There is a bug with the `StreamChangeCache` where it would incorrectly
return that all entities had changed if asked for entities changed
*since* the earliest stream position.
Note that for streams we use the inequalities: `$min_stream_id <
stream_id <= $max_stream_id`, i.e. when we ask the stream change cache
for all things that have changed since `$stream_id` we don't care for
events that happened *at* `$stream_id`.
Specifically: `_earliest_known_stream_pos` is the position at which we
know that we'll have entries for all changes since that point, we can
use the cache for any stream IDs that equal
`_earliest_known_stream_pos`.
`_earliest_known_stream_pos` is set in three places:
- On startup we set it either to:
- the current maximum stream ID, with not prefilled values; or
- the minimum of the latest N values we pulled from the DB
- When we evict items from the bottom, we set it to the stream ID of the
evicted items.
This was changed in https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/pull/14435,
but I think we were overly conservative there.
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Co-authored-by: Andrew Morgan <1342360+anoadragon453@users.noreply.github.com>
Erik Johnston