internal/adapters/store/uploaded_transcripts.go

@@ -88,12 +88,16 @@ func (s *Store) Heartbeat(ctx context.Context, userID, id string) error {
 		  WHERE id = $1 AND user_id = $2`)
 }
 
-// FailUpload moves an upload to failed with a typed reason.
+// FailUpload moves a queued or transcribing upload to failed with a typed reason. A
+// finished upload is left as it was: a shutdown can record a job as failed after its
+// transcript was already committed (the commit lands, the caller sees a cancelled
+// context), and that must not hide the text. Such a call touches no row and returns
+// ErrUploadNotFound.
 func (s *Store) FailUpload(ctx context.Context, userID, id string, kind domain.UploadErrorKind) error {
 	return s.updateUpload(ctx, userID, id, "fail upload",
 		`UPDATE uploaded_transcripts
 		    SET status = 'failed', error_kind = $3, finished_at = NOW()
-		  WHERE id = $1 AND user_id = $2`,
+		  WHERE id = $1 AND user_id = $2 AND status IN ('queued', 'transcribing')`,
 		string(kind))
 }