Fix state growing exponentially on empty cron tasks#1371
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* engine: Set max-old-space-size on child process #1368 --------- Co-authored-by: Joe Clark <jclark@openfn.org> * fix(project): include trigger reply fields in version hash (#1362) Signed-off-by: Asish Kumar <officialasishkumar@gmail.com> * fix state growth (#1371) * versions --------- Signed-off-by: Asish Kumar <officialasishkumar@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Taylor Downs <taylor@openfn.org> Co-authored-by: Asish Kumar <87874775+officialasishkumar@users.noreply.github.com>
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A simple fix: ignore empty state objects on final state
This prevents empty workflows with mutliple leaves on a cron from getting into an infinite growth state.
Cron jobs with multiple leaves will need to do manual state reconcilation anyway, and users can fix this on their own terms.
This is about ensuring that empty workflows, particularly those generated by AI, are stable.
closes half of #1367
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