fix: do not drop a peer's collection when losing a create race - #938
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Two processes reconciling the same schema can both read a collection as missing: the metadata read is served by a negative cache entry that the peer only purges once its insert commits. The loser then took the DuplicateException from the adapter as proof of an orphaned table, so it dropped the peer's live table and recreated it, and when its own metadata insert hit the unique key it rolled that table back out again. The collection was left with metadata but no table, and the caller saw a generic "Failed to create collection metadata" that took down a booting server. Re-read metadata past the cache before treating a table as an orphan, and on a duplicate metadata insert report DuplicateException without rolling back a table the peer owns. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughCollection creation now preserves existing physical tables and peer data during duplicate creation races. It clears stale metadata cache entries, raises ChangesCollection creation concurrency
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The concurrent-create fix protects peer data, but duplicate paths can still surface a cache invalidation error instead of the expected Duplicate exception; callers relying on duplicate handling may therefore fail unexpectedly when the cache backend errors. This bounded correctness risk should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merge. Possibly related issues
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Greptile SummaryThe PR prevents collection-creation race losers from deleting or adopting physical collections they did not create.
Confidence Score: 5/5The PR appears safe to merge. No blocking failure remains; the current code addresses all three previously reported collection-race issues. Important Files Changed
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In `@src/Database/Database.php`:
- Around line 1919-1920: Before each DuplicateException throw in the
collection-creation flow, including both duplicate-exit branches around
committed and existing collection checks, invalidate the local _metadata
document cache for $id. Keep the DuplicateException as the resulting outcome
even if cache invalidation itself fails.
- Around line 1917-1925: Make orphan reconciliation in the collection-creation
flow atomic per collection ID: protect the metadata re-check, schema
reconciliation, and metadata insertion with a cross-process lock or equivalent
atomic metadata claim. Update the logic around the forUpdate getDocument call,
deleteCollection, and metadata insertion so concurrent creators cannot drop
another creator’s physical schema. Add a regression test that pauses one creator
after physical schema creation and before metadata insertion, then verifies the
concurrent creator does not remove that schema.
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The read that lost the race left a negative cache entry recording the collection as missing, and the winner's purge only reaches its own cache. Without clearing it the loser cannot see the collection at all until the entry expires, which is how the losing process went on to fail a delete of a collection it had just been told already exists. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Addressed the two review findings. Stale negative cache entry (fixed, 7dfc42d). Correct and worth catching: the losing process kept an entry recording the collection as missing, and the winner's purge only reaches its own cache, so the collection stayed invisible here for the rest of the TTL. I had already tripped over this — the first version of the test failed its teardown with Cross-process lock for full atomicity (not doing here, deliberately). The remaining window is real and I want to be explicit about it rather than imply this closes it: A creates the physical table, B re-reads metadata before A's insert commits, B still drops A's table. This change removes the two orderings that were actually reachable on a rolling restart and stops the data loss in them, but it does not make the sequence atomic. Closing it properly means making the metadata row the claim — insert metadata first, then create the table, and let the unique key on Happy to open it as a follow-up. |
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Filed the residual atomicity window as #939, with the metadata-row-as-claim design and the reason it needs its own PR. |
…tted Empty metadata after a Duplicate table create is also the in-progress peer state, so delete+recreate was still able to destroy a live collection during concurrent boot. Adopt the existing table and let the metadata unique key decide the winner instead.
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@greptileai the P1 drop path is gone on af8aa8a: empty metadata after a Duplicate physical create no longer calls |
The adapter-level marker write has no tenant, so the later tenant-scoped read is empty even when the table was kept. Dedicated adapters already prove the drop is gone; the Memory unit test is the red/green regression.
Empty metadata after Duplicate is either a peer mid-create or an orphan. Dropping destroyed live collections; attaching this caller's metadata to an unknown schema can invent columns that are not there. Leave the table and report Duplicate. Metadata-first claiming is #939.
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@greptileai the schema-mismatch P1 is gone on b1dd33d: empty metadata after a Duplicate physical create neither deletes the table nor attaches this caller's metadata to it. The caller gets Duplicate. Please re-review the current head. |
Mongo createCollection does not throw Duplicate for an existing collection, so the process claims metadata instead. The invariant under test is that the physical collection is not dropped.
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@greptileai test-only follow-up on 459232b (Mongo createCollection is idempotent). Please re-review the current head. |
processException already maps the conflict to DuplicateException, but createCollection swallowed it and returned true. Database then inserted metadata over an unknown physical collection. Shared tables and metadata still treat the existing collection as a no-op.
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@greptileai Mongo dedicated createCollection now rethrows Duplicate (7d85169) instead of adopting an unknown collection. Please re-review the current head. |
The wrapper only called purgeCachedDocument. Two call sites can do that themselves.
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480-497: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winDuplicate-collection handling is correct; update the adjacent stale comment.
The change at lines 482-485 correctly limits the silent-success path to shared-tables and metadata collections, and rethrows
DuplicateExceptionotherwise. This matches the updated contract inDatabase::createCollection().The comment on the "Collection Exists" fallback a few lines below still says the rethrow lets "
Database::createCollection()run orphan reconciliation."Database::createCollection()no longer drops or adopts an unknown physical table on a duplicate; it now leaves the table unchanged and reportsDuplicate. Update the comment so it does not describe a mechanism this PR removed.✏️ Suggested comment update
- // Client throws code-0 "Collection Exists" when its pre-check - // finds the collection. In shared-tables/metadata context this - // is a no-op; otherwise re-throw as DuplicateException so - // Database::createCollection() can run orphan reconciliation. + // Client throws code-0 "Collection Exists" when its pre-check + // finds the collection. In shared-tables/metadata context this + // is a no-op; otherwise re-throw as DuplicateException so + // Database::createCollection() leaves the physical table + // untouched and reports Duplicate.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@src/Database/Database.php`:
- Around line 1911-1921: Guard both purgeCachedDocument calls in the
duplicate-exit paths so cache purge failures are caught and logged with the
existing Console::warning pattern, while preserving the intended
DuplicateException result. Update the earlier DuplicateException construction
near the metadata purge to chain the caught exception via its previous
parameter, matching the equivalent throw in the later duplicate path.
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In `@src/Database/Adapter/Mongo.php`:
- Around line 480-497: Update the adjacent “Collection Exists” fallback comment
in the exception-handling block to remove the claim that
Database::createCollection() performs orphan reconciliation; describe only the
current duplicate-collection behavior while leaving the logic unchanged.
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An unguarded purgeCachedDocument on the create-race exits could replace DuplicateException with a cache backend error, so callers that catch Duplicate never see the contract. Swallow the purge failure, log it, and still throw Duplicate.
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@greptileai cache-purge failures on the duplicate-exit paths can no longer replace DuplicateException (bd7ac3e). Please re-review the current head. |
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createCollection()could drop a live collection that another process had just created, and take a booting server down with it.The failure
Seen on Cloud staging during a rolling restart, where every pod reconciles the console schema on boot:
Sequence, with A and B both booting:
adapter->createCollection().Duplicate(A's table). B treated that as proof of an orphaned table, so it dropped A's live table and recreated its own.The collection was left with metadata but no table — so every later boot skipped it (metadata present) and it never came back. The generic
DatabaseExceptionpropagated out of the caller's bootstrap and killed the server start.The fix
forUpdate). If a peer has committed, throwDuplicateinstead of dropping their table.Duplicateand skip the rollback: the physical table is the one the peer's metadata describes.Callers that create a collection that genuinely already exists still get
Duplicatefrom the up-front check, so the contract is unchanged — only the race window behaves differently.Test
testCreateCollectionConcurrentlyKeepsPeerDatain the shared collection scope models the two processes with twoDatabaseinstances over one adapter and separate caches, so the peer's writes do not purge the loser's negative entry. It writes a document through the peer and asserts it survives.Verified red on the parent commit — it reproduces the exact production trace (
Database.php:1931 → 827 → 1931,Duplicate entry ... for key '_uid') — and green with the fix.Full e2e run, fix vs baseline: 641 vs 640 tests, 43 errors in both (all pre-existing
ArgumentCountErrorfrom running a file outside the suite). Same result on MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB and all three shared-tables variants. PHPStan level 7: 116 errors, unchanged from baseline, none in the touched lines. Pint clean.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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