Refactor workspace association tracking to use a dedicated revision table

Added the upgrade path with test coverage, this should be fully ready for review now :)

I am providing an AI review (made by Gemini) for discussion later:

  Decision: Request Changes

  I would not accept this PR in its current state, although it is a very
   strong and well-thought-out patch. The architectural direction is
  excellent, but there are some significant risks and areas for
  improvement that should be addressed before it's merged into a stable
  branch like 11.x.

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  High-Level Review

  This patch introduces a fundamental change to how Drupal's Workspaces
  module tracks entity revisions, by adding a new
  workspace_association_revision table.

  The Good:

   * Improved Architecture: The new table decouples workspace logic from
     the underlying storage of versionable entities. The previous
     implementation with its complex queries and joins directly on entity
     revision tables was brittle and inefficient. This change is a major
     improvement for maintainability and performance.
   * Excellent Test Coverage: The addition of a new UpdatePathTestBase
     test (WorkspaceAssociationRevisionTableUpdateTest) specifically for
     the data migration is fantastic. The approach of re-implementing the
     old logic within the test to compare the results before and after the
      update is a robust way to ensure the refactoring is correct.

  The Concerns:

   * Data Migration Risk: The workspaces_update_11302() hook performs a
     data migration that could be extremely slow or even time out on
     production sites with a large number of entities and revisions
     managed by workspaces. Running heavy queries inside a loop is risky
     for an update hook.

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  Specific Feedback and Suggestions

  Here are the detailed points I would raise in a PR review.

  1. Critical: Update Hook Performance

  The workspaces_update_11302() function needs to be more robust for
  large datasets.

   * Issue: The code iterates through every workspace and then every
     entity type within that workspace, executing a potentially complex
     database query for each combination. This will not scale well.
   * Suggestion: This update is a prime candidate for the Batch API. The
     process should be converted into a batch job that processes a limited
      number of workspaces or entities in each run. This is the standard
     Drupal way to handle long-running updates and prevent timeouts during
      drush updb or updates via the UI.

  2. Code Style and Refactoring

   * Issue: In WorkspaceAssociation.php, the methods
     getAssociatedRevisions() and getAssociatedInitialRevisions() contain
     very similar caching logic. They both check for a cached property and
      then run a database query if it's not present.
   * Suggestion: Consolidate this logic. A single protected method could
     be responsible for querying the workspace_association_revision table
     and populating both $this->associatedRevisions and
     $this->associatedInitialRevisions caches at the same time. The public
      methods would then become simple getters that access the cached
     data. This would reduce code duplication.

   * Issue: In workspaces_update_11302(), the logic to determine if a
     revision is the "initial" one relies on an implicitly named column
     from a joined table: $revision->{\"base_$revision_id_field\"}.
   * Suggestion: This is not guaranteed to be portable across all database
      drivers that Drupal supports. The query should explicitly alias the
     field for reliability.
       * Change: $revision_query->fields('base', [$revision_id_field])
       * To: $revision_query->addField('base', $revision_id_field, 
         'base_revision_id');
       * And then use $revision->base_revision_id in the logic.

  3. Test Fixture Management

   * Issue: The new test fixture workspaces-10.3.0.php is over 2800 lines
     long and consists mostly of enormous, unreadable serialized PHP
     object strings.
   * Suggestion: While this is a common pattern in Drupal core for
     historical reasons, it's worth questioning if there's a more
     maintainable way. Could a smaller, more targeted fixture be used? If
     not, at least ensure the comment at the top of the file, which is
     very helpful, is kept up-to-date with any changes. For this PR, I
     wouldn't block on this, but it's a technical debt concern.

  4. Minor: Unused use statement

   * Issue: In WorkspaceAssociation.php, the use 
     Drupal\Core\Entity\Sql\SqlContentEntityStorage; statement is removed
     from the top, which is correct. However, a new one is added in
     workspaces.install that is not used.
   * Suggestion: Remove the unused use statement from workspaces.install.

  In summary, this is a high-quality and valuable patch that is very
  close to being acceptable. The primary blocker is the risk associated
  with the update hook's performance. Once that is addressed by moving
  to a batch process, and the minor code suggestions are implemented, I
  would be happy to approve it.

My own verdict (so far):

1. Agree on batch API (at least one transaction per workspace), but I can probably get this conversion done with AI (so no need for Andrei to do)
2. Need to look into this in detail first
3. Disagree - it's standard practice
4. Disagree - it's standard practice
5. No idea if it's true, but would have thought an IDE would have seen that. Low priority and might be false-flag

Claude brought up some other points, which I however need to review first as it also hallucinated a missing upgrade path ...

Overall from my own review so far: Looks good, but need to look more detailed still.

That's a surprisingly insightful review :)

1. Not sure I agree with the need to use batch API, I'd rather use a single transaction for the whole thing. I tested this upgrade path on a site with 13.065 workspace associations and a node_revision table with 150k revisions, and it runs in 8 seconds :)
2. Both good points, fixed.
3. Also disagree.
4. Yep, false flag, that class is used in workspaces_update_11302()

I don't think that it is helpful to post known incorrect points from an LLM onto a complex core issue even with the rebuttals inckuded. I have just had to read hundreds of words and think about them (and haven't re-reviewed the MR yet) whereas the actual review points boil down to:

- The update should use an alias for a table name. (and this could have been found in linting with a phpstan rule).

- We should decide whether the update should batch by workspace or not based on real world testing (which Andrei had apparently already done).

I have an issue open about the fixtures but that issue is irrelevant to any new upgrade path testing we have now. I'm only linking it so that no one opens a 'new' followup for the LLM point. 📌 Rework database update tests so we don't have to ship database dumps in git Active .

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Merged latest 11.x, and it was a clean merge, not sure what the bot doesn't like.