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graph/db+sqldb: make node migration idempotent

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Authored by Elle Mouton

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graph/db+sqldb: make node migration idempotent

In this commit, the graph SQL migration is updated so that the node
migration step is retry-safe. This is done by using migration specific
logic & queries that do not use the same node-update-constraint as the
normal node upsert logic. For normal "run-time" logic, we always expect
a node update to have a newer timestamp than any previously stored one.
But for the migration, we will only ever be dealing with a single
announcement for a given node & to make things retry-safe, we dont want
the query to error if we re-insert the exact same node.
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The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit fixes a reliability bug in LND's database migration process. When LND upgrades and moves old node data into a new SQL database, the migration could fail if it had to be restarted part-way through and tried to re-insert a node it had already inserted. The normal database logic rejects re-inserting the same node unless the timestamp is newer, but migration data doesn't always meet that rule. The fix adds a migration-only insert that safely ignores exact duplicates and resets progress counters so the migration can be retried cleanly. It is a robustness improvement, not a remote attack vector.

Recommended action

Treat as a normal reliability/robustness fix. Include in release notes as a migration hardening improvement. No urgent security response is indicated, but operators running the SQL graph migration should use a version containing this commit to avoid migration failures on retry.

Security signals we found

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Migration idempotency fix

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SQL ON CONFLICT upsert added for duplicate tolerance

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Retry-safety improvement for database migration

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Relaxation of timestamp-monotonicity constraint in migration-only path

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No change to runtime node-update constraint

Risk score

Why this scored 31/100

Our methodology →
Potential impact 8/30
Exploitability 3/25
Stealth signal 4/15
Affected reach 5/15
Confidence 7/10
Evidence quality 4/5
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