fix(costs): report append-only write churn as replacement, not new storage (#822)

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Closes #822.

What

The append-only family (BulkAppendTree, CommitmentTree, PrivateDocumentStore) issued every data put with cost_info: None, so the commit path billed key + value as new storage for three writes that are physically replacement churn: dense-buffer slots rewritten from epoch 2 on, the compaction blob that supersedes the buffer it was built from (≈ 630 KB of added_bytes landing on one append per epoch at chunk_power 11), and the frontier rewritten on every append. Metered storage per note was ≈ 2.2× the bytes that persist.

From GROVE_V4 (two new cost gates, bulk_append_tree_versions.cost.append_storage_accounting and commitment_tree_versions.cost.frontier_save_storage_accounting; V1..V3 locked at the shipped figures) an append charges each entry's permanent bytes once and reports churn as replacement:

write	V1..V3	V4
buffer slot, epoch 1	key + value added	key + value added
buffer slot, epoch ≥ 2	key + value added	value replaced (growth added, shrink not credited), key not charged
entry's chunk-blob share	—	entry bytes added, at the entry's own append
compaction blob	key + whole blob added	entry bytes replaced; framing + key added
MMR internal nodes	added	added
frontier rewrite	key + value added, every save	value replaced, growth added; first save fully added

removed_bytes stays NoStorageRemoval on both sides. Stored bytes, roots and proofs are identical — the tests assert byte-identical trees across the gate.

How

• grovedb-version: CommitmentTreeVersions (new) and BulkAppendTreeCostVersions::append_storage_accounting; GroveVersion gains commitment_tree_versions; v1–v3 locked at 0, v4 at 1 (documented in v4.rs).
• grovedb-costs: KeyValueStorageCost::for_in_place_value_rewrite(previous_len, new_len) — the "replace what was there, add the growth, refund nothing" shape both the slot rewrite and the frontier rewrite use; KeyValueStorageCost derives Debug.
• grovedb-dense-fixed-sized-merkle-tree: SlotWriteAccounting::{AsNew, Overwrite { previous_value_len }} + try_insert{,_no_root}_with_accounting; Overwrite attaches the rewrite cost for the committed size the owner supplies.
• grovedb-merkle-mountain-range: MmrStore::with_leaf_value_storage_cost(LeafValueStorageCost::{New, PartlyPrepaid(fn)}) — the adapter reports the prepaid part of a leaf value as replaced. Standalone MmrTree keeps New.
• grovedb-bulk-append-tree: versioned dispatch in cost/{mod,v0,v1}.rs (append_storage_accounting); slot_write_accounting reads the committed value of a slot that holds one (judged by the count at open — epoch-1 slots and compacting appends are not read; never the session cache, since a StorageBatch keeps one put per key and the charged put must describe the transition from committed state — pinned by the one-batch-two-epochs test) and bills that read; AppendResult/AppendNoStateRootResult::storage_accounting_cost carries the prepaid share and the slot read (caller bills, like hash_count; already in the cost of append_deferred_roots); chunk_blob_entry_bytes; commit_mmr(&GroveVersion).
• grovedb-commitment-tree: persisted_frontier_len captured at open; save(&GroveVersion) / commit_mmr(&GroveVersion); cost/{mod,v0,v1}.rs; append_raw/append_many_raw bill the blob share; CommitmentTreeError::VersionError.
• grovedb-private-document-store: commit_mmr(&GroveVersion).
• storage: PrefixedRocksDbTransactionContext::put now completes the prefixed key cost for a new_node cost_info, the same contract the Batch impls already implement (a direct ctx.put with new-node cost info would otherwise fail commit verification; no existing caller passed one).
• grovedb: call sites thread the version and bill storage_accounting_cost; the shared V4 CommitmentTreeInsert estimator moves the epoch × entry term from added to replaced (per-note added is now epoch-independent) and adds the slot read; PDS estimators gain replaced terms and the slot read; the BulkAppend worst-case arm saturates replaced/slot-read loaded (variable-size entries are unboundable from the op) and bounds added properly, and the average arm is epoch-aware (storage and hashes) when the tree's layer is declared TreeType::BulkAppendTree(chunk_power). V1..V3 estimators untouched.

Tests

• grovedb/src/tests/append_storage_accounting_tests.rs runs the real ops against RocksDB under V4 and under V4 with both gates switched off, so the difference is exactly the accounting: per-append (added, replaced) deltas match the model at every position across two and a half epochs (cp 4), the billed slot read is exactly (+1 seek, +committed bytes) on buffered appends from epoch 2 on and (0, 0) otherwise (CT, Bulk, PDS), the frontier rewrite at 2^k−1 / 2^k, the cp-11 boundary (V4 added < 2 KB vs legacy > 630 KB; replaced ≥ 2048 × 312), an epoch boundary inside one batch (slots charged once as new), variable-size BulkAppendTree values, PDS, MMR/dense standalone unchanged, and BulkAppend estimates dominating an actual compaction over large buffered values (worst case) and a same-size epoch (declared average). Root hashes are compared after every step and verify_grovedb passes.
• Crate-level: the bulk/dense in-memory contexts now record each put's cost_info, pinning v0 (all None) and v1 (slot rewrites, blob-as-replacement, internal nodes new); unknown versions rejected at every gate; chunk_blob_entry_bytes; CT frontier cost dispatch; storage new-node key completion.
• The fix: CommitmentTreeInsert under-costed in estimated-cost paths (issue #812) #813 estimator ≥ actual bound tests re-run green on V4 (test_commitment_tree_insert_declared_chunk_power_tightens_estimate now keys on replaced_bytes/hashes — the epoch-scaled dimensions).

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The change adds versioned storage accounting for append-only trees and commitment-tree frontiers. GROVE_V4 reports rewrites as replacement bytes, tracks prepaid chunk bytes, and propagates accounting through dense-tree, MMR, commitment-tree, GroveDB, and transactional storage paths.

Changes

Storage cost contracts

Layer / File(s)	Summary
In-place rewrite and version gates costs/..., grovedb-version/..., grovedb-bulk-append-tree/src/cost/...	Adds in-place value rewrite costs and versioned append and frontier accounting. GROVE_V1–V3 retain legacy settings. GROVE_V4 enables replacement accounting.

Append and tree write paths

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Dense-buffer and MMR accounting grovedb-dense-fixed-sized-merkle-tree/..., grovedb-merkle-mountain-range/..., grovedb-bulk-append-tree/src/chunk.rs	Dense-buffer rewrites compare against committed values. MMR leaves can report partly prepaid bytes. Chunk blobs expose entry payload sizes.
Bulk append integration grovedb-bulk-append-tree/src/tree/..., grovedb/src/operations/bulk_append_tree.rs	Append and MMR paths select accounting by Grove version and return or add prepaid chunk bytes to storage costs.

Commitment-tree and estimates

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Frontier save accounting grovedb-commitment-tree/src/commitment_tree/..., grovedb/src/operations/commitment_tree.rs	Commitment trees retain persisted frontier sizes and report version-specific rewrite costs. Grove versions now reach save and MMR commit calls.
Cost estimators and storage completion grovedb/src/batch/estimated_costs/..., storage/src/rocksdb_storage/...	Average- and worst-case estimates include replacement bytes and committed-slot reads. Transactional puts complete new-node key costs with prefixed-key bytes.

Validation and support

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Accounting tests and call-site updates grovedb/src/tests/..., grovedb-bulk-append-tree/src/tree/storage_accounting_tests.rs, grovedb-commitment-tree/src/commitment_tree/tests.rs, grovedb-private-document-store/...	Tests cover legacy and GROVE_V4 accounting, replacement sizing, version errors, unchanged roots and stored bytes, fault handling, and updated versioned APIs.
Accounting documentation docs/crates/costs.md	Documents append-only storage accounting across fee versions.

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~120 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 6376a

The PR changes V4 storage accounting for append-only writes, but repeated frontier saves can still be overcharged, variable-size compaction estimates can be under-bounded, and slot-rewrite read costs can be omitted; malformed fixed-format blobs may also receive incorrect prepaid accounting. These can produce incorrect fees or declared costs, so merge should wait for fixes or explicit owner acceptance.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Client
  participant GroveDB
  participant AppendTree
  participant CommitmentTree
  participant Storage
  Client->>GroveDB: append or commit operation with GroveVersion
  GroveDB->>AppendTree: append and commit MMR
  AppendTree->>Storage: write slots and MMR leaves with cost metadata
  GroveDB->>CommitmentTree: save frontier with GroveVersion
  CommitmentTree->>Storage: write frontier with replacement cost
  Storage-->>GroveDB: committed storage costs
  GroveDB-->>Client: operation result and cost

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Reviewed latest head 5fba355d. I found two cost-accounting gaps that I think should be fixed before merge:

1. [P1] The BulkAppend replacement estimates are not upper bounds at compaction. In grovedb/src/batch/estimated_costs/worst_case_costs.rs:278, the new replaced_bytes allowance is only value_size + 65_536; the average arm at average_case_costs.rs:291 reserves only 2 * entry_size. The V4 write path reports chunk_blob_entry_bytes(blob) as replaced, which is the sum of every entry in the completed epoch, and BulkAppend permits variable-size entries. For example, a chunk-power-4 epoch containing sixteen 10 KiB values reports 163,840 replaced bytes for the blob, while the worst-case arm reserves only 75,776 bytes (the parent-Merk component is common to estimate and execution). A small overflow value after large buffered values makes the gap larger. Since OperationCost::worse_or_eq_than compares replaced_bytes independently and these estimates are admission bounds, an operation can pass estimation and exceed its declared cost during execution. This needs an epoch/value-size-aware bound; if prior entry sizes cannot be bounded from the available metadata, saturating this dimension is safer. Please also add a BulkAppend estimate-vs-actual compaction test with variable-size values.

2. [P2] The new committed-slot read is unbilled in the BulkAppend and CommitmentTree paths. DenseFixedSizedMerkleTree::put_value now performs self.storage.get(key) under AgainstCommitted, correctly returning its seek/load cost, but BulkAppendTree::append_no_state_root discards the entire CostResult cost with .unwrap() at grovedb-bulk-append-tree/src/tree/append.rs:114. That path backs BulkAppendTree::append, direct/batch GroveDB BulkAppend, and CommitmentTree appends. Consequently V4 performs one extra RocksDB seek for every buffered append and loads the prior slot value from epoch 2 onward, but none of that reaches the caller's OperationCost. Only the PDS deferred path uses unwrap_add_cost and bills it. The new integration test actually pins equal seek/load figures for V4 and legacy CT/Bulk, while docs/crates/costs.md says the read is billed. Please propagate this cost (or carry the read counters alongside the Result-only API) and assert the real RocksDB deltas for CT and Bulk as is already done for PDS.

Validation performed: focused tests for costs, storage, dense tree, MMR, BulkAppendTree, CommitmentTree, and PDS; the 10 new GroveDB accounting tests; the 9 CommitmentTree estimator-bound tests; and cargo check -p grovedb --no-default-features --features verify. All passed (warnings only).

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grovedb-dense-fixed-sized-merkle-tree/src/tests.rs (1)

1126-1165: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Assert the AgainstCommitted read cost.

MemStorageContext::get returns OperationCost::default(), so this test does not prove that the committed-slot read contributes seek_count and storage_loaded_bytes. Add a cost-reporting storage context and assert the returned read-cost fields. CommitmentTree::open already covers loaded-byte reporting.

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In `@grovedb-dense-fixed-sized-merkle-tree/src/tests.rs` around lines 1126 - 1165,
Update against_committed_sizes_the_rewrite_from_the_stored_value to use a
cost-reporting storage context whose get operation returns nonzero seek_count
and storage_loaded_bytes, then assert those fields in the returned operation
cost for the AgainstCommitted read. Keep the existing write-cost assertions
intact; CommitmentTree::open already covers loaded-byte reporting.

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grovedb/src/tests/append_storage_accounting_tests.rs (1)

306-330: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add proof-equivalence coverage.

Generate and verify a prove_query proof for the final state of both databases. Assert that both proofs produce the same root and result set. Root and integrity checks do not cover proof generation or verification.

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In `@grovedb/src/tests/append_storage_accounting_tests.rs` around lines 306 - 330,
Extend commitment_tree_append_storage_accounting_matches_model_across_epochs
after the final integrity checks to generate prove_query proofs for the
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Inline comments:
In `@grovedb-bulk-append-tree/src/chunk.rs`:
- Around line 64-70: Update the FORMAT_FIXED branch in the prepaid-byte helper
to parse count and entry_size from the header, and return 0 unless
count.checked_mul(entry_size) exactly matches the payload length. Add a
malformed fixed-format payload-mismatch case to malformed_blobs_prepay_nothing,
preserving valid fixed-format prepaid-byte behavior.

In `@grovedb-bulk-append-tree/src/tree/append.rs`:
- Around line 101-117: The append_no_state_root path currently discards the
CostResult returned by dense_tree.try_insert_with_accounting, omitting
committed-slot lookup costs. Preserve and propagate or accumulate that cost
context through BulkAppendTree::append and the callers GroveDb::bulk_append and
preprocess_bulk_append_ops, including the non-deferred rewrite path, while
retaining existing error handling; add a RocksDB regression test covering
GROVE_V4 slot-read seek and loaded-byte cost deltas.

Apply the same fix in `@grovedb-commitment-tree/src/commitment_tree/mod.rs` around
lines 334 - 356: The second commitment-tree append path has the same dropped
read-cost propagation.

In `@grovedb-commitment-tree/src/commitment_tree/cost/mod.rs`:
- Around line 59-66: Update the version iteration in the legacy accounting test
to include GROVE_V2 alongside GROVE_V1 and GROVE_V3, preserving the existing
frontier_save_cost_info assertions for all three versions.

In `@grovedb-commitment-tree/src/commitment_tree/cost/v1.rs`:
- Around line 14-20: Update CommitmentTree::save to refresh
persisted_frontier_len only after the frontier put succeeds, so subsequent saves
compare against the most recently written length and newly created trees
transition from None correctly. Add a test covering append, save, append again,
and verifying V4 replacement accounting on the second save.

In `@grovedb/src/batch/estimated_costs/average_case_costs.rs`:
- Around line 284-291: Bound variable-size BulkAppend compaction estimates
against prior epoch values rather than only the incoming value or fixed
allowance, including the four-byte per-entry framing; update the average-case
added_bytes and replaced_bytes terms near the indicated lines in
grovedb/src/batch/estimated_costs/average_case_costs.rs and replace
MAX_COMPACTION_BLOB or saturate the relevant storage fields near the indicated
lines in grovedb/src/batch/estimated_costs/worst_case_costs.rs. Add a regression
test covering variable-size compaction estimation.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@grovedb-dense-fixed-sized-merkle-tree/src/tests.rs`:
- Around line 1126-1165: Update
against_committed_sizes_the_rewrite_from_the_stored_value to use a
cost-reporting storage context whose get operation returns nonzero seek_count
and storage_loaded_bytes, then assert those fields in the returned operation
cost for the AgainstCommitted read. Keep the existing write-cost assertions
intact; CommitmentTree::open already covers loaded-byte reporting.

In `@grovedb/src/tests/append_storage_accounting_tests.rs`:
- Around line 306-330: Extend
commitment_tree_append_storage_accounting_matches_model_across_epochs after the
final integrity checks to generate prove_query proofs for the completed v4_db
and legacy_db, verify both proofs, and assert that their roots and result sets
are identical.

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This is Claude. Both points were right; addressed in the latest push.

P2 — the committed-slot read is now billed on every path. The read moved out of the dense tree into BulkAppendTree (slot_write_accounting), which knows from the count it was opened with whether a slot holds a committed value — so epoch-1 slots, and a full buffer that compacts, are not read at all (no phantom seek), and a slot that does is read once (seek + committed bytes). The dense tree now just takes SlotWriteAccounting::Overwrite { previous_value_len }. The Result-returning appends carry the read alongside the prepaid share in one AppendResult/AppendNoStateRootResult::storage_accounting_cost: OperationCost (caller bills, like hash_count; append_deferred_roots includes it in its cost and mirrors it), and CommitmentTree::append_raw/append_many_raw and the GroveDB bulk op add it. The GroveDB tests now assert the real RocksDB deltas for CT, Bulk and PDS: +1 seek, +committed_len loaded exactly on buffered appends from epoch 2 on, (0, 0) in epoch 1, at compaction, and for an epoch boundary inside one batch. The CT estimator gained the seek and the entry bytes; the #813 bound tests stay green.

P1 — BulkAppend estimates at compaction. Worst-case arm: replaced_bytes and the slot-read storage_loaded_bytes now saturate (u32::MAX — chunk entry lengths are u32, and neither the op nor the worst-case layer info bounds earlier entries), and added_bytes is a real V4 bound (slot + share + blob framing at the 2^16 epoch + MMR internal nodes) instead of the old flat 64 KB. Average-case arm: when the tree's own layer is declared with TreeType::BulkAppendTree(chunk_power) (the estimator now matches BulkAppend ops against that declaration, like CT/PDS) it charges the compaction as epoch × value_size replaced, the framing, and an epoch-scaled hash bound (the old arm charged 1 hash per append, which was already under-estimating buffered appends); undeclared it stays the amortized one-entry average, documented as such. New test bulk_append_estimates_dominate_actual_compaction_with_variable_sizes: fifteen 10 KiB values then a 16-byte overflow (replaced ≈ 150 KB for a 16-byte op) — the worst case dominates; sixteen same-size 10 KiB values — the declared average and the worst case both dominate.

Also fixed while here: docs/crates/costs.md now describes the read as performed and billed by the bulk tree.