A horizon seed stored as a delta whose base arrived only in a later round (pull, clone) or a later request (origin push) was refused by its hash but kept in the store, and a pull or clone counted the delta as received on arrival, before it could be judged (draft-fossil-horizon-00 §5.2.3, HZ-5.2-14).

On a seed verdict seedcheck now rewrites each delta built on the seed as full text, then empties the seed's row: size -1, no content, no delta link, and kept out of the phantom table so no request asks for it. The rid stays held for anything a receive pass tracks by it, and the refused hash is still recorded in store-local state.

A pull or clone counts a delta it could not read on arrival only at the end of the exchange, once readable and not dropped. A round still treats it as progress. The receive pass treats a row without content as no basis even when its cache holds the old bytes, and the push handler's same-request seed check consults the refused hash, since the dropped row no longer reads.

HZ-5.2-14 is now covered. check-in: 917bcc9830 user: [email protected] tags: fix/seed-delta-drop, main, trunk