createIndex({expireAt: 1}, {expireAfterSeconds: 60}) now deletes a
document once its indexed date is that many seconds old.
index.zig carries the option: Index.ttl (?i64), parsed from
expireAfterSeconds (int32/int64/integral double, within MongoDB's
[0, 2147483647]; 0 means "expire at the stored instant"), emitted by
spec_pairs and so persisted through the log and reported by listIndexes,
and compared by spec_equal — a same-name re-create with a different
expiry stays IndexOptionsConflict, as in MongoDB, since collMod does not
exist here. The bound keeps the value an int32 on the wire and makes the
emission cast unconditional. TTL is single-field only (a compound key is
error.TtlOnCompoundIndex); an absent option parses to null, so every
existing log record reparses unchanged.
db.zig sweeps: Engine.ttl_sweep(now_ms) walks each TTL index's entries
and deletes through the ordinary remove path, so an expiry is logged and
fsynced like any other write and holds across a restart. Expired ids are
duped before removal — remove frees the docs-map key that Entry.id
aliases — then sorted and deduped, because one document can be expired
by several entries (an array of dates expires on its earliest member,
which multikey expansion gives for free) or by several TTL indexes.
Selecting entries is a type test rather than a range lookup: bson
compare order ranks datetime above null, numbers and strings, so a
datetime upper bound would also select every value of a lesser type. A
sweep that deleted something checks the compaction threshold, since a
TTL-only workload never reaches the one in upsert.
commands.zig maps the new spec errors: CannotCreateIndex (67) for a
compound key or an out-of-range expiry, and InvalidIndexSpecificationOption
(197) for an expiry on {_id: 1}, which the idempotent _id no-op would
otherwise swallow.
server.zig runs the monitor as a member of the connection group, so the
existing group.cancel tears it down; it sleeps first, then sweeps under
the write lock, and logs rather than dies on a sweep failure.
--ttl-sweep-secs sets the interval (default 60, 0 leaves it unspawned).
Expiry is coarse by design, as in MongoDB: a document stays visible
until the next sweep, and a non-date value at the indexed path never
expires. Unit tests cover the spec round-trip and every rejection, the
sweep (inclusive cutoff, string/missing/future values untouched, second
sweep a no-op) and its survival of a reopen, and two TTL indexes over
one collection. e2e4.js exercises it through the Node driver.
README documents supported key patterns, unique/sparse/multikey behavior,
planner rules (multikey two-bound range fallback, sparse/null bail, the
_id fast-path guards), and v1 limits plus the two pre-existing issues the
work surfaces (drop-collection resurrection, compact log_bytes).
e2e3.js exercises createIndex/getIndexes/dropIndex/dropIndexes, the
unique-constraint 11000 path, compound, sparse, and descending indexes
through the official Node driver.
