fix: eliminate N+1 query in _load_candidate_sessions for event_type filter

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Summary

• Fixes bug: N+1 query in _load_candidate_sessions when filtering by event_type #132
• Replaces a Python-side for session in sessions loop that issued one SELECT ... LIMIT 1 per session with a single IN subquery pushed into SQL
• Total query count for _load_candidate_sessions is now 1 regardless of how many candidate sessions exist

Changes

• storage/search.py — move event_type filtering into the main SQL statement via SessionModel.id.in_(subquery) before executing; remove the post-fetch loop
• tests/test_nl_search_api.py — add test_nl_search_event_type_filter_uses_single_query to verify sessions without the requested event type are excluded and sessions with it are returned

Test plan

• ruff check . — passes
• python3 -m pytest -q tests/test_nl_search_api.py -k event_type — 1 passed
• python3 -m pytest -q — 2108 passed, 59 skipped, 3 pre-existing failures in test_analytics_db.py (date-mocking issue unrelated to this change, reproduced on main)

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Pull request overview

Eliminates an N+1 query pattern in SessionSearchService._load_candidate_sessions when applying an event_type filter by pushing the filtering into SQL via a subquery, and adds a regression test around event_type filtering behavior.

Changes:

• Refactors _load_candidate_sessions to apply event_type filtering in the SQL statement (removing the per-session lookup loop).
• Adds a new NL search API test to ensure sessions are included/excluded appropriately when event_type is provided.

Reviewed changes

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File	Description
storage/search.py	Pushes event_type filtering into SQL to remove per-session queries.
tests/test_nl_search_api.py	Adds a regression test for event_type filter behavior in NL search results.

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This test is named/documented as enforcing a single SQL query, but it never asserts query count. Also, because it calls search_sessions_nl, the search path still issues per-session event-loading queries during scoring/highlights, so a true “single query” assertion would be unreliable here. Consider either (a) renaming/updating the docstring to only assert correct filtering behavior, or (b) moving the regression to a unit-level test that targets _load_candidate_sessions directly and counts execute/cursor calls for that method only.

Suggested change

	async def test_nl_search_event_type_filter_uses_single_query(db_session):
	"""event_type filter must resolve in a single SQL query, not N+1 per session.
	Regression test for: N+1 query in _load_candidate_sessions when filtering
	by event_type (issue #132). The fix pushes filtering into SQL via IN subquery.
	async def test_nl_search_event_type_filter_returns_only_matching_sessions(db_session):
	"""Regression test for correct event_type filtering in NL search results.
	This test verifies that sessions with a matching event_type are returned and
	sessions without that event_type are excluded when searching via
	search_sessions_nl. It does not assert SQL query counts.