Currently they're stored as non-outliers even though the server isn't in
the room, which can be problematic in places where the code assumes it
has the state for all non outlier events.
In particular, there is an edge case where persisting the leave event
triggers a state resolution, which requires looking up the room version
from state. Since the server doesn't have the state, this causes an
exception to be thrown.
This was caused by accidentally overwritting a `last_seen` variable
in a for loop, causing the wrong value to be written to the progress
table. The result of which was that we didn't scan sections of the table
when searching for duplicates, and so some duplicates did not get
deleted.
* Fix race when persisting create event
When persisting a chunk of DAG it is sometimes requried to do a state
resolution, which requires knowledge of the room version. If this
happens while we're persisting the create event then we need to use that
event rather than attempting to look it up in the database.
Allow for the creation of a support user.
A support user can access the server, join rooms, interact with other users, but does not appear in the user directory nor does it contribute to monthly active user limits.
Clients often reupload their device keys (for some reason) so its
important for the server to check for no-ops before sending out device
list update notifications.
The check is broken in python 3 due to the fact comparing bytes and
unicode always fails, and that we write bytes to the DB but get unicode
when we read.
We currently send several kHz of device list updates over replication
occisonally, which often causes the replications streams to lag and then
get dropped.
A lot of those updates will actually be duplicates, since we don't send
e.g. device_ids across replication, so let's deduplicate it when we pull
them out of the database.
Currently when fetching state groups from the data store we make two
hits two the database: once for members and once for non-members (unless
request is filtered to one or the other). This adds needless load to the
datbase, so this PR refactors the lookup to make only a single database
hit.
