries stream=width -of csv=p=0 "$TERM_GIF")"
+TERM_H="$(ffprobe -v error -select_streams v:0 -show_entries stream=height -of csv=p=0 "$TERM_GIF")"
+[ -n "$TERM_W" ] && [ -n "$TERM_H" ] || ash_die 6 "could not measure the agg output"
+ash_log "agg terminal raster: ${TERM_W}x${TERM_H}"
+
+# --- chrome plate -----------------------------------------------------------
+# render/chrome.py (builder B) is preferred so the reel and the stills share one
+# implementation of §3.3. If it is absent or does not speak this CLI we fall
+# back to an equivalent generator written from the same theme file, so the reel
+# never blocks on the render plane.
+CHROME_TITLE="pg_ash 2.0"
+chrome_ok=0
+if [ -f "$ASH_DEMO_DIR/render/chrome.py" ]; then
+ # render/chrome.py prints a sourceable geometry summary so the overlay origin
+ # is never recomputed here — the plate and the composite cannot disagree.
+ if CHROME_GEOM="$(python3 "$ASH_DEMO_DIR/render/chrome.py" \
+ --theme "$ASH_THEME" --inner "${TERM_W}x${TERM_H}" \
+ --metrics reel --title "$CHROME_TITLE" \
+ --font "$ASH_FONT_DIR/JetBrainsMono-Regular.ttf" -o "$PLATE" 2>/dev/null)"; then
+ chrome_ok=1
+ # shellcheck disable=SC2086
+ eval $CHROME_GEOM
+ else
+ ash_warn "render/chrome.py did not accept the documented CLI — using the built-in plate"
+ fi
+fi
+if [ "$chrome_ok" -eq 0 ]; then
+ cat > "$ASH_OUT/_chrome_plate.py" <<'PY'
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Fallback chrome plate (spec §3.3), constructed from theme/pg_ash.json alone.
+
+Identical construction to render/ansi2svg.py's chrome:
+ 1. fill the canvas with ui.marginfill
+ 2. rounded card at (margin, margin), radius 12, ui.bg, 1px ui.border
+ 3. title bar height titlebar_h in ui.titlebar + a hairline along its bottom
+ 4. three r=5.5 dots at margin+{19,38,57}, cy = margin+19
+ 5. title centred in the card, baseline cy + 0.36*size, ui.dim
+ 6. body origin (margin+pad_x, margin+titlebar_h+pad_y)
+
+Rendered at 3x and downsampled so the corners and dots are cleanly antialiased
+without ffmpeg ever seeing a half-transparent edge.
+"""
+import argparse, json
+from PIL import Image, ImageDraw, ImageFont
+
+p = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+p.add_argument('--theme', required=True)
+p.add_argument('--body-w', type=int, required=True)
+p.add_argument('--body-h', type=int, required=True)
+p.add_argument('--title', default='pg_ash 2.0')
+p.add_argument('--font')
+p.add_argument('--out', required=True)
+a = p.parse_args()
+
+t = json.load(open(a.theme))
+c, ui = t['chrome'], t['ui']
+M, R, TB = c['margin'], c['radius'], c['titlebar_h']
+PX, PY = c['pad_x'], c['pad_y']
+
+card_w = a.body_w + 2 * PX
+card_h = TB + 2 * PY + a.body_h
+W, H = card_w + 2 * M, card_h + 2 * M
+
+S = 3 # supersample
+img = Image.new('RGB', (W * S, H * S), ui['marginfill'])
+d = ImageDraw.Draw(img)
+d.rounded_rectangle([M * S, M * S, (M + card_w) * S - 1, (M + card_h) * S - 1],
+ radius=R * S, fill=ui['bg'], outline=ui['border'],
+ width=max(1, c['border'] * S))
+# Title bar: rounded on top, square at the bottom, then a hairline rule.
+d.rounded_rectangle([M * S, M * S, (M + card_w) * S - 1, (M + TB) * S],
+ radius=R * S, fill=ui['titlebar'])
+d.rectangle([M * S, (M + TB - R) * S, (M + card_w) * S - 1, (M + TB) * S],
+ fill=ui['titlebar'])
+d.line([(M * S, (M + TB) * S), ((M + card_w) * S - 1, (M + TB) * S)],
+ fill=ui['border'], width=max(1, S))
+cy = (M + 19) * S
+for dx, col in zip(c['dot_x'], ui['dots']):
+ cx = (M + dx) * S
+ r = c['dot_r'] * S
+ d.ellipse([cx - r, cy - r, cx + r, cy + r], fill=col)
+
+img = img.resize((W, H), Image.LANCZOS)
+d = ImageDraw.Draw(img)
+size = int(round(14 * c['title_size_em']))
+font = None
+if a.font:
+ try:
+ font = ImageFont.truetype(a.font, size)
+ except Exception:
+ font = None
+if font is None:
+ font = ImageFont.load_default()
+tw = d.textlength(a.title, font=font)
+d.text((M + (card_w - tw) / 2, M + 19 - size * 0.62), a.title,
+ font=font, fill=ui['dim'])
+img.save(a.out)
+print('%d %d %d %d' % (W, H, M + PX, M + TB + PY))
+PY
+ python3 "$ASH_OUT/_chrome_plate.py" --theme "$ASH_THEME" \
+ --body-w "$TERM_W" --body-h "$TERM_H" --title "$CHROME_TITLE" \
+ --font "$ASH_FONT_DIR/JetBrainsMono-Regular.ttf" --out "$PLATE" >/dev/null \
+ || ash_die 6 "chrome plate generation failed"
+fi
+[ -s "$PLATE" ] || ash_die 6 "chrome plate is empty"
+
+# Body origin. render/chrome.py reports it; the fallback derives it from the
+# same theme numbers. Either way it is never a literal in this file.
+if [ -n "${ASH_PLATE_X:-}" ] && [ -n "${ASH_PLATE_Y:-}" ]; then
+ OX="$ASH_PLATE_X"; OY="$ASH_PLATE_Y"
+else
+ OX="$(ASH_THEME="$ASH_THEME" python3 -c "
+import json,os
+c=json.load(open(os.environ['ASH_THEME']))['chrome']
+print(c['margin']+c['pad_x'])")"
+ OY="$(ASH_THEME="$ASH_THEME" python3 -c "
+import json,os
+c=json.load(open(os.environ['ASH_THEME']))['chrome']
+print(c['margin']+c['titlebar_h']+c['pad_y'])")"
+fi
+PLATE_W="$(ffprobe -v error -select_streams v:0 -show_entries stream=width -of csv=p=0 "$PLATE")"
+PLATE_H="$(ffprobe -v error -select_streams v:0 -show_entries stream=height -of csv=p=0 "$PLATE")"
+ash_log "chrome plate: ${PLATE_W}x${PLATE_H}, body origin ${OX},${OY}"
+# The plate must actually contain the terminal at that origin, or the composite
+# silently clips the last rows — the class of bug a hardcoded plate size causes.
+if [ "$(( OX + TERM_W ))" -gt "$PLATE_W" ] || [ "$(( OY + TERM_H ))" -gt "$PLATE_H" ]; then
+ ash_die 6 "chrome plate ${PLATE_W}x${PLATE_H} cannot hold a ${TERM_W}x${TERM_H} terminal at ${OX},${OY}"
+fi
+
+# --- composite --------------------------------------------------------------
+mkdir -p "$ASH_ASSETS"
+# One filter graph, run twice: once to a palettised GIF, once to H.264. Both
+# read the same two inputs, so the reel and the mp4 are genuinely the same
+# render rather than two recordings that drifted.
+FILTER="[1:v][0:v]overlay=x=${OX}:y=${OY}:format=rgb:shortest=1[v]"
+
+# GIF, in TWO passes. The single-pass `split` + palettegen + paletteuse graph is
+# the idiom everyone reaches for, and it OOM-killed ffmpeg here: `split` has to
+# buffer every composited frame in memory until palettegen has seen the last one.
+# Writing the palette to a PNG first costs one extra decode and bounds memory.
+#
+# stats_mode=full builds ONE palette across all frames, so a colour that appears
+# only in the chart scene is not evicted by the twenty seconds of calm around it.
+# dither=none keeps flat block colour flat — dithering is what turns a solid
+# #FF5555 bar into speckle and destroys the exact-RGB guarantee.
+# shortest=1 is NOT optional. `-loop 1` makes the plate an INFINITE single-frame
+# stream, and overlay's base input is the plate, so without it the filter graph
+# never ends: the first attempt OOM-killed ffmpeg buffering frames for
+# palettegen, the second ran for seven minutes producing nothing.
+PALETTE_PNG="$ASH_OUT/palette.png"
+ffmpeg -y -v error -i "$TERM_GIF" -loop 1 -i "$PLATE" \
+ -filter_complex "${FILTER};[v]palettegen=max_colors=256:stats_mode=full" \
+ -frames:v 1 "$PALETTE_PNG" || ash_die 6 "ffmpeg palettegen failed"
+ffmpeg -y -v error -i "$TERM_GIF" -loop 1 -i "$PLATE" -i "$PALETTE_PNG" \
+ -filter_complex "${FILTER};[v][2:v]paletteuse=dither=none:diff_mode=rectangle" \
+ -loop 0 "$GIF" || ash_die 6 "ffmpeg gif composite failed"
+
+# MP4 from the same graph, so the reel and the video are genuinely one render
+# rather than two recordings that drifted. yuv420p + even dimensions for player
+# compatibility, and an explicit constant frame rate: fed the GIF's variable
+# timebase directly, x264 produced a file LARGER than the GIF.
+ffmpeg -y -v error -i "$TERM_GIF" -loop 1 -i "$PLATE" \
+ -filter_complex "${FILTER};[v]scale=trunc(iw/2)*2:trunc(ih/2)*2,format=yuv420p[o]" \
+ -map '[o]' -c:v libx264 -preset slow -crf 20 -movflags +faststart \
+ -r "${ASH_MP4_FPS:-15}" -pix_fmt yuv420p "$MP4" || ash_die 6 "ffmpeg mp4 encode failed"
+
+# gifsicle: lossless optimisation ONLY. --lossy / --colors would quantise the
+# 24-bit wait-class palette that the whole exercise exists to preserve.
+if ash_have gifsicle; then
+ gifsicle -O3 "$GIF" -o "$GIF.opt" >/dev/null 2>&1 && mv "$GIF.opt" "$GIF"
+fi
+
+# ===========================================================================
+# 10. Post-render verification
+# ===========================================================================
+ash_step "verifying the rendered reel"
+GIF_BYTES="$(wc -c < "$GIF" | tr -d ' ')"
+GIF_W="$(ffprobe -v error -select_streams v:0 -show_entries stream=width -of csv=p=0 "$GIF")"
+GIF_H="$(ffprobe -v error -select_streams v:0 -show_entries stream=height -of csv=p=0 "$GIF")"
+GIF_FRAMES="$(ffprobe -v error -count_frames -select_streams v:0 -show_entries stream=nb_read_frames -of csv=p=0 "$GIF" 2>/dev/null || printf '0')"
+
+# Pixel-sample every frame for the exact docs/COLOR_SCHEME.md RGB values. This
+# is the assertion that "truecolor survived" is a measurement and not a hope.
+# We require the wait classes the reel actually exercises; the rest are checked
+# opportunistically and reported.
+# The frames are read straight out of the GIF with Pillow rather than exploded
+# to PNG with ffmpeg first. Writing ~1800 PNGs and decoding them again cost
+# about 50 of the 85 seconds this script spent after the recording, for no
+# information: Pillow seeks GIF frames natively.
+#
+# ASH_KEEP_FRAMES=1 writes them out anyway, which is how you eyeball a single
+# frame when something looks wrong.
+if [ "${ASH_KEEP_FRAMES:-}" = "1" ]; then
+ rm -rf "$ASH_OUT/gifframes"; mkdir -p "$ASH_OUT/gifframes"
+ ffmpeg -y -v error -i "$GIF" "$ASH_OUT/gifframes/%05d.png" \
+ || ash_die 6 "could not extract frames from $GIF"
+ ash_log "ASH_KEEP_FRAMES=1: frames written to $ASH_OUT/gifframes"
+fi
+
+# Which wait classes MUST survive byte-exact.
+#
+# Lock and CPU* are the two series ash.chart draws with U+2588 in this reel, so
+# they are solid ink and must land on the literal RGB. Other is the `·`
+# remainder column, i.e. ordinary text — it proves the palette did not touch
+# glyph colour either.
+#
+# Client is deliberately NOT required. It is the rank-4 series, drawn with
+# U+2591 LIGHT SHADE — a 25%-ink dither pattern about one pixel wide. Blended
+# against the background by the rasteriser, it genuinely never reaches its
+# literal RGB on screen, in agg or in any terminal. Demanding an exact hit for
+# it would not be a stronger test, it would be a wrong one. The report below
+# still prints how far off every class is, so a real quantisation shows up.
+ASH_GIF="$GIF" ASH_REQUIRED_COLORS="${ASH_REQUIRED_COLORS:-Lock,CPU*,Other}" \
+python3 - <<'PY' || ash_die 6 "the rendered GIF lost the 24-bit wait-class palette"
+import os, sys
+from collections import Counter
+from PIL import Image, ImageSequence
+
+# docs/COLOR_SCHEME.md, verbatim.
+PALETTE = [
+ ("CPU*", (80, 250, 123)),
+ ("IdleTx", (241, 250, 140)),
+ ("IO", (30, 100, 255)),
+ ("Lock", (255, 85, 85)),
+ ("LWLock", (255, 121, 198)),
+ ("IPC", (0, 200, 255)),
+ ("Client", (255, 220, 100)),
+ ("Timeout", (255, 165, 0)),
+ ("BufferPin", (0, 210, 180)),
+ ("Activity", (150, 100, 255)),
+ ("Extension", (190, 150, 255)),
+ ("Other", (180, 180, 180)),
+]
+# Exact hits are what a solid run of U+2588 and every glyph interior produce.
+# But ash.chart draws its rank 2/3/4 series with U+2593/2591/2592, and in a
+# TERMINAL those are not translucent blocks — they are literal dither patterns
+# cut into the glyph. Their strokes are roughly one pixel wide and they do not
+# land on pixel boundaries, so antialiasing can leave a series with no pixel at
+# its literal RGB even though the bar is plainly, correctly that colour.
+#
+# (The stills renderer does not have this problem: it promotes the glyph to a
+# at theme.shade opacity. This is a real difference between the two
+# artifacts, not a bug in either.)
+#
+# So: exact match preferred, near match accepted, and "near" is defined tightly.
+# The closest pair in the whole docs/COLOR_SCHEME.md palette is Activity
+# (150,100,255) and Extension (190,150,255) at a Chebyshev distance of 50, so a
+# tolerance of 20 can never let one wait class stand in for another, and cannot
+# let a quantised-into-mud palette pass either.
+TOL = 20
+
+
+def nearest(counts, rgb):
+ """(distance, exact?) of the closest pixel in the raster to `rgb`."""
+ if counts.get(rgb):
+ return 0, True
+ best = 999
+ r, g, b = rgb
+ for (pr, pg, pb) in counts:
+ d = max(abs(pr - r), abs(pg - g), abs(pb - b))
+ if d < best:
+ best = d
+ if best == 0:
+ break
+ return best, False
+
+
+seen = Counter()
+near = {}
+gif = Image.open(os.environ['ASH_GIF'])
+nframes = 0
+mid_counts = None
+mid_size = (0, 0)
+total = getattr(gif, 'n_frames', 1)
+for frame in ImageSequence.Iterator(gif):
+ im = frame.convert('RGB')
+ # getcolors is a C-level histogram; Counter(im.getdata()) walks half a
+ # million Python ints per frame and there are ~1800 frames.
+ counts = dict((rgb, n) for n, rgb in (im.getcolors(1 << 24) or []))
+ for name, rgb in PALETTE:
+ if counts.get(rgb):
+ seen[name] += counts[rgb]
+ elif name not in near or near[name] > 0:
+ d, _ = nearest(counts, rgb)
+ near[name] = min(near.get(name, 999), d)
+ if nframes == total // 2:
+ mid_counts, mid_size = counts, im.size
+ nframes += 1
+if not nframes:
+ sys.stderr.write("no frames in the GIF\n"); sys.exit(1)
+
+# Non-triviality: an all-background GIF must fail. Sample the middle frame.
+if mid_counts is None:
+ mid_counts, mid_size = counts, im.size
+bg_share = max(mid_counts.values()) / float(mid_size[0] * mid_size[1])
+frames = range(nframes)
+
+def status(name):
+ if seen.get(name):
+ return "%d px exact" % seen[name]
+ d = near.get(name, 999)
+ if d <= TOL:
+ return "within %d (dithered glyph)" % d
+ return "absent"
+
+
+print(" frames sampled: %d" % len(frames))
+for name, rgb in PALETTE:
+ print(" %-10s %-16s %s" % (name, str(rgb), status(name)))
+print(" dominant colour share in the middle frame: %.1f%%" % (bg_share * 100))
+
+required = [x.strip() for x in os.environ['ASH_REQUIRED_COLORS'].split(',') if x.strip()]
+missing = [n for n in required
+ if not seen.get(n) and near.get(n, 999) > TOL]
+if missing:
+ sys.stderr.write("required wait-class colours absent from the GIF: %s\n"
+ % ', '.join("%s (nearest pixel %s away)"
+ % (n, near.get(n, '?')) for n in missing))
+ sys.exit(1)
+if bg_share > 0.995:
+ sys.stderr.write("the reel is effectively blank (%.2f%% one colour)\n" % (bg_share * 100))
+ sys.exit(1)
+PY
+
+if [ "$GIF_BYTES" -gt "$GIF_BUDGET_BYTES" ]; then
+ ash_die 6 "GIF is $GIF_BYTES bytes, over the $GIF_BUDGET_BYTES budget"
+fi
+
+T_END="$(ash_now_ms)"
+ash_step "done"
+printf ' gif %s %sx%s %s bytes %s frames\n' "$GIF" "$GIF_W" "$GIF_H" "$GIF_BYTES" "$GIF_FRAMES" >&2
+printf ' mp4 %s %s bytes\n' "$MP4" "$(wc -c < "$MP4" | tr -d ' ')" >&2
+printf ' cast %s\n' "$CAST" >&2
+printf ' total %ss\n' "$(( (T_END - T_REC0) / 1000 ))" >&2
diff --git a/demos/bin/rot-check.sh b/demos/bin/rot-check.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..d1db238
--- /dev/null
+++ b/demos/bin/rot-check.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+#
+# bin/rot-check.sh -- the demo-rot alarm. Backs `make rot`, and it is the step
+# CI runs after a live re-capture.
+#
+# `make check` proves the RENDERER still works on frozen bytes. This proves the
+# BYTES still have the shape the frozen ones had -- i.e. that pg_ash's readers
+# still project the same columns under the same names. See render/scene_shape.py
+# for why this is a fingerprint comparison and not a diff; the short version is
+# that every number in a capture is a real measurement, so a byte diff is red on
+# every run and therefore ignored on every run.
+#
+# Requires a fresh capture in $ASH_OUT/raw (i.e. `make capture` or `make stills`
+# first) and fixtures/shape.tsv, which `make fixtures` writes.
+#
+# Exit 0 clean, 1 usage, 5 on drift (§2.6: capture verification failure).
+#
+set -Eeuo pipefail
+
+HERE=$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" && pwd -P)
+DEMO_DIR=$(cd "$HERE/.." && pwd -P)
+# shellcheck source=../lib/env.sh
+. "$DEMO_DIR/lib/env.sh"
+
+SHAPE_TSV="$DEMO_DIR/fixtures/shape.tsv"
+RAW_DIR="$ASH_OUT/raw"
+
+[ -d "$RAW_DIR" ] || {
+ echo "rot-check: no $RAW_DIR -- run \`make capture\` first" >&2; exit 1; }
+[ -f "$SHAPE_TSV" ] || {
+ echo "rot-check: no $SHAPE_TSV -- run \`make fixtures\` first" >&2; exit 1; }
+
+drift=0
+n=0
+
+# fd 3, not stdin: children inherit stdin and at least one of them reads it.
+while IFS=$'\t' read -r name want <&3; do
+ case "$name" in ""|\#*) continue ;; esac
+ raw="$RAW_DIR/$name.raw"
+ if [ ! -f "$raw" ]; then
+ printf 'rot-check: %s: no fresh capture at %s\n' "$name" "$raw" >&2
+ drift=1
+ continue
+ fi
+ n=$((n + 1))
+ got=$(python3 "$DEMO_DIR/render/scene_shape.py" -F $'\x1f' "$raw")
+ if [ "$got" != "$want" ]; then
+ printf 'rot-check: %s: the reader contract changed\n' "$name" >&2
+ printf ' committed: %s\n' "$want" >&2
+ printf ' now: %s\n' "$got" >&2
+ drift=1
+ fi
+done 3< "$SHAPE_TSV"
+
+if [ "$drift" -ne 0 ]; then
+ cat >&2 <<'MSG'
+
+A column was renamed, added, removed or reordered, or a report key moved.
+That is a real change to what pg_ash prints, and every image in README.md is
+now a picture of an older API. Review it, then accept it deliberately with:
+
+ make -C demos fixtures
+MSG
+ exit 5
+fi
+
+printf 'rot-check: %d reader contract(s) unchanged\n' "$n" >&2
diff --git a/demos/container-entrypoint.sh b/demos/container-entrypoint.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index eb12d40..0000000
--- a/demos/container-entrypoint.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,58 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-# container-entrypoint.sh — Runs inside the postgres:18 container.
-#
-# 1. Waits for PostgreSQL to accept connections.
-# 2. Creates the `demo` database, pg_stat_statements + pg_cron extensions.
-# 3. Installs pg_ash 2.0 (from the mounted /repo/devel/sql/ash-install.sql —
-# the in-progress 2.0 dev installer, not the frozen released sql/).
-# 4. Initializes pgbench.
-# 5. Starts pg_ash sampling (1s).
-# 6. Kicks off the workload.sh in the background — this produces the spike
-# that the recording will investigate moments later.
-# 7. Sleeps forever so the container stays up for `docker exec` from the
-# tmux-driven recorder on the host.
-
-set -euo pipefail
-
-# UNIX-socket peer auth — no PGPASSWORD needed.
-export PSQL="psql -X -qAt -U postgres -h /var/run/postgresql"
-
-echo "[entry] waiting for PostgreSQL..."
-until $PSQL -d postgres -c "select 1" >/dev/null 2>&1; do sleep 0.3; done
-echo "[entry] PostgreSQL ready"
-
-# Only set up once — safe for container restarts.
-if ! $PSQL -d postgres -tc "select 1 from pg_database where datname='demo'" | grep -q 1; then
- echo "[entry] creating demo db + extensions"
- $PSQL -d postgres -c "create database demo"
- # pg_cron's CREATE EXTENSION must run against the database named in
- # cron.database_name (we set that to 'demo' in postgresql.conf).
- $PSQL -d demo -c "create extension if not exists pg_cron"
- $PSQL -d demo -c "create extension if not exists pg_stat_statements"
-
- # Install the 2.0 dev installer. The released sql/ is frozen at 1.5 until the
- # 2.0 release stamp, so the demo points at devel/sql/ to exercise the new
- # reader API (periods/aas/timeline/top/compare/chart/summary). Keep in sync
- # with `devel/scripts/ash_sql_chain.py fresh-install-path` if that path moves.
- echo "[entry] installing pg_ash 2.0 (\i /repo/devel/sql/ash-install.sql)"
- $PSQL -d demo -f /repo/devel/sql/ash-install.sql >/dev/null
-
- echo "[entry] initializing pgbench (scale 5)"
- pgbench -U postgres -d demo -i -s 5 -q >/dev/null 2>&1
-
- echo "[entry] starting pg_ash sampling (1s)"
- $PSQL -d demo -c "select ash.start('1 second')" >/dev/null
-
- echo "[entry] pg_ash status:"
- $PSQL -d demo -c "select metric, value from ash.status() where metric in ('version','sampling_enabled','pg_cron_available')"
-fi
-
-# Kick off the workload. Send its logs to /tmp/workload.log for debugging;
-# the investigation view never sees these.
-echo "[entry] starting workload"
-nohup bash /repo/demos/workload.sh >/tmp/workload.log 2>&1 &
-echo "[entry] workload pid=$!"
-
-echo "[entry] ready — sleeping forever so the recorder can exec psql"
-# Keep container alive.
-tail -f /dev/null
diff --git a/demos/fixtures/chart.ansi b/demos/fixtures/chart.ansi
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..316df33
--- /dev/null
+++ b/demos/fixtures/chart.ansi
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+[38;2;80;250;123mash [38;2;98;114;164m▸ [38;2;230;237;243mselect to_char(bucket_start, 'HH24:MI') as bucket, aas, rtrim(chart) as chart from[0m
+[38;2;230;237;243m ash.chart(since => $SINCE, until => $UNTIL, bucket => '2 minutes', n => 4, width => 66, color[0m
+[38;2;230;237;243m => true);[0m
+
+[38;2;46;67;73m┌────────┬───────┬──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐[0m
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diff --git a/demos/fixtures/compare.ansi b/demos/fixtures/compare.ansi
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diff --git a/demos/fixtures/expected/chart.svg b/demos/fixtures/expected/chart.svg
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+ash.chart() — AAS by wait event ash ▸ select to_char(bucket_start, 'HH24:MI') as bucket, aas, rtrim(chart) as chart from ash.chart(since => $SINCE, until => $UNTIL, bucket => '2 minutes', n => 4, width => 66, color => true); ┌────────┬───────┬──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ bucket │ aas │ chart │ ├────────┼───────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ │ │ Lock:transactionid CPU* Client:ClientRead Lock:tuple · Other │ │ 22:36 │ 1.75 │ │ │ 22:38 │ 1.75 │ │ │ 22:40 │ 1.42 │ │ │ 22:42 │ 1.42 │ │ │ 22:44 │ 14.67 │ ······· │ │ 22:46 │ 14.54 │ ········ │ │ 22:48 │ 9.17 │ ······· │ │ 22:50 │ 3.54 │ ········· │ │ 22:52 │ 1.96 │ │ │ 22:54 │ 1.92 │ │ │ 22:56 │ 1.75 │ │ │ 22:58 │ 1.75 │ │ └────────┴───────┴──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ ash.compare() — incident vs baseline ash ▸ select key, avg_aas_1, avg_aas_2, avg_delta, pct_2 from ash.compare($BASE_SINCE, $BASE_UNTIL, $STORM_SINCE, $STORM_UNTIL, dimension => 'wait_event', n => 5); ┌────────────────────┬───────────┬───────────┬───────────┬───────┐ │ key │ avg_aas_1 │ avg_aas_2 │ avg_delta │ pct_2 │ ├────────────────────┼───────────┼───────────┼───────────┼───────┤ │ Lock:transactionid │ │ 9.55 │ 9.55 │ 65.41 │ │ Lock:tuple │ │ 1.53 │ 1.53 │ 10.50 │ │ IdleTx │ │ 0.77 │ 0.77 │ 5.25 │ │ IO:WalSync │ │ 0.58 │ 0.58 │ 4.00 │ │ Client:ClientRead │ 0.24 │ 0.63 │ 0.39 │ 4.34 │ └────────────────────┴───────────┴───────────┴───────────┴───────┘ ash.periods() — what do I even have? ash ▸ select period, source, buckets_with_data, avg_aas, peak_aas, p99_aas from ash.periods($UNTIL); ┌────────┬───────────┬───────────────────┬─────────┬──────────┬─────────┐ │ period │ source │ buckets_with_data │ avg_aas │ peak_aas │ p99_aas │ ├────────┼───────────┼───────────────────┼─────────┼──────────┼─────────┤ │ 1m │ raw │ 1 │ 1.92 │ 1.92 │ 1.92 │ │ 5m │ raw │ 5 │ 1.77 │ 1.92 │ 1.91 │ │ 1h │ rollup_1h │ 28 │ 1.95 │ 14.75 │ 14.71 │ │ 1d │ rollup_1h │ 28 │ 0.08 │ 14.75 │ 14.71 │ │ 1w │ rollup_1h │ 28 │ 0.01 │ 14.75 │ 14.71 │ │ 1mo │ rollup_1h │ 28 │ 0.00 │ 14.75 │ 14.71 │ └────────┴───────────┴───────────────────┴─────────┴──────────┴─────────┘ ash.report() — hand this to an LLM ash ▸ select jsonb_pretty(ash.report(since => $STORM_SINCE, until => $STORM_UNTIL, n => 2) - array['cluster_name', 'aas_p999', 'aas_worst1m', 'top_events_p999', 'top_events_worst1m', 'top_queryids_p999', 'top_queryids_worst1m']) as report; { "aas_avg": { "io": 0.68, "cpu": 1.20, "ipc": 0.07, "lock": 11.08, "total": 13.20, "lwlock": 0.17 }, "aas_p99": { "io": 0.91, "cpu": 1.49, "ipc": 0.08, "lock": 11.16, "total": 13.49, "lwlock": 0.33 }, "coverage": { "to": "2026-07-27T22:49:00+00:00", "from": "2026-07-27T22:44:00+00:00", "source": "rollup_1m", "minutes_expected": 5, "minutes_with_data": 5, "raw_retention_start": "2026-07-26T23:36:00+00:00" }, "top_events_p99": { "io": [ "WalSync(0.8)", "DataFileRead(0.1)" ], "ipc": [ "BgworkerShutdown(0.1)" ], "lock": [ "transactionid(10.5)", "tuple(0.7)" ], "lwlock": [ "WALWrite(0.3)" ] }, "top_queryids_p99": { "io": [ "-2835399305386018931(0.3)", "-7079852731576173083(0.2)" ], "ipc": [ "6627483964256586084(0.1)" ], "lock": [ "-1236273962537500931(11.0)", "-7185852639686726986(0.1)" ], "total": [ "-1236273962537500931(11.1)", "-2835399305386018931(1.1)" ], "lwlock": [ "-2835399305386018931(0.3)" ] }, "top_queryids_available": true } pg_ash 2.0 — is it collecting? ash ▸ select metric, value from ash.status() where metric in ('version','sampling_enabled', 'sample_interval','samples_total','raw_retention','pg_cron_available'); ┌───────────────────┬─────────────────────────────┐ │ metric │ value │ ├───────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤ │ version │ 2.0-beta1 │ │ sampling_enabled │ true │ │ sample_interval │ 00:00:05 │ │ raw_retention │ 1 day + current partial │ │ samples_total │ 326 │ │ pg_cron_available │ no (use external scheduler) │ └───────────────────┴─────────────────────────────┘ ash.summary() — the one-paragraph verdict ash ▸ select metric, value from ash.summary(since => $STORM_SINCE, until => $STORM_UNTIL); ┌────────────────────────┬────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ metric │ value │ ├────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ period_start │ 2026-07-27 22:44:00+00 │ │ period_end │ 2026-07-27 22:49:00+00 │ │ source │ raw │ │ buckets_with_data │ 5 │ │ avg_aas │ 14.60 │ │ peak_aas │ 14.75 │ │ p99_aas │ 14.74 │ │ backend_seconds │ 4380.00 │ │ drill_source │ raw │ │ drill_period_start │ 2026-07-27 22:44:00+00 │ │ drill_period_end │ 2026-07-27 22:49:00+00 │ │ drill_effective_bucket │ 00:01:00 │ │ databases_active │ 1 │ │ top_wait_1 │ Lock:transactionid (avg_aas 9.55, 65.41%) │ │ top_wait_2 │ Lock:tuple (avg_aas 1.53, 10.50%) │ │ top_wait_3 │ CPU* (avg_aas 1.20, 8.22%) │ │ top_query_1 │ -1236273962537500931 — UPDATE pgbench_accounts SET abalance = abalance │ │ │ + $1 WHERE a (avg_aas 11.35, 77.74%) │ │ top_query_2 │ 6627483964256586084 — SELECT sum(abalance) FROM pgbench_accounts WHERE │ │ │ bid = $1 (avg_aas 0.97, 6.62%) │ │ top_query_3 │ -2835399305386018931 — END (avg_aas 0.78, 5.37%) │ └────────────────────────┴────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ ash.top('wait_event') — the exact wait ash ▸ select key, avg_aas, peak_aas, p99_aas, pct from ash.top('wait_event', since => $STORM_SINCE, until => $STORM_UNTIL, n => 6); ┌────────────────────┬─────────┬──────────┬─────────┬───────┐ │ key │ avg_aas │ peak_aas │ p99_aas │ pct │ ├────────────────────┼─────────┼──────────┼─────────┼───────┤ │ Lock:transactionid │ 9.55 │ 10.50 │ 10.48 │ 65.41 │ │ Lock:tuple │ 1.53 │ 2.67 │ 2.63 │ 10.50 │ │ CPU* │ 1.20 │ 1.50 │ 1.49 │ 8.22 │ │ IdleTx │ 0.77 │ 1.17 │ 1.15 │ 5.25 │ │ Client:ClientRead │ 0.63 │ 0.75 │ 0.75 │ 4.34 │ │ IO:WalSync │ 0.58 │ 0.75 │ 0.75 │ 4.00 │ └────────────────────┴─────────┴──────────┴─────────┴───────┘ ash.top('query_id') — which statement? ash ▸ select key, left(query_text, 52) as query_text, avg_aas, pct from ash.top('query_id', since => $STORM_SINCE, until => $STORM_UNTIL, n => 3); ┌──────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┬─────────┬───────┐ │ key │ query_text │ avg_aas │ pct │ ├──────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼─────────┼───────┤ │ -1236273962537500931 │ UPDATE pgbench_accounts SET abalance = abalance + $1 │ 11.35 │ 77.74 │ │ 6627483964256586084 │ SELECT sum(abalance) FROM pgbench_accounts WHERE bid │ 0.97 │ 6.62 │ │ -2835399305386018931 │ END │ 0.78 │ 5.37 │ └──────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┴─────────┴───────┘ — the harness may only create or drop databases
+# whose name starts with `ash_demo`.
+_bk_assert_db_glob() {
+ case "$1" in
+ ash_demo*) : ;;
+ *) ash_die 1 "refusing to manage database '$1': the harness only touches ash_demo*" ;;
+ esac
+ case "$1" in
+ *[!A-Za-z0-9_-]*)
+ ash_die 1 "refusing unsafe database name '$1': use only letters, digits, underscores and hyphens"
+ ;;
+ esac
+}
+
+# _bk_assert_container_glob — likewise for containers.
+_bk_assert_container_glob() {
+ case "$1" in
+ ash_demo_*) : ;;
+ *) ash_die 1 "refusing to manage container '$1': the harness only touches ash_demo_*" ;;
+ esac
+}
+
+# The official postgres images declare PGDATA as an anonymous volume. `-v` is
+# therefore part of correctness here, not an optional space-saving flag:
+# removing only the container leaks roughly 600 MiB for every matrix entry.
+_bk_remove_owned_container() {
+ docker rm -f -v "$1" >/dev/null 2>&1
+}
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# psql wrappers — every SQL call in the harness goes through one of these
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+# ash_psql — the demo database, startup file suppressed,
+# ON_ERROR_STOP armed. Callers that WANT a psqlrc (the capture paths) build
+# their own command line; this one is for plumbing.
+ash_psql() {
+ psql -X -v ON_ERROR_STOP=1 -d "$ASH_DEMO_DB" "$@"
+}
+
+# ash_psql1 — one scalar, unaligned, no header, no footer.
+ash_psql1() {
+ psql -X -v ON_ERROR_STOP=1 -d "$ASH_DEMO_DB" -tAc "$1"
+}
+
+# ash_psql_maint — the maintenance database.
+ash_psql_maint() {
+ psql -X -v ON_ERROR_STOP=1 -d "$ASH_MAINT_DB" "$@"
+}
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Backend probing (used by doctor, and by ASH_BACKEND=auto)
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+# backend_probe_local — 0 if the ambient PG* reach a live server.
+backend_probe_local() {
+ ash_have psql || return 1
+ psql -X -d "$ASH_MAINT_DB" -tAc 'select 1' >/dev/null 2>&1
+}
+
+# backend_connect — resolve the connection WITHOUT creating or installing
+# anything. For read-only consumers (preflight, `ash-demo sql`, the capture
+# paths) that must not pay a 250 KB re-install to ask the database a question.
+backend_connect() {
+ case "$ASH_BACKEND" in
+ docker)
+ if [ -z "${ASH_DEMO_PORT:-}" ] && ash_have docker; then
+ _bk_mapping=$(docker port "$ASH_DEMO_CONTAINER" 5432/tcp 2>/dev/null | head -1)
+ ASH_DEMO_PORT=${_bk_mapping##*:}
+ unset _bk_mapping
+ fi
+ export PGHOST=127.0.0.1 PGPORT="${ASH_DEMO_PORT:-5432}" PGUSER=postgres
+ export PGPASSWORD=ash_demo
+ ;;
+ esac
+ export PGDATABASE="$ASH_DEMO_DB"
+ ash_psql1 'select 1' >/dev/null 2>&1 \
+ || ash_die 3 "cannot reach database '$ASH_DEMO_DB' — run 'make up' first"
+}
+
+# backend_probe_docker — 0 if a docker daemon answers AND a usable postgres
+# image is present locally. We deliberately do NOT count "docker can pull",
+# because a registry that 503s in a sandbox is the root defect being fixed.
+backend_probe_docker() {
+ ash_have docker || return 1
+ docker info >/dev/null 2>&1 || return 1
+ docker image inspect "postgres:$ASH_PG_MAJOR" >/dev/null 2>&1
+}
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# backend_up
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+#
+# Post-condition: PGHOST/PGPORT/PGUSER/PGDATABASE are exported and point at a
+# database named $ASH_DEMO_DB that has pg_ash installed and (where possible)
+# pg_stat_statements created.
+backend_up() {
+ case "$ASH_BACKEND" in
+ auto)
+ if backend_probe_local; then
+ ASH_BACKEND=local
+ elif backend_probe_docker; then
+ ASH_BACKEND=docker
+ else
+ ash_die 3 "ASH_BACKEND=auto: no local cluster reachable and no usable docker postgres image"
+ fi
+ ash_log "backend auto-selected: $ASH_BACKEND"
+ ;;
+ esac
+
+ case "$ASH_BACKEND" in
+ local) _bk_up_local ;;
+ docker) _bk_up_docker ;;
+ remote) _bk_up_remote ;;
+ *) ash_die 1 "unknown ASH_BACKEND '$ASH_BACKEND' (want local|docker|remote|auto)" ;;
+ esac
+
+ _bk_install_pg_ash
+ _bk_report
+}
+
+_bk_up_local() {
+ _bk_assert_db_glob "$ASH_DEMO_DB"
+ ash_have psql || ash_die 2 "psql not found on PATH"
+ backend_probe_local \
+ || ash_die 3 "cannot reach a local PostgreSQL cluster (tried database '$ASH_MAINT_DB' with the ambient PG* settings)"
+
+ # Create the demo database if it is not already there, and remember whether
+ # THIS run created it — backend_down only drops what it created.
+ if [ "$(ash_psql_maint -tAc \
+ "select count(*) from pg_database where datname = '$ASH_DEMO_DB'")" = "0" ]; then
+ ash_log "creating database $ASH_DEMO_DB"
+ ash_psql_maint -c "create database \"$ASH_DEMO_DB\"" >/dev/null
+ _bk_record_state local created
+ else
+ ash_log "reusing existing database $ASH_DEMO_DB"
+ _bk_record_state local reused
+ fi
+
+ export PGDATABASE="$ASH_DEMO_DB"
+}
+
+_bk_up_docker() {
+ _bk_assert_db_glob "$ASH_DEMO_DB"
+ _bk_assert_container_glob "$ASH_DEMO_CONTAINER"
+ ash_have docker || ash_die 2 "docker not found on PATH"
+ docker info >/dev/null 2>&1 || ash_die 3 "docker daemon is not answering"
+
+ local created=reused
+ if [ -z "$(docker ps -aq -f "name=^${ASH_DEMO_CONTAINER}$")" ]; then
+ docker image inspect "postgres:$ASH_PG_MAJOR" >/dev/null 2>&1 \
+ || ash_die 2 "image postgres:$ASH_PG_MAJOR is not present locally (pull it first; the harness never pulls on the critical path)"
+
+ # Probe a free port. Never hardcode: two harness runs on one machine must
+ # not fight over 5500.
+ ASH_DEMO_PORT=${ASH_DEMO_PORT:-$(ash_free_port 5500 5599)} \
+ || ash_die 3 "no free TCP port in 5500-5599"
+
+ ash_log "starting container $ASH_DEMO_CONTAINER (postgres:$ASH_PG_MAJOR) on port $ASH_DEMO_PORT"
+ # pg_stat_statements must be preloaded to exist at all. pg_cron is NOT
+ # requested here: the stock postgres image does not ship it, and the whole
+ # point of this harness is that the no-cron path is first class. A cluster
+ # with real pg_cron needs a purpose-built image and an explicit image tag.
+ docker run -d \
+ --name "$ASH_DEMO_CONTAINER" \
+ -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=ash_demo \
+ -e POSTGRES_DB="$ASH_DEMO_DB" \
+ -p "127.0.0.1:$ASH_DEMO_PORT:5432" \
+ "postgres:$ASH_PG_MAJOR" \
+ -c shared_preload_libraries=pg_stat_statements \
+ -c max_connections=100 \
+ >/dev/null
+ created=created
+ else
+ ash_log "reusing container $ASH_DEMO_CONTAINER"
+ if [ -z "${ASH_DEMO_PORT:-}" ]; then
+ # `docker port` prints "0.0.0.0:5531"; take everything after the last
+ # colon with a parameter expansion rather than sed (§10: no sed).
+ _bk_mapping=$(docker port "$ASH_DEMO_CONTAINER" 5432/tcp | head -1)
+ ASH_DEMO_PORT=${_bk_mapping##*:}
+ unset _bk_mapping
+ fi
+ docker start "$ASH_DEMO_CONTAINER" >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
+ fi
+
+ export PGHOST=127.0.0.1
+ export PGPORT="$ASH_DEMO_PORT"
+ export PGUSER=postgres
+ export PGPASSWORD=ash_demo
+ export PGDATABASE="$ASH_DEMO_DB"
+ ASH_MAINT_DB=postgres
+
+ # Readiness poll. `pg_isready` alone is not enough: the image restarts the
+ # server once during first-boot initdb, so we also demand a real query.
+ local deadline i
+ deadline=$(( $(ash_now_ms) + 60000 ))
+ i=0
+ while [ "$(ash_now_ms)" -lt "$deadline" ]; do
+ if psql -X -d "$ASH_DEMO_DB" -tAc 'select 1' >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+ break
+ fi
+ i=$((i + 1))
+ python3 -c 'import time; time.sleep(0.25)'
+ done
+ psql -X -d "$ASH_DEMO_DB" -tAc 'select 1' >/dev/null 2>&1 \
+ || ash_die 3 "container $ASH_DEMO_CONTAINER never became ready on port $ASH_DEMO_PORT"
+
+ _bk_record_state docker "$created"
+}
+
+_bk_up_remote() {
+ # Guardrail 1: the target database name must match the house glob. This is
+ # the difference between a demo harness and an accident.
+ _bk_assert_db_glob "$ASH_DEMO_DB"
+ export PGDATABASE="$ASH_DEMO_DB"
+
+ psql -X -d "$ASH_DEMO_DB" -tAc 'select 1' >/dev/null 2>&1 \
+ || ash_die 3 "cannot reach remote database '$ASH_DEMO_DB' with the ambient PG* settings"
+
+ # Guardrail 2: refuse to seed on top of somebody else's samples. A remote
+ # database that already holds ash.sample rows is either a real installation
+ # or a previous run; either way the operator has to say so out loud.
+ local existing
+ existing=$(psql -X -d "$ASH_DEMO_DB" -tAc "
+ select case when to_regclass('ash.sample') is null then 0
+ else (select count(*) from ash.sample) end" 2>/dev/null || echo 0)
+ if [ "${existing:-0}" != "0" ] && [ "${ASH_SKIP_SEED:-}" != "1" ] \
+ && [ "${ASH_REMOTE_OVERWRITE:-}" != "1" ]; then
+ ash_die 3 "remote database '$ASH_DEMO_DB' already holds $existing ash.sample rows; set ASH_REMOTE_OVERWRITE=1 if you really mean it"
+ fi
+
+ _bk_record_state remote reused
+}
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# pg_ash installation
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+_bk_install_pg_ash() {
+ [ -f "$ASH_INSTALL_SQL" ] \
+ || ash_die 1 "installer not found: $ASH_INSTALL_SQL (set ASH_INSTALL_SQL or ASH_REPO_ROOT)"
+
+ # pg_stat_statements first: ash.top('query_id') and ash.report() are much
+ # more interesting with real normalized query text, and the extension has to
+ # exist before the seeder generates its query identities. Its absence is a
+ # warning, never a failure — pg_ash's degraded path is a supported path.
+ if ! ash_psql -c 'create extension if not exists pg_stat_statements' >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+ ash_warn "pg_stat_statements is unavailable; query text will be omitted (degraded mode)"
+ fi
+
+ ash_log "installing pg_ash from ${ASH_INSTALL_SQL#$ASH_REPO_ROOT/}"
+ # Install log goes to a file: the installer is ~250 KB of DDL and its NOTICE
+ # traffic buries everything else. A failure prints the tail.
+ if ! ash_psql -q -f "$ASH_INSTALL_SQL" >"$ASH_OUT/install.log" 2>&1; then
+ tail -40 "$ASH_OUT/install.log" >&2
+ ash_die 3 "pg_ash install failed; full log at $ASH_OUT/install.log"
+ fi
+
+ # pg_cron is optional by design. Report the mode so the operator knows which
+ # path the demo is exercising, and so the `status` still can be read honestly.
+ # `case` rather than `grep -q`: a successful `grep -q` behind a pipe SIGPIPEs
+ # its writer, and under `set -o pipefail` that inverts the result (§2.6).
+ case "$(ash_psql1 'select ash._pg_cron_available()')" in
+ t) ash_log "pg_cron available: pg_ash could self-schedule (harness still drives sampling itself)" ;;
+ *) ash_log "pg_cron unavailable: external-scheduler (degraded) mode — the default demo path" ;;
+ esac
+}
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# State ledger + reporting
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+_bk_record_state() {
+ # $1 = backend kind, $2 = created|reused
+ #
+ # Ownership is STICKY. `make seed` twice in a row hits the reuse path the
+ # second time, and if that downgraded the record to "reused" then `make down`
+ # would refuse to remove a container this harness had in fact created — which
+ # is exactly what happened the first time this ran, leaving ash_demo_b1_pg
+ # behind. Only backend_down clears the ledger.
+ if [ -f "$ASH_STATE_FILE" ] && [ "$2" = "reused" ]; then
+ local prev_own="" prev_db="" prev_container=""
+ # shellcheck disable=SC1090
+ . "$ASH_STATE_FILE"
+ prev_own=${ASH_STATE_OWNERSHIP:-}
+ prev_db=${ASH_STATE_DB:-}
+ prev_container=${ASH_STATE_CONTAINER:-}
+ if [ "$prev_own" = "created" ] \
+ && [ "$prev_db" = "$ASH_DEMO_DB" ] \
+ && [ "$prev_container" = "${ASH_DEMO_CONTAINER:-}" ]; then
+ set -- "$1" created
+ fi
+ fi
+ {
+ echo "ASH_STATE_BACKEND=$1"
+ echo "ASH_STATE_OWNERSHIP=$2"
+ echo "ASH_STATE_DB=$ASH_DEMO_DB"
+ echo "ASH_STATE_CONTAINER=${ASH_DEMO_CONTAINER:-}"
+ echo "ASH_STATE_PORT=${ASH_DEMO_PORT:-}"
+ } >"$ASH_STATE_FILE"
+}
+
+_bk_report() {
+ local pgver
+ pgver=$(ash_psql1 "select current_setting('server_version')")
+ ash_log "backend=$ASH_BACKEND db=$ASH_DEMO_DB pg=$pgver ash=$(ash_psql1 'select version from ash.config')"
+}
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# backend_down
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+backend_down() {
+ if [ "${ASH_KEEP_DB:-}" = "1" ]; then
+ ash_log "ASH_KEEP_DB=1: leaving $ASH_DEMO_DB in place"
+ return 0
+ fi
+
+ # Read the ownership ledger if we have one. Without it we still honour the
+ # name globs, but we refuse to remove any resource we have no record of
+ # creating. Keep sourced values local so repeated calls cannot inherit stale
+ # state after the ledger has been cleared.
+ local state_backend="" state_own="" state_db="" target_db=""
+ local ASH_STATE_BACKEND="" ASH_STATE_OWNERSHIP="" ASH_STATE_DB=""
+ local ASH_STATE_CONTAINER="" ASH_STATE_PORT=""
+ if [ -f "$ASH_STATE_FILE" ]; then
+ # shellcheck disable=SC1090
+ . "$ASH_STATE_FILE"
+ state_backend=${ASH_STATE_BACKEND:-}
+ state_own=${ASH_STATE_OWNERSHIP:-}
+ state_db=${ASH_STATE_DB:-}
+ fi
+ [ -n "$state_backend" ] || state_backend=$ASH_BACKEND
+
+ case "$state_backend" in
+ docker)
+ _bk_assert_container_glob "${ASH_STATE_CONTAINER:-$ASH_DEMO_CONTAINER}"
+ if [ "$state_own" = "created" ]; then
+ ash_log "removing container ${ASH_STATE_CONTAINER:-$ASH_DEMO_CONTAINER}"
+ _bk_remove_owned_container "${ASH_STATE_CONTAINER:-$ASH_DEMO_CONTAINER}" \
+ || ash_die 3 "could not remove owned container ${ASH_STATE_CONTAINER:-$ASH_DEMO_CONTAINER} and its anonymous volumes"
+ else
+ ash_warn "container ${ASH_STATE_CONTAINER:-$ASH_DEMO_CONTAINER} was not created by this harness; leaving it alone"
+ fi
+ ;;
+ local)
+ target_db=${state_db:-$ASH_DEMO_DB}
+ _bk_assert_db_glob "$target_db"
+ if [ "$state_own" != "created" ]; then
+ ash_warn "database $target_db was not created by this harness; leaving it alone"
+ else
+ [ "$target_db" = "$ASH_DEMO_DB" ] \
+ || ash_die 3 "refusing database teardown: ledger owns '$target_db' but the selected database is '$ASH_DEMO_DB'"
+ _bk_terminate_demo_backends "$target_db" || true
+ ash_log "dropping database $target_db"
+ ash_psql_maint -c \
+ "drop database if exists \"$target_db\" with (force)" >/dev/null \
+ || ash_die 3 "could not drop owned database $target_db; ownership ledger retained for retry"
+ fi
+ ;;
+ remote)
+ target_db=${state_db:-$ASH_DEMO_DB}
+ _bk_assert_db_glob "$target_db"
+ ash_warn "remote database $target_db was not created by this harness; leaving it alone"
+ ;;
+ esac
+
+ rm -f "$ASH_STATE_FILE"
+}
+
+# _bk_terminate_demo_backends — server-side, filtered by database. `pkill -f`
+# was measured unreliable (it races the shell that spawned the client and
+# happily matches unrelated psql invocations).
+_bk_terminate_demo_backends() {
+ local target_db=${1:-$ASH_DEMO_DB}
+ ash_psql_maint -tAc "
+ select pg_terminate_backend(pid)
+ from pg_stat_activity
+ where datname = '$target_db'
+ and pid <> pg_backend_pid()" >/dev/null 2>&1
+}
diff --git a/demos/lib/doctor.sh b/demos/lib/doctor.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8c022f3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/demos/lib/doctor.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,183 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+#
+# lib/doctor.sh — dependency probe, by capability tier.
+#
+# The point of tiers: the stills path is the one that must work everywhere, and
+# it needs almost nothing (python3 + two pure-python wheels + a client). The
+# raster and reel paths need progressively more. Telling somebody "install
+# ffmpeg" when all they wanted was an SVG is how a harness gets a reputation
+# for being unrunnable.
+#
+# doctor_tier <1|2|3> check one tier; exit 2 naming exactly what is missing
+# doctor_report print the full picture, including which backends work
+#
+# Sourced, never executed.
+
+# shellcheck source=lib/backend.sh
+. "$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" && pwd -P)/backend.sh"
+
+# Accumulated failures for the current probe.
+ASH_DOCTOR_MISSING=""
+
+_doc_need_cmd() {
+ # $1 = command, $2 = hint
+ if ash_have "$1"; then
+ printf ' \033[32mok\033[0m %s\n' "$1" >&2
+ else
+ printf ' \033[31mMISS\033[0m %s — %s\n' "$1" "$2" >&2
+ ASH_DOCTOR_MISSING="$ASH_DOCTOR_MISSING $1"
+ fi
+}
+
+_doc_need_py() {
+ # $1 = import name, $2 = pip name
+ if python3 -c "import $1" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+ printf ' \033[32mok\033[0m python:%s\n' "$1" >&2
+ else
+ printf ' \033[31mMISS\033[0m python:%s — pip install %s\n' "$1" "$2" >&2
+ ASH_DOCTOR_MISSING="$ASH_DOCTOR_MISSING python:$1"
+ fi
+}
+
+_doc_need_file() {
+ # $1 = path, $2 = hint
+ if [ -f "$1" ]; then
+ printf ' \033[32mok\033[0m %s\n' "${1#$ASH_DEMO_DIR/}" >&2
+ else
+ printf ' \033[31mMISS\033[0m %s — %s\n' "${1#$ASH_DEMO_DIR/}" "$2" >&2
+ ASH_DOCTOR_MISSING="$ASH_DOCTOR_MISSING ${1##*/}"
+ fi
+}
+
+# _doc_any_cmd — satisfied by ANY one of the commands.
+_doc_any_cmd() {
+ local label=$1 hint=$2; shift 2
+ local cmd
+ for cmd in "$@"; do
+ if ash_have "$cmd"; then
+ printf ' \033[32mok\033[0m %s (%s)\n' "$label" "$cmd" >&2
+ return 0
+ fi
+ done
+ printf ' \033[31mMISS\033[0m %s — %s\n' "$label" "$hint" >&2
+ ASH_DOCTOR_MISSING="$ASH_DOCTOR_MISSING $label"
+ return 1
+}
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Tier 1 — stills. Everything else is optional.
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+doctor_tier1() {
+ printf '\033[1mtier 1 (stills: SVG from real query output)\033[0m\n' >&2
+ _doc_need_cmd python3 'required for every path; nothing here uses awk or sed for widths'
+ _doc_need_py fontTools fonttools
+ _doc_need_py brotli brotli
+ _doc_need_cmd psql 'PostgreSQL client (libpq)'
+ _doc_need_cmd pgbench 'ships with the PostgreSQL client packages'
+ _doc_need_file "$ASH_FONT_DIR/JetBrainsMono-Regular.ttf" \
+ 'the font is vendored under demos/fonts — a missing font is a hard failure, never a silent fallback'
+ _doc_need_file "$ASH_FONT_DIR/JetBrainsMono-Bold.ttf" 'vendored, OFL-1.1'
+ _doc_need_file "$ASH_THEME" 'the theme file is the only source of colour and geometry'
+}
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Tier 2 — PNG rasterisation of the SVGs.
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+doctor_tier2() {
+ printf '\033[1mtier 2 (raster: PNG at %sx)\033[0m\n' "$ASH_SCALE" >&2
+ # `command -v` accepts an absolute path, so the macOS .app bundles (which are
+ # never on PATH) go in the same candidate list rather than in a special case.
+ _doc_any_cmd 'svg_rasteriser' \
+ 'install resvg, or any Chromium-family browser; or set ASH_SVG_ONLY=1' \
+ resvg rsvg-convert chromium chromium-browser google-chrome \
+ '/Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome' \
+ '/Applications/Chromium.app/Contents/MacOS/Chromium' || true
+}
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Tier 3 — the animated reel.
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+doctor_tier3() {
+ printf '\033[1mtier 3 (reel: GIF + MP4)\033[0m\n' >&2
+ _doc_need_cmd tmux 'terminal driver for prompt-synchronised typing'
+ _doc_need_cmd asciinema 'terminal recorder'
+ _doc_need_cmd agg 'asciicast -> frames; single static binary from its GitHub release'
+ _doc_need_cmd ffmpeg 'frames -> gif/mp4'
+ _doc_need_cmd gifsicle 'gif optimisation'
+ _doc_need_py PIL pillow
+}
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Backends
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+doctor_backends() {
+ printf '\033[1mbackends usable on this machine\033[0m\n' >&2
+ if backend_probe_local; then
+ # `show server_version` rather than select current_setting('...'): the
+ # single quotes would have to survive a shell single-quoted string, and
+ # doubling them there concatenates instead of escaping. It silently
+ # produced an empty version string for one round of this file.
+ printf ' \033[32mok\033[0m local — PostgreSQL %s\n' \
+ "$(psql -X -d "$ASH_MAINT_DB" -tAc 'show server_version' 2>/dev/null)" >&2
+ else
+ printf ' \033[33mno\033[0m local — the ambient PG* settings do not reach a server\n' >&2
+ fi
+ if backend_probe_docker; then
+ printf ' \033[32mok\033[0m docker — image postgres:%s is present locally\n' "$ASH_PG_MAJOR" >&2
+ elif ash_have docker; then
+ printf ' \033[33mno\033[0m docker — daemon or image postgres:%s unavailable (the harness never pulls)\n' "$ASH_PG_MAJOR" >&2
+ else
+ printf ' \033[33mno\033[0m docker — not installed\n' >&2
+ fi
+ printf ' \033[36m--\033[0m remote — set PG* and ASH_BACKEND=remote; the database name must match ash_demo*\n' >&2
+}
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Entry points
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+# doctor_tier — probe up to tier n and exit 2 if anything in it is missing.
+doctor_tier() {
+ local want=${1:-1}
+ ASH_DOCTOR_MISSING=""
+ doctor_tier1
+ # `if`, not `[ ... ] && cmd`: under `set -e` a false test makes the compound
+ # statement the script's last status and kills the shell.
+ if [ "$want" -ge 2 ]; then doctor_tier2; fi
+ if [ "$want" -ge 3 ]; then doctor_tier3; fi
+ if [ -n "$ASH_DOCTOR_MISSING" ]; then
+ ash_die 2 "missing dependencies for tier $want:$ASH_DOCTOR_MISSING"
+ fi
+ return 0
+}
+
+# doctor_report — the human-facing `make doctor`. Never fails on tiers 2/3;
+# it reports. Only a broken tier 1 is fatal, because without it nothing works.
+doctor_report() {
+ ASH_DOCTOR_MISSING=""
+ doctor_tier1
+ local tier1_missing=$ASH_DOCTOR_MISSING
+
+ ASH_DOCTOR_MISSING=""
+ doctor_tier2
+ local tier2_missing=$ASH_DOCTOR_MISSING
+
+ ASH_DOCTOR_MISSING=""
+ doctor_tier3
+ local tier3_missing=$ASH_DOCTOR_MISSING
+
+ doctor_backends
+
+ printf '\n' >&2
+ if [ -n "$tier2_missing" ]; then
+ ash_warn "tier 2 unavailable:$tier2_missing (ASH_SVG_ONLY=1 skips it)"
+ fi
+ if [ -n "$tier3_missing" ]; then
+ ash_warn "tier 3 unavailable:$tier3_missing (\`make demo\` needs it; \`make stills\` does not)"
+ fi
+ if [ -n "$tier1_missing" ]; then
+ ash_die 2 "tier 1 is incomplete:$tier1_missing"
+ fi
+ printf '\033[32mdoctor: tier 1 complete — stills can be built.\033[0m\n' >&2
+ return 0
+}
diff --git a/demos/lib/driver.sh b/demos/lib/driver.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..67fe418
--- /dev/null
+++ b/demos/lib/driver.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,465 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# driver.sh — the tmux terminal driver for the animation capture path.
+#
+# What this file buys: every scene advances when psql is ACTUALLY DONE, not
+# when a guessed `sleep` expires. The old demos/record.sh choreographed the
+# whole investigation with `sleep 3.8` / `sleep 4.6`; a query slower than the
+# guess captured half-drawn output, a query faster than the guess captured dead
+# air, and neither failed the build. Here the only surviving sleeps are
+# drv_hold() calls — deliberate "let the viewer read this" beats, named as
+# such, never used for synchronisation.
+#
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# How the synchronisation works
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# lib/psqlrc.demo makes PROMPT1 emit a non-printing OSC-2 set-title escape whose
+# payload is `$$` of the shell psql popen()s per prompt expansion — a fresh
+# nonce every prompt. tmux parses OSC 2 into #{pane_title}. We poll that with
+# `tmux display-message -p` at 20 ms; it is O(1), unlike capture-pane, which
+# reads the whole scrollback and must never appear in a hot loop.
+#
+# The escape rides the SAME pty byte stream as the query output, so tmux cannot
+# possibly see the new title before it has consumed every byte that preceded it.
+# Observing the flip is proof of completion, not a heuristic. PROMPT2 emits a
+# different nonce, so a scene that lost its semicolon fails in ~30 ms with
+# exit 7 rather than hanging for the full timeout.
+#
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Public API (spec §7)
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# drv_start launch the recorded pane
+# drv_wait_prompt [timeout_ms] 0 PROMPT1 | 2 PROMPT2 | 1 timeout
+# drv_type human-paced literal typing
+# drv_run [sql] [markers] [hold] type -> sync -> verify -> shot -> hold
+# drv_hold a dramatic beat
+# drv_shot tmux capture-pane -e -p
+# drv_die red message, exit 7
+#
+# drv_run without explicit arguments reads DRV_SQL / DRV_MARKERS / DRV_HOLD,
+# which is how bin/record-demo.sh passes a scene row through without needing
+# associative arrays (bash 3.2 on macOS has none).
+#
+# Portability: bash 3.2 and bash 5. No `date +%s%N` (BSD date has no %N — it
+# prints a literal "N" and every arithmetic comparison silently misbehaves);
+# all millisecond timing goes through python3. No sed anywhere.
+
+if [ -n "${ASH_DRIVER_SH_LOADED:-}" ]; then return 0 2>/dev/null || true; fi
+ASH_DRIVER_SH_LOADED=1
+
+DRV_TIMEOUT_MS="${DRV_TIMEOUT_MS:-60000}"
+DRV_POLL="${DRV_POLL:-0.02}"
+
+# A private tmux server is the structural guard that makes this driver safe
+# when its caller is already inside tmux. Even a malformed target can only
+# address this run's private socket, never the caller's server. The session
+# still has its own unique name and ownership token: the private socket narrows
+# the blast radius, while the identity checks prove what we are killing.
+DRV_TMUX_SOCKET="pg-ash-demo-$$-${RANDOM}-${RANDOM}"
+DRV_SESSION=""
+DRV_SESSION_ID=""
+DRV_SESSION_OWNER=""
+DRV_SESSION_CREATED=0
+DRV_SESSION_SEQUENCE=0
+
+# Human-typing pacing (ms/char). The bursty-not-metronomic feel is the single
+# best thing about the original record.sh and is preserved; the absolute values
+# are faster, because the 2.0 scene SQL is much longer than the v1.x one-liners
+# and at the old pacing a single statement cost twelve seconds of reel. This is
+# a brisk touch-typist (~40 cps) rather than a leisurely one (~18 cps).
+DRV_TYPE_MIN_MS="${DRV_TYPE_MIN_MS:-9}"
+DRV_TYPE_MAX_MS="${DRV_TYPE_MAX_MS:-34}"
+DRV_TYPE_PUNCT_MS="${DRV_TYPE_PUNCT_MS:-55}" # clause-boundary breath
+
+# Where per-scene verification snapshots go. VERIFY ONLY — never rendered into
+# an asset. Rendering the tmux pane into a still is how a prototype shipped
+# stills with scrollback from the previous scene bleeding in at the top.
+DRV_SHOT_DIR="${DRV_SHOT_DIR:-${ASH_OUT:-.}/shots}"
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# tiny helpers
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+drv_now_ms() { python3 -c 'import time; print(int(time.time()*1000))'; }
+drv_tmux() { TMUX= TMUX_PANE= tmux -L "$DRV_TMUX_SOCKET" "$@"; }
+drv_title() {
+ [ "$DRV_SESSION_CREATED" = "1" ] || { printf ''; return 0; }
+ drv_tmux display-message -p -t "$DRV_SESSION_ID" \
+ '#{pane_title}' 2>/dev/null || printf ''
+}
+drv_log() { printf '\033[38;2;98;114;164m[driver]\033[0m %s\n' "$*" >&2; }
+
+# drv_die — exit 7 (animation sync failure) in the theme's Lock red so a
+# failure is impossible to miss in a scrolling CI log.
+drv_die() {
+ printf '\033[38;2;255;85;85m[driver] FATAL:\033[0m %s\n' "$*" >&2
+ exit 7
+}
+
+drv_identity() {
+ drv_tmux display-message -p -t "$DRV_SESSION_ID" \
+ '#{session_name}:#{session_id}:#{@pg_ash_driver_owner}' 2>/dev/null
+}
+
+drv_alive() {
+ local identity
+ [ "$DRV_SESSION_CREATED" = "1" ] || return 1
+ identity="$(drv_identity)" || return 1
+ [ "$identity" = "$DRV_SESSION:$DRV_SESSION_ID:$DRV_SESSION_OWNER" ]
+}
+
+# Roll back the narrow interval after new-session returned an ID but before its
+# ownership option was stamped. The unique name plus captured ID on this run's
+# private socket are the provisional proof; never target it if either changed.
+drv_rollback_provisional() {
+ local identity
+ if [ -z "$DRV_TMUX_SOCKET" ] || [ -z "$DRV_SESSION" ] \
+ || [ -z "$DRV_SESSION_ID" ]; then
+ drv_log "FATAL: refusing provisional cleanup with an incomplete identity"
+ return 7
+ fi
+ if ! drv_tmux has-session -t "$DRV_SESSION_ID" 2>/dev/null; then
+ DRV_SESSION_CREATED=0
+ return 0
+ fi
+ identity="$(drv_tmux display-message -p -t "$DRV_SESSION_ID" \
+ '#{session_name}:#{session_id}' 2>/dev/null)" || {
+ drv_log "FATAL: cannot read provisional driver identity"
+ return 7
+ }
+ if [ "$identity" != "$DRV_SESSION:$DRV_SESSION_ID" ]; then
+ drv_log "FATAL: refusing provisional cleanup: driver identity changed"
+ return 7
+ fi
+ if ! drv_tmux kill-session -t "$DRV_SESSION_ID" 2>/dev/null; then
+ drv_log "FATAL: could not roll back provisional driver $DRV_SESSION_ID"
+ return 7
+ fi
+ DRV_SESSION_CREATED=0
+}
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# drv_start
+# Detached tmux session with an EXACT geometry, running . The geometry
+# must be pinned here: tmux otherwise inherits the controlling terminal's size
+# and the 100-column budget silently becomes 80 in CI.
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+drv_start() {
+ local prefix="$1" cols="$2" rows="$3" cmd="$4"
+ local attempt candidate session_id
+
+ [ "$DRV_SESSION_CREATED" = "0" ] \
+ || drv_die "refusing to start a second driver session before cleanup"
+ case "$prefix" in
+ "") drv_die "driver session prefix is empty" ;;
+ *[!A-Za-z0-9_-]*)
+ drv_die "driver session prefix has unsafe characters: $prefix" ;;
+ esac
+
+ DRV_SESSION_SEQUENCE=$((DRV_SESSION_SEQUENCE + 1))
+ attempt=0
+ session_id=""
+ while [ "$attempt" -lt 5 ]; do
+ attempt=$((attempt + 1))
+ candidate="$prefix-$$-$DRV_SESSION_SEQUENCE-$RANDOM"
+ if session_id="$(drv_tmux new-session -d -P -F '#{session_id}' \
+ -s "$candidate" -x "$cols" -y "$rows" "$cmd" 2>/dev/null)"; then
+ break
+ fi
+ session_id=""
+ done
+ [ -n "$session_id" ] \
+ || drv_die "could not create a unique private tmux session"
+
+ DRV_SESSION="$candidate"
+ DRV_SESSION_ID="$session_id"
+ DRV_SESSION_OWNER="pg-ash-demo-$$-${RANDOM}-${RANDOM}"
+ DRV_SESSION_CREATED=1
+ if ! drv_tmux set-option -t "$DRV_SESSION_ID" \
+ @pg_ash_driver_owner "$DRV_SESSION_OWNER" 2>/dev/null; then
+ drv_rollback_provisional \
+ || drv_die "could not safely roll back driver session $DRV_SESSION"
+ drv_die "could not stamp ownership on driver session $DRV_SESSION"
+ fi
+ # Do not let tmux rewrite the pane title from anything but OSC 2.
+ drv_tmux set-option -t "$DRV_SESSION_ID" -p allow-rename on \
+ 2>/dev/null || true
+ mkdir -p "$DRV_SHOT_DIR"
+}
+
+drv_kill() {
+ local identity
+
+ # The EXIT trap runs on dependency/preflight failures and in --render-only
+ # mode, before drv_start. With no creation record there is nothing to clean.
+ [ "$DRV_SESSION_CREATED" = "1" ] || return 0
+
+ if [ -z "$DRV_TMUX_SOCKET" ] || [ -z "$DRV_SESSION" ] \
+ || [ -z "$DRV_SESSION_ID" ] || [ -z "$DRV_SESSION_OWNER" ]; then
+ drv_log "FATAL: refusing tmux cleanup with an incomplete ownership record"
+ return 7
+ fi
+
+ # psql/asciinema may have exited naturally after \q. An absent private
+ # session needs no kill; clear the ledger so cleanup stays idempotent.
+ if ! drv_tmux has-session -t "$DRV_SESSION_ID" 2>/dev/null; then
+ DRV_SESSION_CREATED=0
+ return 0
+ fi
+
+ identity="$(drv_identity)" || {
+ drv_log "FATAL: refusing tmux cleanup: cannot read the target identity"
+ return 7
+ }
+ if [ "$identity" != "$DRV_SESSION:$DRV_SESSION_ID:$DRV_SESSION_OWNER" ]; then
+ drv_log "FATAL: refusing tmux cleanup: ownership identity changed"
+ return 7
+ fi
+ if ! drv_tmux kill-session -t "$DRV_SESSION_ID" 2>/dev/null; then
+ drv_log "FATAL: could not kill owned driver session $DRV_SESSION_ID"
+ return 7
+ fi
+ DRV_SESSION_CREATED=0
+}
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# drv_wait_prompt [timeout-ms]
+# prints the new title on stdout
+# returns 0 = PROMPT1 (statement complete)
+# 2 = PROMPT2/PROMPT3 (continuation — unterminated statement)
+# 1 = timeout
+# The caller decides whether 2 is a bug (end of a statement) or expected (a
+# deliberate mid-statement line break); this function only reports.
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+drv_wait_prompt() {
+ local prev="$1" limit_ms="${2:-$DRV_TIMEOUT_MS}" t end
+ end=$(( $(drv_now_ms) + limit_ms ))
+ while :; do
+ t="$(drv_title)"
+ if [ -n "$t" ] && [ "$t" != "$prev" ]; then
+ case "$t" in
+ ashrdy-*) printf '%s' "$t"; return 0 ;;
+ ashcont-*) printf '%s' "$t"; return 2 ;;
+ esac
+ fi
+ if [ "$(drv_now_ms)" -ge "$end" ]; then return 1; fi
+ # If the pane died (psql crashed, container vanished) stop waiting for a
+ # prompt that can never arrive.
+ drv_alive || return 1
+ sleep "$DRV_POLL"
+ done
+}
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# drv_type — send one character at a time with jittered delays.
+#
+# Two tmux quirks are handled:
+# * `-l` is literal mode; required for `;`, `(`, `$`, `:` and friends, which
+# tmux would otherwise parse as command language.
+# * tmux drops a TRAILING `;` from `-l` even in literal mode, because `;` is
+# its command separator. Sending one byte per call makes EVERY solo `;`
+# trailing, so we smuggle a space along with it. A trailing space is a no-op
+# everywhere in psql syntax. This workaround is inherited from the original
+# record.sh and is still load-bearing.
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+drv_type() {
+ local text="$1" i ch ms send span n
+ span=$(( DRV_TYPE_MAX_MS - DRV_TYPE_MIN_MS ))
+ n=${#text}
+ for (( i=0; i — split SQL into typed display lines.
+#
+# Prints one line per output record, separated by \x1f. Breaks at ", " clause
+# boundaries so a wrapped statement still reads like SQL someone typed, and
+# never mid-token. Continuation lines carry three leading spaces which, added
+# to psqlrc.demo's three-space PROMPT2, land the SQL at column 6 — exactly under
+# the SQL on the "ash > " line. (Spec §3.4: 6-space hanging indent.)
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+drv_wrap() {
+ ASH_WRAP_TEXT="$1" ASH_WRAP_W="$2" python3 - <<'PY'
+import os, sys
+text = os.environ['ASH_WRAP_TEXT']
+width = int(os.environ['ASH_WRAP_W'])
+PROMPT = 6 # "ash > " occupies six columns
+INDENT = ' ' # + PROMPT2's three spaces == the six-column hanging indent
+
+# Split into atoms that we are willing to break BETWEEN, never inside.
+atoms, buf = [], ''
+for ch in text:
+ buf += ch
+ if ch == ',':
+ atoms.append(buf); buf = ''
+if buf:
+ atoms.append(buf)
+
+lines, cur, budget = [], '', width - PROMPT
+for a in atoms:
+ piece = a if not cur else a
+ if cur and len(cur) + len(piece) > budget:
+ lines.append(cur.rstrip())
+ cur = piece.lstrip()
+ budget = width - PROMPT - len(INDENT)
+ else:
+ cur += piece
+if cur:
+ lines.append(cur.rstrip())
+
+out = [lines[0]] + [INDENT + l for l in lines[1:]]
+sys.stdout.write('\x1f'.join(out))
+PY
+}
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# drv_submit — type , wrapped, and wait for the prompt to return.
+#
+# Intermediate line breaks are EXPECTED to land on PROMPT2 and are synchronised
+# on the ashcont- nonce (still no blind sleeps). Only the final line must land
+# on PROMPT1; a PROMPT2 there means the statement lost its terminator, and that
+# fails in ~30 ms instead of hanging for the timeout.
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+drv_submit() {
+ local sql="$1" cols="${2:-${ASH_COLS:-100}}"
+ local wrapped prev rc newt line last_ix ix
+ wrapped="$(drv_wrap "$sql" "$cols")"
+
+ # bash 3.2: no mapfile. Split on \x1f with IFS.
+ local OLDIFS="$IFS"; IFS=$'\037'
+ # shellcheck disable=SC2206
+ local parts=( $wrapped )
+ IFS="$OLDIFS"
+
+ # DRV_TERMINATOR: an optional final line typed after the statement body, used
+ # for the colour scenes. psql's ALIGNED formatter escapes 0x1B into the FOUR
+ # CHARACTER text \x1B and then measures column widths from the escaped text —
+ # the flagship chart frame came out as 100-column garbage with visible
+ # "\x1B[38;2;..." runs and a wrapped box. `\g (format=unaligned ...)` hands the
+ # rows to the terminal with the real escape bytes intact and psql's aligner
+ # never sees them. This is the animation-path half of the fix; the stills path
+ # gets the same result from `psql -A`. Neither uses sed, which is where the
+ # old record.sh had its latent BSD/GNU divergence.
+ if [ -n "${DRV_TERMINATOR:-}" ]; then
+ parts[${#parts[@]}]=" $DRV_TERMINATOR"
+ fi
+ last_ix=$(( ${#parts[@]} - 1 ))
+
+ for (( ix=0; ix<=last_ix; ix++ )); do
+ line="${parts[$ix]}"
+ prev="$(drv_title)"
+ drv_type "$line"
+ drv_enter
+ set +e; newt="$(drv_wait_prompt "$prev")"; rc=$?; set -e
+ if [ "$ix" -lt "$last_ix" ]; then
+ # Mid-statement: PROMPT2 is what we want. PROMPT1 here would mean psql
+ # executed a fragment — a wrap bug, not a scene bug, but still fatal.
+ case $rc in
+ 1) drv_die "timeout waiting for the continuation prompt: $line" ;;
+ 0) drv_die "psql executed a wrapped fragment (bad line break): $line" ;;
+ esac
+ else
+ case $rc in
+ 1) drv_die "timeout after ${DRV_TIMEOUT_MS}ms waiting for the prompt: $sql" ;;
+ 2) drv_die "psql fell to the continuation prompt — unterminated statement: $sql" ;;
+ esac
+ fi
+ done
+}
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# drv_shot — truecolor snapshot of the VISIBLE pane.
+#
+# No `-S`: we want the screen as a viewer sees it, not the scrollback. This file
+# is verification input only and is never rendered into a committed asset.
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+drv_shot() {
+ mkdir -p "$(dirname "$1")"
+ drv_tmux capture-pane -e -p -t "$DRV_SESSION_ID" > "$1"
+}
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# drv_hold — the ONLY surviving sleep. A dramatic beat, never a sync.
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+drv_hold() { sleep "$1"; }
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# drv_run [sql] [markers] [hold]
+# type -> sync -> verify (lib/verify.sh) -> snapshot -> hold.
+# Falls back to DRV_SQL / DRV_MARKERS / DRV_HOLD when the extra arguments are
+# omitted, so a caller can loop over a scene table without associative arrays.
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+drv_run() {
+ local name="$1"
+ local sql="${2:-${DRV_SQL:-}}"
+ local markers="${3:-${DRV_MARKERS:-}}"
+ local hold="${4:-${DRV_HOLD:-2.0}}"
+ local terminator="${5:-${DRV_TERMINATOR:-}}"
+ local shot="$DRV_SHOT_DIR/$name.ansi"
+ local t0 t1
+
+ [ -n "$sql" ] || drv_die "scene '$name' has no SQL"
+
+ t0="$(drv_now_ms)"
+ DRV_TERMINATOR="$terminator" drv_submit "$sql" "${ASH_COLS:-100}"
+ t1="$(drv_now_ms)"
+
+ # Snapshot BEFORE the hold: the hold is dead time on the pane, and taking the
+ # shot first means a verification failure is reported without waiting it out.
+ drv_shot "$shot"
+
+ # The four shared assertions, identical to the ones the stills path runs.
+ # vfy_* exit 5 on failure; an animation-specific failure (sync) is exit 7.
+ vfy_scene "$shot" "$name" "$markers" "${ASH_COLS:-100}"
+
+ drv_log "ok $name $(( t1 - t0 ))ms hold ${hold}s"
+ drv_hold "$hold"
+}
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# drv_note [hold] — a narration beat between scenes.
+#
+# Typed as a SQL COMMENT, not `\echo`. Both work, but `\echo` prints the
+# command line AND its output, so every beat costs two lines of the frame and
+# reads like a stutter ("ash > \echo -- Q3: ..." / "-- Q3: ..."). A `--` line
+# leaves psql's buffer empty, prints one clean line, and still emits a fresh
+# PROMPT1 nonce — so it is prompt-synchronised exactly like a query.
+#
+# Sent whole rather than typed character by character. Two reasons, one
+# aesthetic and one hard: the human-typing flourish should be spent on the SQL,
+# which is the thing a viewer reads and copies; and every typed character is a
+# distinct terminal state and therefore a GIF frame — the narration and closing
+# lines are ~450 characters, about a third of the reel's frames, spent on prose.
+# Set DRV_TYPE_NARRATION=1 to type them out anyway.
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+drv_note() {
+ local text="$1" hold="${2:-0.8}"
+ local prev rc
+ prev="$(drv_title)"
+ if [ "${DRV_TYPE_NARRATION:-0}" = "1" ]; then
+ drv_type "$text"
+ else
+ # Trailing space: tmux eats a terminal ';' even in literal mode, and a
+ # trailing space is a no-op inside a comment.
+ drv_tmux send-keys -t "$DRV_SESSION_ID" -l -- "$text "
+ fi
+ drv_enter
+ set +e; drv_wait_prompt "$prev" 15000 >/dev/null; rc=$?; set -e
+ [ "$rc" -eq 0 ] || drv_die "narration did not return to the prompt: $text"
+ drv_hold "$hold"
+}
+
+# Backwards-compatible alias.
+drv_echo() { drv_note "$@"; }
diff --git a/demos/lib/env.sh b/demos/lib/env.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6d91842
--- /dev/null
+++ b/demos/lib/env.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,226 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+#
+# lib/env.sh — the single place where every ASH_* knob is resolved.
+#
+# Sourced (never executed) by every other script in demos/. It is deliberately
+# side-effect free apart from exporting variables and defining a handful of tiny
+# helpers: sourcing it twice must be harmless, because bin/ash-demo sources it
+# once and then each sub-script sources it again in its own process.
+#
+# Contract: §2.1 of the build spec. Anything that reads a raw PG* variable
+# outside lib/backend.sh is a bug — backend.sh owns the connection, this file
+# owns the harness configuration.
+#
+# bash 3.2 compatible (macOS ships 3.2): no associative arrays, no `mapfile`,
+# no `${var,,}`.
+
+# Guard against double-sourcing. Re-sourcing is harmless but pointless, and
+# skipping it keeps `ASH_*` values a caller exported by hand from being
+# recomputed.
+if [ "${ASH_ENV_SOURCED:-}" = "1" ]; then
+ return 0 2>/dev/null || true
+fi
+ASH_ENV_SOURCED=1
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Paths
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+#
+# Resolve the demos/ directory from this file's own location. No `readlink -f`
+# (GNU-only) and no `realpath` (not on stock macOS): `cd` + `pwd -P` is POSIX
+# and resolves symlinks on the way.
+ASH_LIB_DIR=$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" && pwd -P)
+ASH_DEMO_DIR=$(cd "$ASH_LIB_DIR/.." && pwd -P)
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Optional local overrides: demos/env.local
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+#
+# Sourced BEFORE any default is applied, so it can set anything below. It exists
+# for one reason: the harness is developed and reviewed out-of-tree (in a
+# scratch directory) before it is merged into the repo, and out there
+# `demos/../sql/ash-install.sql` does not exist. Rather than making every
+# invocation carry three `ASH_*=` prefixes, put them in one gitignored file.
+#
+# In a normal checkout this file is absent and nothing changes.
+if [ -f "$ASH_DEMO_DIR/env.local" ]; then
+ # shellcheck disable=SC1090,SC1091
+ . "$ASH_DEMO_DIR/env.local"
+fi
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Repository root
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+#
+# The repo root is where sql/ash-install.sql (or devel/scripts/ash_sql_chain.py)
+# lives. Normally that is demos/.., but the harness may be run from a copy that
+# sits outside the repo, so walk up a few levels looking for the marker before
+# falling back. Explicit ASH_REPO_ROOT always wins.
+if [ -z "${ASH_REPO_ROOT:-}" ]; then
+ _ash_probe=$ASH_DEMO_DIR
+ _ash_depth=0
+ while [ "$_ash_depth" -lt 5 ]; do
+ _ash_probe=$(cd "$_ash_probe/.." && pwd -P)
+ if [ -f "$_ash_probe/sql/ash-install.sql" ] \
+ || [ -f "$_ash_probe/devel/scripts/ash_sql_chain.py" ]; then
+ ASH_REPO_ROOT=$_ash_probe
+ break
+ fi
+ [ "$_ash_probe" = "/" ] && break
+ _ash_depth=$(( _ash_depth + 1 ))
+ done
+ : "${ASH_REPO_ROOT:=$(cd "$ASH_DEMO_DIR/.." && pwd -P)}"
+ unset _ash_probe _ash_depth
+fi
+
+export ASH_LIB_DIR ASH_DEMO_DIR ASH_REPO_ROOT
+
+# Working dir (gitignored) and the committed asset dir.
+#
+# ASH_ASSETS is demos/../assets — a SIBLING of demos/, not $ASH_REPO_ROOT/assets.
+# Those are the same directory in a real checkout, and deliberately different
+# when the harness is run out-of-tree against a read-only repo copy: the
+# installer is read from ASH_REPO_ROOT, but nothing is ever written there.
+: "${ASH_OUT:=$ASH_DEMO_DIR/out}"
+: "${ASH_ASSETS:=$(cd "$ASH_DEMO_DIR/.." && pwd -P)/assets}"
+: "${ASH_FONT_DIR:=$ASH_DEMO_DIR/fonts}"
+: "${ASH_THEME:=$ASH_DEMO_DIR/theme/pg_ash.json}"
+: "${ASH_SCENES:=$ASH_DEMO_DIR/scenes/scenes.tsv}"
+export ASH_OUT ASH_ASSETS ASH_FONT_DIR ASH_THEME ASH_SCENES
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Installer resolution
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+#
+# NEVER hardcode devel/sql/. During a development cycle the installer lives
+# under devel/sql/; at release-stamp time it is promoted to sql/ash-install.sql.
+# devel/scripts/ash_sql_chain.py is the repo's own authority on which is
+# current, so ask it when it exists and fall back to the released path when it
+# does not (which is the state of a freshly tagged tree).
+if [ -z "${ASH_INSTALL_SQL:-}" ]; then
+ if [ -x "$ASH_REPO_ROOT/devel/scripts/ash_sql_chain.py" ] \
+ || [ -f "$ASH_REPO_ROOT/devel/scripts/ash_sql_chain.py" ]; then
+ _ash_chain_path=$(cd "$ASH_REPO_ROOT" \
+ && python3 devel/scripts/ash_sql_chain.py fresh-install-path 2>/dev/null \
+ || true)
+ else
+ _ash_chain_path=""
+ fi
+ if [ -n "$_ash_chain_path" ]; then
+ case "$_ash_chain_path" in
+ /*) ASH_INSTALL_SQL=$_ash_chain_path ;;
+ *) ASH_INSTALL_SQL=$ASH_REPO_ROOT/$_ash_chain_path ;;
+ esac
+ else
+ ASH_INSTALL_SQL=$ASH_REPO_ROOT/sql/ash-install.sql
+ fi
+ unset _ash_chain_path
+fi
+export ASH_INSTALL_SQL
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Backend selection
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+: "${ASH_BACKEND:=local}" # local | docker | remote
+: "${ASH_DEMO_DB:=ash_demo}" # MUST match the ash_demo* house-rule glob
+: "${ASH_DEMO_CONTAINER:=ash_demo_pg}"
+: "${ASH_PG_MAJOR:=18}"
+# ASH_DEMO_PORT is left unset on purpose: lib/backend.sh probes 5500-5599 for a
+# free port at container-create time. Hardcoding a port is how two harness runs
+# collide on a shared machine.
+export ASH_BACKEND ASH_DEMO_DB ASH_DEMO_CONTAINER ASH_PG_MAJOR
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Capture / render geometry
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+: "${ASH_COLS:=100}" # hard column ceiling for BOTH capture paths (§2.5)
+: "${ASH_ROWS:=30}" # terminal rows, animation path only
+: "${ASH_SCALE:=2}" # PNG raster multiplier
+export ASH_COLS ASH_ROWS ASH_SCALE
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Seeding
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+: "${ASH_VMIN:=24}" # virtual minutes inside the query window
+: "${ASH_SPM:=12}" # samples per virtual minute => sample_interval = 60/SPM
+export ASH_VMIN ASH_SPM
+
+# Slack: virtual minutes of raw history seeded BEFORE the query window so the
+# raw-retention guardrail in ash.top()/ash.samples() cannot trip as the seed
+# ages between `make seed` and `make demo`.
+: "${ASH_VMIN_SLACK:=4}"
+export ASH_VMIN_SLACK
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Behaviour switches
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# ASH_SKIP_SEED=1 reuse an existing seed (the 8-second iteration loop)
+# ASH_KEEP_DB=1 do not drop the database on teardown
+# ASH_SVG_ONLY=1 skip PNG/GIF rasterisation (the fast CI gate)
+# ASH_REAL_TIME=1 skip restamping: seed in real wall-clock time (slow, but it
+# is the honesty escape hatch for release-grade assets)
+: "${ASH_SKIP_SEED:=}"
+: "${ASH_KEEP_DB:=}"
+: "${ASH_SVG_ONLY:=}"
+: "${ASH_REAL_TIME:=}"
+export ASH_SKIP_SEED ASH_KEEP_DB ASH_SVG_ONLY ASH_REAL_TIME
+
+# The frozen-window file (§2.2). NOT sourced here — seed.sh writes it, and the
+# capture paths source it explicitly so a missing file is a loud exit 3 rather
+# than a silently empty $ASH_SINCE.
+: "${ASH_WINDOW_ENV:=$ASH_OUT/window.env}"
+export ASH_WINDOW_ENV
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Tiny shared helpers
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+# ash_log — progress on stderr, so stdout stays capture-clean.
+ash_log() { printf ' %s\n' "$*" >&2; }
+
+# ash_step — a top-level step marker.
+ash_step() { printf '\033[36m==>\033[0m %s\n' "$*" >&2; }
+
+# ash_warn
+ash_warn() { printf '\033[33mwarn:\033[0m %s\n' "$*" >&2; }
+
+# ash_die — the ONLY way this harness exits non-zero.
+# Exit codes are the §2.6 vocabulary:
+# 1 usage/config 2 missing dependency 3 backend 4 seed assertion
+# 5 capture verification 6 render 7 animation sync
+ash_die() {
+ _code=$1; shift
+ printf '\033[31merror:\033[0m %s\n' "$*" >&2
+ exit "$_code"
+}
+
+# ash_have — quiet "is this on PATH" probe.
+ash_have() { command -v "$1" >/dev/null 2>&1; }
+
+# ash_now_ms — millisecond wall clock.
+# NEVER `date +%s%N`: BSD date has no %N and silently prints the literal "N".
+ash_now_ms() { python3 -c 'import time; print(int(time.time()*1000))'; }
+
+# ash_free_port — first TCP port in the range with no listener.
+# Pure python so it behaves the same on BSD and GNU userlands (`lsof`/`ss`
+# output formats differ; a bind() probe does not).
+ash_free_port() {
+ python3 - "$1" "$2" <<'PY'
+import socket, sys
+lo, hi = int(sys.argv[1]), int(sys.argv[2])
+for port in range(lo, hi + 1):
+ s = socket.socket()
+ try:
+ s.setsockopt(socket.SOL_SOCKET, socket.SO_REUSEADDR, 1)
+ s.bind(("127.0.0.1", port))
+ except OSError:
+ continue
+ finally:
+ s.close()
+ print(port)
+ sys.exit(0)
+sys.exit(1)
+PY
+}
+
+mkdir -p "$ASH_OUT"
diff --git a/demos/lib/psqlrc.demo b/demos/lib/psqlrc.demo
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f5cb3c0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/demos/lib/psqlrc.demo
@@ -0,0 +1,78 @@
+-- psqlrc.demo — psql startup file for the INTERACTIVE (animation) capture path.
+--
+-- Loaded as `PSQLRC=lib/psqlrc.demo psql ...` and deliberately WITHOUT `-X`.
+-- `-X` suppresses the startup file, which silently disables the whole prompt
+-- synchronisation mechanism below and turns every scene into a 60-second hang.
+-- (The scripted stills path uses lib/psqlrc.still instead.)
+--
+-- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+-- The synchronisation mechanism
+-- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+-- PROMPT1 opens with a NON-PRINTING OSC-2 "set window title" escape, produced
+-- by psql's back-tick expansion. The payload is `$$` — the PID of the shell
+-- psql popen()s to evaluate the back-ticks. psql forks a fresh shell for every
+-- prompt expansion, so every prompt carries a FRESH nonce.
+--
+-- tmux parses OSC 2 into #{pane_title}, which lib/driver.sh polls at 20 ms with
+-- `tmux display-message -p '#{pane_title}'` (O(1) — never capture the whole
+-- pane in the hot loop). Because the escape rides the same pty byte stream as
+-- the query output, tmux CANNOT observe the new title until it has consumed
+-- every preceding byte. Observing the flip is therefore PROOF that the query
+-- finished and its output is fully drawn — not a timing guess. That is the
+-- entire reason this file exists: no `sleep 4.6` anywhere in a scene.
+--
+-- PROMPT2 emits a DISTINGUISHABLE nonce (`ashcont-`). A scene that loses its
+-- semicolon then fails in ~30 ms with exit 7 instead of hanging for 60 s and
+-- recording a dead pane.
+--
+-- `%[` ... `%]` marks the sequence non-printing so psql's own line editor does
+-- not count it toward the prompt width. `%033` is psql's octal escape (see the
+-- PROMPT1 example in the psql reference page).
+--
+-- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+-- The visible prompt
+-- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+-- Per spec §3.4 both capture paths show the same prompt shape:
+-- "ash " in ui.prompt_accent (#50FA7B), "> " in ui.prompt_dim (#6272A4),
+-- then the SQL in ui.fg.
+-- PROMPT2 is three spaces, so a wrapped continuation lines up under the SQL
+-- instead of under a `-#` marker.
+--
+-- Colours are the literal 24-bit values from theme/pg_ash.json. They are the
+-- only hardcoded colours outside the theme file, and they are here because a
+-- psqlrc cannot read JSON; bin/record-demo.sh asserts they still agree with
+-- the theme before recording.
+
+\set QUIET on
+
+-- The pager is fatal to an automated recording: less(1) swallows the keystrokes
+-- the driver sends and the pane deadlocks.
+\pset pager off
+
+\pset border 2
+\pset linestyle unicode
+\pset unicode_border_linestyle single
+\pset unicode_column_linestyle single
+\pset unicode_header_linestyle single
+\pset null ''
+\pset format aligned
+\pset tuples_only off
+
+-- ash.chart() is the only 2.0 reader that emits colour. Turning it on at the
+-- session level means the scene SQL does not have to.
+set ash.color = on;
+
+-- Do not echo timing or the "SET" tag noise from this file.
+\timing off
+
+-- PROMPT1: OSC-2 nonce, then "ash > " in the theme colours.
+\set PROMPT1 '%[%`printf "\033]2;ashrdy-$$\007"`%]%[%033[38;2;80;250;123m%]ash %[%033[38;2;98;114;164m%]▸ %[%033[38;2;230;237;243m%]'
+
+-- PROMPT2: a DIFFERENT nonce (so an unterminated statement is detected, not
+-- waited on) and three spaces of visible indent.
+\set PROMPT2 '%[%`printf "\033]2;ashcont-$$\007"`%]%[%033[38;2;98;114;164m%] %[%033[38;2;230;237;243m%]'
+
+-- Continuation of a quoted string / comment: same nonce family, still detected.
+\set PROMPT3 '%[%`printf "\033]2;ashcont-$$\007"`%] '
+
+\unset QUIET
diff --git a/demos/lib/psqlrc.still b/demos/lib/psqlrc.still
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..58f9c54
--- /dev/null
+++ b/demos/lib/psqlrc.still
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+-- lib/psqlrc.still -- psql settings for the SCRIPTED stills capture.
+--
+-- Loaded with `PSQLRC=lib/psqlrc.still psql ...` and WITHOUT -X. `-X` suppresses
+-- the startup file entirely, which silently disables everything below; that is
+-- a non-obvious footgun and it cost a prototype a debugging cycle.
+--
+-- The one thing this file must NOT do is turn on psql's aligned formatter.
+-- psql's ALIGNED output escapes 0x1B to the four-character text "\x1B" and then
+-- measures column widths from the escaped text, so a 24-bit-coloured cell is
+-- padded as if it were ~60 characters wider than it draws. bin/capture-stills.sh
+-- therefore passes `-A -F ` on the command line and render/ansitable.py owns
+-- the alignment. Do not "fix" that by setting \pset format aligned here.
+
+\set QUIET on
+
+-- No pager: a pager would inject terminal control sequences and could block.
+\pset pager off
+
+-- No "(N rows)" footer. It is psql chrome, not pg_ash output, and it would
+-- have to be stripped downstream anyway.
+\pset footer off
+
+-- NULL renders as nothing, exactly as it does in a default psql session.
+-- (ash.top() leaves query_text NULL for non-query dimensions.)
+\pset null ''
+
+-- No timing line, no border chatter: the box is drawn by ansitable.py from the
+-- theme, so psql's own border style is irrelevant and must not leak in.
+\timing off
+
+-- Errors must abort. A partial capture that still "looks fine" is the failure
+-- mode this whole harness exists to make impossible.
+\set ON_ERROR_STOP on
+
+-- Keep every byte pg_ash emits. psql's own colourisation (PSQL_COLOR) would add
+-- SGR that pg_ash did not write, and the stills are meant to be evidence of
+-- what pg_ash prints.
+\unset PROMPT1
+\unset PROMPT2
+
+\set QUIET off
diff --git a/demos/lib/scenes.sh b/demos/lib/scenes.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5ec76f9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/demos/lib/scenes.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,242 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+#
+# lib/scenes.sh — parse, validate and expand scenes/scenes.tsv.
+#
+# Shared by BOTH capture paths. bin/capture-stills.sh and bin/record-demo.sh
+# must get their SQL from here and nowhere else; the moment one of them
+# hardcodes a query the stills and the reel can disagree about what pg_ash
+# says, which is precisely the failure this harness exists to remove.
+#
+# Public API (all bash 3.2 safe, all print to stdout):
+#
+# scenes_validate validate the file; exit 1 on any violation
+# scenes_names every scene name, file order, one per line
+# scenes_reel_names reel scenes only, ascending reel_order
+# scenes_field hold | reel_order | title | markers | sql
+# scenes_sql SQL with the window literals substituted
+# scenes_template SQL with $SINCE etc. INTACT — this is what
+# the prompt line renders (§3.4); an expanded
+# ISO timestamp on the prompt line is noise
+# and was a named defect in a prototype
+# scenes_markers markers, one per line
+#
+# Sourced, never executed.
+
+# shellcheck source=lib/env.sh
+. "$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" && pwd -P)/env.sh"
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Reading
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+#
+# One awk-free reader: `while IFS=$'\t' read -r` splits on tabs and nothing
+# else, which is what a TSV means. Blank lines and `#` comments are skipped.
+# Every consumer goes through _scenes_each so the skipping rules live once.
+_scenes_each() {
+ # Feeds "nameholdordertitlemarkerssql" on stdout.
+ [ -f "$ASH_SCENES" ] || ash_die 1 "scene file not found: $ASH_SCENES"
+ local name hold order title markers sql
+ while IFS=$'\t' read -r name hold order title markers sql; do
+ case "$name" in
+ ''|'#'*) continue ;;
+ esac
+ printf '%s\t%s\t%s\t%s\t%s\t%s\n' \
+ "$name" "$hold" "$order" "$title" "$markers" "$sql"
+ done <"$ASH_SCENES"
+}
+
+scenes_names() {
+ _scenes_each | while IFS=$'\t' read -r name _rest; do
+ printf '%s\n' "$name"
+ done
+}
+
+# Reel scenes, ascending reel_order. `sort -n` on a leading numeric key: no
+# locale trouble because the key is digits only.
+scenes_reel_names() {
+ _scenes_each | while IFS=$'\t' read -r name hold order _rest; do
+ case "$order" in
+ 0|'') continue ;;
+ esac
+ printf '%s\t%s\n' "$order" "$name"
+ done | sort -n | while IFS=$'\t' read -r _order name; do
+ printf '%s\n' "$name"
+ done
+}
+
+# scenes_field
+scenes_field() {
+ local want=$1 field=$2 found=0
+ local name hold order title markers sql
+ while IFS=$'\t' read -r name hold order title markers sql; do
+ [ "$name" = "$want" ] || continue
+ found=1
+ case "$field" in
+ hold) printf '%s\n' "$hold" ;;
+ reel_order) printf '%s\n' "$order" ;;
+ title) printf '%s\n' "$title" ;;
+ markers) printf '%s\n' "$markers" ;;
+ sql) printf '%s\n' "$sql" ;;
+ *) ash_die 1 "scenes_field: unknown field '$field'" ;;
+ esac
+ break
+ done <&2
+ errors=$((errors + 1)) ;;
+ esac
+
+ case " $seen " in
+ *" $name "*)
+ printf 'scenes: duplicate scene name "%s"\n' "$name" >&2
+ errors=$((errors + 1)) ;;
+ esac
+ seen="$seen $name"
+
+ case "$hold" in
+ ''|*[!0-9.]*)
+ printf 'scenes[%s]: hold "%s" is not a number\n' "$name" "$hold" >&2
+ errors=$((errors + 1)) ;;
+ esac
+
+ case "$order" in
+ ''|*[!0-9]*)
+ printf 'scenes[%s]: reel_order "%s" is not an integer\n' "$name" "$order" >&2
+ errors=$((errors + 1)) ;;
+ esac
+
+ if [ -z "$title" ]; then
+ printf 'scenes[%s]: empty title\n' "$name" >&2
+ errors=$((errors + 1))
+ fi
+
+ if [ -z "$markers" ]; then
+ printf 'scenes[%s]: no markers — a scene with no marker cannot fail, and a check that cannot fail is not a check\n' "$name" >&2
+ errors=$((errors + 1))
+ fi
+
+ if [ -z "$sql" ]; then
+ printf 'scenes[%s]: empty sql\n' "$name" >&2
+ errors=$((errors + 1))
+ fi
+
+ # `select *` is banned: an unprojected reader blows the 100-column budget
+ # the moment pg_ash adds a column, and it does so silently.
+ case "$sql" in
+ *'select *'*|*'SELECT *'*)
+ printf 'scenes[%s]: `select *` is banned — project the columns you want\n' "$name" >&2
+ errors=$((errors + 1)) ;;
+ esac
+
+ # now() in scene SQL destroys the frozen-window contract.
+ case "$sql" in
+ *now\(\)*|*clock_timestamp\(\)*)
+ printf 'scenes[%s]: scene SQL may not call now()/clock_timestamp() — use the window literals\n' "$name" >&2
+ errors=$((errors + 1)) ;;
+ esac
+ done </dev/null || true)
+ if [ -n "$hits" ]; then
+ printf 'scenes: removed v1.x reader referenced in:\n%s\n' "$hits" >&2
+ return 1
+ fi
+ return 0
+}
diff --git a/demos/lib/seed.sh b/demos/lib/seed.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..cd6a3e1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/demos/lib/seed.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,449 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+#
+# lib/seed.sh — build a frozen incident window in a real PostgreSQL, fast.
+#
+# The trick, in one sentence: run real pgbench load, sample it with pg_ash's own
+# ash.take_sample(), and then move the timestamps of the samples we just took
+# into the virtual minute they represent. One real second of load becomes one
+# virtual minute of history, so 28 minutes of believable ASH arrives in ~20
+# seconds instead of ~28 real minutes.
+#
+# What is real: every sample, every wait event, every query id, every count.
+# What is shaped: which samples exist, and when they are considered to have
+# been taken. See the honesty boundary at the top of lib/seed.sql.
+#
+# The story the seeder tells, in virtual minutes:
+#
+# 1 .. 4 calm read-only baseline <- SLACK, outside the query window,
+# so the raw-retention guardrail in
+# the drill readers cannot trip as
+# the seed ages
+# 5 .. 12 calm read-only baseline <- the compare() baseline window
+# 13 .. 17 STORM row-lock contention <- the incident
+# 18 .. 20 tail mixed write recovery
+# 21 .. 28 busy read/IO load
+#
+# Exit codes: 3 backend, 4 seed assertion. (§2.6)
+
+set -Eeuo pipefail
+
+ASH_SEED_LIB_DIR=$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" && pwd -P)
+# shellcheck source=lib/backend.sh
+. "$ASH_SEED_LIB_DIR/backend.sh"
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Phase plan. Virtual-minute counts; they must sum to ASH_VMIN + ASH_VMIN_SLACK.
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+: "${ASH_PH_BASELINE:=12}" # 4 slack + 8 in-window calm minutes
+: "${ASH_PH_STORM:=5}"
+: "${ASH_PH_RECOVERY:=3}"
+: "${ASH_PH_READIO:=8}"
+
+# pgbench shape. Kept as knobs because "make the spike legible" is a tuning
+# problem and tuning through edits to a 200-line script is miserable.
+#
+# The calm phases are deliberately under-provisioned relative to the storm: the
+# shape assertion demands storm peak_aas >= 3x the median calm minute, and a
+# calm baseline that is itself busy eats the whole margin. Measured on this
+# hardware: 4 calm clients -> ~3 AAS, 12 storm clients -> ~15 peak AAS, so the
+# ratio lands near 5x with room for a loaded machine.
+# These numbers are also a PICTURE decision, not just a load decision.
+# ash.chart() ranks its series by total AAS over the whole window, so a heavy
+# calm phase does not merely look busy — it pushes both Lock waits out of the
+# top four and the flagship chart draws the five-minute incident as an anonymous
+# column of "Other" dots. Measured here: baseline at 4 clients gave a 3.7 AAS
+# calm floor and CPU* outranked Lock:transactionid over the 24-minute window.
+# At 2/2 clients the calm floor stays near 1 AAS on both local and Docker
+# Linux hosts, leaving enough full-window weight for Lock:transactionid AND
+# Lock:tuple to survive into the chart's top four. 3/3 passed most runs but
+# failed this exact gate on a hosted PG16 runner when Lock:tuple ranked fifth.
+# lib/shape.sql assertion 7 fails the seed if this balance ever slips again.
+: "${ASH_LOAD_BASELINE_CLIENTS:=2}"
+: "${ASH_LOAD_BASELINE_JOBS:=2}"
+: "${ASH_LOAD_STORM_CLIENTS:=12}"
+: "${ASH_LOAD_STORM_JOBS:=4}"
+: "${ASH_LOAD_STORM_BG_CLIENTS:=3}"
+: "${ASH_LOAD_RECOVERY_CLIENTS:=4}"
+: "${ASH_LOAD_READIO_CLIENTS:=2}"
+: "${ASH_LOAD_READIO_JOBS:=2}"
+# Rows scanned per read transaction. See lib/workload_read.sql for why the read
+# phases are range aggregates rather than `-b select-only`.
+: "${ASH_READ_SPAN_CALM:=1500}"
+: "${ASH_READ_SPAN_TAIL:=5000}"
+: "${ASH_PGBENCH_SCALE:=20}"
+
+ASH_VMIN_TOTAL=$(( ASH_VMIN + ASH_VMIN_SLACK ))
+
+# Hard ceiling (real seconds) on any single background pgbench. The phase ends
+# when the SAMPLER says so and load_stop tears the client down; this is only a
+# seatbelt against an orphaned client if the harness is killed outright.
+if [ -z "${ASH_LOAD_CAP:-}" ]; then
+ if [ "${ASH_REAL_TIME:-}" = "1" ]; then
+ ASH_LOAD_CAP=$(( ASH_VMIN_TOTAL * 60 + 120 ))
+ else
+ ASH_LOAD_CAP=120
+ fi
+fi
+
+# Real seconds slept between samples inside a virtual minute.
+: "${ASH_SAMPLE_DELAY:=0.04}"
+
+ASH_PGBENCH_LOG="$ASH_OUT/pgbench.log"
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Background load management
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+#
+# bash 3.2: no arrays of substance needed, a space-separated pid list is plenty.
+ASH_LOAD_PIDS=""
+
+# load_start — start a pgbench in the background.
+# -T is deliberately generous: the phase ends when the SAMPLER says so, and
+# load_stop tears the client down. Guessing a duration is how the old harness
+# ended up with half-drawn frames.
+load_start() {
+ local label=$1; shift
+ {
+ echo "--- $label: pgbench $* ---"
+ } >>"$ASH_PGBENCH_LOG"
+ PGAPPNAME=ash_demo_load pgbench "$@" >>"$ASH_PGBENCH_LOG" 2>&1 &
+ ASH_LOAD_PIDS="$ASH_LOAD_PIDS $!"
+}
+
+# load_stop — stop every background pgbench and reap it.
+#
+# SIGTERM, not SIGINT. POSIX says a non-interactive shell starts background
+# jobs with SIGINT and SIGQUIT set to SIG_IGN, so `kill -INT` on a backgrounded
+# pgbench is silently a no-op and `wait` then blocks for the whole -T duration.
+# That cost one debugging cycle: the first run of this seeder sat for 600
+# seconds waiting for a phase that had already finished sampling.
+load_stop() {
+ local pid alive
+ for pid in $ASH_LOAD_PIDS; do
+ kill -TERM "$pid" 2>/dev/null || true
+ done
+ # Give pgbench a beat to close its connections, then insist.
+ alive=0
+ for pid in $ASH_LOAD_PIDS; do
+ if kill -0 "$pid" 2>/dev/null; then alive=1; fi
+ done
+ if [ "$alive" = "1" ]; then
+ python3 -c 'import time; time.sleep(0.3)'
+ for pid in $ASH_LOAD_PIDS; do
+ kill -KILL "$pid" 2>/dev/null || true
+ done
+ fi
+ for pid in $ASH_LOAD_PIDS; do
+ wait "$pid" 2>/dev/null || true
+ done
+ ASH_LOAD_PIDS=""
+ # Belt: a pgbench killed mid-transaction can leave a backend finishing its
+ # statement. Terminate anything still tagged as demo load so the next phase
+ # starts from a known state.
+ ash_psql1 "
+ select count(pg_terminate_backend(activity.pid))
+ from pg_stat_activity as activity
+ where activity.application_name = 'ash_demo_load'
+ and activity.datname = current_database()
+ and activity.pid <> pg_backend_pid()" >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
+}
+
+# load_wait_ready — block until the workload is actually running.
+#
+# Deterministic pacing applies to the LOAD too, not just to the terminal. A
+# pgbench takes a few hundred milliseconds to connect and warm, and a virtual
+# minute here is only ~0.5 real seconds: start sampling too early and the first
+# virtual minute records an idle system, which is both a lie and (because
+# restamp insists every minute carries samples) a hard failure.
+load_wait_ready() {
+ local want=$1 deadline seen
+ deadline=$(( $(ash_now_ms) + 15000 ))
+ while [ "$(ash_now_ms)" -lt "$deadline" ]; do
+ seen=$(ash_psql1 "
+ select count(*)
+ from pg_stat_activity as activity
+ where activity.datname = current_database()
+ and activity.application_name = 'ash_demo_load'
+ and activity.state = 'active'" 2>/dev/null || echo 0)
+ if [ "${seen:-0}" -ge "$want" ]; then
+ return 0
+ fi
+ python3 -c 'import time; time.sleep(0.05)'
+ done
+ ash_die 3 "workload never reached $want active backend(s) — is the cluster overloaded?"
+}
+
+trap 'load_stop' EXIT INT TERM
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# The sampler: one session, one phase.
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+#
+# PGAPPNAME tags it so ash_demo.reset_state() can find and terminate a
+# straggler from an interrupted run. Exactly ONE of these may be alive at a
+# time: a second sampler shows up in the first one's samples as Timeout:PgSleep
+# at ~27% and destroys the story.
+run_phase() {
+ local start_idx=$1 n_minutes=$2
+ PGAPPNAME=ash_demo_sampler psql -X -v ON_ERROR_STOP=1 -d "$ASH_DEMO_DB" -q -c \
+ "call ash_demo.phase($ASH_BASE_TS, $start_idx, $n_minutes, $ASH_SPM,
+ $ASH_SAMPLE_DELAY, $ASH_RESTAMP_ON)" \
+ || ash_die 4 "sampling phase starting at virtual minute $start_idx failed"
+}
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# seed_main
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+seed_main() {
+ local t0 t_ready
+ t0=$(ash_now_ms)
+
+ [ $(( ASH_PH_BASELINE + ASH_PH_STORM + ASH_PH_RECOVERY + ASH_PH_READIO )) \
+ -eq "$ASH_VMIN_TOTAL" ] \
+ || ash_die 1 "phase plan sums to $(( ASH_PH_BASELINE + ASH_PH_STORM + ASH_PH_RECOVERY + ASH_PH_READIO )) virtual minutes but ASH_VMIN+ASH_VMIN_SLACK is $ASH_VMIN_TOTAL"
+
+ : >"$ASH_PGBENCH_LOG"
+
+ # -- Helper schema ---------------------------------------------------------
+ ash_step "installing ash_demo helper schema"
+ ash_psql -q -f "$ASH_SEED_LIB_DIR/seed.sql" \
+ || ash_die 3 "could not install $ASH_SEED_LIB_DIR/seed.sql"
+
+ # -- Sampling cadence ------------------------------------------------------
+ #
+ # sample_interval = 60 / ASH_SPM makes the AAS arithmetic exact:
+ # backend_seconds = samples x interval, so ASH_SPM samples at that declared
+ # interval is precisely one virtual minute of backend-seconds. Get this wrong
+ # and every AAS in the demo is subtly, unfalsifiably off.
+ ASH_INTERVAL_SECS=$(python3 -c "print(60.0/$ASH_SPM)")
+
+ # -- Where the frozen window sits on the clock -----------------------------
+ #
+ # The window ENDS at the top of the current hour. That is not cosmetic: it
+ # guarantees the seeded history lies entirely inside a COMPLETED clock hour,
+ # which is the only thing ash.rollup_hour() will roll. Without a rollup_1h
+ # row the wide periods (1h/1d/1w/1mo) in ash.periods() have no source and
+ # come back empty — a silent, ugly failure.
+ ASH_BASE_TS=$(ash_psql1 "
+ select ash.ts_from_timestamptz(date_trunc('hour', now()))
+ - $(( ASH_VMIN_TOTAL * 60 ))")
+ [ -n "$ASH_BASE_TS" ] || ash_die 3 "could not resolve the virtual window base timestamp"
+
+ if [ "${ASH_REAL_TIME:-}" = "1" ]; then
+ # The honesty escape hatch: no restamping, real wall-clock pacing. One
+ # virtual minute costs one real minute, so a full seed is ~28 minutes.
+ ASH_RESTAMP_ON=false
+ ASH_SAMPLE_DELAY=$ASH_INTERVAL_SECS
+ ASH_BASE_TS=$(ash_psql1 "select ash.ts_from_timestamptz(date_trunc('minute', now()))")
+ ash_warn "ASH_REAL_TIME=1: sampling in real time, this will take ~$ASH_VMIN_TOTAL minutes"
+ else
+ ASH_RESTAMP_ON=true
+ fi
+
+ # -- Load fixtures ---------------------------------------------------------
+ #
+ # pgbench -i first: the storm needs a real table with a real contended row,
+ # and the read phases need enough data that IO waits are genuine rather than
+ # a fully cached fiction.
+ ash_step "initialising pgbench fixtures (scale $ASH_PGBENCH_SCALE)"
+ PGAPPNAME=ash_demo_init pgbench -i -s "$ASH_PGBENCH_SCALE" -q \
+ >>"$ASH_PGBENCH_LOG" 2>&1 \
+ || ash_die 3 "pgbench -i failed; see $ASH_PGBENCH_LOG"
+
+ # -- Reset -----------------------------------------------------------------
+ ash_step "resetting pg_ash state (samples, rollups, rollup watermarks)"
+ ash_psql -q -c "call ash_demo.reset_state($ASH_INTERVAL_SECS)" \
+ || ash_die 3 "ash_demo.reset_state failed"
+ # pg_stat_statements is reset here so the demo's query texts come only from
+ # the demo's own workload; the installer's DDL never shows up in a drill.
+ ash_psql -q -c "select pg_stat_statements_reset()" >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
+
+ t_ready=$(ash_now_ms)
+ ash_log "setup took $(( (t_ready - t0) )) ms"
+
+ # =========================================================================
+ # PHASE 1 — calm baseline, READ ONLY on purpose.
+ #
+ # READ ONLY, not the default TPC-B. Default TPC-B at a low scale gives
+ # 6-9 AAS of Lock:transactionid because every client fights over the handful
+ # of pgbench_branches rows, and then "calm" looks exactly like the incident.
+ # A prototype shipped precisely that mistake. Calm must actually look calm.
+ # =========================================================================
+ ash_step "phase 1/4 baseline — $ASH_PH_BASELINE virtual minutes, read-only"
+ load_start baseline -c "$ASH_LOAD_BASELINE_CLIENTS" -j "$ASH_LOAD_BASELINE_JOBS" \
+ -T $ASH_LOAD_CAP -n -f "$ASH_SEED_LIB_DIR/workload_read.sql" \
+ -D span="$ASH_READ_SPAN_CALM"
+ load_wait_ready 1
+ run_phase 1 "$ASH_PH_BASELINE"
+ load_stop
+
+ # =========================================================================
+ # PHASE 2 — the incident: a row-lock storm on one contended row, plus a
+ # little ordinary write traffic so the picture is a real system under stress
+ # and not a synthetic monoculture.
+ # =========================================================================
+ ash_step "phase 2/4 lock storm — $ASH_PH_STORM virtual minutes, $ASH_LOAD_STORM_CLIENTS contending clients"
+ load_start storm -c "$ASH_LOAD_STORM_CLIENTS" -j "$ASH_LOAD_STORM_JOBS" \
+ -T $ASH_LOAD_CAP -n -f "$ASH_SEED_LIB_DIR/workload_lock.sql"
+ load_start storm_bg -c "$ASH_LOAD_STORM_BG_CLIENTS" -j 1 -T $ASH_LOAD_CAP -n
+ load_wait_ready 2
+ run_phase $(( ASH_PH_BASELINE + 1 )) "$ASH_PH_STORM"
+ load_stop
+
+ # =========================================================================
+ # PHASE 3 — recovery: ordinary read/write TPC-B. Contributes the
+ # Client:ClientRead / IdleTx population (pgbench's explicit BEGIN..END leaves
+ # backends idle-in-transaction between statements, which is a genuine and
+ # very common production wait).
+ # =========================================================================
+ ash_step "phase 3/4 recovery — $ASH_PH_RECOVERY virtual minutes, mixed write load"
+ load_start recovery -c "$ASH_LOAD_RECOVERY_CLIENTS" -j 2 -T $ASH_LOAD_CAP -n
+ load_wait_ready 1
+ run_phase $(( ASH_PH_BASELINE + ASH_PH_STORM + 1 )) "$ASH_PH_RECOVERY"
+ load_stop
+
+ # =========================================================================
+ # PHASE 4 — busy read/IO tail.
+ # =========================================================================
+ ash_step "phase 4/4 read tail — $ASH_PH_READIO virtual minutes, $ASH_LOAD_READIO_CLIENTS readers"
+ load_start readio -c "$ASH_LOAD_READIO_CLIENTS" -j "$ASH_LOAD_READIO_JOBS" \
+ -T $ASH_LOAD_CAP -n -f "$ASH_SEED_LIB_DIR/workload_read.sql" \
+ -D span="$ASH_READ_SPAN_TAIL"
+ load_wait_ready 1
+ run_phase $(( ASH_PH_BASELINE + ASH_PH_STORM + ASH_PH_RECOVERY + 1 )) "$ASH_PH_READIO"
+ load_stop
+
+ # =========================================================================
+ # Rollups — through pg_ash's own functions, so the source-selection path
+ # behaves exactly as it does in production. rollup_minute() caps its catch-up
+ # per call, so call it twice; rollup_hour() then folds the completed hour.
+ # =========================================================================
+ ash_step "rolling up"
+ ash_psql -q -c "select ash.rollup_minute($(( ASH_VMIN_TOTAL * 60 )))" >/dev/null
+ ash_psql -q -c "select ash.rollup_minute($(( ASH_VMIN_TOTAL * 60 )))" >/dev/null
+ ash_psql -q -c "select ash.rollup_hour()" >/dev/null
+
+ # =========================================================================
+ # Shape assertions (§6.3). A demo can be free of errors and still be boring
+ # or wrong; these are the checks that say the STORY is present.
+ # =========================================================================
+ ash_step "asserting the shape of the seeded window"
+ seed_assert_shape
+
+ # =========================================================================
+ # The frozen-window contract (§2.2) — written LAST, on purpose. Both capture
+ # paths refuse to run without it, and refuse to run if it is older than the
+ # newest row in ash.sample.
+ # =========================================================================
+ seed_write_window_env
+
+ ash_step "seed complete in $(( ($(ash_now_ms) - t0) / 1000 )).$(( (($(ash_now_ms) - t0) / 100) % 10 ))s"
+}
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# seed_assert_shape — run lib/shape.sql with the window literals bound.
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+seed_assert_shape() {
+ psql -X -v ON_ERROR_STOP=1 -d "$ASH_DEMO_DB" -q \
+ -v base_ts="$ASH_BASE_TS" \
+ -v vmin="$ASH_VMIN" \
+ -v vmin_slack="$ASH_VMIN_SLACK" \
+ -v vmin_total="$ASH_VMIN_TOTAL" \
+ -v ph_baseline="$ASH_PH_BASELINE" \
+ -v ph_storm="$ASH_PH_STORM" \
+ -f "$ASH_SEED_LIB_DIR/shape.sql" \
+ || ash_die 4 "seed shape assertions failed — the window does not tell the story"
+}
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# seed_write_window_env — emit out/window.env
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+#
+# Every literal is produced by PostgreSQL from the same base timestamp the
+# seeder used, formatted with an explicit UTC offset so it round-trips into a
+# psql query without depending on the reader's TimeZone. No script may call
+# now() in scene SQL. Ever.
+seed_write_window_env() {
+ local storm_event
+ # The dominant wait event of the storm window, measured rather than assumed.
+ # Exported so scenes.tsv can drill on it by name and so the marker assertions
+ # test the real thing.
+ storm_event=$(ash_psql1 "
+ select top_row.key
+ from ash.top('wait_event',
+ ash.ts_to_timestamptz($(( ASH_BASE_TS )) + $(( ASH_PH_BASELINE * 60 ))),
+ ash.ts_to_timestamptz($(( ASH_BASE_TS )) + $(( (ASH_PH_BASELINE + ASH_PH_STORM) * 60 ))),
+ n => 1) as top_row")
+
+ ash_psql -tA -F '' -o "$ASH_WINDOW_ENV" -c "
+ with bounds as (
+ select
+ ash.ts_to_timestamptz($ASH_BASE_TS + $(( ASH_VMIN_SLACK * 60 ))) as since,
+ ash.ts_to_timestamptz($ASH_BASE_TS + $(( ASH_VMIN_TOTAL * 60 ))) as until_ts,
+ ash.ts_to_timestamptz($ASH_BASE_TS + $(( ASH_VMIN_SLACK * 60 ))) as base_since,
+ ash.ts_to_timestamptz($ASH_BASE_TS + $(( ASH_PH_BASELINE * 60 ))) as base_until,
+ ash.ts_to_timestamptz($ASH_BASE_TS + $(( ASH_PH_BASELINE * 60 ))) as storm_since,
+ ash.ts_to_timestamptz($ASH_BASE_TS + $(( (ASH_PH_BASELINE + ASH_PH_STORM) * 60 ))) as storm_until
+ )
+ select
+ '# demos/out/window.env — the frozen incident window.' || e'\n' ||
+ '# Written by demos/lib/seed.sh. Sourced by BOTH capture paths.' || e'\n' ||
+ '# Every scene SQL uses these literals; nothing in demos/ may call now().' || e'\n' ||
+ 'ASH_SINCE=' || quote_literal(to_char(bounds.since, 'YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SSOF')) || e'\n' ||
+ 'ASH_UNTIL=' || quote_literal(to_char(bounds.until_ts, 'YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SSOF')) || e'\n' ||
+ 'ASH_BASE_SINCE=' || quote_literal(to_char(bounds.base_since, 'YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SSOF')) || e'\n' ||
+ 'ASH_BASE_UNTIL=' || quote_literal(to_char(bounds.base_until, 'YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SSOF')) || e'\n' ||
+ 'ASH_STORM_SINCE=' || quote_literal(to_char(bounds.storm_since, 'YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SSOF')) || e'\n' ||
+ 'ASH_STORM_UNTIL=' || quote_literal(to_char(bounds.storm_until, 'YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SSOF')) || e'\n' ||
+ 'ASH_STORM_EVENT=' || quote_literal('$storm_event') || e'\n' ||
+ 'ASH_STORM_QUERY_ID=' || quote_literal((
+ select top_row.key
+ from ash.top('query_id', bounds.storm_since, bounds.storm_until,
+ wait_event => '$storm_event', n => 1) as top_row)) || e'\n' ||
+ 'ASH_COMPRESSION=' || quote_literal(
+ case when '${ASH_REAL_TIME:-0}' = '1' then 'real time (no compression)'
+ else '1 real second = 1 virtual minute' end) || e'\n' ||
+ 'ASH_SEED_EPOCH=' || quote_literal(extract(epoch from now())::bigint::text) || e'\n' ||
+ 'ASH_SEED_MAX_TS=' || quote_literal((select max(sample_ts) from ash.sample)::text) || e'\n' ||
+ 'ASH_PG_VERSION=' || quote_literal(current_setting('server_version')) || e'\n' ||
+ 'ASH_ASH_VERSION=' || quote_literal((select config.version from ash.config as config)) || e'\n' ||
+ 'ASH_DEMO_DB_NAME=' || quote_literal(current_database())
+ from bounds"
+
+ ash_log "wrote $ASH_WINDOW_ENV"
+}
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# window_env_load — used by the capture paths (and by `ash-demo check`).
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+#
+# Exit 3 when the file is missing or stale. "Stale" means: the newest row in
+# ash.sample is newer than the seed recorded, i.e. somebody re-seeded or the
+# sampler ran again and the literals no longer describe the data.
+window_env_load() {
+ [ -f "$ASH_WINDOW_ENV" ] \
+ || ash_die 3 "missing $ASH_WINDOW_ENV — run 'make seed' first"
+ # shellcheck disable=SC1090
+ . "$ASH_WINDOW_ENV"
+ export ASH_SINCE ASH_UNTIL ASH_BASE_SINCE ASH_BASE_UNTIL \
+ ASH_STORM_SINCE ASH_STORM_UNTIL ASH_STORM_EVENT ASH_STORM_QUERY_ID \
+ ASH_COMPRESSION ASH_SEED_EPOCH ASH_PG_VERSION ASH_ASH_VERSION
+}
+
+# window_env_check_fresh — the database half of the freshness contract.
+# Separated from window_env_load so a no-database consumer (make check) can
+# read the literals without needing a server.
+window_env_check_fresh() {
+ local live_max
+ live_max=$(ash_psql1 "select coalesce(max(sample_ts), -1) from ash.sample") \
+ || ash_die 3 "cannot reach the demo database to validate $ASH_WINDOW_ENV"
+ if [ "$live_max" != "${ASH_SEED_MAX_TS:-}" ]; then
+ ash_die 3 "$ASH_WINDOW_ENV is stale: it was written for max(sample_ts)=${ASH_SEED_MAX_TS:-none} but the database holds $live_max — re-run 'make seed'"
+ fi
+}
+
+# Executed directly (bin/ash-demo seed) rather than sourced?
+if [ "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" = "${0}" ]; then
+ backend_up
+ seed_main
+fi
diff --git a/demos/lib/seed.sql b/demos/lib/seed.sql
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f51cba5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/demos/lib/seed.sql
@@ -0,0 +1,225 @@
+/*
+ * lib/seed.sql — the ash_demo helper schema used by lib/seed.sh.
+ *
+ * ===========================================================================
+ * HONESTY BOUNDARY (restated verbatim in demos/README.md)
+ * ===========================================================================
+ * The harness shapes WHICH real samples exist and WHEN they are considered to
+ * have been taken. Every number in every asset is pg_ash aggregating its own
+ * stored samples, written by ash.take_sample() from real pg_stat_activity over
+ * real pgbench backends. No reader output is edited. The time compression
+ * ratio (1 real second = 1 virtual minute) is stated in demos/README.md.
+ * ASH_REAL_TIME=1 skips the restamp and runs in real time.
+ *
+ * Concretely, the only liberty taken is the UPDATE in ash_demo.restamp():
+ * it rewrites ash.sample.sample_ts. It never invents a row, never edits an
+ * active_count, and never touches the packed data[] array — the wait events
+ * and query ids in every sample are exactly what pg_stat_activity reported.
+ * ===========================================================================
+ *
+ * Style note: this file follows the project SQL style guide (lower case
+ * keywords, explicit aliases, no `select *` in shipped queries).
+ */
+
+create schema if not exists ash_demo;
+
+comment on schema ash_demo is
+ 'pg_ash demo harness scratch schema. Created by demos/lib/seed.sql; '
+ 'dropped with the demo database. Not part of pg_ash.';
+
+/* ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ * ash_demo.batch(n, delay)
+ *
+ * Take `n` real samples through pg_ash's own sampler, committing between each
+ * so ash.take_sample() sees a fresh now() (it timestamps from transaction
+ * start, not clock_timestamp) and so its transaction-level advisory lock is
+ * released between ticks.
+ *
+ * The calling session is invisible to its own samples: take_sample() filters
+ * `pid <> pg_backend_pid()`. That is what keeps the seeder out of the picture
+ * and is why the harness must sample from exactly ONE session — a second
+ * sampler shows up in the first one's data as Timeout:PgSleep and pollutes
+ * the whole story.
+ * ------------------------------------------------------------------------ */
+create or replace procedure ash_demo.batch(n int, delay numeric)
+language plpgsql
+as $$
+declare
+ v_i int;
+begin
+ for v_i in 1 .. n loop
+ perform ash.take_sample();
+ commit;
+ if delay > 0 then
+ perform pg_sleep(delay);
+ end if;
+ end loop;
+end;
+$$;
+
+/* ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ * ash_demo.restamp(watermark, base_ts, idx)
+ *
+ * Move every sample written since `watermark` into virtual minute `idx`
+ * (1-based) of the seeded history that starts at `base_ts`, spread evenly
+ * across that minute's 60 seconds.
+ *
+ * `watermark` is the epoch-offset of clock_timestamp() taken immediately
+ * BEFORE the batch. Every already-restamped row sits in the past (the seeded
+ * window ends at the top of the current hour, always <= now), so
+ * `sample_ts >= watermark` selects exactly the rows this batch wrote.
+ *
+ * Ordering is row_number() over (sample_ts, datid, active_count) — and it MUST
+ * be row_number(), not dense_rank(). A tight sampling loop routinely fires
+ * several ticks inside the same wall-clock second; dense_rank() collapses
+ * those onto one virtual second, so the minute reports fewer distinct samples
+ * than it holds backend counts for and AAS inflates by the sampling multiple.
+ * A prototype hit exactly this and measured a 10x error.
+ * ------------------------------------------------------------------------ */
+create or replace procedure ash_demo.restamp(
+ watermark int4,
+ base_ts int4,
+ idx int
+)
+language plpgsql
+as $$
+declare
+ v_minute_start int4 := base_ts + (idx - 1) * 60;
+ v_moved int;
+ v_own_datid oid := (select database.oid
+ from pg_database as database
+ where database.datname = current_database());
+begin
+ /*
+ * pg_ash samples the whole CLUSTER: ash.take_sample() writes one row per
+ * database that had an active backend at that instant. On a developer
+ * machine that quietly folds every other database on the box into the demo,
+ * and the numbers stop being reproducible. Keep only this run's own
+ * database. (This is "shaping which samples exist", the declared liberty —
+ * it drops rows, it never edits one.)
+ */
+ delete from ash.sample as foreign_row
+ where foreign_row.sample_ts >= watermark
+ and foreign_row.datid <> v_own_datid;
+
+ update ash.sample as target
+ set sample_ts = fresh.new_ts
+ from (
+ select
+ raw.ctid as row_id,
+ raw.slot as row_slot,
+ /*
+ * Even spread: with ASH_SPM samples and sample_interval = 60/ASH_SPM,
+ * offsets land exactly on the sampling grid, which is what makes
+ * backend_seconds = samples x interval exact.
+ * Integer division on purpose.
+ */
+ (v_minute_start
+ + ((row_number() over (order by raw.sample_ts, raw.datid,
+ raw.active_count) - 1) * 60
+ / count(*) over ()))::int4 as new_ts
+ from ash.sample as raw
+ where raw.sample_ts >= watermark
+ ) as fresh
+ /*
+ * ctid is unique only within a partition, so the slot must be part of the
+ * join key. (In practice a single run writes one slot, but a join that is
+ * only accidentally correct is not correct.)
+ */
+ where target.ctid = fresh.row_id
+ and target.slot = fresh.row_slot
+ and target.sample_ts >= watermark;
+
+ get diagnostics v_moved = row_count;
+
+ if v_moved = 0 then
+ raise exception
+ 'ash_demo.restamp: virtual minute % captured no samples at all — '
+ 'the workload was not running, or sampling is disabled', idx
+ using errcode = 'no_data_found';
+ end if;
+end;
+$$;
+
+/* ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ * ash_demo.phase(base_ts, start_idx, n_minutes, spm, delay, restamp_on)
+ *
+ * One workload phase: n_minutes virtual minutes, each spm real samples,
+ * restamped into place as soon as it is complete.
+ *
+ * Called once per phase from lib/seed.sh, with the phase's pgbench load
+ * already running in the background. One psql session for the whole phase
+ * keeps the "exactly one sampler" invariant trivially true and avoids paying
+ * connection setup 28 times.
+ * ------------------------------------------------------------------------ */
+create or replace procedure ash_demo.phase(
+ base_ts int4,
+ start_idx int,
+ n_minutes int,
+ spm int,
+ delay numeric,
+ restamp_on bool default true
+)
+language plpgsql
+as $$
+declare
+ v_i int;
+ v_watermark int4;
+begin
+ for v_i in 0 .. n_minutes - 1 loop
+ -- Watermark BEFORE the batch: everything at or after this is ours.
+ v_watermark := extract(epoch from clock_timestamp() - ash.epoch())::int4;
+ commit;
+
+ call ash_demo.batch(spm, delay);
+
+ if restamp_on then
+ call ash_demo.restamp(v_watermark, base_ts, start_idx + v_i);
+ commit;
+ end if;
+ end loop;
+end;
+$$;
+
+/* ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ * ash_demo.reset_state()
+ *
+ * Pre-seed hygiene, in the order that matters.
+ *
+ * The rollup watermark nulls are NOT optional. `delete from ash.rollup_1m`
+ * without `last_rollup_1m_ts = null` leaves rollup_minute() convinced it has
+ * already processed those minutes; it refuses to re-roll, the readers then
+ * silently prefer the (now empty) rollup source for wide windows, and the
+ * demo ships buckets full of nothing with no error anywhere. This is the
+ * single highest-value line in the file.
+ * ------------------------------------------------------------------------ */
+create or replace procedure ash_demo.reset_state(sample_interval_secs numeric)
+language plpgsql
+as $$
+begin
+ -- Terminate any straggler sampler from a previous run, server-side.
+ -- `pkill -f` was measured unreliable: it races the spawning shell and
+ -- matches unrelated psql processes.
+ -- Scoped to THIS database: on a shared cluster the harness must never reach
+ -- into somebody else's session, whatever it happens to be called.
+ perform pg_terminate_backend(activity.pid)
+ from pg_stat_activity as activity
+ where activity.application_name in ('ash_demo_sampler', 'ash_demo_load')
+ and activity.datname = current_database()
+ and activity.pid <> pg_backend_pid();
+
+ delete from ash.sample;
+ delete from ash.rollup_1m;
+ delete from ash.rollup_1h;
+
+ update ash.config
+ set sampling_enabled = true,
+ sample_interval = make_interval(secs => sample_interval_secs),
+ last_rollup_1m_ts = null, -- <- see the comment above; not optional
+ last_rollup_1h_ts = null,
+ skipped_samples = 0,
+ missed_samples = 0,
+ insert_errors = 0
+ where singleton;
+end;
+$$;
diff --git a/demos/lib/shape.sql b/demos/lib/shape.sql
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a20a270
--- /dev/null
+++ b/demos/lib/shape.sql
@@ -0,0 +1,250 @@
+/*
+ * lib/shape.sql — numeric shape assertions for the seeded window.
+ *
+ * "No errors" is not a quality bar. A demo can run clean and still be boring,
+ * empty, or quietly wrong: rollups that refused to re-roll show as empty
+ * buckets, a badly chosen calm phase shows as a lock storm, a restamp bug
+ * shows as a 10x AAS. Every one of those ships silently unless something
+ * asserts on the NUMBERS.
+ *
+ * Run by lib/seed.sh immediately after the rollups. Any RAISE here becomes
+ * exit 4. Called with psql -v base_ts=... -v vmin=... etc.
+ *
+ * psql does not interpolate its variables inside dollar-quoted bodies, so the
+ * values are handed to the DO block through session GUCs.
+ */
+
+\set ON_ERROR_STOP on
+
+select
+ set_config('ash_demo.base_ts', :'base_ts', false) as base_ts,
+ set_config('ash_demo.vmin', :'vmin', false) as vmin,
+ set_config('ash_demo.vmin_slack', :'vmin_slack', false) as vmin_slack,
+ set_config('ash_demo.vmin_total', :'vmin_total', false) as vmin_total,
+ set_config('ash_demo.ph_baseline', :'ph_baseline', false) as ph_baseline,
+ set_config('ash_demo.ph_storm', :'ph_storm', false) as ph_storm
+\gset shape_
+
+do $shape$
+declare
+ v_base_ts int4 := current_setting('ash_demo.base_ts')::int4;
+ v_vmin int := current_setting('ash_demo.vmin')::int;
+ v_slack int := current_setting('ash_demo.vmin_slack')::int;
+ v_total int := current_setting('ash_demo.vmin_total')::int;
+ v_ph_baseline int := current_setting('ash_demo.ph_baseline')::int;
+ v_ph_storm int := current_setting('ash_demo.ph_storm')::int;
+
+ v_since timestamptz := ash.ts_to_timestamptz(v_base_ts + v_slack * 60);
+ v_until timestamptz := ash.ts_to_timestamptz(v_base_ts + v_total * 60);
+ v_base_since timestamptz := v_since;
+ v_base_until timestamptz := ash.ts_to_timestamptz(v_base_ts + v_ph_baseline * 60);
+ v_storm_since timestamptz := v_base_until;
+ v_storm_until timestamptz := ash.ts_to_timestamptz(
+ v_base_ts + (v_ph_baseline + v_ph_storm) * 60);
+
+ v_minutes int;
+ v_types int;
+ v_storm_peak numeric;
+ v_calm_median numeric;
+ v_top_event text;
+ v_top_pct numeric;
+ v_calm_event text;
+ v_query_key text;
+ v_query_pct numeric;
+ v_periods int;
+ v_periods_null int;
+ v_gaps int;
+ v_chart_locks int;
+ v_rec record;
+begin
+ ------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ -- 1. Enough populated virtual minutes.
+ ------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ select count(distinct sample_row.sample_ts / 60)
+ into v_minutes
+ from ash.sample as sample_row
+ where sample_row.sample_ts >= v_base_ts
+ and sample_row.sample_ts < v_base_ts + v_total * 60;
+
+ if v_minutes < v_total then
+ raise exception
+ 'shape: only % of % virtual minutes carry samples', v_minutes, v_total;
+ end if;
+
+ ------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ -- 2. A believable variety of waits. One wait type is a monoculture, not a
+ -- production system.
+ ------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ select count(*)
+ into v_types
+ from ash.top('wait_event_type', v_since, v_until, n => 100) as top_row;
+
+ if v_types < 4 then
+ raise exception
+ 'shape: only % distinct wait event types in the window (want >= 4)',
+ v_types;
+ end if;
+
+ ------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ -- 3. The spike is a spike. Storm peak AAS must be at least 3x the median
+ -- calm minute, otherwise nobody looking at the chart sees an incident.
+ ------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ select aas_row.peak_aas
+ into v_storm_peak
+ from ash.aas(v_storm_since, v_storm_until) as aas_row;
+
+ select percentile_cont(0.5) within group (order by tl.avg_aas)
+ into v_calm_median
+ from ash.timeline(v_base_since, v_base_until, interval '1 minute') as tl;
+
+ if v_storm_peak is null or v_calm_median is null then
+ raise exception 'shape: could not measure storm peak (%) or calm median (%)',
+ v_storm_peak, v_calm_median;
+ end if;
+
+ if v_storm_peak < 3 * v_calm_median then
+ raise exception
+ 'shape: storm peak_aas % is not 3x the median calm minute % — '
+ 'the incident will not read as an incident',
+ v_storm_peak, v_calm_median;
+ end if;
+
+ ------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ -- 4. The storm is a LOCK storm, and it is dominant, and it has a single
+ -- identifiable guilty statement to drill into.
+ ------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ select top_row.key, top_row.pct
+ into v_top_event, v_top_pct
+ from ash.top('wait_event', v_storm_since, v_storm_until, n => 1) as top_row;
+
+ if v_top_event is null or v_top_event not like 'Lock:%' then
+ raise exception
+ 'shape: the storm window''s rank-1 wait event is "%" — expected a Lock:* '
+ 'event. The workload is not producing row contention.', v_top_event;
+ end if;
+
+ if v_top_pct < 35 then
+ raise exception
+ 'shape: rank-1 storm wait % holds only % of the window — not dominant',
+ v_top_event, v_top_pct || '%';
+ end if;
+
+ select top_row.key, top_row.pct
+ into v_query_key, v_query_pct
+ from ash.top('query_id', v_storm_since, v_storm_until,
+ wait_event => v_top_event, n => 1) as top_row;
+
+ if v_query_key is null then
+ raise exception
+ 'shape: no query id is attributable to % in the storm window — '
+ 'the wait<->query drill has nowhere to land', v_top_event;
+ end if;
+
+ if v_query_pct < 50 then
+ raise exception
+ 'shape: the top query for % holds only % of that wait — no single '
+ 'guilty statement', v_top_event, v_query_pct || '%';
+ end if;
+
+ ------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ -- 5. Calm actually looks calm: the baseline window must NOT be led by a
+ -- lock wait. (Default TPC-B at low scale fails this, loudly, which is
+ -- the whole point of the check.)
+ ------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ select top_row.key
+ into v_calm_event
+ from ash.top('wait_event', v_base_since, v_base_until, n => 1) as top_row;
+
+ if v_calm_event like 'Lock:%' then
+ raise exception
+ 'shape: the calm baseline is led by % — calm must look calm', v_calm_event;
+ end if;
+
+ ------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ -- 6. ash.periods() returns all six rows with a real number in each.
+ -- This is what proves the rollup chain (and its watermarks) is intact:
+ -- the 1h/1d/1w/1mo rows can only be answered from rollup_1h.
+ ------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ select count(*), count(*) filter (where period_row.avg_aas is null)
+ into v_periods, v_periods_null
+ from ash.periods(v_until) as period_row;
+
+ if v_periods <> 6 then
+ raise exception 'shape: ash.periods() returned % rows, expected 6', v_periods;
+ end if;
+
+ if v_periods_null > 0 then
+ raise exception
+ 'shape: % of 6 ash.periods() rows have a NULL avg_aas — the rollups did '
+ 'not populate (did the rollup watermarks get reset?)', v_periods_null;
+ end if;
+
+ ------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ -- 7. The FLAGSHIP CHART is legible.
+ --
+ -- ash.chart() ranks its series by total AAS across the whole window and
+ -- draws the top n; everything else collapses into a single "Other" dot
+ -- column. The incident lasts five of twenty-eight minutes, so if the calm
+ -- phases are heavy enough, both Lock waits fall out of the top n and the
+ -- hero image renders the storm as an anonymous row of dots.
+ --
+ -- That is not an error, it is not empty, and no other assertion here
+ -- notices it — it is just a bad picture, which is exactly the class of
+ -- defect this harness exists to make impossible. So: assert that at least
+ -- two Lock:* events survive into the top four of the full window, which is
+ -- what scenes.tsv's `n => 4` draws.
+ ------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ select count(*)
+ into v_chart_locks
+ from ash.top('wait_event', v_since, v_until, n => 4) as top_row
+ where top_row.key like 'Lock:%';
+
+ if v_chart_locks < 2 then
+ raise exception
+ 'shape: only % Lock:* event(s) rank in the top 4 of the chart window — '
+ 'the calm phases are drowning the incident, and ash.chart(n => 4) will '
+ 'draw the storm as "Other". Lower ASH_LOAD_BASELINE_CLIENTS / '
+ 'ASH_LOAD_READIO_CLIENTS.', v_chart_locks;
+ end if;
+
+ ------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ -- 8. No holes: every minute bucket in [since, until) carries data.
+ ------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ select count(*)
+ into v_gaps
+ from ash.timeline(v_since, v_until, interval '1 minute') as tl
+ where tl.data_points = 0 or tl.avg_aas is null or tl.avg_aas = 0;
+
+ if v_gaps > 0 then
+ raise exception 'shape: % empty minute bucket(s) inside the window', v_gaps;
+ end if;
+
+ ------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ -- Report. Printed on success so a human running `make seed` can see the
+ -- story in numbers before a single pixel is rendered.
+ ------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ raise notice 'shape ok window % .. %', v_since, v_until;
+ raise notice 'shape ok % virtual minutes, % wait event types', v_minutes, v_types;
+ raise notice 'shape ok calm median AAS % -> storm peak AAS % (%x)',
+ round(v_calm_median, 2), round(v_storm_peak, 2),
+ round(v_storm_peak / nullif(v_calm_median, 0), 1);
+ -- RAISE has one placeholder and no width/format specifiers; the percent
+ -- signs are concatenated into the arguments rather than escaped in the
+ -- format string, which is both shorter and impossible to get backwards.
+ raise notice 'shape ok storm rank-1 wait % (%), guilty query % (% of that wait)',
+ v_top_event, v_top_pct || '%', v_query_key, v_query_pct || '%';
+ raise notice 'shape ok calm rank-1 wait %', v_calm_event;
+ raise notice 'shape ok chart top-4 over the window carries % Lock:* series',
+ v_chart_locks;
+ for v_rec in
+ select period_row.period, period_row.source, period_row.avg_aas,
+ period_row.peak_aas
+ from ash.periods(v_until) as period_row
+ loop
+ -- RAISE has exactly one placeholder, `%`; rpad() does the column padding.
+ raise notice 'shape ok periods % source=% avg=% peak=%',
+ rpad(v_rec.period, 4), rpad(v_rec.source, 10),
+ v_rec.avg_aas, v_rec.peak_aas;
+ end loop;
+end
+$shape$;
diff --git a/demos/lib/verify.sh b/demos/lib/verify.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a6c8e08
--- /dev/null
+++ b/demos/lib/verify.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,173 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# verify.sh — the shared assertion vocabulary, used by BOTH capture paths.
+#
+# bin/capture-stills.sh (scripted) and bin/record-demo.sh (interactive) call the
+# same four functions on the same bytes, so "the demo is correct" means the same
+# thing in a still and in the reel. These four names are an interface contract
+# (spec §12); do not rename them.
+#
+# vfy_nonempty capture has content at all
+# vfy_no_errors no ERROR:/FATAL:/PANIC: anywhere
+# vfy_markers every comma-separated literal present
+# vfy_width [cols] every line fits the column budget
+#
+# All four exit 5 on failure (spec §2.6: capture verification failure) after
+# printing the scene, what was expected, and enough of the capture to debug.
+#
+# Two things this file is deliberately careful about:
+#
+# 1. `grep -q` behind a pipe is BANNED repo-wide. A successful match makes
+# grep exit immediately, SIGPIPEs the upstream writer, and under
+# `set -o pipefail` the pipeline reports failure — i.e. a MATCH looks like
+# a MISS. This inverted 12 results in a prototype. We use `grep -c` with a
+# redirect, or `case`, never `grep -q` downstream of `|`.
+#
+# 2. Display width is measured in Python with East-Asian-width awareness and
+# SGR/OSC counted as zero. `awk length` counts UTF-8 BYTES and reported 393
+# for a 131-column table — it cannot see that █ is three bytes and one
+# column. Never measure width in awk.
+#
+# Portability: bash 3.2 (macOS default) and bash 5. No associative arrays, no
+# mapfile, no GNU-only flags.
+
+# Guard against double-sourcing (both capture paths may pull this in).
+if [ -n "${ASH_VERIFY_SH_LOADED:-}" ]; then return 0 2>/dev/null || true; fi
+ASH_VERIFY_SH_LOADED=1
+
+VFY_ERR_RE='(ERROR|FATAL|PANIC):'
+
+vfy__say() { printf '\033[38;2;127;148;155m[verify]\033[0m %s\n' "$*" >&2; }
+vfy__fail() {
+ # vfy__fail
+ printf '\033[38;2;255;85;85m[verify] FAIL %s:\033[0m %s\n' "$1" "$2" >&2
+ exit 5
+}
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# vfy_nonempty
+# An empty capture is the single easiest way to ship a beautiful picture of
+# nothing. Treat "file exists" and "file has bytes" as different facts.
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+vfy_nonempty() {
+ local file="$1" scene="$2"
+ [ -f "$file" ] || vfy__fail "$scene" "capture file missing: $file"
+ [ -s "$file" ] || vfy__fail "$scene" "capture is empty: $file"
+ # A file of nothing but whitespace is empty in every sense that matters.
+ local visible
+ visible="$(tr -d ' \t\r\n' < "$file" | wc -c | tr -d ' ')"
+ [ "$visible" -gt 0 ] || vfy__fail "$scene" "capture is whitespace only: $file"
+}
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# vfy_no_errors
+# psql writes ERROR:/FATAL:/PANIC: to stderr. The still path merges stderr into
+# the capture (2>&1); the animation path tees the pty through to
+# out/stderr.log AND scans the pane. `psql -L` does NOT log errors, so that tee
+# is load-bearing, not belt-and-braces.
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+vfy_no_errors() {
+ local file="$1" scene="$2" n
+ # grep -c on a FILE (no upstream pipe) — no SIGPIPE hazard, and -c never
+ # exits non-zero in a way that trips `set -e` because we swallow it.
+ n="$(grep -Ec "$VFY_ERR_RE" "$file" 2>/dev/null || true)"
+ [ -z "$n" ] && n=0
+ if [ "$n" -gt 0 ]; then
+ vfy__say "offending lines in $file:"
+ grep -En "$VFY_ERR_RE" "$file" >&2 || true
+ vfy__fail "$scene" "$n line(s) matched $VFY_ERR_RE"
+ fi
+}
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# vfy_markers
+# This is the assertion that distinguishes "the query ran" from "the query
+# showed the incident". Without it an empty result set ships as a pretty
+# picture of nothing and CI stays green.
+#
+# Markers are LITERAL substrings, not regexes — a scene author should not have
+# to escape `Lock:transactionid` or `█`. Matching is done in Python so UTF-8
+# markers work identically on BSD and GNU userlands.
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+vfy_markers() {
+ local file="$1" scene="$2" markers="$3"
+ [ -n "$markers" ] || return 0
+ local missing
+ missing="$(ASH_VFY_FILE="$file" ASH_VFY_MARKERS="$markers" python3 - <<'PY'
+import os, sys
+data = open(os.environ['ASH_VFY_FILE'], 'rb').read().decode('utf-8', 'replace')
+missing = [m for m in (x.strip() for x in os.environ['ASH_VFY_MARKERS'].split(','))
+ if m and m not in data]
+sys.stdout.write('\x1f'.join(missing))
+PY
+)"
+ if [ -n "$missing" ]; then
+ vfy__say "capture head:"
+ head -20 "$file" >&2 || true
+ vfy__fail "$scene" "marker(s) absent: $(printf '%s' "$missing" | tr '\037' ' ')"
+ fi
+}
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# vfy_width [cols]
+# Hard gate on BOTH paths (spec §2.5). ash.chart(color => true) rendered 238
+# columns in a prototype and wrapped silently in the flagship frame; that class
+# of defect must be impossible to ship, so this runs in preflight BEFORE any
+# renderer or recorder starts.
+#
+# Zero-width: CSI sequences (SGR colour), OSC sequences (our prompt sentinel),
+# and combining marks. Double-width: East-Asian W/F. U+2588 and friends are
+# 'N' (narrow) — one column each, three bytes each, which is exactly the
+# distinction awk cannot make.
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+vfy_width() {
+ local file="$1" scene="$2" cols="${3:-${ASH_COLS:-100}}"
+ local bad
+ bad="$(ASH_VFY_FILE="$file" ASH_VFY_COLS="$cols" python3 - <<'PY'
+import os, re, sys, unicodedata
+
+# CSI (colour), OSC (title sentinel, ST- or BEL-terminated), charset selects,
+# and any other lone two-byte escape. All zero display width.
+STRIP = re.compile(
+ r'\x1b\][^\x07\x1b]*(?:\x07|\x1b\\)' # OSC ... BEL | ST
+ r'|\x1b\[[0-9;:?<>=]*[@-~]' # CSI ... final
+ r'|\x1b[()][A-Za-z0-9]' # charset designators
+ r'|\x1b[@-Z\\-_]' # other 2-byte escapes
+)
+
+def width(s):
+ s = STRIP.sub('', s).replace('\r', '')
+ n = 0
+ for ch in s:
+ if unicodedata.combining(ch):
+ continue
+ n += 2 if unicodedata.east_asian_width(ch) in ('W', 'F') else 1
+ return n
+
+limit = int(os.environ['ASH_VFY_COLS'])
+raw = open(os.environ['ASH_VFY_FILE'], 'rb').read().decode('utf-8', 'replace')
+out = []
+for i, line in enumerate(raw.split('\n'), 1):
+ w = width(line.rstrip())
+ if w > limit:
+ out.append('line %d: %d columns (limit %d)' % (i, w, limit))
+sys.stdout.write('\x1f'.join(out[:5]))
+PY
+)"
+ if [ -n "$bad" ]; then
+ vfy__say "width overflow in $file (ASH_COLS=$cols):"
+ printf '%s\n' "$bad" | tr '\037' '\n' >&2
+ vfy__fail "$scene" "capture exceeds the $cols-column budget"
+ fi
+}
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# vfy_scene [cols] — all four, in the order that gives
+# the most useful first failure (empty -> errors -> markers -> width).
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+vfy_scene() {
+ local file="$1" scene="$2" markers="$3" cols="${4:-${ASH_COLS:-100}}"
+ vfy_nonempty "$file" "$scene"
+ vfy_no_errors "$file" "$scene"
+ vfy_markers "$file" "$scene" "$markers"
+ vfy_width "$file" "$scene" "$cols"
+}
diff --git a/demos/lib/workload_lock.sql b/demos/lib/workload_lock.sql
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6188819
--- /dev/null
+++ b/demos/lib/workload_lock.sql
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+-- lib/workload_lock.sql — the row-lock storm, as a pgbench script.
+--
+-- NO pg_sleep. Anywhere. A prototype faked contention with pg_sleep and shipped
+-- `Timeout:PgSleep` as the demo's #1 wait event at 27.6% — a demo that teaches
+-- the wrong lesson is worse than no demo.
+--
+-- The shape: every client updates the SAME row, then does genuine work while
+-- still holding that row lock. The lock holder's `sum(abalance)` scan is what
+-- turns a momentary conflict into a measurable queue, and it is real work, so
+-- the holder itself shows up as CPU*/IO rather than as an artificial sleep.
+--
+-- What the sampler sees (this is the actual Postgres locking protocol, not a
+-- contrivance): one waiter holds the tuple lock and waits on the holder's
+-- transaction id (Lock:transactionid); every other waiter queues behind that
+-- tuple lock (Lock:tuple). So a 12-client storm produces a large Lock:tuple
+-- population with a Lock:transactionid alongside it, plus the holder's own
+-- CPU*/IO:DataFileRead — a textbook row-contention signature.
+BEGIN;
+UPDATE pgbench_accounts SET abalance = abalance + 1 WHERE aid = 1;
+SELECT sum(abalance) FROM pgbench_accounts WHERE bid = 1;
+END;
diff --git a/demos/lib/workload_read.sql b/demos/lib/workload_read.sql
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..df1c629
--- /dev/null
+++ b/demos/lib/workload_read.sql
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+-- lib/workload_read.sql — the read load for the calm and tail phases.
+--
+-- Why not `pgbench -b select-only`: that is a single indexed point lookup,
+-- roughly 50 microseconds of server work per round trip. Over a Unix socket
+-- the backends are still active often enough to sample; over TCP to a VM or a
+-- container the round trip dwarfs the work and EVERY backend reads as `idle`
+-- at every sampling instant. Measured on the docker backend: six clients,
+-- 100% idle, zero samples, and a seed that failed at virtual minute 1 with a
+-- perfectly accurate "the workload was not running".
+--
+-- So the read load does a real range aggregate instead. A few thousand rows
+-- through the primary key is a couple of milliseconds of genuine CPU plus, on
+-- a table larger than shared_buffers, genuine IO:DataFileRead. The backend is
+-- therefore active when we look at it — on any backend, over any transport —
+-- and the wait mix it produces (CPU* with an IO tail) is what a read-heavy
+-- system actually looks like.
+--
+-- :span is supplied per phase with pgbench -D span=N, so the same script gives
+-- a light calm baseline and a heavier read tail.
+\set aid random(1, 100000 * :scale)
+SELECT sum(abalance) FROM pgbench_accounts WHERE aid BETWEEN :aid AND :aid + :span;
diff --git a/demos/record.sh b/demos/record.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 30d9587..0000000
--- a/demos/record.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,471 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-# record.sh — End-to-end demo recorder for pg_ash.
-#
-# Pipeline (all local, no cloud):
-# 1. Start Postgres in Docker with pg_cron + pg_stat_statements preloaded
-# (via the pre-baked demos/Dockerfile image; falls back to a runtime
-# pg_cron install + restart on the plain postgres:${PG_MAJOR} base).
-# 2. Install pg_ash 2.0 via devel/sql/ash-install.sql, seed pgbench,
-# start sampling.
-# 3. Kick off a workload that transitions baseline -> row-lock spike -> tail.
-# 4. After the spike is well underway, start tmux + asciinema with psql
-# attached to the demo DB in the container.
-# 5. Drive the tmux pane via per-character keystrokes (human-paced typing)
-# to walk the investigation.
-# 6. Convert the .cast -> .gif via agg.
-#
-# Output: demos/ash_demo.cast, demos/ash_demo.gif
-# Run: ./demos/record.sh
-# Clean: ./demos/record.sh clean
-
-set -Eeuo pipefail
-
-HERE="$(cd "$(dirname "$0")" && pwd)"
-REPO="$(cd "$HERE/.." && pwd)"
-CONTAINER="pg_ash_demo"
-PG_MAJOR="${PG_MAJOR:-18}"
-IMAGE="postgres:${PG_MAJOR}"
-# Pre-baked image: demos/Dockerfile bakes pg_cron + shared_preload_libraries
-# into a postgres:${PG_MAJOR} derivative so the container boots preloaded with
-# no runtime apt-get + restart. Built automatically when the Dockerfile exists;
-# falls back to IMAGE + runtime install if it is absent or the build fails.
-DOCKERFILE="$HERE/Dockerfile"
-BAKED_IMAGE="pg_ash_demo:${PG_MAJOR}"
-SESSION="ash-demo"
-CAST="$HERE/ash_demo.cast"
-GIF="$HERE/ash_demo.gif"
-
-# Terminal geometry: wide (168 cols) so the demo can use `select *` on every
-# reader without wrapping. The widest row is `select * from ash.top('query_id',
-# …)`, whose `query_text` column carries the full normalized guilty SQL
-# (`update pgbench_accounts set abalance = … where aid = $2`) — that row is
-# ~158 chars, over the old 140. 168 leaves margin; other readers (periods with
-# two timestamptz columns, the colored chart with its detail legend) fit well
-# under it. Compensated by a smaller agg font-size below so the rendered GIF
-# pixel width stays ~1000px (168 × 10 ≈ the old 140 × 12), readable at GitHub's
-# ~800px embed.
-COLS="${COLS:-168}"
-ROWS="${ROWS:-32}"
-
-# agg font-size in pixels. Lower = smaller text, more columns visible.
-# 10 keeps a 168-col terminal near ~1000px (same rendered width as the old
-# 140-col × 12px) and still legible.
-AGG_FONT_SIZE="${AGG_FONT_SIZE:-10}"
-
-# baseline + spike accumulate before we record. Much longer than the v1.x demo
-# (was 30) for two 2.0-specific reasons:
-# 1. chart/timeline bucket at a 1-minute minimum (sub-minute grains are gone),
-# so the colored ash.chart needs several minutes of history for a full bar
-# chart rather than one or two bars.
-# 2. the leaf drills cross the wait<->query tie, which reads RAW samples and
-# raises if the window START predates raw retention. Raw retention here is
-# data-limited (it begins at the oldest sample = when ash.start() ran), so
-# the 5-minute reader windows below require > 5 minutes of prior sampling.
-# 330 s (5.5 min) leaves a ~1 min margin at the first windowed query.
-WARMUP_SEC="${WARMUP_SEC:-330}"
-POST_WAIT="${POST_WAIT:-3}"
-
-# Workload phase durations passed to demos/workload.sh. The spike must outlive
-# WARMUP + the ~110 s recording (~440 s) so every reader query — especially the
-# closing top('query_id', wait_event => 'Lock:tuple') -> top('wait_event',
-# query_id => ...) leaf near the end — still sees fresh `Lock:tuple` in its
-# 5-minute window. baseline is long enough (2 min) that the baseline->spike
-# transition falls inside the trailing 5-minute chart window. Override to tune.
-export SPIKE_SEC="${SPIKE_SEC:-480}"
-export BASELINE_SEC="${BASELINE_SEC:-120}"
-export TAIL_SEC="${TAIL_SEC:-30}"
-
-# Human-typing pacing (milliseconds per character, with jitter).
-# Average ~60 cps (16ms/char) is a brisk touch-typist; we use 30-120ms range
-# so the pacing feels bursty rather than metronomic.
-TYPE_MIN_MS="${TYPE_MIN_MS:-30}"
-TYPE_MAX_MS="${TYPE_MAX_MS:-120}"
-# Extra pause after punctuation (`,`, `;`, `.`, `(`, `)`) — humans pause to
-# think at clause boundaries.
-TYPE_PUNCT_MS="${TYPE_PUNCT_MS:-180}"
-
-DOCKER="${DOCKER:-docker}"
-
-log() { printf '\033[36m[record %s]\033[0m %s\n' "$(date +%H:%M:%S)" "$*"; }
-die() { printf '\033[31m[record %s]\033[0m %s\n' "$(date +%H:%M:%S)" "$*" >&2; exit 1; }
-
-require() { command -v "$1" >/dev/null 2>&1 || die "required tool not found: $1"; }
-
-cleanup() {
- local rc=$?
- tmux kill-session -t "$SESSION" 2>/dev/null || true
- if [ "${KEEP_CONTAINER:-0}" != "1" ]; then
- log "stopping container $CONTAINER"
- $DOCKER rm -f "$CONTAINER" >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
- else
- log "KEEP_CONTAINER=1 — leaving $CONTAINER running"
- fi
- return $rc
-}
-trap cleanup EXIT INT TERM
-
-if [ "${1:-}" = "clean" ]; then
- tmux kill-session -t "$SESSION" 2>/dev/null || true
- $DOCKER rm -f "$CONTAINER" >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
- rm -f "$CAST" "$GIF"
- log "cleaned container, cast, gif"
- trap - EXIT
- exit 0
-fi
-
-for t in docker tmux asciinema agg; do require "$t"; done
-
-# --- 1. Start container ------------------------------------------------------
-# Prefer the pre-baked image (demos/Dockerfile): pg_cron and the
-# shared_preload_libraries / cron config are compiled in, so the container
-# boots preloaded with no runtime apt-get + restart. Fall back to the plain
-# base image + runtime install if the Dockerfile is absent or the build fails.
-RUN_IMAGE="$IMAGE"
-BAKED=0
-if [ -f "$DOCKERFILE" ]; then
- log "building pre-baked image $BAKED_IMAGE (PG_MAJOR=$PG_MAJOR)"
- if $DOCKER build --build-arg "PG_MAJOR=$PG_MAJOR" -t "$BAKED_IMAGE" "$HERE" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
- RUN_IMAGE="$BAKED_IMAGE"
- BAKED=1
- log "using pre-baked image $BAKED_IMAGE"
- else
- log "WARN: pre-baked build failed — falling back to runtime pg_cron install on $IMAGE"
- fi
-fi
-
-$DOCKER rm -f "$CONTAINER" >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
-
-log "starting $RUN_IMAGE as $CONTAINER"
-$DOCKER run -d --name "$CONTAINER" \
- -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=postgres \
- -e POSTGRES_DB=postgres \
- -v "$REPO":/repo:ro \
- "$RUN_IMAGE" \
- -c track_activity_query_size=4096 \
- -c log_min_messages=warning \
- >/dev/null
-
-log "waiting for first-boot PostgreSQL"
-until $DOCKER exec "$CONTAINER" pg_isready -U postgres -q >/dev/null 2>&1; do sleep 0.5; done
-
-if [ "$BAKED" -eq 1 ]; then
- log "pre-baked image already preloads pg_cron + pg_stat_statements — no runtime install/restart"
-else
- log "installing pg_cron package + configuring shared_preload_libraries"
- $DOCKER exec "$CONTAINER" bash -c '
- set -e
- apt-get update -qq >/dev/null 2>&1
- apt-get install -y -qq "postgresql-${PG_MAJOR}-cron" >/dev/null 2>&1
- cat >> "${PGDATA}/postgresql.conf" </dev/null 2>&1
-
- log "restarting container so pg_cron + pg_stat_statements load"
- $DOCKER restart "$CONTAINER" >/dev/null
- until $DOCKER exec "$CONTAINER" pg_isready -U postgres -q >/dev/null 2>&1; do sleep 0.5; done
-fi
-
-# --- 2. Install pg_ash + seed + start sampling + workload --------------------
-log "installing pg_ash, seeding pgbench, starting sampling, kicking off workload"
-log " workload phases: baseline=${BASELINE_SEC}s spike=${SPIKE_SEC}s tail=${TAIL_SEC}s"
-$DOCKER exec -d \
- -e BASELINE_SEC="$BASELINE_SEC" \
- -e SPIKE_SEC="$SPIKE_SEC" \
- -e TAIL_SEC="$TAIL_SEC" \
- "$CONTAINER" bash /repo/demos/container-entrypoint.sh
-
-# --- 3. Warm up --------------------------------------------------------------
-log "warming up (${WARMUP_SEC}s — baseline + spike accumulate)"
-sleep "$WARMUP_SEC"
-
-# Pre-stage a psqlrc inside the container that tightens the look of each query.
-# Critically:
-# - Disable the default pager. psql's default `less`-based pager intercepts
-# keystrokes from the recorder, corrupting the demo. We always want every
-# row rendered straight to stdout.
-# - Enable `ash.color = on` for the session so the one render helper that
-# colors — `ash.chart` — emits ANSI escape codes in its `chart` column.
-# (In 2.0 the data readers `top`/`timeline`/`periods` are presentation-free;
-# `ash.chart` is the only reader that emits ANSI color. `ash.summary` is a
-# render helper too but returns plain key/value text.)
-# - Define a `:color` psql variable that re-runs the previous query through
-# `sed` to convert literal `\x1B` chars (which psql's aligned formatter
-# emits in place of real escapes) back into real ESC bytes, so the
-# terminal renders the colored bars. Mirrors the README pattern but
-# skips `less -R` so the output is non-interactive (the recorder cannot
-# drive an interactive pager).
-$DOCKER exec "$CONTAINER" bash -c "cat >/root/.psqlrc <<'PSQLRC'
-\\set QUIET on
-\\pset pager off
-\\pset border 2
-\\pset linestyle unicode
-\\pset unicode_border_linestyle single
-\\pset unicode_column_linestyle single
-\\pset unicode_header_linestyle single
-\\pset null ''
-\\pset format aligned
-\\pset tuples_only off
-set ash.color = on;
-\\set color '\\\\g | sed ''s/\\\\\\\\x1B/\\\\x1b/g'''
-\\unset QUIET
-PSQLRC
-"
-
-rm -f "$CAST"
-tmux kill-session -t "$SESSION" 2>/dev/null || true
-
-# --- 4. Record ---------------------------------------------------------------
-# asciinema CLI flags differ between v2 and v3 (v3 is what asciinema 3.x ships):
-# geometry: v2 `--cols N --rows M` -> v3 `--window-size NxM`
-# env capture: v2 `--env VARS` -> v3 `--capture-env VARS`
-# `--overwrite` and `--idle-time-limit` are common to both.
-# The positional arg is the output cast file; `--command` is what gets recorded.
-# We detect the installed major version and pick the right geometry/env flags so
-# the recorder works on both. (agg + the t=0 post-process below handle the v3
-# asciicast-v3 output format as well as v2.)
-ASCIINEMA_MAJOR="$(asciinema --version 2>/dev/null | grep -oE '[0-9]+' | head -1)"
-if [ "${ASCIINEMA_MAJOR:-2}" -ge 3 ]; then
- ASCIINEMA_GEO="--window-size ${COLS}x${ROWS}"
- ASCIINEMA_ENV="--capture-env TERM,SHELL"
-else
- ASCIINEMA_GEO="--cols ${COLS} --rows ${ROWS}"
- ASCIINEMA_ENV="--env TERM,SHELL"
-fi
-log "asciinema major version ${ASCIINEMA_MAJOR:-unknown} — geometry flags: ${ASCIINEMA_GEO}"
-
-# Ship a tiny splash script into the container. It prints a coloured banner
-# (that becomes the GIF's first frame / GitHub thumbnail) and then execs psql.
-# Banner is sized for the wider 140-col terminal (138-char inner box).
-$DOCKER exec "$CONTAINER" bash -c 'cat >/tmp/ash_splash.sh <<"SPLASH"
-#!/bin/bash
-printf "\033[38;2;080;250;123m"
-cat < seconds for sleep. printf handles the decimal.
- sleep "$(printf '0.%03d' "$ms")"
- done
- # Submit the line.
- tmux send-keys -t "$SESSION" Enter
-}
-
-# Reseed RANDOM from /dev/urandom for non-deterministic jitter across runs.
-RANDOM=$(( $(od -An -N2 -tu2 /dev/urandom | tr -d ' ') ))
-
-# Convenience wrapper kept for any block that wants instant submission
-# (currently unused in the script body, but handy for debugging).
-send_instant() {
- tmux send-keys -t "$SESSION" -l "$1 "
- tmux send-keys -t "$SESSION" Enter
-}
-
-# Act 1 — the splash is already on screen from the wrapper. Let it breathe
-# ~1.5s so GitHub's still-thumbnail shows the banner, then run the first
-# investigation query.
-#
-# NOTE: psql treats any unterminated statement as continuation; every select
-# MUST end with `;`. Reader functions are invoked with `color => true` so
-# the bar charts emit ANSI codes; the `:color` psql variable runs the query
-# through `sed` so the codes survive psql's aligned formatter.
-sleep 1.5
-
-# The 2.0 reader API: seven data functions + two human render helpers. The
-# investigation arc below walks the designed path — triage (periods) -> locate
-# + wait-class breakdown (chart, the colored render helper) -> drill (top on a
-# dimension) -> leaf (top on query_id filtered by the guilty wait event). AAS
-# (average active sessions) is the single load unit everywhere.
-#
-# Windows are `now() - interval '5 minutes'` .. `now()`: the 2.0 minimum bucket
-# is 1 minute (sub-minute grains are gone), so the timeline/chart need a
-# multi-minute window to show more than one bar. The workload spike outlives
-# the recording (SPIKE_SEC), so every window still sees fresh Lock:tuple.
-
-# Act 2 — status: already sampling, version 2.0, pg_cron wired. status() is
-# (metric, value), so `select *` IS the full projection — we keep a WHERE only
-# to trim the ~30-row diagnostic dump to the five that matter for the intro.
-human_type_and_send "select * from ash.status() where metric in ('version','sampling_enabled','sample_interval','samples_total','pg_cron_available');"
-sleep 3.8
-
-# Act 3 — triage: is it bad right now, and is it a spike or sustained? periods()
-# is the 2.0 "start here": one row per standard trailing window, in AAS, with
-# peak/p99 next to avg so a spike (peak >> avg) is legible without a 2nd call.
-human_type_and_send '\echo -- Q1: triage — is it bad right now? spike or sustained?'
-sleep 1.0
-human_type_and_send "select * from ash.periods();"
-sleep 4.6
-
-# Act 4 — locate + wait-class breakdown: the colored stacked chart (the 2.0
-# render helper that replaces timeline_chart). Shows WHEN the spike landed and
-# WHICH wait class dominates (Lock in red). Color via color => true + :color.
-human_type_and_send '\echo -- Q2: when did it land, and which wait class? (colored)'
-sleep 1.0
-human_type_and_send "select * from ash.chart(since => now() - interval '5 minutes', bucket => '1 minute', n => 4, width => 40, color => true) :color"
-sleep 4.8
-
-# Act 5 — drill: which wait EVENT dominates? ash.top on the wait_event
-# dimension — data-only now (AAS + peak + p99 per row, no presentation column).
-human_type_and_send '\echo -- Q3: which wait event is dominating?'
-sleep 1.0
-human_type_and_send "select * from ash.top('wait_event', since => now() - interval '5 minutes', n => 6);"
-sleep 4.6
-
-# Act 6 — leaf: which query is stuck on Lock:tuple? The 2.0 leaf drill composes
-# the wait filter into top('query_id') — one grammar for what used to be
-# event_queries(). This crosses the wait<->query tie, so it reads raw samples
-# (the recent window is well within raw retention). \gset captures the top
-# query_id into :top_qid for the closing move.
-human_type_and_send '\echo -- Q4: which query is stuck on Lock:tuple?'
-sleep 1.0
-human_type_and_send "select * from ash.top('query_id', since => now() - interval '5 minutes', wait_event => 'Lock:tuple', n => 3);"
-sleep 4.6
-human_type_and_send "select key as top_qid from ash.top('query_id', since => now() - interval '5 minutes', wait_event => 'Lock:tuple', n => 1) \\gset"
-sleep 0.5
-
-# Act 6b — closing the loop: full wait profile of that top query — top() again,
-# this time the wait_event dimension filtered by :top_qid (the 2.0 unification
-# of query_waits()). Same one grammar, opposite direction.
-human_type_and_send '\echo -- Q5: full wait profile of the top guilty query?'
-sleep 1.0
-human_type_and_send "select * from ash.top('wait_event', since => now() - interval '5 minutes', query_id => :top_qid, n => 5);"
-sleep 4.8
-
-# Act 7 — closing lines. Held on screen for the "still" moment viewers see
-# when the gif loops back around.
-human_type_and_send '\echo '
-sleep 0.2
-human_type_and_send '\echo -- Root cause: concurrent UPDATEs on the same row.'
-sleep 1.4
-human_type_and_send '\echo -- pg_ash: pure SQL. No extension. No restart. Works everywhere.'
-sleep 3.5
-
-# Quit psql cleanly.
-human_type_and_send '\q'
-sleep 0.6
-
-tmux kill-session -t "$SESSION" 2>/dev/null || true
-sleep "$POST_WAIT"
-
-[ -s "$CAST" ] || die "asciinema did not produce $CAST"
-log "cast written: $(du -h "$CAST" | cut -f1)"
-
-# --- 5. Shift the first cast event to t=0 ------------------------------------
-# asciinema records the command banner ~70 ms after the session starts; agg
-# renders frame 0 at t=0, which is before that banner, so the resulting GIF
-# opens with an empty terminal. That empty frame becomes GitHub's thumbnail
-# for the embedded GIF. To avoid it, we rewrite the first event's timestamp
-# from ~0.07 to 0.0 so the splash IS the first frame. Subsequent event
-# timings are unchanged (they are relative deltas from the previous event).
-python3 - "$CAST" <<'PY'
-import json, sys
-path = sys.argv[1]
-with open(path) as f:
- lines = f.readlines()
-header = lines[0]
-events = [json.loads(line) for line in lines[1:] if line.strip()]
-if events:
- events[0][0] = 0.0
-with open(path, 'w') as f:
- f.write(header)
- for e in events:
- f.write(json.dumps(e) + '\n')
-PY
-
-# --- 6. Render GIF -----------------------------------------------------------
-log "rendering gif via agg (cols=$COLS rows=$ROWS font-size=$AGG_FONT_SIZE)"
-agg \
- --font-size "$AGG_FONT_SIZE" \
- --theme monokai \
- --speed 1.0 \
- --fps-cap 15 \
- --idle-time-limit 1.5 \
- --last-frame-duration 3 \
- "$CAST" "$GIF"
-
-log "gif (pre-optim): $(du -h "$GIF" | cut -f1)"
-
-# --- 7. Optional optimisation pass -------------------------------------------
-# gifsicle halves the file size with no visible quality loss (palette merge +
-# transparency optimisation). Skip gracefully if it's not installed.
-if command -v gifsicle >/dev/null 2>&1 && [ "${SKIP_GIFSICLE:-0}" != "1" ]; then
- log "optimizing with gifsicle"
- gifsicle -O3 --lossy=40 --colors 128 "$GIF" -o "$GIF.opt" && mv "$GIF.opt" "$GIF"
- log "gif (final): $(du -h "$GIF" | cut -f1)"
-fi
-
-log "done."
-log "cast: $CAST"
-log "gif: $GIF"
diff --git a/demos/render/ansi2svg.py b/demos/render/ansi2svg.py
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..ea835cc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/demos/render/ansi2svg.py
@@ -0,0 +1,580 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""
+ansi2svg.py -- render captured terminal bytes (text + 24-bit ANSI SGR) to SVG.
+
+This is the file that turns "psql output" into "a picture worth putting on a
+landing page". Four decisions carry the whole result:
+
+1. BLOCK PROMOTION (§3.5). U+2588/2593/2591/2592 are never drawn as text.
+ Each maximal horizontal run of the same (glyph, colour) becomes one ,
+ overdrawn by +0.6px horizontally and +0.4px vertically so adjacent runs and
+ adjacent rows fuse with no sub-pixel seams. A stacked ash.chart() then reads
+ as continuous coloured area -- a chart -- rather than as a grid of glyphs.
+
+2. METRIC-INDEPENDENT TEXT (§3.6). Every text run carries textLength and
+ lengthAdjust="spacing". If the embedded font ever fails to load, glyph
+ shapes change but column positions do not, so the table never shears.
+
+3. TRUECOLOR PASSTHROUGH. pg_ash emits the docs/COLOR_SCHEME.md palette itself
+ as 24-bit SGR. This renderer parses those bytes and writes the same RGB into
+ the SVG. It never assigns a wait colour of its own -- if it did, the image
+ would stop being evidence of what pg_ash actually prints.
+
+4. DETERMINISM (§3.7). Subset codepoints sorted, head.created/modified forced
+ to 0, fixed-precision number formatting, no ids, no timestamps, no
+ randomness. Same .ansi in => byte-identical .svg out, verified with cmp.
+
+Usage
+ ansi2svg.py IN.ansi -o OUT.svg --theme theme/pg_ash.json \\
+ --font fonts/JetBrainsMono-Regular.ttf --title "..." [--cols 100]
+"""
+
+import argparse
+import base64
+import hashlib
+import io
+import json
+import os
+import re
+import sys
+import warnings
+import logging
+
+sys.path.insert(0, os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))
+from dwidth import char_width # noqa: E402
+
+EXIT_RENDER = 6 # §2.6: render failure
+
+CSI = re.compile(r"\x1b\[([0-9;:?]*)([@-~])")
+OSC = re.compile(r"\x1b\][^\x07\x1b]*(?:\x07|\x1b\\)")
+
+# --------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# theme
+# --------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+def load_theme(path):
+ """Read theme/pg_ash.json. The ONLY source of colour and geometry."""
+ with open(path, encoding="utf-8") as fh:
+ t = json.load(fh)
+ for key in ("font", "still", "chrome", "ui", "ansi", "shade"):
+ if key not in t:
+ sys.stderr.write("ansi2svg: theme is missing '%s'\n" % key)
+ sys.exit(EXIT_RENDER)
+ return t
+
+
+# Literal ink coverage (1.00/0.75/0.50/0.25) renders #FF5555 at rank 3 as dark
+# maroon: the rank ordering survives but the palette identity does not, and the
+# whole point of the colour scheme is that Lock is unmistakably red. The theme
+# ships a compressed curve instead. --ink restores the literal values for
+# debugging a chart.
+BLOCKS_INK = {"█": 1.00, "▓": 0.75, "░": 0.50, "▒": 0.25}
+
+
+# --------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# terminal model
+# --------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+class Cell(object):
+ __slots__ = ("ch", "fg", "bg", "bold", "ul")
+
+ def __init__(self, ch, fg, bg, bold, ul):
+ self.ch, self.fg, self.bg, self.bold, self.ul = ch, fg, bg, bold, ul
+
+ def style(self):
+ return (self.fg, self.bg, self.bold, self.ul)
+
+
+class Screen(object):
+ """A minimal, deliberately dumb terminal: SGR, newline, carriage return, tab.
+
+ No cursor addressing, no scrolling, no alternate screen. The scripted stills
+ path never produces any of that -- psql writes a table and stops -- and
+ supporting it would only create ways for a still to disagree with the bytes.
+ """
+
+ def __init__(self, theme):
+ self.theme = theme
+ self.rows = []
+ self.reset_sgr()
+
+ def reset_sgr(self):
+ self.fg = None
+ self.bg = None
+ self.bold = False
+ self.ul = False
+ self.inv = False
+
+ def _row(self, r):
+ while len(self.rows) <= r:
+ self.rows.append([])
+ return self.rows[r]
+
+ def put(self, r, c, ch):
+ row = self._row(r)
+ while len(row) <= c:
+ row.append(Cell(" ", None, None, False, False))
+ fg, bg = self.fg, self.bg
+ if self.inv:
+ fg, bg = (bg or self.theme["ui"]["bg"]), (fg or self.theme["ui"]["fg"])
+ row[c] = Cell(ch, fg, bg, self.bold, self.ul)
+
+ def sgr(self, params):
+ pal = self.theme["ansi"]
+ if not params:
+ params = "0"
+ p = [int(x) if x.isdigit() else 0
+ for x in params.replace(":", ";").split(";")]
+ i = 0
+ while i < len(p):
+ v = p[i]
+ if v == 0:
+ self.reset_sgr()
+ elif v == 1:
+ self.bold = True
+ elif v in (2, 21, 22):
+ self.bold = False
+ elif v == 4:
+ self.ul = True
+ elif v == 7:
+ self.inv = True
+ elif v == 24:
+ self.ul = False
+ elif v == 27:
+ self.inv = False
+ elif 30 <= v <= 37:
+ self.fg = pal[v - 30]
+ elif 90 <= v <= 97:
+ self.fg = pal[v - 90 + 8]
+ elif 40 <= v <= 47:
+ self.bg = pal[v - 40]
+ elif 100 <= v <= 107:
+ self.bg = pal[v - 100 + 8]
+ elif v == 39:
+ self.fg = None
+ elif v == 49:
+ self.bg = None
+ elif v in (38, 48):
+ target = "fg" if v == 38 else "bg"
+ if i + 1 < len(p) and p[i + 1] == 2 and i + 4 < len(p):
+ setattr(self, target, "#%02X%02X%02X"
+ % (p[i + 2] & 255, p[i + 3] & 255, p[i + 4] & 255))
+ i += 4
+ elif i + 1 < len(p) and p[i + 1] == 5 and i + 2 < len(p):
+ setattr(self, target, xterm256(p[i + 2], pal))
+ i += 2
+ i += 1
+
+
+def xterm256(n, pal):
+ if n < 16:
+ return pal[n]
+ if n < 232:
+ n -= 16
+ lv = [0, 95, 135, 175, 215, 255]
+ return "#%02X%02X%02X" % (lv[n // 36], lv[(n // 6) % 6], lv[n % 6])
+ g = 8 + (n - 232) * 10
+ return "#%02X%02X%02X" % (g, g, g)
+
+
+def parse(data, theme, cols=None, hang=6):
+ """bytes/str -> Screen.
+
+ `cols` wraps overlong lines at the column budget with a `hang`-space
+ hanging indent, which is what makes a long prompt line legible instead of
+ silently clipped.
+ """
+ if isinstance(data, bytes):
+ data = data.decode("utf-8", "replace")
+ data = OSC.sub("", data)
+ scr = Screen(theme)
+ r = c = 0
+ i = 0
+ n = len(data)
+ indent = 0
+ while i < n:
+ ch = data[i]
+ if ch == "\x1b":
+ m = CSI.match(data, i)
+ if m:
+ if m.group(2) == "m":
+ scr.sgr(m.group(1))
+ i = m.end()
+ continue
+ i += 1
+ continue
+ if ch == "\n":
+ r += 1
+ c = 0
+ indent = 0
+ scr._row(r)
+ i += 1
+ continue
+ if ch == "\r":
+ c = 0
+ i += 1
+ continue
+ if ch == "\t":
+ c = (c // 8 + 1) * 8
+ i += 1
+ continue
+ if ch < " ":
+ i += 1
+ continue
+ w = char_width(ch)
+ if cols and c + w > cols:
+ r += 1
+ indent = hang
+ c = indent
+ scr.put(r, c, ch)
+ c += max(w, 1)
+ i += 1
+ while scr.rows and not any(x.ch != " " for x in scr.rows[-1]):
+ scr.rows.pop()
+ return scr
+
+
+# --------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# font subsetting
+# --------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+def subset_font(ttf_path, codepoints):
+ """Return (family, base64 woff2) or (None, None) if it cannot be done."""
+ try:
+ from fontTools import subset
+ from fontTools.ttLib import TTFont
+ except ImportError:
+ return None, None
+ if not ttf_path or not os.path.isfile(ttf_path):
+ return None, None
+
+ opts = subset.Options()
+ opts.flavor = "woff2"
+ opts.desubroutinize = True
+ opts.layout_features = []
+ opts.name_IDs = []
+ opts.notdef_outline = True
+ opts.recalc_bounds = False
+ opts.recalc_timestamp = False
+
+ # fontTools reports the forced zero timestamp as "'created' timestamp seems
+ # very low" through BOTH the warnings module and its own logger. Silence
+ # both: it is expected, it is the point, and it would otherwise appear on
+ # stderr for every single render.
+ logging.getLogger("fontTools").setLevel(logging.ERROR)
+ try:
+ with warnings.catch_warnings():
+ warnings.simplefilter("ignore")
+ font = TTFont(ttf_path, recalcBBoxes=False, recalcTimestamp=False)
+ # Determinism: without this the woff2 carries the build time and two
+ # renders of the same input differ.
+ font["head"].created = 0
+ font["head"].modified = 0
+ s = subset.Subsetter(options=opts)
+ s.populate(unicodes=sorted(codepoints))
+ s.subset(font)
+ buf = io.BytesIO()
+ font.flavor = "woff2"
+ font.save(buf)
+ except Exception as exc:
+ # A corrupt or truncated TTF must be a clean exit 6 through the
+ # --require-font path, not a fontTools traceback and exit 1. The caller
+ # decides whether an unembeddable font is fatal; this function only
+ # reports that it could not be embedded.
+ sys.stderr.write("ansi2svg: cannot subset %s: %s: %s\n"
+ % (ttf_path, type(exc).__name__, exc))
+ return None, None
+ return "AshMono", base64.b64encode(buf.getvalue()).decode("ascii")
+
+
+# --------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# SVG emission
+# --------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+def esc(s):
+ return (s.replace("&", "&").replace("<", "<")
+ .replace(">", ">").replace('"', """))
+
+
+def fmt(x):
+ """Fixed-precision, locale-free, deterministic number formatting."""
+ s = "%.3f" % x
+ s = s.rstrip("0").rstrip(".")
+ return s if s not in ("", "-0") else "0"
+
+
+class Renderer(object):
+ def __init__(self, theme, font_path=None, bold_path=None,
+ promote=True, ink=False, metrics="still"):
+ self.t = theme
+ self.font_path = font_path
+ self.bold_path = bold_path
+ self.promote = promote
+ self.blocks = BLOCKS_INK if ink else theme["shade"]
+ m = theme[metrics]
+ self.fs = float(m["font_size"])
+ self.cw = self.fs * float(theme["font"]["advance_em"])
+ self.lh = self.fs * float(m["line_height"])
+
+ # -- geometry (§3.2) ---------------------------------------------------
+ def geometry(self, scr, cols=None):
+ # Width follows the CONTENT, not the budget. Pinning every still to
+ # ASH_COLS would pad ash.status() with 40 columns of empty card.
+ # `cols`, when given, is only a floor-free upper bound already enforced
+ # by the width gate.
+ c = self.t["chrome"]
+ ncols = max((len(r) for r in scr.rows), default=0)
+ if cols:
+ ncols = min(ncols, cols)
+ nrows = len(scr.rows)
+ inner_w = ncols * self.cw
+ inner_h = nrows * self.lh
+ card_w = inner_w + 2 * c["pad_x"]
+ card_h = c["titlebar_h"] + 2 * c["pad_y"] + inner_h
+ svg_w = card_w + 2 * c["margin"]
+ svg_h = card_h + 2 * c["margin"]
+ return dict(cols=ncols, rows=nrows, inner_w=inner_w, inner_h=inner_h,
+ card_w=card_w, card_h=card_h, svg_w=svg_w, svg_h=svg_h)
+
+ def codepoints(self, scr, title):
+ cps = set()
+ for row in scr.rows:
+ for cell in row:
+ if self.promote and cell.ch in self.blocks:
+ continue # drawn as , never as a glyph
+ cps.add(ord(cell.ch))
+ for chx in title:
+ cps.add(ord(chx))
+ cps |= set(range(0x20, 0x7F))
+ return cps
+
+ # -- chrome (§3.3) -----------------------------------------------------
+ def chrome(self, g):
+ c = self.t["chrome"]
+ ui = self.t["ui"]
+ m = c["margin"]
+ r = c["radius"]
+ w, h = g["card_w"], g["card_h"]
+ tb = c["titlebar_h"]
+ parts = []
+
+ # 1. margin fill -- the off-background shade that makes the card read
+ # as a card rather than as a full-bleed screenshot.
+ parts.append('%s '
+ % (fmt(m + w / 2.0), fmt(cy + size * 0.36),
+ ui["dim"], fmt(size), esc(self.title)))
+ return "".join(parts)
+
+ # -- body --------------------------------------------------------------
+ def body(self, scr, g):
+ c = self.t["chrome"]
+ x0 = c["margin"] + c["pad_x"]
+ y0 = c["margin"] + c["titlebar_h"] + c["pad_y"]
+ rects, texts = [], []
+
+ for ri, row in enumerate(scr.rows):
+ y = y0 + ri * self.lh
+
+ # (a) cell backgrounds and promoted block glyphs, coalesced into
+ # maximal horizontal runs.
+ i = 0
+ while i < len(row):
+ cell = row[i]
+ blk = self.promote and cell.ch in self.blocks
+ key = (cell.fg, self.blocks[cell.ch]) if blk else (cell.bg, None)
+ if (blk and cell.fg) or (not blk and cell.bg):
+ j = i + 1
+ while j < len(row):
+ c2 = row[j]
+ b2 = self.promote and c2.ch in self.blocks
+ k2 = (c2.fg, self.blocks[c2.ch]) if b2 else (c2.bg, None)
+ if b2 != blk or k2 != key:
+ break
+ j += 1
+ color, shade = key
+ rects.append(
+ ' per contiguous (fg, bold, underline).
+ i = 0
+ while i < len(row):
+ cell = row[i]
+ if (self.promote and cell.ch in self.blocks) or cell.ch == " ":
+ i += 1
+ continue
+ st = cell.style()
+ j = i
+ chars = []
+ while j < len(row):
+ c2 = row[j]
+ if c2.style() != st or (self.promote and c2.ch in self.blocks):
+ break
+ chars.append(c2.ch)
+ j += 1
+ while chars and chars[-1] == " ":
+ chars.pop()
+ j -= 1
+ if not chars:
+ i += 1
+ continue
+ run = "".join(chars)
+ attrs = ['x="%s"' % fmt(x0 + i * self.cw),
+ 'y="%s"' % fmt(y + self.lh * 0.76),
+ 'textLength="%s"' % fmt(len(run) * self.cw),
+ 'lengthAdjust="spacing"']
+ if st[0]:
+ attrs.append('fill="%s"' % st[0])
+ if st[2]:
+ attrs.append('font-weight="700"')
+ if st[3]:
+ attrs.append('text-decoration="underline"')
+ texts.append("%s " % (" ".join(attrs), esc(run)))
+ i = j
+
+ return '%s %s ' % (
+ "".join(rects), self.t["ui"]["fg"], "".join(texts))
+
+ # -- document ----------------------------------------------------------
+ def document(self, scr, title, cols=None, require_font=True):
+ self.title = title
+ g = self.geometry(scr, cols)
+ ui = self.t["ui"]
+
+ cps = self.codepoints(scr, title)
+ fam, b64 = subset_font(self.font_path, cps)
+ bfam, bb64 = (None, None)
+ if self.bold_path and any(cell.bold for row in scr.rows for cell in row):
+ bfam, bb64 = subset_font(self.bold_path, cps)
+ if require_font and not b64:
+ sys.stderr.write(
+ "ansi2svg: font embedding is required but failed for %r.\n"
+ " A silent fallback to a serif face is exactly the bug this "
+ "harness exists to prevent.\n" % (self.font_path,))
+ sys.exit(EXIT_RENDER)
+
+ stack = ('"%s", ' % fam if fam else "") + \
+ 'ui-monospace, "JetBrains Mono", "SFMono-Regular", Menlo, ' \
+ 'Consolas, "DejaVu Sans Mono", monospace'
+
+ css = []
+ if b64:
+ css.append("@font-face{font-family:'%s';font-style:normal;"
+ "font-weight:400;src:url(data:font/woff2;base64,%s) "
+ "format('woff2');}" % (fam, b64))
+ if bb64:
+ css.append("@font-face{font-family:'%s';font-style:normal;"
+ "font-weight:700;src:url(data:font/woff2;base64,%s) "
+ "format('woff2');}" % (fam, bb64))
+ # NOTE: no `fill` in this rule, deliberately. A CSS declaration beats a
+ # presentation attribute at every specificity, so `text{fill:...}` here
+ # would silently override the per-run fill="#FF5555" that carries the
+ # whole colour scheme -- measured: every wait colour collapsed to the
+ # default foreground while the block rects stayed correct, which is a
+ # very convincing-looking wrong picture. The default colour is set as a
+ # presentation attribute on the text group instead, where a per-run
+ # attribute can win.
+ css.append("text{font-family:%s;font-size:%spx;white-space:pre;"
+ "dominant-baseline:auto;}" % (stack, fmt(self.fs)))
+
+ out = []
+ out.append(''
+ % (fmt(g["svg_w"]), fmt(g["svg_h"]),
+ fmt(g["svg_w"]), fmt(g["svg_h"]), fmt(self.fs)))
+ out.append("" % "".join(css))
+ out.append(self.chrome(g))
+ out.append(self.body(scr, g))
+ out.append(" ")
+ return "".join(out) + "\n", g
+
+
+def main(argv=None):
+ ap = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+ ap.add_argument("input")
+ ap.add_argument("-o", "--out", required=True)
+ ap.add_argument("--theme", required=True)
+ ap.add_argument("--title", default="")
+ ap.add_argument("--font")
+ ap.add_argument("--bold-font")
+ ap.add_argument("--cols", type=int,
+ help="column budget: wraps overlong lines and pins width")
+ ap.add_argument("--metrics", default="still", choices=["still", "reel"])
+ ap.add_argument("--no-require-font", dest="require_font",
+ action="store_false", default=True)
+ ap.add_argument("--no-blocks", action="store_true",
+ help="draw block glyphs as text (diagnostic)")
+ ap.add_argument("--ink", action="store_true",
+ help="literal terminal ink coverage for shade glyphs "
+ "(diagnostic; the theme curve is the shipping one)")
+ ap.add_argument("--quiet", action="store_true")
+ a = ap.parse_args(argv)
+
+ theme = load_theme(a.theme)
+ r = Renderer(theme, a.font, a.bold_font,
+ promote=not a.no_blocks, ink=a.ink, metrics=a.metrics)
+
+ # A clean exit 1, not a traceback: a missing input is a usage error, and a
+ # Python stack trace in the middle of a make run tells the reader nothing
+ # about which scene went missing or why.
+ if not os.path.isfile(a.input):
+ sys.stderr.write("ansi2svg: no such capture: %s\n" % a.input)
+ return 1
+ with open(a.input, "rb") as fh:
+ scr = parse(fh.read(), theme, a.cols)
+ if not scr.rows:
+ sys.stderr.write("ansi2svg: %s produced an empty screen\n" % a.input)
+ return EXIT_RENDER
+
+ doc, g = r.document(scr, a.title, a.cols, a.require_font)
+ with open(a.out, "w", encoding="utf-8") as fh:
+ fh.write(doc)
+ if not a.quiet:
+ sys.stderr.write(
+ "ansi2svg: %s %dx%d px %d cols x %d rows %d bytes sha256=%s\n"
+ % (a.out, int(g["svg_w"]), int(g["svg_h"]), g["cols"], g["rows"],
+ len(doc.encode()), hashlib.sha256(doc.encode()).hexdigest()[:12]))
+ return 0
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+ sys.exit(main())
diff --git a/demos/render/ansitable.py b/demos/render/ansitable.py
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..cf0019b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/demos/render/ansitable.py
@@ -0,0 +1,381 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""
+ansitable.py -- ANSI-aware table formatter for psql unaligned output.
+
+Why this exists
+---------------
+psql's own ALIGNED formatter escapes 0x1B to the four-character text "\\x1B" and
+then measures column widths from the escaped text. A cell carrying three
+24-bit colour runs is therefore padded as if it were ~60 characters wider than
+it draws, and every row with a different number of colour runs lands at a
+different visible width. All three prototypes hit this independently; one
+measured a 390-column border rule under a 100-column table.
+
+So we ask psql for UNALIGNED output, which passes raw ESC bytes through
+untouched (`psql -A -F -P footer=off`), and own the alignment here,
+measuring DISPLAY width via render/dwidth.py.
+
+Two jobs beyond alignment:
+
+ * rstrip_cell -- ash.chart() right-pads its bar string to a constant
+ length() as its own workaround for the same psql bug. We align on display
+ width, so that padding is dead weight: it would inflate the still by ~70
+ columns. Strip it, but keep any SGR bytes that were interleaved with it so
+ the colour state machine stays balanced.
+
+ * wrapping -- ash.summary() emits a 108-column `value` and ash.top('query_id')
+ emits full statement text. Truncating would be editing the reader's output.
+ Wrapping is what a terminal does, and it keeps every character. When the
+ table exceeds --max-width, the widest column is folded and continuation
+ lines are drawn with a dim gutter.
+
+Input : psql -A -F $'\\x1f' -P footer=off (header line + data lines)
+Output: box-drawn table with real ESC codes preserved, LF endings.
+"""
+
+import argparse
+import os
+import re
+import sys
+
+sys.path.insert(0, os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))
+from dwidth import strip_ansi, width as vis # noqa: E402
+
+ESC_RE = re.compile(r"\x1b\[[0-9;:]*[A-Za-z]")
+
+# psql's own "unicode" linestyle, single border.
+BOX = dict(tl="┌", tm="┬", tr="┐",
+ ml="├", mm="┼", mr="┤",
+ bl="└", bm="┴", br="┘",
+ h="─", v="│")
+
+NUMERIC = re.compile(r"^-?[0-9][0-9,]*(\.[0-9]+)?%?$")
+
+# Trailing run of blanks, possibly interleaved with escapes.
+TAIL_RE = re.compile(r"(?:\x1b\[[0-9;:]*[A-Za-z]|[ \t])*$")
+
+
+def pad(s, w, right=False):
+ n = w - vis(s)
+ if n <= 0:
+ return s
+ return (" " * n + s) if right else (s + " " * n)
+
+
+def rstrip_cell(s):
+ """Drop trailing blanks, preserving any escapes they were interleaved with."""
+ m = TAIL_RE.search(s)
+ if not m or m.start() == len(s):
+ return s
+ return s[:m.start()] + "".join(ESC_RE.findall(m.group(0)))
+
+
+def sgr_state(s):
+ """Return the SGR sequence in effect at the end of `s`, or '' if reset.
+
+ Needed when a coloured cell is folded: the continuation line has to re-open
+ whatever colour was active at the fold point, or the rest of the cell paints
+ in the default foreground.
+ """
+ state = ""
+ for m in ESC_RE.finditer(s):
+ seq = m.group(0)
+ if seq in ("\x1b[0m", "\x1b[m"):
+ state = ""
+ else:
+ state = seq
+ return state
+
+
+# Block-drawing glyphs used by chart bars and legends.
+BLOCK_GLYPHS = "\u2588\u2593\u2592\u2591"
+BAR_GLYPHS = BLOCK_GLYPHS + "\u00b7"
+
+
+def is_bar_cell(s):
+ """Return True only for chart data, not for a labelled chart legend."""
+ plain = strip_ansi(s)
+ return (
+ any(glyph in plain for glyph in BAR_GLYPHS)
+ and all(char.isspace() or char in BAR_GLYPHS for char in plain)
+ )
+
+
+def chart_legend_entries(s):
+ """Return ANSI-preserving legend entries, or None when `s` is not a legend.
+
+ ash.chart() separates entries with two spaces and starts each entry with
+ its swatch. Keeping that delimiter semantic matters: an ordinary word fold
+ can leave the swatch at the end of one line and its label at the start of
+ the next.
+ """
+ entries = re.split(r" {2,}", s.strip())
+ if len(entries) < 2:
+ return None
+ for entry in entries:
+ plain = strip_ansi(entry)
+ if (
+ len(plain) < 3
+ or plain[0] not in BAR_GLYPHS
+ or plain[1] != " "
+ or not plain[2:].strip()
+ ):
+ return None
+ return entries
+
+
+def fold_chart_legend(entries, budget):
+ """Pack whole chart-legend entries into lines within `budget`."""
+ out = []
+ line = ""
+ for entry in entries:
+ candidate = entry if not line else line + " " + entry
+ if line and vis(candidate) > budget:
+ out.append(line)
+ line = entry
+ else:
+ line = candidate
+ if line:
+ out.append(line)
+ return out
+
+
+def fold(s, budget):
+ """Split a possibly-coloured string into chunks of <= budget display columns.
+
+ Prefers a syntactic boundary in the last third of the chunk so words
+ survive. Escapes are zero-width and always travel with the character that
+ follows.
+
+ A chart data cell is returned UNFOLDED, deliberately. Wrapping a bar onto a
+ second line would turn one bucket into two stacked segments. A chart legend
+ can contain the same glyphs, but its labels make it prose and safe to fold.
+ This matters because ash.chart() keeps per-bucket leaders in addition to its
+ top-n series, so the legend's width is data-dependent.
+ """
+ if vis(s) <= budget:
+ return [s]
+ if is_bar_cell(s):
+ return [s]
+ legend_entries = chart_legend_entries(s)
+ if legend_entries is not None:
+ return fold_chart_legend(legend_entries, budget)
+ out = []
+ buf = ""
+ used = 0
+ i = 0
+ while i < len(s):
+ m = ESC_RE.match(s, i)
+ if m:
+ buf += m.group(0)
+ i = m.end()
+ continue
+ ch = s[i]
+ w = vis(ch)
+ if used + w > budget:
+ # Back off to a syntactic boundary in the final third of the chunk
+ # so a fold lands between tokens rather than inside `sample_i /
+ # nterval`. A space is the first choice; a comma is the second,
+ # because a long IN-list of quoted literals has no spaces at all.
+ plain = strip_ansi(buf)
+ cut = plain.rfind(" ")
+ comma = plain.rfind(",")
+ if comma > cut:
+ cut = comma # keep the comma on the line it ends
+ if cut >= int(budget * 0.66):
+ keep, rest = split_at_visible(buf, cut + 1)
+ out.append(keep.rstrip())
+ carry = sgr_state(keep)
+ buf = carry + rest.lstrip()
+ used = vis(buf)
+ else:
+ out.append(buf)
+ buf = sgr_state(buf)
+ used = 0
+ continue
+ buf += ch
+ used += w
+ i += 1
+ if strip_ansi(buf).strip():
+ out.append(buf)
+ return out
+
+
+def split_at_visible(s, n):
+ """Split `s` after n visible characters, returning (head, tail)."""
+ seen = 0
+ i = 0
+ while i < len(s) and seen < n:
+ m = ESC_RE.match(s, i)
+ if m:
+ i = m.end()
+ continue
+ seen += 1
+ i += 1
+ return s[:i], s[i:]
+
+
+def render(lines, sep, dim, no_header=False, keep_pad=False, max_width=None,
+ auto_plain=True):
+ # A result with exactly one column has nothing to align, and boxing it row
+ # by row is actively wrong: ash.report() returns one jsonb_pretty() value
+ # whose embedded newlines psql emits verbatim, so a box would draw a rule
+ # between every line of one JSON document. Emit such a capture as plain
+ # screen text instead, dropping psql's header (a bare column name).
+ if auto_plain and not any(sep in ln for ln in lines):
+ body = lines[1:] if (lines and not no_header) else lines
+ return "\n".join(body) + "\n" if body else ""
+
+ rows = [ln.split(sep) for ln in lines if ln != ""]
+ if not keep_pad:
+ rows = [[rstrip_cell(c) for c in r] for r in rows]
+ if not rows:
+ return ""
+ ncol = max(len(r) for r in rows)
+ for r in rows:
+ r += [""] * (ncol - len(r))
+
+ head = None if no_header else rows[0]
+ data = rows if no_header else rows[1:]
+
+ widths = [max(vis(r[c]) for r in rows) for c in range(ncol)]
+
+ # Right-align a column when every non-blank data cell in it looks numeric.
+ right = [bool(data) and all(NUMERIC.match(strip_ansi(r[c]).strip())
+ for r in data if strip_ansi(r[c]).strip())
+ for c in range(ncol)]
+
+ # --- fit to budget by folding the widest column ------------------------
+ # Table width = sum(col + 2 padding) + (ncol + 1) vertical rules.
+ def table_width(ws):
+ return sum(w + 2 for w in ws) + ncol + 1
+
+ folded = [[[c] for c in r] for r in rows]
+ if max_width is not None:
+ guard = 0
+ while table_width(widths) > max_width and guard < ncol:
+ guard += 1
+ over = table_width(widths) - max_width
+ victim = widths.index(max(widths))
+ budget = max(widths[victim] - over, 12)
+ body = range(1, len(rows)) if head is not None else range(len(rows))
+ for ri in body:
+ folded[ri][victim] = fold(rows[ri][victim], budget)
+ # The column is now as wide as its widest fragment (the header,
+ # which is never folded, still sets a floor).
+ candidates = [vis(head[victim])] if head is not None else []
+ for ri in body:
+ candidates += [vis(p) for p in folded[ri][victim]]
+ widths[victim] = max(candidates or [0])
+
+ D, R = dim, "\x1b[0m" if dim else ""
+ bar = D + BOX["v"] + R
+
+ def rule(l, m, r):
+ return D + l + m.join(BOX["h"] * (w + 2) for w in widths) + r + R
+
+ out = [rule(BOX["tl"], BOX["tm"], BOX["tr"])]
+
+ if head is not None:
+ cells = []
+ for c, h in enumerate(head):
+ t = h.strip()
+ free = widths[c] - vis(t)
+ lft = free // 2
+ cells.append(" " * lft + t + " " * (free - lft)) # centred, like psql
+ out.append(bar + bar.join(" %s " % c for c in cells) + bar)
+ out.append(rule(BOX["ml"], BOX["mm"], BOX["mr"]))
+
+ start = 0 if head is None else 1
+ for ri in range(start, len(rows)):
+ parts = folded[ri]
+ nsub = max(len(p) for p in parts)
+ for k in range(nsub):
+ cells = []
+ for c in range(ncol):
+ piece = parts[c][k] if k < len(parts[c]) else ""
+ cells.append(pad(piece, widths[c], right[c] and k == 0))
+ out.append(bar + bar.join(" %s " % c for c in cells) + bar)
+
+ out.append(rule(BOX["bl"], BOX["bm"], BOX["br"]))
+ return "\n".join(out) + "\n"
+
+
+def sgr(hexcolor):
+ """#RRGGBB -> a 24-bit foreground SGR sequence."""
+ h = hexcolor.lstrip("#")
+ return "\x1b[38;2;%d;%d;%dm" % (int(h[0:2], 16), int(h[2:4], 16), int(h[4:6], 16))
+
+
+def prompt_line(sql, theme, cols, hang=6):
+ """Render the first body line: `ash ▸ `, wrapped to `cols`.
+
+ The SQL shown is the TEMPLATED form (`since => $SINCE`), never the expanded
+ ISO timestamp. Expanded literals are noise: they are 25 characters of
+ irrelevance that push the interesting part of the call off the right edge,
+ and they make the image look stale the day after it was generated.
+
+ Wrapping happens HERE rather than in the renderer so that every line of the
+ .ansi already satisfies the width gate -- the gate and the picture then
+ agree by construction.
+ """
+ ui = theme["ui"]
+ head = sgr(ui["prompt_accent"]) + "ash " + sgr(ui["prompt_dim"]) + "▸ " \
+ + sgr(ui["fg"])
+ # "ash ▸ " is 6 display columns and the hanging indent is 6 spaces, so every
+ # line -- first or continuation -- gets the same budget.
+ budget = cols - hang
+ lines = fold(sql, budget) or [""]
+ out = [head + lines[0] + "\x1b[0m"]
+ for extra in lines[1:]:
+ out.append(sgr(ui["fg"]) + " " * hang + extra + "\x1b[0m")
+ return "\n".join(out) + "\n"
+
+
+def main(argv=None):
+ ap = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+ ap.add_argument("-F", "--sep", default="\x1f",
+ help="field separator used by psql -A -F")
+ ap.add_argument("--prompt", help="templated SQL to show as the prompt line")
+ ap.add_argument("--theme", help="theme json (required with --prompt)")
+ ap.add_argument("--cols", type=int, default=100,
+ help="column budget for the prompt line")
+ ap.add_argument("--dim", default="\x1b[38;2;46;67;73m",
+ help="SGR for the box rules (theme ui.rule)")
+ ap.add_argument("--no-header", action="store_true")
+ ap.add_argument("--keep-pad", action="store_true",
+ help="do not strip ash.chart()'s constant-length padding")
+ ap.add_argument("--no-auto-plain", dest="auto_plain", action="store_false",
+ default=True,
+ help="box single-column output too (diagnostic)")
+ ap.add_argument("--max-width", type=int,
+ help="fold the widest column until the table fits")
+ ap.add_argument("-o", "--out")
+ a = ap.parse_args(argv)
+
+ data = sys.stdin.buffer.read().decode("utf-8", "replace")
+ lines = data.split("\n")
+ while lines and lines[-1] == "":
+ lines.pop()
+ txt = render(lines, a.sep, a.dim, a.no_header, a.keep_pad, a.max_width,
+ a.auto_plain)
+
+ if a.prompt:
+ if not a.theme:
+ sys.stderr.write("ansitable: --prompt requires --theme\n")
+ return 1
+ import json
+ with open(a.theme, encoding="utf-8") as fh:
+ theme = json.load(fh)
+ txt = prompt_line(a.prompt, theme, a.cols) + "\n" + txt
+
+ if a.out:
+ with open(a.out, "w", encoding="utf-8") as fh:
+ fh.write(txt)
+ else:
+ sys.stdout.write(txt)
+ return 0
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+ sys.exit(main())
diff --git a/demos/render/chrome.py b/demos/render/chrome.py
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..8dd6386
--- /dev/null
+++ b/demos/render/chrome.py
@@ -0,0 +1,160 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""
+chrome.py -- emit the window-chrome plate PNG for the animation composite.
+
+The stills path draws its chrome as SVG primitives inside ansi2svg.py. The
+animation path cannot: agg renders a bare terminal to frames, so the chrome has
+to be a separate raster that ffmpeg composites the frames onto. Same theme file,
+same construction order, same numbers (§3.3) -- so a still and a frame of the
+reel are visually the same window.
+
+The plate is the BACKGROUND, not an overlay: ffmpeg's
+
+ -i frames -i chrome_plate.png -filter_complex "[1][0]overlay=x=..:y=.."
+
+puts the plate first and paints the opaque terminal frames on top of it, at the
+body origin. The plate therefore has no transparent hole to cut; it simply
+paints the whole card, and the frames cover the body area.
+
+record-demo.sh must MEASURE the agg output with ffprobe and pass those numbers
+here. Nothing about the reel's pixel size may be hardcoded -- agg's idea of how
+many pixels 100x30 cells occupy depends on the font it loaded.
+
+Usage
+ chrome.py --theme theme/pg_ash.json --inner 1400x630 -o out/chrome_plate.png
+ [--title "pg_ash 2.0"] [--font fonts/JetBrainsMono-Regular.ttf]
+ [--scale 1] [--print-offsets]
+
+Prints, on stdout, a sourceable summary so the caller never recomputes geometry:
+
+ ASH_PLATE_W=1456 ASH_PLATE_H=734 ASH_PLATE_X=28 ASH_PLATE_Y=60
+"""
+
+import argparse
+import json
+import sys
+
+EXIT_RENDER = 6
+
+
+def load_theme(path):
+ with open(path, encoding="utf-8") as fh:
+ return json.load(fh)
+
+
+def build(theme, inner_w, inner_h, title, font_path, scale, metrics="reel"):
+ try:
+ from PIL import Image, ImageDraw, ImageFont
+ except ImportError:
+ sys.stderr.write("chrome.py: Pillow is required for the animation "
+ "chrome plate (pip install pillow)\n")
+ sys.exit(EXIT_RENDER)
+
+ c = theme["chrome"]
+ ui = theme["ui"]
+ s = float(scale)
+
+ def px(v):
+ return int(round(v * s))
+
+ card_w = inner_w + 2 * px(c["pad_x"])
+ card_h = px(c["titlebar_h"]) + 2 * px(c["pad_y"]) + inner_h
+ w = card_w + 2 * px(c["margin"])
+ h = card_h + 2 * px(c["margin"])
+
+ m = px(c["margin"])
+ r = px(c["radius"])
+ tb = px(c["titlebar_h"])
+
+ # 1. margin fill
+ img = Image.new("RGBA", (w, h), ui["marginfill"])
+ d = ImageDraw.Draw(img)
+
+ # 2. card
+ d.rounded_rectangle([m, m, m + card_w - 1, m + card_h - 1], radius=r,
+ fill=ui["bg"], outline=ui["border"],
+ width=max(1, px(c["border"])))
+
+ # 3. title bar: rounded on top, square at the bottom, then the hairline.
+ # Same shape the SVG path in ansi2svg.chrome() describes, and it must
+ # stay that way — a still and a frame of the reel are supposed to be the
+ # same window.
+ #
+ # The rounded rect is drawn to y = m + tb - 1 (NOT m + tb + r). An earlier
+ # version used the latter, which painted the title-bar shade twelve pixels
+ # PAST the hairline: pixel-sampled at x=480, ui.titlebar filled rows 25..74
+ # where titlebar_h is 38, so every frame of the reel carried a visible
+ # lighter band across the top of the card that the stills did not have.
+ # The square patch below then squares off the rounded BOTTOM corners the
+ # rounded rect leaves behind.
+ d.rounded_rectangle([m, m, m + card_w - 1, m + tb - 1], radius=r,
+ fill=ui["titlebar"])
+ d.rectangle([m, m + tb - r, m + card_w - 1, m + tb - 1], fill=ui["titlebar"])
+ d.line([m, m + tb, m + card_w - 1, m + tb], fill=ui["border"],
+ width=max(1, px(c["border"])))
+ # restore the card's rounded top corners that the square fill above squared
+ d.rounded_rectangle([m, m, m + card_w - 1, m + card_h - 1], radius=r,
+ outline=ui["border"], width=max(1, px(c["border"])))
+
+ # 4. traffic lights — vertically centred in the title bar (spec: cy =
+ # margin + 19 for a 38px bar), NOT "margin + dot_x[0]", which was the
+ # same number by coincidence and would have drifted the moment either
+ # the bar height or the first dot's x changed.
+ cy = m + tb // 2
+ dot_r = px(c["dot_r"])
+ for k, col in enumerate(ui["dots"]):
+ cx = m + px(c["dot_x"][k])
+ d.ellipse([cx - dot_r, cy - dot_r, cx + dot_r, cy + dot_r], fill=col)
+
+ # 5. title
+ if title:
+ size = theme[metrics]["font_size"] * c["title_size_em"] * s
+ font = None
+ if font_path:
+ try:
+ font = ImageFont.truetype(font_path, int(round(size)))
+ except OSError:
+ font = None
+ if font is None:
+ sys.stderr.write(
+ "chrome.py: could not load %r. Refusing to fall back to a "
+ "bitmap default -- the reel title would not match the stills.\n"
+ % (font_path,))
+ sys.exit(EXIT_RENDER)
+ tw = d.textlength(title, font=font)
+ d.text((m + card_w / 2.0 - tw / 2.0, cy - size * 0.62),
+ title, font=font, fill=ui["dim"])
+
+ body_x = m + px(c["pad_x"])
+ body_y = m + tb + px(c["pad_y"])
+ return img, body_x, body_y
+
+
+def main(argv=None):
+ ap = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+ ap.add_argument("--theme", required=True)
+ ap.add_argument("--inner", required=True,
+ help="WxH of the terminal raster, from ffprobe")
+ ap.add_argument("-o", "--out", required=True)
+ ap.add_argument("--title", default="pg_ash 2.0")
+ ap.add_argument("--font")
+ ap.add_argument("--scale", type=float, default=1.0)
+ ap.add_argument("--metrics", default="reel", choices=["still", "reel"])
+ a = ap.parse_args(argv)
+
+ try:
+ iw, ih = (int(x) for x in a.inner.lower().split("x"))
+ except ValueError:
+ sys.stderr.write("chrome.py: --inner must look like 1400x630\n")
+ return 1
+
+ theme = load_theme(a.theme)
+ img, bx, by = build(theme, iw, ih, a.title, a.font, a.scale, a.metrics)
+ img.save(a.out)
+ sys.stdout.write("ASH_PLATE_W=%d ASH_PLATE_H=%d ASH_PLATE_X=%d ASH_PLATE_Y=%d\n"
+ % (img.width, img.height, bx, by))
+ return 0
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+ sys.exit(main())
diff --git a/demos/render/dwidth.py b/demos/render/dwidth.py
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..579ff00
--- /dev/null
+++ b/demos/render/dwidth.py
@@ -0,0 +1,119 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""
+dwidth.py -- the display-width oracle. One implementation, used by everything.
+
+Why this is its own file
+------------------------
+Three independent things need to answer "how many terminal columns does this
+line occupy": the scripted stills preflight, the table formatter, and the
+animation path's pane verification. They must agree exactly, or the width gate
+passes on one path and the other ships a wrapped, garbled frame.
+
+And it must not be `awk length`. awk counts UTF-8 *bytes*: measured 393 for a
+131-column table full of box-drawing glyphs. It must not be `len(s)` on the raw
+string either: a 24-bit SGR run is 19 characters of zero display width, and
+ash.chart(color => true) is nothing but SGR runs -- measured 154 characters for
+a 131-column line.
+
+Rules implemented here:
+ * CSI sequences (ESC [ ... final) -> width 0
+ * OSC sequences (ESC ] ... BEL | ST) -> width 0
+ * other two-byte ESC sequences -> width 0
+ * East Asian Wide / Fullwidth -> width 2
+ * combining marks (Mn/Me) -> width 0
+ * everything else printable -> width 1
+
+CLI
+ dwidth.py FILE... print "widthpath:line" for every line
+ dwidth.py --max N FILE... exit 5 naming the first line over budget
+ dwidth.py --max N --quiet FILE... same, but silent when everything fits
+ dwidth.py --report FILE... print ONE number: the widest line. This is
+ what the preflight table prints, so the
+ number a human reads and the number the
+ gate enforces come from the same code.
+"""
+
+import argparse
+import re
+import sys
+import unicodedata
+
+# CSI: ESC [ . OSC: ESC ] ... (BEL | ESC \).
+# Anything else starting with ESC: swallow ESC plus one byte.
+_ANSI = re.compile(
+ r"\x1b\[[0-9;:?<>=]*[@-~]" # CSI
+ r"|\x1b\][^\x07\x1b]*(?:\x07|\x1b\\)" # OSC
+ r"|\x1b[@-Z\\-_]" # two-byte escapes
+)
+
+EXIT_WIDTH = 5 # §2.6: capture verification failure
+
+
+def strip_ansi(s):
+ """Remove every escape sequence, leaving only the characters a terminal draws."""
+ return _ANSI.sub("", s)
+
+
+def char_width(ch):
+ if unicodedata.combining(ch):
+ return 0
+ cat = unicodedata.category(ch)
+ if cat in ("Mn", "Me", "Cf"):
+ return 0
+ if ch < " " or ch == "\x7f":
+ return 0
+ return 2 if unicodedata.east_asian_width(ch) in ("W", "F") else 1
+
+
+def width(s):
+ """Display width in terminal columns of a string that may contain SGR."""
+ return sum(char_width(c) for c in strip_ansi(s))
+
+
+def measure_file(path):
+ """Yield (lineno, width, text) for each line, 1-indexed."""
+ with open(path, "rb") as fh:
+ data = fh.read().decode("utf-8", "replace")
+ if data.endswith("\n"):
+ data = data[:-1]
+ for i, line in enumerate(data.split("\n"), 1):
+ yield i, width(line), line
+
+
+def main(argv=None):
+ ap = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=__doc__.strip().split("\n")[0])
+ ap.add_argument("files", nargs="+")
+ ap.add_argument("--max", type=int, help="fail (exit 5) above this width")
+ ap.add_argument("--quiet", action="store_true")
+ ap.add_argument("--report", action="store_true",
+ help="print only the widest line width, for a caller's table")
+ a = ap.parse_args(argv)
+
+ worst = 0
+ bad = []
+ for p in a.files:
+ for lineno, w, line in measure_file(p):
+ worst = max(worst, w)
+ if a.max is not None and w > a.max:
+ bad.append((p, lineno, w, strip_ansi(line)))
+ elif a.max is None and not a.report:
+ sys.stdout.write("%d\t%s:%d\n" % (w, p, lineno))
+
+ if a.report and a.max is None:
+ sys.stdout.write("%d\n" % worst)
+ return 0
+ if a.max is None:
+ return 0
+ if bad:
+ for p, lineno, w, text in bad:
+ sys.stderr.write(
+ "width: %s line %d is %d columns, budget is %d\n %s\n"
+ % (p, lineno, w, a.max, text[:120]))
+ return EXIT_WIDTH
+ if not a.quiet:
+ sys.stderr.write("width: ok, widest line %d of %d columns\n" % (worst, a.max))
+ return 0
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+ sys.exit(main())
diff --git a/demos/render/scene_shape.py b/demos/render/scene_shape.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2236d76
--- /dev/null
+++ b/demos/render/scene_shape.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""
+scene_shape.py -- reduce a raw scene capture to its CONTRACT fingerprint.
+
+Why a fingerprint and not a diff
+--------------------------------
+`make check` proves the renderer still turns known bytes into the same SVG. It
+cannot notice that pg_ash's output moved underneath it: rename a reader, drop a
+column, change a header, and the committed fixtures keep passing forever while
+the live capture quietly becomes something else. That is how the landing page
+went on advertising a reader 2.0 had removed.
+
+The obvious alarm -- re-capture and `git diff --exit-code demos/fixtures` -- does
+not work, and it looks like it should. Every number in a capture is a real
+measurement of a real workload, so a fresh seed legitimately changes almost
+every byte, the diff is red on every run, and a check that is always red is
+ignored. A first attempt at masking (digits -> #, collapse glyph runs) failed
+for the same reason one level up: WHICH wait event ranks fourth, and WHICH
+statement ranks third, are also measurements. They moved between two runs
+fifteen minutes apart on the same machine.
+
+So the fingerprint is only the part of a capture that is a contract:
+
+ cols=N how many fields the reader projects
+ head=a|b|c what they are called, in order
+ keys=x,y,z for a jsonb capture: its top-level keys, sorted
+ labels=x,y,z for a (metric, value) or (period, ...) reader: the
+ first column's values, sorted -- those are a fixed
+ vocabulary, not data. `key` columns are excluded
+ precisely because they ARE data.
+
+What this catches: a renamed or reordered column, a reader that gained or lost
+one, a report key that appeared or vanished, a summary metric that disappeared.
+What it deliberately does not catch: any change in a measured value, including
+which event or statement came top. Those are the demo working, not rotting.
+
+Usage: scene_shape.py --sep $'\\x1f' capture.raw
+"""
+
+import argparse
+import re
+import sys
+
+SGR = re.compile(r'\x1b\[[0-9;:?]*[@-~]|\x1b\][^\x07\x1b]*(?:\x07|\x1b\\)')
+JSON_KEY = re.compile(r'^\s*"([^"]+)"\s*:', re.MULTILINE)
+
+# First-column names whose values are a fixed vocabulary and therefore contract.
+# `key` is excluded on purpose: in ash.top() and ash.compare() it holds whatever
+# the workload happened to produce.
+LABEL_COLUMNS = ('metric', 'period')
+
+
+def strip(s):
+ return SGR.sub('', s)
+
+
+def fingerprint(text, sep):
+ text = strip(text)
+ lines = [l for l in text.split('\n')]
+ while lines and not lines[-1].strip():
+ lines.pop()
+ if not lines:
+ return 'empty'
+
+ # A capture with no separator anywhere is a single-column result: either
+ # jsonb_pretty() or a chart legend. jsonb_pretty is the interesting case.
+ if not any(sep in l for l in lines):
+ keys = sorted(set(JSON_KEY.findall(text)))
+ if keys:
+ return 'cols=1 keys=' + ','.join(keys)
+ return 'cols=1 lines=%d' % len(lines)
+
+ rows = [l.split(sep) for l in lines]
+ head = rows[0]
+ parts = ['cols=%d' % len(head), 'head=' + '|'.join(h.strip() for h in head)]
+
+ if head and head[0].strip() in LABEL_COLUMNS:
+ labels = sorted(set(r[0].strip() for r in rows[1:] if r and r[0].strip()))
+ parts.append('labels=' + ','.join(labels))
+ return ' '.join(parts)
+
+
+def main(argv=None):
+ ap = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+ ap.add_argument('capture')
+ ap.add_argument('-F', '--sep', default='\x1f')
+ a = ap.parse_args(argv)
+ with open(a.capture, 'rb') as fh:
+ text = fh.read().decode('utf-8', 'replace')
+ sys.stdout.write(fingerprint(text, a.sep) + '\n')
+ return 0
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+ sys.exit(main())
diff --git a/demos/render/verify_pixels.py b/demos/render/verify_pixels.py
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..9f5c89a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/demos/render/verify_pixels.py
@@ -0,0 +1,171 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""
+verify_pixels.py -- prove the rendered PNG still contains pg_ash's own colours.
+
+"An image was produced" is not a test. Two failure modes ship silently past it:
+
+ 1. A rasteriser or a GIF palette quantises 24-bit colour into mud. The picture
+ still looks like a picture; #FF5555 Lock has just become #C05050 and the
+ colour scheme documented in docs/COLOR_SCHEME.md is no longer what the
+ landing page shows.
+ 2. The render produces a correctly sized expanse of background -- an all-black
+ card -- because the body group was dropped.
+
+So: for every scene, extract the exact 24-bit foreground colours that pg_ash
+actually emitted in that scene's .ansi bytes, and assert each one is present at
+some pixel of the PNG with L1 error 0. Then assert a floor on the fraction of
+non-background pixels.
+
+One wrinkle, and it is the reason this file needs the theme. Block promotion
+(§3.5) draws U+2593/2591/2592 as a at theme.shade opacity, because that is
+what those glyphs mean: 75%, 50%, 25% ink. A wait class that only ever appears as
+a shaded glyph -- the rank-2 and rank-3 series of any ash.chart() -- is therefore
+NOT in the raster at its literal RGB, and never should be. It is in the raster
+composited over ui.bg at that opacity.
+
+So a colour passes if it is present exactly (full-opacity block, or glyph ink) OR
+if its composite over ui.bg at one of the theme's shade levels is present. That
+still catches the failure this gate exists for -- a rasteriser or GIF palette
+quantising #FF5555 into mud -- because a quantised colour matches neither.
+
+Environment (set by bin/capture-stills.sh):
+ ASH_ANSI_DIR directory of .ansi
+ ASH_PNG_DIR directory of .png
+ ASH_MANIFEST TSV: name, width, height, title
+ ASH_THEME theme json (for ui.bg and the shade curve)
+ ASH_MIN_INK optional; minimum non-background pixel fraction (default 0.02)
+
+Exit 0 on success, 6 on any failure (§2.6 render failure).
+"""
+
+import json
+import os
+import re
+import sys
+from collections import Counter
+
+EXIT_RENDER = 6
+
+# 24-bit foreground SGR: ESC [ 38 ; 2 ; r ; g ; b m
+TRUECOLOR = re.compile(r"\x1b\[38;2;(\d{1,3});(\d{1,3});(\d{1,3})m")
+
+# Composites are computed by the browser, which rounds; allow one unit of slack
+# per channel. Two different palette entries are never within 1 of each other,
+# so this cannot make a quantised colour pass.
+COMPOSITE_SLACK = 1
+
+
+def scene_colors(path):
+ """Exact RGB triples pg_ash emitted as truecolor foreground in this capture."""
+ with open(path, "rb") as fh:
+ data = fh.read().decode("utf-8", "replace")
+ return set((int(r), int(g), int(b)) for r, g, b in TRUECOLOR.findall(data))
+
+
+def hex_rgb(s):
+ s = s.lstrip("#")
+ return tuple(int(s[i:i + 2], 16) for i in (0, 2, 4))
+
+
+def composite(fg, bg, alpha):
+ return tuple(int(round(f * alpha + b * (1.0 - alpha))) for f, b in zip(fg, bg))
+
+
+def present_within(counts, rgb, slack):
+ """Is `rgb` (or anything within `slack` per channel) in the raster?"""
+ if counts.get(rgb):
+ return True
+ if slack <= 0:
+ return False
+ r, g, b = rgb
+ for dr in range(-slack, slack + 1):
+ for dg in range(-slack, slack + 1):
+ for db in range(-slack, slack + 1):
+ if counts.get((r + dr, g + dg, b + db)):
+ return True
+ return False
+
+
+def main():
+ try:
+ from PIL import Image
+ except ImportError:
+ sys.stderr.write("verify_pixels: Pillow not installed; skipping the "
+ "pixel gate (SVG output is unaffected)\n")
+ return 0
+
+ ansi_dir = os.environ["ASH_ANSI_DIR"]
+ png_dir = os.environ["ASH_PNG_DIR"]
+ manifest = os.environ["ASH_MANIFEST"]
+ min_ink = float(os.environ.get("ASH_MIN_INK", "0.02"))
+
+ theme_path = os.environ.get("ASH_THEME")
+ shades = [1.0]
+ ui_bg = (0, 0, 0)
+ if theme_path and os.path.isfile(theme_path):
+ theme = json.load(open(theme_path, encoding="utf-8"))
+ ui_bg = hex_rgb(theme["ui"]["bg"])
+ shades = sorted(set([1.0] + [float(v) for v in theme["shade"].values()]))
+
+ failures = []
+ checked = 0
+
+ with open(manifest, encoding="utf-8") as fh:
+ rows = [ln.rstrip("\n").split("\t") for ln in fh if ln.strip()]
+
+ for row in rows:
+ name = row[0]
+ png = os.path.join(png_dir, name + ".png")
+ ansi = os.path.join(ansi_dir, name + ".ansi")
+ if not os.path.isfile(png):
+ continue
+ checked += 1
+
+ im = Image.open(png).convert("RGB")
+ pixels = im.getdata()
+ present = Counter(pixels)
+
+ # (a) exact-colour survival, allowing for shade compositing
+ wanted = scene_colors(ansi)
+ missing = []
+ for rgb in sorted(wanted):
+ # The rasteriser antialiases glyph EDGES, but the interior of a
+ # promoted block and the core of a stroked glyph are the flat
+ # colour. Full opacity must therefore land exactly; a shaded block
+ # must land on its composite over ui.bg.
+ if present.get(rgb, 0):
+ continue
+ if any(present_within(present, composite(rgb, ui_bg, a),
+ COMPOSITE_SLACK)
+ for a in shades if a < 1.0):
+ continue
+ missing.append("#%02X%02X%02X" % rgb)
+ if missing:
+ failures.append("%s: colours absent from the raster: %s"
+ % (name, " ".join(missing)))
+
+ # (b) the image is not an expanse of background
+ bg, bg_n = present.most_common(1)[0]
+ ink = 1.0 - (bg_n / float(len(pixels)))
+ if ink < min_ink:
+ failures.append("%s: only %.3f%% non-background pixels (floor %.1f%%)"
+ % (name, ink * 100.0, min_ink * 100.0))
+
+ # (c) a byte floor catches a truncated or 1x1 write
+ if os.path.getsize(png) < 4096:
+ failures.append("%s: %d-byte PNG is implausibly small"
+ % (name, os.path.getsize(png)))
+
+ if failures:
+ sys.stderr.write("verify_pixels: FAILED\n")
+ for f in failures:
+ sys.stderr.write(" %s\n" % f)
+ return EXIT_RENDER
+
+ sys.stderr.write("verify_pixels: ok, %d raster(s) carry their exact "
+ "wait-class RGB\n" % checked)
+ return 0
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+ sys.exit(main())
diff --git a/demos/scenes/captions.tsv b/demos/scenes/captions.tsv
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e924590
--- /dev/null
+++ b/demos/scenes/captions.tsv
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+# captions.tsv -- the prose that goes UNDER each image in out/embed.md.
+#
+# scenes.tsv's `title` is the window-chrome title and is already a serviceable
+# caption, so this file is entirely optional: a scene with no entry here gets
+# its title. It exists so a doc caption can be a sentence without making the
+# title bar a sentence, and so captions can be edited without touching the
+# six-column scene contract that both capture paths parse.
+#
+# TAB-separated: namemarkdown caption (one line, inline markdown allowed).
+#
+status `ash.status()` — pg_ash is plain SQL: no extension, no `.control` file, no restart. This is it reporting its own health, including whether an external scheduler is driving sampling (it is — pg_cron is optional).
+periods `ash.periods()` — one call answers "what history do I actually have?" across every horizon, and names which storage tier (raw samples, 1-minute rollup, 1-hour rollup) answers each one.
+chart `ash.chart()` — Average Active Sessions per minute, stacked by wait event, in 24-bit colour straight out of `psql`. The lock storm is not subtle. The glyph varies per series (`█ ▓ ░ ▒ ·`) as well as the colour, so the ranking still reads correctly for colourblind viewers and in a monochrome terminal.
+top_event `ash.top('wait_event')` — the wait-event breakdown for the incident window, ranked by Average Active Sessions, with the share of total active time. When `Lock:transactionid` dominates, the database is not short of capacity — writers are queueing behind one another's row locks.
+top_query `ash.top('query_id')` — the same window sliced by statement instead of by wait. Query text comes from `pg_stat_statements` when it is installed; without it you still get the query id.
+compare `ash.compare()` — two windows side by side. `avg_delta` is what changed between them; every other column is context you can stop reading once you have the delta.
+summary `ash.summary()` — the whole window in fifteen rows: how busy it was, what it waited on, which statements were responsible.
+report `ash.report()` — the same analysis as `jsonb`, shaped for a machine. Paste it into an LLM, or store it as an incident artifact.
diff --git a/demos/scenes/scenes.tsv b/demos/scenes/scenes.tsv
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..14a6d0e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/demos/scenes/scenes.tsv
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+# scenes.tsv — THE scene list. Data, not code. Read by BOTH capture paths:
+# bin/capture-stills.sh (scripted psql -A -> SVG/PNG) and bin/record-demo.sh
+# (tmux + psql -> asciicast -> GIF/MP4). Neither path may hardcode a query.
+#
+# Tab-separated. `#` comments. Columns, in order:
+# name [a-z0-9_]+ -> out/ansi/.ansi, assets/.svg / .png
+# hold float seconds the reel holds this frame; 0.0 = still-only
+# reel_order 0 = not in the reel; otherwise ascending position
+# title chrome title-bar text for the still
+# markers comma-separated literal substrings; ALL must appear in the capture
+# sql one line; may use $SINCE $UNTIL $BASE_SINCE $BASE_UNTIL
+# $STORM_SINCE $STORM_UNTIL
+#
+# Rules (enforced by lib/scenes.sh and again by bin/record-demo.sh):
+# * Columns must be projected explicitly. `select *` is banned.
+# * 2.0 readers only: periods aas timeline top compare samples report chart
+# summary status. The four v1.x colour-emitting readers that 2.0 removed are
+# banned by name in lib/scenes.sh; referencing one is a build failure.
+# * Every line of every capture must fit ASH_COLS (default 100) DISPLAY
+# columns. rtrim(chart) is NOT cosmetic: pg_ash pads the chart column to a
+# constant length() INCLUDING its ANSI bytes, so a low-colour row carries
+# tens of trailing spaces. In a 100-column terminal those spaces wrap onto
+# the next line and the reel grows a blank line between every bar.
+# * A REEL scene (reel_order > 0) must also fit ASH_ROWS (default 30) minus
+# six lines of prompt/narration overhead. bin/record-demo.sh gates this in
+# preflight. That is why the chart buckets at 2 minutes rather than 1: at
+# 1-minute grain a 24-minute window is 24 bars plus a legend, and the legend
+# — the row that names the wait events — scrolls off the top of the frame.
+#
+# The window literals come from out/window.env, written by the seeder. No scene
+# SQL may call now() — the whole point of the frozen window is that the stills
+# pass and the animation pass, run minutes apart, agree on every digit.
+#
+# name hold reel_order title markers sql
+status 2.5 1 pg_ash 2.0 — is it collecting? 2.0,external scheduler select metric, value from ash.status() where metric in ('version','sampling_enabled','sample_interval','samples_total','raw_retention','pg_cron_available');
+periods 3.2 2 ash.periods() — what do I even have? 1m,1h,raw select period, source, buckets_with_data, avg_aas, peak_aas, p99_aas from ash.periods($UNTIL);
+chart 5.5 3 ash.chart() — AAS by wait event Lock:transactionid,Lock:tuple,█,▓,▒ select to_char(bucket_start, 'HH24:MI') as bucket, aas, rtrim(chart) as chart from ash.chart(since => $SINCE, until => $UNTIL, bucket => '2 minutes', n => 4, width => 66, color => true);
+top_event 3.5 4 ash.top('wait_event') — the exact wait Lock:transactionid select key, avg_aas, peak_aas, p99_aas, pct from ash.top('wait_event', since => $STORM_SINCE, until => $STORM_UNTIL, n => 6);
+top_query 4.0 5 ash.top('query_id') — which statement? pgbench_accounts select key, left(query_text, 52) as query_text, avg_aas, pct from ash.top('query_id', since => $STORM_SINCE, until => $STORM_UNTIL, n => 3);
+compare 3.5 6 ash.compare() — incident vs baseline avg_delta,Lock:transactionid select key, avg_aas_1, avg_aas_2, avg_delta, pct_2 from ash.compare($BASE_SINCE, $BASE_UNTIL, $STORM_SINCE, $STORM_UNTIL, dimension => 'wait_event', n => 5);
+summary 0.0 0 ash.summary() — the one-paragraph verdict peak_aas,Lock:transactionid,pgbench_accounts select metric, value from ash.summary(since => $STORM_SINCE, until => $STORM_UNTIL);
+# cluster_name is a host setting and its key is absent when unset; omit it so
+# the scene and its contract fingerprint do not depend on local configuration.
+# Report top events describe each class's single p99 minute, so that minute can
+# legitimately differ from the whole-storm winner asserted by top_event/shape.
+report 0.0 0 ash.report() — hand this to an LLM top_events_p99,coverage,aas_p99 select jsonb_pretty(ash.report(since => $STORM_SINCE, until => $STORM_UNTIL, n => 2) - array['cluster_name', 'aas_p999', 'aas_worst1m', 'top_events_p999', 'top_events_worst1m', 'top_queryids_p999', 'top_queryids_worst1m']) as report;
diff --git a/demos/theme/pg_ash.json b/demos/theme/pg_ash.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8a39f5a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/demos/theme/pg_ash.json
@@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
+{
+ "_comment": [
+ "THE style file for the pg_ash visual harness. This is the ONLY file in demos/",
+ "that contains a colour or a geometry constant. render/ansi2svg.py, render/chrome.py",
+ "and bin/record-demo.sh (agg theme) all derive from here; nothing hardcodes a hex.",
+ "",
+ "Note what is deliberately NOT here: the wait-class -> colour mapping from",
+ "docs/COLOR_SCHEME.md. pg_ash emits those itself as 24-bit truecolor SGR and the",
+ "renderer reproduces the bytes verbatim. The renderer never assigns a wait colour;",
+ "if it did, the picture would stop being evidence of what pg_ash actually prints.",
+ "The `ansi` array below is only a fallback for stray 4-bit SGR codes."
+ ],
+
+ "font": {
+ "family": "JetBrains Mono",
+ "regular": "JetBrainsMono-Regular.ttf",
+ "bold": "JetBrainsMono-Bold.ttf",
+ "advance_em": 0.6,
+ "upm": 1000
+ },
+
+ "still": { "font_size": 16.0, "line_height": 1.34 },
+
+ "_reel_line_height": [
+ "1.25, not the still's 1.34, and the difference is load-bearing.",
+ "",
+ "The stills renderer promotes block glyphs to and can overdraw them, so",
+ "a stacked bar fuses into continuous area at any line height. agg cannot: it",
+ "draws U+2588 as a GLYPH. JetBrains Mono's full block spans -300..1020 of a",
+ "1000 upm em, i.e. 1.32em tall, while agg's cell is font_size * 1.05 *",
+ "line_height. At 1.34 the cell is 19.6px and the glyph 18.5px, so every row of",
+ "every bar carried a 1px horizontal seam and the flagship chart read as a wire",
+ "mesh rather than as a chart. At 1.25 the cell is 18.4px, the glyph covers it,",
+ "and the seams close. Anything above ~1.257 brings them back."
+ ],
+ "reel": { "font_size": 14.0, "line_height": 1.25 },
+
+ "chrome": {
+ "margin": 24,
+ "radius": 12,
+ "border": 1,
+ "titlebar_h": 38,
+ "pad_x": 28,
+ "pad_y": 22,
+ "dot_r": 5.5,
+ "dot_x": [19, 38, 57],
+ "title_size_em": 0.8
+ },
+
+ "ui": {
+ "bg": "#0D1618",
+ "fg": "#E6EDF3",
+ "dim": "#7F949B",
+ "rule": "#2E4349",
+ "titlebar": "#16262A",
+ "border": "#25383D",
+ "marginfill": "#0A1416",
+ "prompt_accent": "#50FA7B",
+ "prompt_dim": "#6272A4",
+ "dots": ["#FF5F57", "#FEBC2E", "#28C840"]
+ },
+
+ "ansi": ["#21222C", "#FF5555", "#50FA7B", "#F1FA8C",
+ "#1E64FF", "#FF79C6", "#00C8FF", "#F8F8F2",
+ "#6272A4", "#FF6E6E", "#69FF94", "#FFFFA5",
+ "#5A8DFF", "#FF92DF", "#5AE0FF", "#FFFFFF"],
+
+ "shade": { "█": 1.00, "▓": 0.86, "░": 0.74, "▒": 0.62 }
+}
diff --git a/demos/workload.sh b/demos/workload.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 7a850e4..0000000
--- a/demos/workload.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,95 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-# workload.sh — Generates a two-phase wait-event mix inside the demo container.
-#
-# Phase 1 (BASELINE_SEC): light pgbench read-only traffic → Client:ClientRead,
-# CPU*. Timeline looks "quiet".
-# Phase 2 (SPIKE_SEC): several concurrent writers contend on the SAME row.
-# One holds pg_sleep() inside a transaction; the rest
-# queue behind it on Lock:tuple / Lock:transactionid.
-# Phase 3 (TAIL_SEC): back to baseline so the ring-down is visible.
-#
-# The workload runs inside the container, talks to PG via the local UNIX socket,
-# and writes only phase markers to stdout (not visible in the recorded pane).
-
-set -euo pipefail
-
-PSQL_BIN=psql
-PSQL_ARGS=(-X -qAt -U postgres -d demo)
-BASELINE_SEC="${BASELINE_SEC:-15}"
-SPIKE_SEC="${SPIKE_SEC:-30}"
-TAIL_SEC="${TAIL_SEC:-45}"
-PGBENCH_CLIENTS="${PGBENCH_CLIENTS:-4}"
-LOCK_WORKERS="${LOCK_WORKERS:-5}"
-LOCK_SLEEP_SEC="${LOCK_SLEEP_SEC:-3}"
-HOT_ROW_AID="${HOT_ROW_AID:-42}"
-
-log() { printf '[workload %s] %s\n' "$(date +%H:%M:%S)" "$*"; }
-
-cleanup() {
- # Kill everything this script launched, but don't noisily report failures —
- # the container keeps running and we just want a clean exit.
- jobs -p | xargs -r kill -TERM 2>/dev/null || true
- sleep 0.3
- jobs -p | xargs -r kill -KILL 2>/dev/null || true
- wait 2>/dev/null || true
-}
-trap cleanup EXIT INT TERM
-
-# ---- Phase 1: baseline ------------------------------------------------------
-log "phase 1: baseline pgbench (${BASELINE_SEC}s, ${PGBENCH_CLIENTS} clients, SELECT-only)"
-pgbench -U postgres -d demo -S -c "$PGBENCH_CLIENTS" -j 2 -T "$BASELINE_SEC" -n \
- >/dev/null 2>&1 &
-PGBENCH1=$!
-
-wait "$PGBENCH1" 2>/dev/null || true
-
-# ---- Phase 2: lock-contention spike -----------------------------------------
-log "phase 2: row-lock spike on aid=${HOT_ROW_AID} (${SPIKE_SEC}s, ${LOCK_WORKERS} contenders)"
-
-# Keep a light baseline running through the spike so the mix stays realistic
-# (a few pgbench SELECTs for ClientRead/CPU* sprinkles).
-pgbench -U postgres -d demo -S -c 2 -j 1 -T "$SPIKE_SEC" -n \
- >/dev/null 2>&1 &
-PGBENCH2=$!
-
-# The "holder" loop: acquires the row, sleeps LOCK_SLEEP_SEC, commits, repeat.
-# Each iteration holds the row for LOCK_SLEEP_SEC; contenders queue on it.
-(
- end=$(( $(date +%s) + SPIKE_SEC ))
- while [ "$(date +%s)" -lt "$end" ]; do
- "$PSQL_BIN" "${PSQL_ARGS[@]}" </dev/null 2>&1 || true
-begin;
-update pgbench_accounts set abalance = abalance + 1 where aid = ${HOT_ROW_AID};
-select pg_sleep(${LOCK_SLEEP_SEC});
-commit;
-SQL
- done
-) &
-
-# N contender loops: each hammers the same row. With the holder occupying the
-# row for LOCK_SLEEP_SEC at a time, every contender always finds a locked row
-# and enters the wait queue → Lock:tuple + Lock:transactionid.
-for i in $(seq 1 "$LOCK_WORKERS"); do
- (
- end=$(( $(date +%s) + SPIKE_SEC ))
- while [ "$(date +%s)" -lt "$end" ]; do
- "$PSQL_BIN" "${PSQL_ARGS[@]}" -c \
- "update pgbench_accounts set abalance = abalance - 1 where aid = ${HOT_ROW_AID};" \
- >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
- done
- ) &
-done
-
-# Wait out the spike duration. Then terminate any remaining workers.
-sleep "$SPIKE_SEC"
-jobs -p | xargs -r kill -TERM 2>/dev/null || true
-sleep 0.5
-jobs -p | xargs -r kill -KILL 2>/dev/null || true
-wait 2>/dev/null || true
-
-# ---- Phase 3: tail (quiet coda) --------------------------------------------
-log "phase 3: tail pgbench (${TAIL_SEC}s)"
-pgbench -U postgres -d demo -S -c "$PGBENCH_CLIENTS" -j 2 -T "$TAIL_SEC" -n \
- >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
-
-log "workload complete"
+
+`ash.chart()` — Average Active Sessions per minute, stacked by wait event, in
+24-bit color straight out of `psql`. The glyph varies per series (`█ ▓ ░ ▒ ·`)
+as well as the color, so the ranking still reads correctly for colorblind
+viewers and in a monochrome terminal.
+
+
+
+`ash.top('wait_event')` — the wait-event breakdown for the incident window,
+ranked by Average Active Sessions, with the share of total active time. When
+`Lock:transactionid` dominates, the database is not short of capacity — writers
+are queueing behind one another's row locks.
+
+
+
+Every image above is real `ash.*` output over real samples, regenerated with
+`make -C demos all`. See [demos/README.md](demos/README.md).
+
For the latest stable v1.5 tag, check out `v1.5` first and use:
```sql
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+++ b/assets/chart.svg
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+
diff --git a/assets/compare.png b/assets/compare.png
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@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+
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+
diff --git a/assets/report.png b/assets/report.png
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+++ b/assets/report.svg
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+
diff --git a/assets/status.png b/assets/status.png
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@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+
diff --git a/assets/summary.png b/assets/summary.png
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+++ b/assets/summary.svg
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+
diff --git a/assets/top_event.png b/assets/top_event.png
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+++ b/assets/top_event.svg
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+
diff --git a/assets/top_query.png b/assets/top_query.png
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index 0000000..ce040c2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/assets/top_query.svg
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+
diff --git a/demos/.gitignore b/demos/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..59331fd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/demos/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+# demos/ working directory: captures, frames, casts, logs, window.env.
+# Everything the harness produces that is NOT a committed deliverable.
+# The deliverables live in ../assets/ and in demos/fixtures/.
+out/
+
+# Local, machine-specific overrides (paths to a repo copy, a scratch asset dir).
+# Absent in a normal checkout; see lib/env.sh.
+env.local
+
+# Left behind by `make check` when the renderer drifts, for eyeballing.
+*.drift.svg
+
+# Renderer imports during `make check`.
+__pycache__/
diff --git a/demos/Dockerfile b/demos/Dockerfile
deleted file mode 100644
index 7e93fba..0000000
--- a/demos/Dockerfile
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,32 +0,0 @@
-# demos/Dockerfile — pre-baked Postgres image for the pg_ash demo recorder.
-#
-# Bakes pg_cron (+ pg_stat_statements, which ships with contrib) and the
-# shared_preload_libraries / cron config INTO the image, so record.sh no longer
-# apt-installs pg_cron and restarts the container at record time. That removes
-# the run-time dependency on the PGDG apt mirror (which occasionally lags) and
-# shaves the install+restart round-trip off every recording.
-#
-# Build (record.sh does this automatically when this file is present):
-# docker build --build-arg PG_MAJOR=18 -t pg_ash_demo:18 demos/
-#
-# pg_stat_statements needs no package — it is part of the postgres contrib set
-# already in the base image; only the preload line below activates it.
-
-ARG PG_MAJOR=18
-FROM postgres:${PG_MAJOR}
-ARG PG_MAJOR
-
-RUN apt-get update \
- && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends "postgresql-${PG_MAJOR}-cron" \
- && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
-
-# Append to the sample config initdb copies into every fresh PGDATA, so a
-# first-boot cluster comes up with the extensions preloaded — no restart.
-# cron.database_name matches the demo DB created by container-entrypoint.sh.
-RUN cat >> /usr/share/postgresql/postgresql.conf.sample <<'CONF'
-
-# --- pg_ash demo (baked by demos/Dockerfile) ---
-shared_preload_libraries = 'pg_cron,pg_stat_statements'
-cron.database_name = 'demo'
-cron.use_background_workers = on
-CONF
diff --git a/demos/Makefile b/demos/Makefile
index f4dee50..e6ab286 100644
--- a/demos/Makefile
+++ b/demos/Makefile
@@ -1,35 +1,142 @@
-# demos/Makefile — orchestrate the pg_ash investigation demo GIF.
+# demos/Makefile — the only entry point.
#
-# make record Full pipeline: docker up → pg_ash install → workload →
-# tmux/asciinema capture → agg render → demos/ash_demo.gif
-# make clean Tear down the container, remove .cast + .gif
-# make open Open the produced GIF (macOS + Linux best-effort)
+# Everything here is a thin wrapper around bin/ash-demo, which is a thin wrapper
+# around lib/. If you find yourself adding logic to this file, it belongs in
+# lib/ where it can be tested.
#
-# See demos/README.md for prerequisites.
+# GNU make 3.81 (the macOS system make) and GNU make 4.x both work. No
+# .ONESHELL, no $(shell) at parse time, no bashisms in recipes.
-HERE := $(shell cd "$(dir $(lastword $(MAKEFILE_LIST)))" && pwd)
-GIF := $(HERE)/ash_demo.gif
-CAST := $(HERE)/ash_demo.cast
+SHELL := /bin/bash
+ASH_DEMO := ./bin/ash-demo
-.PHONY: record clean open check
+.DEFAULT_GOAL := help
+.PHONY: help doctor up seed preflight capture stills demo render all check \
+ fixtures rot clean down open scenes
-record: check
- bash $(HERE)/record.sh
+## help: what each target does
+help:
+ @echo 'pg_ash demo harness — regenerate every image and the reel from real data.'
+ @echo
+ @echo ' make doctor probe dependencies by tier; says exactly what is missing'
+ @echo ' make up create/reach the demo database and install pg_ash'
+ @echo ' make seed up + seed a frozen incident window (~20s); asserts its shape'
+ @echo ' make preflight run every scene scripted and gate it on the column budget'
+ @echo ' make capture seed + preflight + scripted capture -> out/raw, out/ansi'
+ @echo ' make stills capture + render -> assets/*.svg (+ *.png)'
+ @echo ' make demo seed + record the reel -> assets/ash_demo.gif + .mp4'
+ @echo ' make render re-render the LAST recording (skips the 75s tmux pass)'
+ @echo ' make all stills + demo, from ONE seed and ONE frozen window'
+ @echo ' make check NO DATABASE: re-render the committed fixtures and diff'
+ @echo ' make rot did a reader change its columns? (needs a fresh capture)'
+ @echo ' make fixtures refresh fixtures/ from the current capture (manual, reviewable)'
+ @echo ' make clean remove out/'
+ @echo ' make down remove only a database/container this harness created'
+ @echo ' make open open the produced GIF (macOS)'
+ @echo
+ @echo 'What `make check` proves, and what it does not:'
+ @echo ' It proves the RENDERER still turns known bytes into the same SVG.'
+ @echo ' It CANNOT notice that those bytes no longer reflect what pg_ash does —'
+ @echo ' a renamed reader or a moved column keeps the fixtures green.'
+ @echo ' `make rot` is the other half: it re-captures against a real database'
+ @echo ' and compares the READER CONTRACT (column names, count, report keys)'
+ @echo ' with fixtures/shape.tsv. Measured values are excluded, because they'
+ @echo ' legitimately change on every seed — a check that is always red is a'
+ @echo ' check nobody reads.'
+ @echo
+ @echo 'Useful knobs (all documented in lib/env.sh):'
+ @echo ' ASH_BACKEND=local|docker|remote default local; no Docker required'
+ @echo ' ASH_SKIP_SEED=1 reuse a warm seed — the fast iteration loop'
+ @echo ' ASH_SVG_ONLY=1 skip PNG/GIF rasterisation'
+ @echo ' ASH_REAL_TIME=1 no time compression (slow, honest)'
+ @echo ' ASH_COLS=100 ASH_VMIN=24 ASH_SPM=12'
-clean:
- bash $(HERE)/record.sh clean
+## doctor: dependency probe by tier + which backends work here
+doctor:
+ @$(ASH_DEMO) doctor
-open:
- @if [ ! -f $(GIF) ]; then echo "no $(GIF) — run 'make record' first"; exit 1; fi
- @case "$$(uname -s)" in \
- Darwin) open $(GIF) ;; \
- Linux) xdg-open $(GIF) 2>/dev/null || echo "install xdg-utils or open $(GIF) manually" ;; \
- *) echo "open $(GIF) manually" ;; \
- esac
+## up: database + pg_ash
+up:
+ @$(ASH_DEMO) up
+
+## seed: the frozen incident window
+seed:
+ @$(ASH_DEMO) seed
+
+## preflight: the hard column-budget gate, on live data
+preflight:
+ @$(ASH_DEMO) preflight
+
+## capture: scripted capture of every scene, no rendering
+capture:
+ @$(ASH_DEMO) capture
+
+## stills: assets/*.svg (+ *.png). Rewrites assets/ WHOLESALE.
+stills:
+ @$(ASH_DEMO) stills
+
+## demo: assets/ash_demo.gif + .mp4
+demo:
+ @$(ASH_DEMO) demo
+
+## render: redo agg -> chrome -> gif/mp4 from the cast that is already on disk.
+#
+# The tmux recording is 75 of the ~155 seconds `make demo` costs, and it is the
+# part that does NOT change when you adjust the theme, the chrome plate, the
+# palette or the size budget. This target is how those get iterated on.
+render:
+ @./bin/record-demo.sh --render-only
+
+## all: both halves, from ONE seed and ONE frozen window.
+#
+# The ordering matters and the ASH_SKIP_SEED=1 on the second half is the whole
+# point: `demo` must NOT reseed, or the reel would show different numbers from
+# the stills and the frozen-window contract would be decorative.
+all:
+ @$(ASH_DEMO) stills
+ @ASH_SKIP_SEED=1 $(ASH_DEMO) demo
+## check: no database, no browser, no ffmpeg — just python3 + fontTools + brotli
check:
- @for t in docker tmux asciinema agg python3; do \
- command -v $$t >/dev/null 2>&1 || { echo "missing: $$t (see demos/README.md)"; exit 1; }; \
- done
- @command -v gifsicle >/dev/null 2>&1 || echo "note: gifsicle not installed — final GIF will be larger (still usable)"
- @echo "prerequisites ok"
+ @$(ASH_DEMO) check
+
+## fixtures: refresh the frozen renderer inputs and outputs
+#
+# Depends on `capture`, deliberately: refreshing a fixture from a stale
+# out/ansi/ freezes the previous scene list and the drift alarm goes quiet
+# exactly when it should be loudest.
+fixtures: capture
+ @$(ASH_DEMO) fixtures
+
+## scenes: print the parsed scene table (debugging)
+scenes:
+ @$(ASH_DEMO) scenes
+
+## rot: has a reader's contract changed since the fixtures were taken?
+#
+# Needs a fresh capture (`make capture` or `make stills`) and fixtures/shape.tsv.
+# This is the check `make check` cannot make: `check` proves the RENDERER still
+# works on frozen bytes, `rot` proves the BYTES still have the shape they had.
+rot:
+ @./bin/rot-check.sh
+
+## clean: remove the working directory
+clean:
+ @rm -rf out
+ @echo 'removed demos/out'
+
+## down: drop the database / remove the container
+down:
+ @$(ASH_DEMO) down
+
+## open: look at the result (macOS convenience, kept from the original harness)
+open:
+ @os=$$(uname -s); \
+ if [ "$$os" != "Darwin" ]; then \
+ echo "make open is macOS-only (detected $$os)" >&2; \
+ exit 1; \
+ elif [ ! -f ../assets/ash_demo.gif ]; then \
+ echo 'no ../assets/ash_demo.gif yet — run `make demo`' >&2; \
+ exit 1; \
+ fi; \
+ open ../assets/ash_demo.gif
diff --git a/demos/README.md b/demos/README.md
index 42b7333..b98060f 100644
--- a/demos/README.md
+++ b/demos/README.md
@@ -1,213 +1,376 @@
-# pg_ash demo recording
-
-This directory contains the experimental animated GIF recorder for pg_ash demos.
-The generated GIF is not embedded in the top-level README until it renders
-readably on GitHub on both desktop and mobile.
-
-| File | What it is |
-|------|-----------|
-| `ash_demo.gif` | The rendered GIF (committed for iteration; not embedded in the top-level README) |
-| `ash_demo.cast` | asciinema v3 cast file — source of truth for the GIF |
-| `record.sh` | End-to-end recorder: Docker → pg_ash install → workload → tmux/asciinema → agg |
-| `Dockerfile` | Pre-baked `postgres:${PG_MAJOR}` image with pg_cron + `shared_preload_libraries` compiled in — so the container boots preloaded, no runtime apt-get + restart |
-| `container-entrypoint.sh` | Runs inside the container — creates DB, installs pg_ash, starts sampling, launches workload |
-| `workload.sh` | Three-phase mixed workload: baseline pgbench → row-lock spike → tail |
-| `Makefile` | Thin wrapper: `make record`, `make clean`, `make open` |
-
-## What it shows
-
-The demo reproduces the investigation sequence from the README's **LLM-assisted
-investigation** section using the 2.0 reader API, against a real spike (not
-canned output). Every reader reports in AAS (average active sessions):
-
-1. `ash.status()` — sampling active, version 2.0, pg_cron wired up
-2. `ash.periods()` — triage: last-minute `peak_aas` >> `avg_aas` = a spike, not sustained
-3. `ash.chart(since => now() - interval '5 minutes', bucket => '1 minute', color => true)` — colored stacked timeline: when it landed + which wait class (`Lock` in red)
-4. `ash.top('wait_event', ...)` — drill: `Lock:tuple` dominates (AAS + peak + p99 per row)
-5. `ash.top('query_id', wait_event => 'Lock:tuple', ...)` — the leaf: the guilty UPDATE
-6. `ash.top('wait_event', query_id =>