# Owned late-interaction storage and write amplification The owned late-interaction certification gate records both correctness across a PostgreSQL restart and the incremental storage/write cost of maintaining token rows in the source DML transaction. Run the reproducible PostgreSQL 17 workload from the repository root: ```sh PG_VERSION=pg17 PG_FEATURE=pg17 \ DBNAME=pgcontext_late_interaction_owned \ tests/heavy/late_interaction_ann_serving.sh ``` The workload registers four two-dimensional source points, applies an update and a logical point deletion, checkpoints and restarts PostgreSQL, verifies the owned HNSW generation, repairs it, and confirms that repair does not reactivate the deleted point. It then reports: - logical point and token counts from the maintained registration counters; - the sum of `pg_column_size()` for owned token rows in that collection; - allocated bytes for the collection-scoped partial HNSW index; and - WAL bytes generated by replacing one source row containing two tokens. Reference result on 2026-07-21 (PostgreSQL 17.10, Apple arm64, development build): | Measurement | Result | |---|---:| | Indexed points | 4 | | Token rows | 6 | | Token-row bytes | 510 B | | HNSW relation bytes | 24,576 B | | Two-token source update WAL | 2,648 B | These tiny-fixture numbers characterize fixed overhead and are not throughput claims. The HNSW value is page-allocation dominated. The gate is valuable because it makes changes to token-row shape, index allocation, or synchronous write amplification visible alongside restart and exact-recheck correctness.