feat(admin): deleting an account stops deleting other people's work

`tasks.created_by` was ON DELETE CASCADE, so retiring a colleague removed every
task they had ever written — including in projects somebody else owns. The
interface said so in plain words before you pressed the button, which is a
warning rather than a fix. It was the last remaining way to lose other people's
work by accident.

SET NULL instead: the task stays and loses its author, the same shape
`assignee_id` and `completed_by` already have.

SQLite cannot alter a foreign key action, so the table is rebuilt — and with
foreign keys on, the drop in the middle of a rebuild is a cascading delete that
takes every row referencing `tasks` with it. `PRAGMA foreign_keys` is a no-op
inside a transaction, so migrations now run on a connection of their own, and a
migration can opt out of enforcement with `-- verdande:rebuild-tables`.
`PRAGMA foreign_key_check` runs before the commit, so a rebuild that leaves a
dangling reference fails the migration rather than writing it.

The test fills a database at 0007, upgrades it, and counts. Without the marker it
loses a task, a label link and a comment — which is exactly what it is for.

The admin list now says two numbers instead of one: what disappears, and what
stays behind unattributed. They are different sentences and the second is a
reassurance.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
This commit is contained in:
Kristian Wind
2026-08-18 09:03:59 +02:00
co-authored by Claude Opus 5
parent a29534c811
commit ebdc8eacf2
8 changed files with 541 additions and 79 deletions
+8 -5
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@@ -30,11 +30,13 @@ type adminUserJSON struct {
Self bool `json:"self"`
CreatedAt string `json:"created_at"`
LastSeenAt string `json:"last_seen_at,omitempty"`
// ProjectCount and TaskCount are what a delete would destroy. Sent with the
// list rather than fetched when the button is pressed, so the confirmation can
// name real numbers without a round trip in the middle of a decision.
ProjectCount int `json:"project_count"`
TaskCount int `json:"task_count"`
// ProjectCount and TaskCount are what a delete would destroy, and
// AuthoredElsewhere is what it would leave behind without an author. Sent with
// the list rather than fetched when the button is pressed, so the confirmation
// can name real numbers without a round trip in the middle of a decision.
ProjectCount int `json:"project_count"`
TaskCount int `json:"task_count"`
AuthoredElsewhere int `json:"authored_elsewhere"`
}
type pendingInviteJSON struct {
@@ -70,6 +72,7 @@ func (s *Server) handleListUsers(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
IsAdmin: u.IsAdmin, Self: u.ID == me.ID,
CreatedAt: u.CreatedAt.Format(time.RFC3339),
ProjectCount: u.ProjectCount, TaskCount: u.TaskCount,
AuthoredElsewhere: u.AuthoredElsewhere,
}
// Zero means never signed in, which is not a time and must not be sent as
// one — 1970 in an interface reads as a bug rather than as "never".