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A 429 reached the worker as a plain message, the status code and Retry-After having been discarded, so it was treated as an item failure: charged as an attempt, retried on its own, and made to wait (attempts + 1) minutes with nothing bounding that. One rate limit therefore reduced every later request to a single chunk and walked straight back into the limit.

Both now reach the worker. A rate limit is deferred rather than charged: attempts is left alone, the deferral is counted in the new queue.rate_limit_deferrals column, and the item waits as long as the provider asked. Other failures wait 30 seconds doubling to a 15 minute cap. Only a retried item is separated from its batch now.

Issue: #69

A 429 reached the worker as a plain message, the status code and
Retry-After having been discarded, so it was treated as an item failure:
charged as an attempt, retried on its own, and made to wait (attempts + 1)
minutes with nothing bounding that.  One rate limit therefore reduced every
later request to a single chunk and walked straight back into the limit.

Both now reach the worker.  A rate limit is deferred rather than charged:
attempts is left alone, the deferral is counted in the new
queue.rate_limit_deferrals column, and the item waits as long as the
provider asked.  Other failures wait 30 seconds doubling to a 15 minute cap.
Only a retried item is separated from its batch now.

Issue: #69
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The PR adds provider rate-limit detection and Retry-After parsing. It tracks rate-limit deferrals separately from retry attempts in the queue and failed-items view. The worker defers throttled items, applies capped exponential backoff, separates retry batches, and pauses during provider cooldowns. SQL and integration tests cover deferral reset, batched retries, delay handling, and retry accounting. Documentation describes the behavior and related version 1.1 changes.

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to d2d2d

The change defers rate-limited work and preserves provider-requested cooldowns, but requests may still resume before Retry-After expires, potentially retriggering throttling and delaying queue progress. The test also does not verify elapsed cooldown time, so this should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merging.

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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly summarizes the main change: handling provider rate limits without stalling queue processing.
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Docstring Coverage ✅ Passed Docstring coverage is 81.82% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 11 functions across 3 files. (1 skipped: 1 …
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In `@docs/troubleshooting.md`:
- Around line 101-104: Mark the log code fence containing the pgedge_vectorizer
worker output with the text language identifier to satisfy Markdown fence
requirements.

In `@src/worker.c`:
- Around line 141-142: Update provider_begin_cooldown() so provider-specified
Retry-After values are preserved when calculating provider_cooldown_until,
including values above RATE_LIMIT_COOLDOWN_MAX_SECONDS; apply
RATE_LIMIT_COOLDOWN_MAX_SECONDS only to the local fallback delay, while
retaining the existing minimum wait behavior.

In `@test/t/008_rate_limit_backoff.pl`:
- Around line 184-185: Update the body-reading logic in the batching test to
keep reading from $conn until the full Content-Length stored in $length has been
received, rather than relying on one read call. Preserve the existing behavior
when no Content-Length is present and ensure the accumulated $body is used for
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The cooldown capped every wait at 300 seconds while items were deferred for
as long as an hour, so the worker came back early, had the pull refused, and
charged a deferral to unrelated rows.  Also read the test's request body in
full, which read() can return short, and tag a code fence for markdownlint.

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17-19: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Strengthen the test for the full provider cooldown.

Retry-After: 3 is below the former 300-second cap, so this scenario cannot detect a regression that shortens larger provider waits. The assertions also inspect log text and request shape, but the fake provider records no request timestamps, so they do not prove the actual wait interval.

Add an elapsed-time assertion and a separate case that validates a value above 300 seconds by inspecting the persisted deadline instead of sleeping for the full duration.

Also applies to: 142-147

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In `@test/t/008_rate_limit_backoff.pl` around lines 17 - 19, Strengthen the
rate-limit backoff tests around the existing fake provider and persisted
deadline assertions: record request timestamps and assert the second request
occurs at least three seconds after the first, then add a separate case using a
Retry-After value above 300 seconds that verifies the persisted retry deadline
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- Around line 17-19: Strengthen the rate-limit backoff tests around the existing
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assert the second request occurs at least three seconds after the first, then
add a separate case using a Retry-After value above 300 seconds that verifies
the persisted retry deadline without waiting for the full interval.

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008 and 009 were taken by the API key file tests merged in PR #70, which
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143-147: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Measure the provider cooldown in this test.

$log only confirms the logged delay. fake_provider does not record request timestamps. A worker that logs 3s but sends the second request immediately passes these assertions.

Record a timestamp for each request. Assert that the second request starts at least three seconds after the 429 request.

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In `@test/t/010_rate_limit_backoff.pl` around lines 143 - 147, Update the
rate-limit test around fake_provider and the existing log assertion to record
request start timestamps, then assert that the second request begins at least
three seconds after the request receiving HTTP 429. Retain the current
log-message assertion while verifying the actual cooldown interval.
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- Around line 143-147: Update the rate-limit test around fake_provider and the
existing log assertion to record request start timestamps, then assert that the
second request begins at least three seconds after the request receiving HTTP
429. Retain the current log-message assertion while verifying the actual
cooldown interval.

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Reviewed: rate-limit handling logic, backoff/cooldown math, and SQL migrations all check out. CodeRabbit's three findings (cooldown truncating the provider's Retry-After, a short-read in the test's fake HTTP server, a markdownlint fence) were fixed in-PR. Renumbered the new TAP test (008 -> 010) to avoid a collision with PR #70, which merged first and took 008/009.

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