DAG shortest path revision

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Part of #3060

Shortest path for a Directed Acyclic Graph

Changes proposed in this pull request:

• Removing the Pgr_dag class
  • reusing existing visitor
• Separate implementation from header
  • works only for directed graph: no need of template
• When cost < 0 then reverse_cost is used, otherwise reverse_cost is ignored
  • avoids single edge cycle during input

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• New Features
  • Shortest-path queries can account for points along edges.
  • DAG shortest paths use reverse costs when forward costs are negative and avoid adding edges that create cycles.
• Documentation
  • Clarified that non-DAG input raises an error and documented results for missing, unreachable, and identical start/end vertices.
  • Updated the DAG shortest-path example to include reverse costs.

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Walkthrough

The change adds cycle-aware edge insertion and a C++ DAG shortest-path implementation. It routes with-points requests through a dedicated driver and process wrapper, updates regular shortest-path interfaces and callers, and revises DAG documentation, examples, and tests.

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DAG shortest-path behavior

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Cycle-aware directed edges include/cpp_common/base_graph.hpp	New graph insertion methods process directed edges using forward and reverse costs.
DAG shortest-path algorithm include/dagShortestPath/dagShortestPath.hpp, src/dagShortestPath/*, src/dijkstra/shortestPath_driver.cpp	The C++ algorithm traverses requested targets, builds paths, and sorts results. The regular driver uses cycle-aware edge insertion for DAG paths.
DAG documentation and validation doc/dagShortestPath/*, docqueries/dagShortestPath/*, locale/{en/LC_MESSAGES, pot}/*, pgtap/others/dagShortestPath/edge_cases/*	Documentation describes reverse-cost handling and PostgreSQL errors for non-DAG input. The example query selects reverse_cost; edge-case tests exercise cycle-aware path results.

With-points driver separation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
With-points processing flow include/drivers/shortestPathWithPoints_driver.hpp, include/process/shortestPathWithPoints_process.h, src/dijkstra/shortestPathWithPoints_*, src/withPoints/withPoints.c, src/dijkstra/CMakeLists.txt, tools/scripts/code_checker.sh	With-points entry points call a dedicated process wrapper and driver. The driver loads point and edge data, dispatches algorithms, and serializes results.
Regular shortest-path API and callers include/drivers/shortestPath_driver.hpp, include/process/shortestPath_process.h, src/dijkstra/shortestPath_{driver,process}.cpp, src/{bdDijkstra,bellman_ford,dijkstra,max_flow,traversal}/*, .clang-tidy	The regular shortest-path API drops with-points parameters. Callers use the revised argument layout, and the driver loads edge SQL directly. The static-analysis configuration adds checks and compiler warning arguments.

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Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant WithPoints as withPoints entry points
  participant Process as pgr_process_shortestPathWithPoints
  participant Driver as do_shortestPathWithPoints
  participant PointGraph as point graph
  WithPoints->>Process: dispatch request
  Process->>Driver: pass SQL, arrays, and options
  Driver->>PointGraph: build point-adjusted graph
  Driver-->>Process: return serialized path tuples

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to ffa17

DAG results can use an ignored reverse cost for reciprocal-edge inputs, potentially returning a route with the wrong cost or edge ID; correct this before merging. The combinations example also mislabels its directed input.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to ffa17

The processing split preserves the inspected caller mappings and ordinary error cleanup. A new DAG edge-handling rule can change returned costs and edge identifiers contrary to the stated contract, but its observed scope is the requesting query’s graph. No expanded authorization boundary was established. Interruption recovery and external consumers remain incompletely assessed.

Retained concerns

• Low · architecture · observed: The new DAG normalization can use reverse_cost even when cost is nonnegative. After inserting an edge 1 to 2 with cost 5, a row from 2 to 1 with cost 10 and reverse_cost 1 lowers the existing edge’s cost to 1 and replaces its identifier. This contradicts the stated rule that reverse_cost is ignored for nonnegative cost and makes returned edge identity and cost depend on input order. The demonstrated impact is query-result semantics, not an established authorization bypass.

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Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The demonstrated reverse-cost discrepancy affects DAG path results produced from caller-selected edge data. The dispatch guard and invocation-local graph bound the observed impact to that execution path; propagation into downstream authorization decisions or other services was not established.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• inferred — The inspected split preserves the entrypoint-to-process-to-driver boundary and keeps SQL processing within the existing SPI lifecycle. Moving point-specific work to its own driver did not show a new authority transition in the inspected callers; broader external consumer coverage remains unavailable.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — The DAG traversal retains its pre-traversal interruption checkpoint and exception propagation relative to base. The reused visitor does not add interruption checks during vertex examination. This comparison does not establish a newly weakened cancellation boundary, nor prove end-to-end recovery and memory cleanup after interruption.

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