Jake Howell 0c3c65d85b fix: stabilize latest workspace app status ordering (DEVEX-381) (#27041)
> 🤖 This PR was written by Coder Agents on behalf of Jake Howell.

Closes
[DEVEX-381](https://linear.app/codercom/issue/DEVEX-381/flake-test-tasksendwaitsforworkingappstate).
Follow-up to #25648 and #25858, which addressed a different symptom of
the same test.

## Symptom

```
task_send_test.go:348: context expired while waiting for trap: context deadline exceeded
--- FAIL: Test_TaskSend/WaitsForWorkingAppState (26.02s)
```

Windows-only, on `test-go-pg (windows-2022)`. Reported four times since
#25648 landed (2026-06-02, 2026-06-10, 2026-07-01).

## Root cause

The test:

1. `setupCLITaskTest` inserts `workspace_app_status(state=idle)` at the
end of setup.
2. `WaitsForWorkingAppState` then inserts
`workspace_app_status(state=working)` before starting the CLI.
3. Both are persisted via `dbtime.Now()`, which rounds to microseconds.
Windows `time.Now()` resolution is coarser than that (often ~1 ms or
worse), so back-to-back calls frequently round to the same microsecond.
4. `GetLatestWorkspaceAppStatusesByWorkspaceIDs` has no tiebreaker:

   ```sql
   ORDER BY workspace_id, created_at DESC
   ```

Its sibling `GetLatestWorkspaceAppStatusByAppID` already uses `ORDER BY
created_at DESC, id DESC` for exactly this reason. When the two rows
collide, Postgres picks either.
5. On the failing runs, the query returned the `idle` row.
`waitForTaskIdle` saw idle on the first poll, returned nil, `TaskSend`
proceeded, and the CLI completed successfully in ~5 s.
6. But the test was blocked at `resetTrap.MustWait(ctx)` waiting for a
**second** `ticker.Reset` that never happened. `WaitLong = 25s` elapsed,
line 348 failed.

CI log confirms the sequence: only one `Ticker.Reset(5s)` is caught,
then `Ticker.Stop([]) call, matched 0 traps` (from `defer
ticker.Stop()`), then the trap wait times out.

This is the same class of flake Spike documented in #15923 and #21332
("Windows in particular doesn't have high-resolution timers"), just
hidden behind a SQL `ORDER BY`.

## Fix

Two changes:

1. **`coderd/database/queries/workspaceapps.sql`**: add an `id DESC`
tiebreaker to `GetLatestWorkspaceAppStatusesByWorkspaceIDs`, matching
`GetLatestWorkspaceAppStatusByAppID`. Makes the query deterministic when
`created_at` collides.
2. **`cli/task_test.go` / `cli/task_send_test.go`**: add a
`withoutInitialAppStatus()` option to `setupCLITaskTest` and use it from
`WaitsForWorkingAppState`. The test now inserts a single `working` row,
so the collision cannot happen in the first place. Belt-and-braces with
change 1.

Comments in both places reference DEVEX-381 and #21332 so the next agent
doesn't have to re-derive this.

## Verification

- `go test ./cli -run 'Test_TaskSend' -count=1`: all 12 subtests pass,
`WaitsForWorkingAppState` completes in ~5.6 s (was ~16 s previously due
to a longer poll loop).
- Stress: 20 sequential runs of `WaitsForWorkingAppState` on Linux,
race-enabled binary, all pass in ~5.5 s each.
- `go test ./coderd -run 'AppStatus|Task' -count=1` passes.
- `go vet ./coderd/database/... ./cli/...` clean.
- `make lint/emdash` clean.
- `gofmt` clean.

Not reproducible on Linux (real time between the two patches is orders
of magnitude larger than microsecond); the Windows path is fixed by
making the ordering deterministic and by not creating the collision in
the first place.

<details>
<summary>Implementation plan & decision log</summary>

### Investigation

1. Pulled the failing job log for run `28483879823/job/84428355669`.
2. Traced the mock-clock trap sequence: one `NewTicker` and exactly one
`Ticker.Reset(5s)` were caught, then `Ticker.Stop([]) call, matched 0
traps` fires (the `defer ticker.Stop()` on `waitForTaskIdle` return).
This proves `waitForTaskIdle` returned after a single poll, not that the
trap machinery hung.
3. The command exited with `<nil>` (`clitest.go:299: command "coder task
send" exited with error: <nil>`) and a `POST /send` completed in 5.4 s.
So the CLI succeeded; the test's own trap wait is what timed out.
4. The only `waitForTaskIdle` return-nil paths are `Active +
CurrentState.State in {Idle, Complete, Failed}` and `Active +
CurrentState == nil past 30s grace`. First observation of nil cannot be
past 30s. So `TaskByID` must have returned `State == Idle`.
5. Traced `TaskByID` → `taskGet` → `workspaceData` →
`GetLatestWorkspaceAppStatusesByWorkspaceIDs`. Found the missing
tiebreaker; the sibling query one line above
(`GetLatestWorkspaceAppStatusByAppID`) already had it.
6. Confirmed the two `PATCH /app-status` calls in the Windows log
happened at `00:26:13.077` and `00:26:13.093`, well within Windows timer
resolution.
7. Confirmed `dbtime.Now()` rounds to microseconds; Windows `time.Now()`
doesn't have that precision, so `Round(time.Microsecond)` on two calls
close together frequently produces equal values.

### Prior art from Spike

- #15923: loosened `HeartbeatPeriod * 9/10` to `3/4` for Windows.
- #21332: switched `assert.After` to `assert.NotBefore` because
timestamps can equal on Windows.

Both explicitly cite "Windows doesn't always have high-resolution timers
available."

### Considered alternatives

- **Only fix the test.** Works today but leaves the SQL query
non-deterministic; another test that relies on
`GetLatestWorkspaceAppStatusesByWorkspaceIDs` could hit the same
collision.
- **Only fix the SQL query.** Would give a stable answer but not
necessarily the *right* one. If both patches share a `created_at`, `id
DESC` picks whichever UUID sorted higher, still random with respect to
insertion order.
- **Make `dbtime.Now()` monotonic per process.** Cleanest at the source,
but affects every timestamp in the database and has broader implications
than a targeted flake fix.

Going with both the query fix (defense in depth, matches existing
pattern) and the test fix (eliminates the collision at the source) is
the smallest change that closes the flake and hardens the query.

### Rejected commit-message scopes

Changes touch both `cli/` and `coderd/database/`, so per AGENTS.md the
scope is omitted for the cross-cutting commit and PR title.

</details>
2026-07-14 11:48:31 +10:00
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