fix(scanner): correlate one Sonarr series to every matching media row

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Description

Some shows are split across two TMDB entries that are really one series. Seerr could only associate that series with one of them, so a library scan credited its episodes to whichever entry happened to win. The other entry would show as available without having been requested, availability sync would later correct it, and the next scan would set it again thereby flipping back and forth and sending a notification each time.

Seerr now recognises that several entries can describe the same series and updates each of them against its own seasons. Shows that are not split are unaffected, since there is only ever one entry to update.

This undoes some guards added earlier in this stack and it was done so rather than folding the change back into them. Those guards were correct while a show could only ever have one TheTVDB id recorded, and removing that limit is what makes them unnecessary. The reason i kept the changes separate so every branch below are internally coherent and independently shippable, and records why the model changed and therefore not hide why it did what it did.

Note

The SQLite migration is hand-written. The generated one silently does nothing and leaves the constraint in place and the next generation emits the identical migration again. This might be what actually happened with the push subscriptions sqlite too instead of it being an upstream merge issue because I remember having to do this for another constraint i removed for blocklist.

How Has This Been Tested?

• New unit test cases covering two entries for one series being updated independently, and both being reset together when the series leaves Sonarr.
• All the other unit tests passes too

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Checklist:

• I have read and followed the contribution guidelines.
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• I have updated the documentation accordingly.
• All new and existing tests passed.
• Successful build pnpm build
• Translation keys pnpm i18n:extract
• Database migration (if required)

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Supports multiple media entries sharing the same TVDB ID, including split catalog scenarios.
  • TVDB IDs are now retained during media creation and backfilling, even when associated with another entry.
  • Sonarr processing updates each matching media entry independently using its corresponding season mapping.

• Bug Fixes

  • Improved status handling for shared media entries, including accurate AVAILABLE and UNKNOWN states.
  • Enhanced Sonarr error reporting with the associated TMDB ID.

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📒 Files selected for processing (3)

• server/lib/scanners/baseScanner.ts
• server/lib/scanners/sonarr/sonarr.test.ts
• server/subscriber/MediaRequestSubscriber.ts

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• server/lib/scanners/baseScanner.ts
• server/lib/scanners/sonarr/sonarr.test.ts

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Walkthrough

The PR removes the unique TVDB ID constraint, persists duplicate TVDB IDs across media write paths, and updates Sonarr processing to handle all media rows linked to one TVDB series.

Changes

Shared TVDB mappings

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Remove the TVDB uniqueness constraint server/entity/Media.ts, server/migration/...	The tvdbId column is no longer unique. PostgreSQL and SQLite migrations remove and restore the constraint.
Persist shared TVDB IDs server/entity/MediaRequest.ts, server/lib/scanners/baseScanner.ts, server/subscriber/MediaRequestSubscriber.ts, server/routes/request.test.ts, server/subscriber/MediaRequestSubscriber.test.ts	Media request, scanner, and subscriber flows save TVDB IDs without conflict checks. Tests expect the supplied ID to persist.
Process all matching Sonarr media rows server/lib/scanners/sonarr/index.ts, server/lib/scanners/sonarr/sonarr.test.ts	Sonarr processes every media row with the same TVDB ID. Tests cover separate season aliases and status resets.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant SonarrScanner
  participant MediaRepository
  participant MediaRows
  SonarrScanner->>MediaRepository: Find all Media rows for a TVDB ID
  MediaRepository-->>SonarrScanner: Return matching Media rows
  loop Each matching row
    SonarrScanner->>MediaRows: Process the row with its season alias
    MediaRows-->>SonarrScanner: Return availability status
  end

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Suggested reviewers: knat-dev

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to f9d40

Shared TVDB mappings and per-row Sonarr updates are supported, but rollback can fail after duplicate mappings are stored and a scanner save conflict can still erase a TVDB mapping. These data-correlation and rollback risks should be resolved before merge.

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Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly describes the main change: updating every matching media row for one Sonarr series.
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Inline comments:
In `@server/lib/scanners/baseScanner.ts`:
- Line 577: Update processShow() so that when an existing media row loaded
through the Sonarr TMDB fallback has an undefined media.tvdbId, it assigns the
supplied tvdbId before saving; preserve existing tvdbId values and ensure the
updated row is persisted for later shared-TVDB scans.

In `@server/lib/scanners/sonarr/sonarr.test.ts`:
- Line 918: Update the aliased-row assertions in the relevant Sonarr scanner
test to require MediaStatus.UNKNOWN for both the aliased season and media row,
replacing the insufficient negative status assertion so skipped processing
cannot pass.

In `@server/migration/postgres/1789009450452-DropMediaTvdbIdUnique.ts`:
- Around line 13-15: Update the PostgreSQL down migration’s constraint
restoration and the SQLite down migration’s unique-table row copy to normalize
duplicate non-null tvdbId values before enforcing uniqueness, while preserving
one valid mapping and clearing or otherwise separating duplicate values so both
rollbacks succeed. Apply the corresponding changes at
server/migration/postgres/1789009450452-DropMediaTvdbIdUnique.ts lines 13-15 and
server/migration/sqlite/1789010700000-DropMediaTvdbIdUnique.ts lines 50-55;
anchor the implementation to the migration up/down methods and existing
media-copy query symbols.

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• server/entity/Media.ts
• server/entity/MediaRequest.ts
• server/lib/scanners/baseScanner.ts
• server/lib/scanners/sonarr/index.ts
• server/lib/scanners/sonarr/sonarr.test.ts
• server/migration/postgres/1789009450452-DropMediaTvdbIdUnique.ts
• server/migration/sqlite/1789010700000-DropMediaTvdbIdUnique.ts
• server/routes/request.test.ts
• server/subscriber/MediaRequestSubscriber.test.ts
• server/subscriber/MediaRequestSubscriber.ts

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