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Problem

The DB-backed integration suites answered two very different errors with the same t.Skipf:

if err := migrations.RunMigrations(...); err != nil {
    container.Cleanup(ctx)
    t.Skipf("Skipping DB test: cannot run migrations: %v", err)
}

"The container would not start" is an environment fact and a legitimate skip. "The migrations would not apply" is the failure of the thing under test, reported as green. Break any SQL file under internal/database/postgres/migrations/ and the entire Postgres integration suite reported skipped, with nothing distinguishing "no Docker on this runner" from "the schema is broken".

Change

Split the two conditions. testhelpers.RequirePostgresContainer probes the Docker provider directly (testcontainers' own SkipIfProviderIsNotHealthy); that probe is the only thing allowed to skip. Past it, a container that still refuses to come up is a real failure, and migration errors become require.NoError.

A guard narrows the class for tests not yet written. false_green_skip_guard_test.go parses every _test.go in the repo and fails on any if statement that answers an error from SetupPostgresContainer, RunMigrations, MigrateToVersion or RollbackMigrations with a skip. It is parse-only, so it costs milliseconds, needs no build tag, and still sees the files behind //go:build integration that a default go test never compiles.

It does not close the class, and the PR no longer claims it does. TestFalseGreenSkipGuardKnownBypasses executes four shapes the guard cannot see and records them as tests, so the guard's reach is written down and checked rather than assumed. A bypass hides a finding but cannot also silence the per-name floor below.

The guard has a tripwire of its own, because "found nothing" and "looked at nothing" are the same color on a terminal. It fails if any one of the four guarded names goes unseen across the whole repo. A total-only floor would have been unreachable: the total is 188 (41 + 11 + 72 + 64), so excluding a single directory from the walk, or breaking three of the four names, would leave it green while those names' findings silently went to zero.

The guard also parses the non-test files of the testhelpers and testutil packages, not just _test.go. This fix moved the skip decision into testhelpers/postgres.go, so that is now precisely where the next helper that skips would be written, and a _test.go-only walk could not see it.

Leaked containers are terminated on the path this PR makes loud. Converting a skip into a failure is only safe if the failure path still cleans up; otherwise making the suite honest also makes it leak.

One related site outside the issue's wording

internal/database/coverage_extra_test.go skipped on buildPoolConfig and pgxpool.NewWithConfig errors. Neither does any I/O (the first parses and validates a DSN, the second builds a lazy pool with MinConnections: 0), so a failure there is a code defect rather than an absent database. This file carries no //go:build integration tag, so unlike everything else in this PR it runs on every default go test. Same defect class as #1597 with a wider blast radius, so it is converted here.

What the issue got wrong

#1597 lists internal/secrets/*_resolver_coverage_test.go alongside internal/analytics as holding 40+ sibling skip sites. That half is inaccurate. internal/secrets/ contains no postgres or migration skips; its ~24 skips answer NewAWSResolver / NewGCPResolver construction errors, a different function family and arguably a genuine environment fact. Those files are correctly untouched here. Noted so a reviewer checking the issue's file list against this diff does not see a gap that is not real. The same correction is posted on the issue.

Consequence worth knowing before merging

This PR converts transient container-lifecycle failures into hard CI failures, not just genuine ones. Under container churn, testcontainers can log Container is ready and then fail MappedPort with failed to get container port: port "5432/tcp" not found, observed at roughly 1 in 10 container starts during review, and confirmed a flake rather than a regression (the same test passes 3/3 alone and on main).

That is correct by this PR's own design: at that point you cannot distinguish "host exhausted" from "something is genuinely broken", and choosing red is the fail-loud answer. But CI runs -race across six modules, which is exactly the churn that produces it, so expect intermittent reds.

No retry was added. A retry layer is its own bug surface and the flake rate should be measured before one is built. Tracked in LeanerCloud/cloud-commitments-platform#202, which also carries a same-family false green at internal/config/store_postgres_db_test.go:576-578 that is out of scope here.

Verification

Both directions, against a real Docker daemon. Getting only one right is the trap: fail on everything and every machine without a local Postgres breaks; skip on everything and the bug is still there.

(a) A real migration failure now FAILs. Invalid SQL appended to 000097_ri_exchange_idempotency.up.sql, then go test -tags integration ./internal/config/ -run '^TestPostgresStoreDB_ListPurchasePlans_UnassignedBucket$':

verdict exit
before (origin/main) --- SKIP / ok 0
after --- FAIL 1

Before, verbatim:

store_postgres_unassigned_test.go:49: Skipping integration test: migrations failed: failed to run
  migrations: migration failed: syntax error at or near ";" (column 35) in line 32
--- SKIP: TestPostgresStoreDB_ListPurchasePlans_UnassignedBucket (7.08s)
PASS
ok  	github.com/LeanerCloud/CUDly/internal/config	9.448s

(b) A genuinely Docker-less environment still SKIPs. DOCKER_HOST cannot express this on a machine that has Docker: testcontainers' extractDockerHost treats a failing host check as a reason to try the next strategy, so it falls through to the real /var/run/docker.sock. The faithful simulation is a container with no Docker socket, which is what a runner without Docker actually looks like:

ls: cannot access '/var/run/docker.sock': No such file or directory
DOCKER_HOST=[unset]

store_postgres_unassigned_test.go:40: Docker is not running. Testcontainers can't perform is work
  without it: rootless Docker not found, failed to create Docker provider
--- SKIP: TestPostgresStoreDB_ListPurchasePlans_UnassignedBucket (0.00s)
ok  	github.com/LeanerCloud/CUDly/internal/config	0.041s   (exit 0)

The guard fails pre-fix. Copied onto origin/main unchanged it reports 22 test setup site(s) turn a real failure into a skip, across exactly the 8 files this PR touches. On this branch it passes.

Mutation-verified, each test individually, every failure by assertion rather than panic:

mutation test result
reintroduce the t.Skipf on RunMigrations in one suite TestNoSkipOnDatabaseSetupFailure FAIL, names the file:line
skipCallIn never detects a skip TestFalseGreenSkipGuardDetects FAIL findings = 0, want 4
guardedCallName recognizes nothing both FAIL, per-name floor / calls[...] assertions
exclude migrations/ from the walk TestNoSkipOnDatabaseSetupFailure FAIL saw no call to MigrateToVersion, RollbackMigrations

That last one is the proof the per-name floor does real work: under a total-only floor the same mutation passed silently.

Also: go build ./... clean, go vet -tags integration ./internal/... clean, golangci-lint v2.10.1 (the CI-pinned version) reports 0 issues on the touched packages, and all pre-commit hooks passed.

Notes for the reviewer

Closes #1597

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • PostgreSQL integration tests now fail clearly when database containers, migrations, or setup steps encounter errors instead of being incorrectly skipped.
    • Failed test environments are cleaned up reliably, even when the original test context has expired.
  • Tests

    • Added safeguards to detect false-positive skips caused by database setup failures.
    • Expanded coverage for container cleanup, migration failures, and database test setup behavior.

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The PostgreSQL test helpers now distinguish unavailable Docker environments from database startup and migration failures. Integration tests use the required helper. An AST-based guard detects future false-green skips. Cleanup uses a detached timeout after setup errors.

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PostgreSQL failure reporting

Layer / File(s) Summary
Required PostgreSQL container helper
internal/database/postgres/testhelpers/postgres.go
RequirePostgresContainer skips only for unavailable or unhealthy Docker providers. It fails tests when PostgreSQL startup fails and cleans up failed containers with a detached timeout.
Integration setup adoption
internal/analytics/postgres_analytics_db_test.go, internal/auth/store_postgres_db_test.go, internal/config/store_postgres_*_test.go, internal/database/postgres/migrations/*_test.go, internal/database/coverage_extra_test.go
Integration tests use required container setup. Migration, index, and pool setup failures now fail tests instead of causing skips.
Container cleanup validation
internal/database/postgres/testhelpers/postgres_terminate_test.go
Tests verify cleanup with canceled, expired, and live contexts. They also verify logged termination failures.
Repository skip guard
internal/database/postgres/testhelpers/false_green_skip_guard_test.go, internal/database/postgres/testhelpers/false_green_skip_guard_cases_test.go
An AST-based test detects setup or migration errors passed to nested skip calls. Synthetic cases cover supported scopes, error-check patterns, and known bypasses.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to a079a

The PR makes migration failures fail integration tests while preserving skips only when Docker is unavailable. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains; the only outstanding concern is a localized maintainability guideline violation from the guard file size.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant IntegrationTest
  participant RequirePostgresContainer
  participant DockerProvider
  participant SetupPostgresContainer
  participant RunMigrations
  IntegrationTest->>RequirePostgresContainer: request PostgreSQL container
  RequirePostgresContainer->>DockerProvider: check provider health
  RequirePostgresContainer->>SetupPostgresContainer: start PostgreSQL
  SetupPostgresContainer-->>RequirePostgresContainer: return container or error
  RequirePostgresContainer-->>IntegrationTest: skip unavailable Docker or fail startup error
  IntegrationTest->>RunMigrations: apply migrations
  RunMigrations-->>IntegrationTest: return migration error
  IntegrationTest-->>IntegrationTest: fail migration error
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internal/database/postgres/testhelpers/false_green_skip_guard_test.go (1)

369-390: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Derive the expected findings from the // want: markers instead of hard-coded line numbers.

wantLines pins lines 5, 12, 21, and 30, and calls pins 6. Any edit to the synthetic source shifts those lines and fails the self-test for an unrelated reason. The synthetic source already carries // want: finding markers, so the expectations can be computed from it.

♻️ Proposed refactor to compute the expected lines
-	// Line numbers of the four t.Skip* calls that must be reported.
-	wantLines := map[int]bool{5: true, 12: true, 21: true, 30: true}
+	// Expected findings are the lines marked `// want: finding` in the
+	// synthetic source, so editing it cannot desynchronize the expectation.
+	wantLines := map[int]bool{}
+	for i, line := range strings.Split(src, "\n") {
+		if strings.Contains(line, "// want: finding") {
+			wantLines[i+1] = true
+		}
+	}
+	if len(wantLines) != 4 {
+		t.Fatalf("synthetic source marks %d finding(s), want 4", len(wantLines))
+	}
 	got := map[int]bool{}
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In `@internal/database/postgres/testhelpers/false_green_skip_guard_test.go` around
lines 369 - 390, Update the findings assertions in the false-green guard test to
derive expected positions from the synthetic source’s “// want: finding” markers
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In `@internal/database/postgres/testhelpers/false_green_skip_guard_test.go`:
- Around line 369-390: Update the findings assertions in the false-green guard
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…ipping

The DB-backed suites answered two very different errors with the same
t.Skipf: a Postgres testcontainer that would not start, and a set of
migrations that would not apply. The first is an environment fact and a
legitimate skip. The second is the failure of the thing under test,
reported as green. Breaking any SQL file under
internal/database/postgres/migrations made the whole integration suite
report skipped, with nothing distinguishing "no Docker on this runner"
from "the schema is broken".

Split the two conditions. testhelpers.RequirePostgresContainer probes the
Docker provider directly via testcontainers SkipIfProviderIsNotHealthy,
which is the only thing allowed to skip, and requires the container past
that probe. Migration errors become require.NoError.

false_green_skip_guard_test.go keeps the class closed for tests not yet
written: it parses every _test.go in the repo and fails on any if
statement that answers an error from SetupPostgresContainer,
RunMigrations, MigrateToVersion or RollbackMigrations with a skip. It is
parse-only, so it needs no build tag and still sees the files behind
//go:build integration. A tripwire fails the guard if it ever finds zero
guarded calls, so its own detection cannot break silently.

Verified in both directions against a real Docker daemon: with a
deliberately invalid migration the suite now FAILs (exit 1) where it
previously SKIPped (exit 0), and inside a container with no Docker socket
it still SKIPs rather than failing.

Closes #1597
… on a total blackout

Adversarial review of the previous commit found three real gaps.

The anti-vacuity tripwire fired only when the guard found zero guarded
calls anywhere. Measured on this tree that total is 188, so it was
unreachable from any partial regression: excluding one directory from the
walk, or breaking three of the four names, left the tripwire green while
the findings for those names silently went to zero. The floor is now per
name, which is what the comment always claimed to cover.

The walk only parsed _test.go, but this fix moved the skip decision into
testhelpers/postgres.go, a non-test file. A future helper that skipped on
a container error would have been written in exactly the place the guard
could not see. It now also parses the non-test files of the testhelpers
and testutil packages.

internal/database/coverage_extra_test.go skipped on buildPoolConfig and
pgxpool.NewWithConfig errors. Neither does any I/O -- the first parses and
validates a DSN, the second builds a lazy pool -- so a failure there is a
code defect, not an absent database, and this file carries no
//go:build integration tag, so it runs on every default go test. Same
defect class as #1597, wider blast radius.

Also corrects the RequirePostgresContainer doc, which claimed an exhausted
host would fail: SkipIfProviderIsNotHealthy skips on any unhealthy daemon,
so the probe owns the whole environment side of the line.

Refs #1597
… guard's reach

Adversarial review of the previous two commits found four things worth fixing.

SetupPostgresContainer terminated the container when NewConnection failed but
not when Host or MappedPort did, so those two paths returned an error with the
container still running and nothing left holding a handle to call Cleanup on.
The reviewer hit exactly that path: MappedPort returned `port "5432/tcp" not
found` under container churn, and the container leaked. This matters more after
this PR than before it, because the paths that used to end in a skip now end in
a failure, so a bad run accumulates live containers rather than skipped tests.
All three post-Run error paths now go through one terminate helper.

That helper does not forward its caller's context. The error it cleans up after
is very often the context expiring in the first place, and Terminate on a dead
context returns immediately without stopping anything, so forwarding would have
left exactly the leak the helper exists to prevent. It derives a detached
context instead. TestTerminateAfterErrorSurvivesDeadContext pins this against a
canceled parent and an expired deadline, and fails by assertion on both if the
detach is removed while its live-parent case keeps passing.

The guard's header claimed it "closes the class of defect behind #1597 for
tests not yet written". It does not, and the claim is the kind that stops the
next reader from looking. Probing inspectFile directly found four shapes it
does not detect: a skip behind a helper, a switch case rather than an if, an
assignment in the parent with the check inside a t.Run closure, and a wrapper
that returns the guarded call's error. Two are realistic, and "extract a setup
helper" is the natural next refactor over this code. The header now says
tripwire rather than proof, and rather than listing the shapes in prose where
they would drift, TestFalseGreenSkipGuardKnownBypasses executes all four. Each
case also asserts the guarded call stays countable, so a bypass hides a finding
but cannot also silence the per-name floor. If the guard is later widened to
catch one, that test fails and says to move the case into the detects test.

The walk pruned any directory named frontend at any depth rather than the
TypeScript tree at the repo root. terraform/modules/frontend was being pruned
by that; it holds no Go files, so nothing was lost, but a Go package named
frontend would have been dropped silently. The prune is now anchored to the
root.

files++ ran before parser.ParseFile, so the reassuring total in the log counted
files that may never have been inspected, which is the same "found nothing and
looked at nothing are the same color" reasoning the per-name floor exists for.
It now counts only parsed files: 386, which is exactly the 382 test files plus
the 4 non-test files in testhelpers and testutil, so no file is failing to
parse today.

Also renames analytics' skipIfNoDocker to skipIfDBTestsOptedOut. It never
probed Docker; it reads SKIP_DB_TESTS. The old name is what makes a reader
of #1597 believe a suite reporting nothing was accounted for. The opt-out
itself stays: it is a caller's decision rather than an error answered with a
skip, and nothing in the tree sets the variable outside tests.

Refs #1597
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In `@internal/database/postgres/testhelpers/false_green_skip_guard_test.go`:
- Around line 1-13: Split false_green_skip_guard_test.go to keep it under 500
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…own file

false_green_skip_guard_test.go had grown to 526 lines against the project's
500-line limit. The file is new in this PR, so the violation is this change's
own rather than pre-existing debt, and it is in scope to fix here.

TestFalseGreenSkipGuardDetects and TestFalseGreenSkipGuardKnownBypasses move
verbatim into false_green_skip_guard_cases_test.go in the same package. The
detector itself, the repo-wide walk in TestNoSkipOnDatabaseSetupFailure, and
the guardedCalls and skipFuncs tables stay where they were. The split falls on
the natural seam: what the detector is stays in one file, the synthetic sources
proving what it does and does not catch move to the other. The two files are
now 329 and 205 lines.

This is a pure move. 196 lines were transplanted byte for byte, with no logic,
signature or name changes; the only authored lines are the new file's package
clause and its four-import block. Neither file carries a build tag, before or
after, which is what lets the guard keep seeing the files behind
//go:build integration that a default `go test` never compiles.

The package's test set is identical before and after: the same 5 top-level
tests and 7 subtests, all passing, none skipped, both with and without
-tags=integration. Complexity attribution is unchanged as well, with
TestNoSkipOnDatabaseSetupFailure still at 14 and TestFalseGreenSkipGuardDetects
still at 9, and both the CI and pre-commit gocyclo gates exclude _test.go.

Refs #1597
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