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fix(postgresql): keep polling during listener startup - #2159
Fixes#2152. Start fallback polling while the PostgreSQL LISTEN connection is establishing so a transient startup failure cannot leave the change stream idle. Readiness now requires either a subscribed listener or a successful database poll, and polling continues while LISTEN reconnects.
Type of Change
🐛 Bug fix
✨ New feature
💥 Breaking change
📚 Documentation
🔧 Refactoring
🔨 Build/CI
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Testing
Tests pass locally (make lint-test-all)
Manual testing completed
No breaking changes (or documented)
PostgreSQL integration tests requiring a live database were skipped by their existing guards. The target also reported the existing node-drainer behavior skip and a MongoDB CA fallback skip because /etc/ssl/mongo-client/ca.crt is absent in the test VM.
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Self-review completed
Documentation updated (if needed)
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Summary by CodeRabbit
New Features
Datastore readiness now reflects whether a watcher can process events, including readiness reported by change-stream watchers.
PostgreSQL change streams continue polling when listener connections are unavailable and report readiness after successful catch-up or polling.
Bug Fixes
Watcher shutdown now stops background workers before closing the event stream.
PostgreSQL watchers catch up on missed changes after startup or reconnection before handling newer notifications.
Documentation
Updated guidance on datastore readiness metrics and how PostgreSQL circuit breakers affect pod readiness.
The PostgreSQL change-stream watcher now tracks listener, polling, and catch-up state to determine readiness. The readiness state passes through watcher wrappers to the datastore readiness checker. Documentation and tests describe and verify these readiness states.
Changes: PostgreSQL change-stream readiness
Layer / File(s)
Summary
Watcher lifecycle, polling, and readiness store-client/pkg/datastore/providers/postgresql/changestream.go, store-client/pkg/datastore/providers/postgresql/changestream_readiness_test.go
The watcher coordinates worker startup and shutdown, polls while listener setup is pending, and updates readiness after reads and catch-up. Tests cover readiness transitions, listener failures, reconnect catch-up, and startup catch-up.
Readiness propagation and checking store-client/pkg/client/readiness.go, store-client/pkg/client/readiness_test.go, commons/pkg/server/datastore_readiness.go, commons/pkg/server/datastore_readiness_test.go
The resume-control watcher forwards readiness when supported. The datastore readiness checker reports not ready when its optional readiness provider returns false. Tests verify readiness forwarding and metric changes.
The documentation describes PostgreSQL readiness states, readiness behavior for other watchers, and the documented effect of circuit-breaker state on watcher startup.
sequenceDiagram
participant DatastoreReadinessChecker
participant PostgreSQLChangeStreamWatcher
participant AdaptivePoller
participant PostgreSQLListener
PostgreSQLChangeStreamWatcher->>AdaptivePoller: Start polling during listener setup
AdaptivePoller->>PostgreSQLChangeStreamWatcher: Report fetch outcome
PostgreSQLChangeStreamWatcher->>PostgreSQLListener: Initialize and subscribe
PostgreSQLListener->>PostgreSQLChangeStreamWatcher: Report listener and subscription state
DatastoreReadinessChecker->>PostgreSQLChangeStreamWatcher: Check IsReady
PostgreSQLChangeStreamWatcher-->>DatastoreReadinessChecker: Return readiness state
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Possibly related issues
NVIDIA/NVSentinel issue 2171: The changes cover polling during LISTEN startup and reconnects, but do not address the issue’s reported event-throughput limit or all causes of a wedged connection.
Suggested reviewers:dims, hesandaliyanage
Merge Risk: Moderate · up to cb133
After one transient catch-up failure, the PostgreSQL watcher can report not ready even though fallback polling is delivering events. On a quiet cluster this can hold the pod NotReady and stall rollouts until the next notification arrives. Let the fallback poller clear the pending catch-up state before merging.
Security architecture risk: Moderate · up to cb133
Polling during listener startup improves resilience, but two recovery transitions remain risky: a healthy watcher can stay unready after a transient catch-up failure, and cancellation during the switch to polling-only operation can skip an event. No new permission grant or externally reachable datastore operation was identified.
Retained concerns
Medium · reliability · inferred: A transient startup or reconnect catch-up query failure leaves catchUpPending set. Successful fallback polls restore pollReady and clear readFailed, but never clear that barrier. Without another notification or reconnect, a fully functioning polling watcher therefore remains unready indefinitely, holding readiness responses and the connectivity gauge false and potentially stranding a rollout. The base checker did not have this live recovery dependency.
Medium · reliability · inferred: The new listener-initialization failure path cancels an already-running adaptive poller, then continues polling on the same watcher. If cancellation wins after advancePosition but before an accepted event is enqueued, the next poll starts beyond that undelivered event. The event is also already recorded for notification deduplication, and a subsequent acknowledgment can persist the advanced cursor. Advancing before delivery predates this PR, but the base did not run and cancel an adaptive poller before continuing from listener initialization failure. This new composition can lose a fault event across an intended recovery transition.
Security review details
Security Blast Radius
inferred — The demonstrated exposure is event delivery and readiness for PostgreSQL-backed consumers using this watcher and shared checker. A shared database interruption could affect multiple consumers, but the available evidence does not establish tenant boundaries or cluster-wide routing consequences.
Trust Boundaries and Controls
observed — Notifications supply an event identifier, while full event data is retrieved from datastore_changelog using bound table and ID parameters. The inspected HTTP readiness path does not supply these identifiers or grant access to this database operation.
Resilience and Maintainability Implications
inferred — The recovery concerns affect failure containment rather than demonstrating a privilege bypass: a temporary database failure can outlive recovery in the readiness gate, while cancellation during degradation can break delivery ownership even though the watcher continues operating.
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Title check
The title clearly describes the main change: PostgreSQL fallback polling continues while the listener starts.
Linked Issues check
Issue [#2152] requires fallback polling during LISTEN startup and readiness only after a subscribed listener or successful poll. The prior reviewed implementation already started polling alongside LIS…
Out of Scope Changes check
The current changes stay within issue [#2152]. Cursor ordering and acknowledgement updates support reliable polling and catch-up. Readiness documentation and tests support the same behavior. No unrela…
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Issue [#2152] requires fallback polling during LISTEN startup and readiness only after a subscribed listener or successful poll. The prior reviewed implementation already started polling alongside LISTEN and propagated watcher readiness. The current changes preserve this behavior, clear readiness after failed reads, and keep readiness false until reconnect catch-up completes. New tests cover poll failures, reconnect catch-up, and missed rows.
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The current changes stay within issue [#2152]. Cursor ordering and acknowledgement updates support reliable polling and catch-up. Readiness documentation and tests support the same behavior. No unrelated change is demonstrated.
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When LISTEN is up this returns true even if every read is failing. Each NOTIFY still needs a pool query to fetch the row, so if the pool loses access while the LISTEN connection stays up (for eg after a credential rotation), the pod stays ready but processes nothing. Could a failed fetch (including in fetchChangeByID) also clear readiness while LISTEN is up?
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After a reconnect, any NOTIFYs sent while LISTEN was down are lost (pq sends a nil on Notify to flag this). Bumping lastNotifyTime here makes the fallback poller back off to 30 seconds right at that point, and the next NOTIFY for a newer row moves the position past anything written since the last poll, so those rows are skipped. Could we drop this and run one fetchNewChanges when listenLoop gets the nil notification? Doing the same once right after the first subscribe would close the startup gap too
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With this check, FQ will stay NotReady for as long as its circuit breaker is tripped at startup, since checkCircuitBreakerAtStartup blocks before the watcher is started (a trip at runtime keeps it ready). That could leave a rollout or helm upgrade hanging until the breaker is reset. Is that intended? If so, could you mention it in the PR description?
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Integrate current main without replacing the existing review history.
A failed pool read now overrides an active listener, and startup and
reconnect drain outstanding changes before handling newer notifications.
Serialize fetch and delivery to keep polling and notification cursors
consistent, and document the intentional startup circuit-breaker state.
Scoped PostgreSQL, client and commons/server race tests, vet and lint pass.
Repository-wide lint-test-all remains incomplete because protoc is absent;
live PostgreSQL and Kubernetes E2E validation remains outstanding.
Signed-off-by: Efe <gokdemirefe1903@gmail.com>
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@store-client/pkg/datastore/providers/postgresql/changestream.go:
- Around line 975-984: Update the fallback poll path in
pollAccordingToNotificationHealth to use catchUpAfterSubscribe when
catchUpPending is set, while retaining fetchNewChanges for ordinary polls;
preserve the existing behavior for ModeNotify, which has no poller. Add a test
covering a failed catch-up followed by one adaptive poll tick and verify that
IsReady() becomes true.
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Major · Stability & Availability · Quick win
Clear catchUpPending from the fallback poller. Otherwise one failed catch-up keeps readiness false until a NOTIFY arrives.
catchUpPending is set in three places: on subscribe (Line 659), on ListenerEventReconnected (Line 569) and on a nil notification (Line 771). Only catchUpAfterSubscribe clears it, and only processNotification calls catchUpAfterSubscribe. processNotification runs only when listener.Notify delivers a value.
Failure sequence:
LISTEN subscribes or reconnects.
The catch-up fetchNewChanges fails once, for example from a transient pool error.
processNotification returns at Line 778. The barrier stays set.
On each tick, pollAccordingToNotificationHealth sees IsReady() == false and calls plain fetchNewChanges. That call drains the same rows and sets pollReady=true, but it never clears catchUpPending.
IsReady keeps returning false (Line 134) until a new NOTIFY arrives.
In a quiet cluster, the next NOTIFY can take hours. During that time:
datastore_connected reports 0.
The pod stays NotReady.
A rollout or Helm upgrade can wait on readiness.
The database is already readable and the poller is delivering events, so the false signal is the only problem. ModeNotify has no poller, so there only a notification can clear the barrier.
When the barrier is set, have the poller run the barrier-aware drain:
// Drain fully so a failed LISTEN catch-up cannot pin readiness to false.
poll=w.catchUpAfterSubscribe
}
iferr:=poll(ctx); err!=nil {
slog.Error("Fallback poll failed",
"client", w.clientName,
"error", err)
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@store-client/pkg/datastore/providers/postgresql/changestream.go around lines
975 - 984:
Update the fallback poll path in pollAccordingToNotificationHealth to use
catchUpAfterSubscribe when catchUpPending is set, while retaining
fetchNewChanges for ordinary polls; preserve the existing behavior for
ModeNotify, which has no poller. Add a test covering a failed catch-up followed
by one adaptive poll tick and verify that IsReady() becomes true.
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Summary
Fixes #2152. Start fallback polling while the PostgreSQL LISTEN connection is establishing so a transient startup failure cannot leave the change stream idle. Readiness now requires either a subscribed listener or a successful database poll, and polling continues while LISTEN reconnects.
Type of Change
Component(s) Affected
Testing
make lint-test-all)PostgreSQL integration tests requiring a live database were skipped by their existing guards. The target also reported the existing node-drainer behavior skip and a MongoDB CA fallback skip because
/etc/ssl/mongo-client/ca.crtis absent in the test VM.Checklist
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