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Document easy room purge benefit of using (room_id, event_id) #13771

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Document another benefit of using `(room_id, event_id)`
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Document easy room purge benefit of using `(room_id, event_id)` in our database schemas.
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Expand Up @@ -208,10 +208,11 @@ But hash collisions are still possible, and by treating event IDs as room
scoped, we can reduce the possibility of a hash collision. When scoping
`event_id` in the database schema, it should be also accompanied by `room_id`
(`PRIMARY KEY (room_id, event_id)`) and lookups should be done through the pair
`(room_id, event_id)`.
`(room_id, event_id)`. Another benefit of scoping `event_ids` to the room is
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I'm not sure I follow this reasoning. Is the point that we can do this with a single DELETE FROM ... WHERE ... rather than having to use a subselect or similar which joins to the events table?

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@DMRobertson Seems to be the case so we don't have to do this:

synapse/synapse/storage/databases/main/purge_events.py

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# Now we delete tables which lack an index on room_id but have one on event_id
for table in (
"event_auth",
"event_edges",
"event_json",
"event_push_actions_staging",
"event_relations",
"event_to_state_groups",
"event_auth_chains",
"event_auth_chain_to_calculate",
"redactions",
"rejections",
"state_events",
):
logger.info("[purge] removing %s from %s", room_id, table)
txn.execute(
"""
DELETE FROM %s WHERE event_id IN (
SELECT event_id FROM events WHERE room_id=?
)
"""
% (table,),
(room_id,),
)

From the chapter sync, it was one of the useful benefits people liked from pairing up (room_id, event_id).

Added a note on this part of why it's easier ⏩

that it makes it very easy to find and clean up everything in a room when it
needs to be purged.

There has been a lot of debate on this in places like
`event_id` global uniqueness has had a lot debate in places like
https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals/issues/2779 and
[MSC2848](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals/pull/2848) which
has no resolution yet (as of 2022-09-01).