railiance-platform/docs/adr/ADR-0002-placement-policy-ownership.md
codex e7e4e33bb8 RPF-WP-0018 T01-T06: publish S3 posture, placement policy, quotas, ADR surface
T01 docs/tenancy-posture.md - vector set per service rather than one repo
vector, with the provider-versus-consumer finding routed to net-kingdom.
T02/T03/T06 docs/placement-policy.md - accepts placement ownership scoped
to rule-here/number-there, records a placement owner per workload, reports
the latency-critical + batch co-residency on platform-pg, marks the
connection-ceiling trigger unmonitored pending railiance-telemetry, and
answers the retention floor/ceiling question.
T04 s3-consumer-interfaces 1.1.0 - quota disclosure per SS10.2. Surfaces
that apps-pg has no backup, no resource limits and no tuned parameters.
T05 docs/adr/ created with a mandatory-frontmatter convention and the
first three ADRs. This repo previously held none.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-17 21:55:11 +02:00

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---
title: "ADR-0002 — S3 owns the placement rule; the package repo owns the number"
status: proposed
revision: "1.0"
owner: railiance-platform
date: "2026-08-17"
last_reviewed: "2026-08-17"
review_interval: 6m
---
# ADR-0002 — S3 owns the placement rule; the package repo owns the number
## Context
`net-kingdom/canon/standards/tenancy-posture_v0.1.md` §8.2 proposes that
database placement policy — dedicated versus shared, and when that changes —
be owned by `railiance-platform`, co-signed by `adaptive-pricing`.
`tenant-engine` raised the same gap independently on 2026-08-16: both patterns
are live on railiance01, neither is written down, and each new service copies
whichever neighbour it looked at.
The complication is that this repo no longer holds the specs. `RAILIANCE-WP-0012`
and `RAILIANCE-WP-0015` moved the deployable surface to the `rapp-*` repos.
`platform-pg`'s `instances`, `max_connections`, memory limit and retention are
`rapp-postgres`'s cluster CR. Tenancy Posture §19.8 nonetheless asks *this repo*
for `platform-pg`'s declared maximum size — a question one hop from where its
answer lives.
Accepting ownership without stating this would produce either an answer we
cannot substantiate or a quiet non-answer.
## Decision
**Accept placement ownership, split along rule and number.**
*This repo owns the rule:* the default placement level, what overrides it, who
is accountable for each workload's placement, that a shared cluster must publish
a ceiling and an overflow target before its third consumer, that retention has a
floor and a ceiling, and that a consumer's erasure horizon on shared substrate
is disclosed rather than inherited silently.
*The package repo owns the number:* what the ceiling actually is, which resource
binds first, what the retention values are, and the validator that enforces them
where the CR lives.
**Placement ownership per workload sits with the consuming repo; this repo
co-signs.** The consumer knows its latency requirement, erasure horizon and
compliance position; S3 knows the substrate. A placement change needs both.
Putting the decision solely here would recreate the problem §8.2 exists to
avoid — an operations-shaped repo holding a commercial decision alone.
`adaptive-pricing` co-signature is requested, not assumed.
## Consequences
- `docs/placement-policy.md` is the operative document; this ADR is the
decision behind it.
- §19.8 is answered by obligation rather than by number: Rule P-4.1 requires
`platform-pg` and `apps-pg` to declare a ceiling before their third consumer.
Both are at two consumers.
- This repo owes `apps-pg`'s ceiling under its own rule. A policy whose author
is exempt is not a policy.
- §8.1 requires triggers to be *monitored*. This repo has no monitoring plane,
so the connection-and-memory-ceiling trigger is recorded `unmonitored`
pending `railiance-telemetry`. Declaring a ceiling is a partial substitute —
a written threshold is checkable by a human at provisioning, which beats a
limit discovered by an OOM kill.
- If `adaptive-pricing` declines, this ADR is revised to record single
ownership explicitly rather than leaving an unsigned co-signature line.
## Alternatives considered
**Decline ownership; route it to `rapp-postgres`.** They hold the specs and the
operational knowledge. Rejected: placement is a cross-cluster question and
`rapp-postgres` owns one package. A policy owned by one substrate's operator
cannot govern movement between substrates.
**Accept whole, including the numbers.** Rejected: it would either re-import
the deployable surface this repo deliberately gave up, or produce numbers
restated here that drift from the CR — a second source of truth for exactly the
values a consumer must be able to trust.