feat(cohorts): let a criterion say "never did this event" - #472
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"Completed signup but never started a subscription" could not be built. The frequency input rejected 0, and even with 0 accepted the generated query returned nothing: the summary MVs hold a row only for an event that actually fired, so no GROUP BY over them can produce a group with countMerge(event_count) = 0. Relaxing the input alone would have shipped a cohort that silently comes back empty. So a count of 0 with "exactly" or "at most" now builds an inverted query — the project's profiles minus the ones the MV knows about — with the timeframe and any event-property predicates inside the exclusion, so "never did X in the last 30 days" still includes someone who did X 60 days ago. "At least 0" matches every profile and is rejected instead. The LIMIT in computeEventBasedCohort now wraps the combined query rather than trailing it. ClickHouse applies a trailing LIMIT to the last SELECT of an INTERSECT chain alone, which was survivable while every operand was a narrow event-derived set; a "never did X" operand is most of the project, so the preview's limit of 10 would have cut the cohort to nothing. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to This change enables cohorts to match profiles that never performed an event and includes validation, query-building, and UI updates for that behavior; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains beyond normal checks and review. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant CohortCriteriaBuilder
participant CohortValidation
participant CohortService
participant EventSummaryMV
CohortCriteriaBuilder->>CohortValidation: validate frequency criteria
CohortValidation-->>CohortCriteriaBuilder: accept eq/lte zero or reject gte zero
CohortCriteriaBuilder->>CohortService: submit event-based cohort definition
CohortService->>EventSummaryMV: exclude profiles matching the event
EventSummaryMV-->>CohortService: return matching profile IDs
CohortService-->>CohortCriteriaBuilder: return computed cohort or count
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In `@apps/start/src/components/cohort/cohort-criteria-builder.tsx`:
- Line 315: Update the count handling near the parsed count value so a gte
operator with input 0 produces 1 instead of 0, matching the existing
operator-change handler behavior; preserve the current NaN fallback and other
operator/count values.
In `@packages/db/src/services/cohort.service.ts`:
- Around line 163-168: Update buildNeverDidEventQuery and its exclusion
subqueries to use the shared clix(ch) ClickHouse query builder from
query-builder.ts instead of raw SQL template strings, while preserving the
existing DISTINCT profile selection and event-exclusion behavior.
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The count input's onChange only guarded against NaN, so typing 0 while
the operator is "At least" produced {operator: 'gte', count: 0} — a
frequency zFrequency rejects. Apply the same "At least 0 matches
everyone" clamp the operator-change handler already uses.
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What changed
A cohort event criterion can now say "never did this event": frequency Exactly 0 or At most 0. The cohort "completed signup, but never started a subscription" is buildable as Match all with
signup, At least 1andsubscription_started, Exactly 0.Three things had to change together.
The count input rejected 0. Two separate blockers: the input carried
min="1", and its onChange didNumber.parseInt(e.target.value) || 1, which rewrote a typed 0 back to 1 because 0 is falsy. Fixing only the first would have left the value silently coerced.The schema rejected 0.
countis nowmin(0), refined so 0 is only valid witheqorlte.gte 0matches every profile, which is not a criterion at all, and allowing it would have left the query builder a third case to guess at. The operator dropdown bumps a count of 0 back to 1 when you switch to "At least", so the UI cannot build a definition the server will reject.The generated query could not express zero at all. This is the substance of the change. The summary MVs are aggregating views fed row-by-row from
events, so they hold a row only for a(project, profile, event, day)that actually happened. Every group that reachesHAVING countMerge(event_count) = 0already has a count of at least 1 by construction, so the criterion returns the empty set. Relaxing the input without this would have shipped a cohort that looks like it works and silently comes back empty, which is worse than the input block it replaces.A count of 0 with
eq/ltenow builds the inverted query instead:The timeframe stays inside the exclusion, so "never did X in the last 30 days" still includes someone who did X 60 days ago and not since, which is how the timeframe control already reads for a positive criterion.
DISTINCTrather thanFINAL, deviating from the shape originally sketched:profilesis a ReplacingMergeTree, andFINALcannot spill to disk, so on wide projects the dedup is what runs out of memory.buildPropertyBasedCohortQueryright below already avoidsFINALfor exactly this reason (see the comment atpackages/db/src/services/cohort.service.ts:363-366). Only the id is needed here, so deduplicating the id is enough.Two things worth arguing about
Semantics with event-property filters. "Never did
subscription_startedwhereplan = pro" is implemented as "has no matching (event, property) row": the property predicates go inside the exclusion, againstevent_property_profile_summary_mv. Under that reading, someone who did the event withplan = freeis a member of the cohort. The other reading — "did the event, but never with plan = pro" — is defensible and would exclude them. Object here if you prefer it; this is a choice, not an accident.LIMIT placement in
computeEventBasedCohort. The limit used to be appended to the combined query:a INTERSECT b LIMIT 10. ClickHouse applies a trailing LIMIT to the last SELECT of a set-operation chain, not to the combined result. That was survivable while every operand was a narrow event-derived set. A "never did X" operand is most of the project's profiles, so at the preview's limit of 10 the INTERSECT would have been taken against 10 arbitrary profiles and returned nothing — the exact silent-empty-cohort failure this change exists to avoid. It now wraps:SELECT profile_id FROM (a INTERSECT b) LIMIT 10. The count query alongside it already wrapped. This is a fix to existing code rather than new behaviour, so call it out if you would rather it were separate. I could not run ClickHouse in this environment to demonstrate the old shape misbehaving.Not measured: the anti-join scans every profile in the project. Straightforward shape first, per the plan; if it is slow on a large project the fallback is a LEFT JOIN with the right side IS NULL, or narrowing the outer scan. Worth an EXPLAIN on a big project before this is relied on.
Evidence
packages/db/src/services/cohort.service.ts:215-234(pre-change) — the frequency branch emitsGROUP BY profile_id HAVING countMerge(event_count) <op>againstevent_profile_summary_mv;:191-203is the same for the property-filter branch againstevent_property_profile_summary_mv.packages/db/code-migrations/20-cohort-summary-mv-sort-key.ts:57-77— both MVs areAggregatingMergeTreefed fromeventsand grouped by(project_id, profile_id, name, event_date). No row exists for zero occurrences.packages/db/src/services/cohort.service.ts:319-322(pre-change) — criteria combine withINTERSECT/UNION DISTINCT, so each operand must be a bare set ofprofile_id.packages/validation/src/cohort.validation.ts:50-53(pre-change) —count: z.number().int().min(1), feedingzEventCriteriaand socohort.create/cohort.update/cohort.preview.apps/start/src/components/cohort/cohort-criteria-builder.tsx:300and:307(pre-change) —min="1"and the|| 1fallback.packages/db/code-migrations/16-restructure-profiles.ts:70-99—profilesisReplacingMergeTree(last_seen_at)ordered(project_id, id), confirming the table and key column the exclusion scans.Tests
packages/db/src/services/cohort.service.test.ts(the file already existed, covering timeframe escaping, so the new cases were appended rather than put in a new file):eq 0andlte 0produce the anti-join and no HAVING and are identical to each other; the timeframe lands inside the NOT IN and not on the outer profile scan; the property-filter variant excludes on the matching property row; positive counts (gte 1,eq 2,lte 3) still produce the original GROUP BY / HAVING shape; a zero-count criterion INTERSECTs with a positive one as two compatibleprofile_idsets with no LIMIT or ORDER BY of their own.packages/validation/src/cohort.validation.test.tscovers what the schema now accepts and rejects.The set-combination test needed the INTERSECT/UNION join to be reachable without a database, so it moved out of
computeEventBasedCohort/countEventBasedCohort(which duplicated it) into an exportedbuildEventBasedCohortQuery.Left out on purpose
inCohort/notInCohortingetProfileFiltersWhereClause. That switch has no case for either, so such a filter inside a cohort definition is dropped without an error and the cohort silently widens, while the same operators work at report level (buildCohortClauseinfilter-where.service.ts). Adjacent, not this issue. There is now a comment saying so, so it is not mistaken for working behaviour.gte 0andeq 0were never storable under the oldmin(1), so no saved definition changes meaning.Requested in: UserJot — "Cohort frequency field rejects 0, so 'has never done event X' cannot be expressed"
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