{"id":"ordering-infrastructure-broken-at-every-layer","text":"Ordering and position infrastructure is broken or volatile at every layer: WAL sequence numbers are diligently computed and stored but never consulted during recovery, event sourcing conflates stream-scoped and global position IDs creating addressing ambiguity, and CDC consumer positions exist only in memory and are lost on restart — no ordering mechanism in the codebase reliably serves its intended purpose.","truth_value":"OUT","source":"","source_url":"","source_hash":"","justifications":[{"type":"SL","antecedents":["wal-seq-nums-are-vestigial","event-sourcing-conflates-two-id-spaces","cdc-consumer-position-is-volatile"],"outlist":[],"label":"Three independent ordering/position mechanisms across storage, event sourcing, and CDC each fail differently (unused, conflated, volatile), revealing a systematic inability to maintain reliable ordered cursors"}],"dependents":["distributed-cluster-lacks-reliable-infrastructure","event-infrastructure-unreliable-in-content-and-ordering"],"metadata":{"last_reviewed":"2026-05-30T09:01:17","review_result":"pass"},"created_at":"","updated_at":"","reviewed_at":"","verified_at":"","retracted_at":"","explanation":{"steps":[{"node":"ordering-infrastructure-broken-at-every-layer","truth_value":"OUT","reason":"SL justification invalid","failed_antecedents":["wal-seq-nums-are-vestigial","cdc-consumer-position-is-volatile"],"label":"Three independent ordering/position mechanisms across storage, event sourcing, and CDC each fail differently (unused, conflated, volatile), revealing a systematic inability to maintain reliable ordered cursors"}]}}