fix(postgres): cached connection reconnects once instead of raising raw (#385) - #460
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe PostgreSQL backend now reconnects cached connections once after classified server-side disconnects. It routes statements through a retrying cursor, preserves statement errors, reapplies session settings, and adds seven regression tests. Documentation records the fix and updates test counts. ChangesPostgreSQL connection recovery
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In `@mempalace/backends/postgres.py`:
- Around line 275-276: Update the exception classification near _load_psycopg2
and _RetryingCursor.execute to inspect exc.sqlstate rather than accepting every
OperationalError: classify only 08xxx, 57P01, 57P02, and 57P05 as connection
failures, while retaining the existing message fallback for wrappers without
SQLSTATE. Add regression coverage for QueryCanceled, SerializationFailure, and
DeadlockDetected to ensure healthy connections are not discarded or retried.
- Around line 359-360: Update the retry logic around _RetryingCursor and
PostgresCollection._drop_conn so connection eviction receives the failed
connection, then atomically clears and closes it only when it is still the
collection’s current self._conn. Preserve replacement connections installed
concurrently and recreate the cursor using the active connection.
- Line 361: Update _RetryingCursor.execute and its retry path so connection-loss
retries do not transparently replay mutating SQL under autocommit. Restrict
automatic replay to reads or provably non-overwriting operations; require
persisted request deduplication or an expected-row-version/compare-and-set guard
for mutations, with explicit handling for ambiguous commit outcomes. Preserve
normal execution for the initial statement and anchor the change at _run(query,
params).
In `@README.md`:
- Line 30: Change the README and CLAUDE.md examples to describe 6,822 tests as
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
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For psycopg 3.2.0, confirm the DB-API base classes and SQLSTATE values of QueryCanceled, SerializationFailure, DeadlockDetected, AdminShutdown, CrashShutdown, and IdleSessionTimeout.
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In Psycopg 3.2.0, all of the specified exceptions—QueryCanceled, SerializationFailure, DeadlockDetected, AdminShutdown, CrashShutdown, and IdleSessionTimeout—derive from the DB-API base class OperationalError [1]. Each is mapped to a specific PostgreSQL SQLSTATE value as follows: - QueryCanceled: 57014 [1] - SerializationFailure: 40001 [1] - DeadlockDetected: 40P01 [1] - AdminShutdown: 57P01 [1] - CrashShutdown: 57P02 [1] - IdleSessionTimeout: 57P05 [1] These exception classes are located within the psycopg.errors module [1]. Consistent with the DB-API specification, they inherit from the standard exception hierarchy (ultimately rooted in Exception and Error) to ensure compatibility with generic error handling [1][2].
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- 1: https://www.psycopg.org/psycopg3/docs/api/errors.html
- 2: https://www.psycopg.org/psycopg3/docs/api/module.html
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Restrict OperationalError classification to connection failures.
_load_psycopg2() returns psycopg3, and line 275 accepts every psycopg.OperationalError. This includes QueryCanceled (57014), SerializationFailure (40001), and DeadlockDetected (40P01). _RetryingCursor.execute then drops the healthy connection and retries the statement.
Classify exc.sqlstate instead. Accept 08xxx, 57P01, 57P02, and 57P05, while preserving the message fallback for wrappers without a SQLSTATE. Add regression cases for QueryCanceled, SerializationFailure, and DeadlockDetected.
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In `@mempalace/backends/postgres.py` around lines 275 - 276, Update the exception
classification near _load_psycopg2 and _RetryingCursor.execute to inspect
exc.sqlstate rather than accepting every OperationalError: classify only 08xxx,
57P01, 57P02, and 57P05 as connection failures, while retaining the existing
message fallback for wrappers without SQLSTATE. Add regression coverage for
QueryCanceled, SerializationFailure, and DeadlockDetected to ensure healthy
connections are not discarded or retried.
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Make connection eviction conditional on the failed connection.
PostgresBackend caches PostgresCollection instances. During concurrent failures, one _RetryingCursor can install a replacement while another calls _drop_conn() and closes that replacement. Pass the failed connection to _drop_conn() and atomically clear and close it only if it is still self._conn.
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In `@mempalace/backends/postgres.py` around lines 359 - 360, Update the retry
logic around _RetryingCursor and PostgresCollection._drop_conn so connection
eviction receives the failed connection, then atomically clears and closes it
only when it is still the collection’s current self._conn. Preserve replacement
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Do not replay mutating statements without an ordering guard.
_RetryingCursor.execute reconnects and reruns the same SQL after a connection error. With autocommit = True, the first write can commit before the acknowledgment is lost. A concurrent upsert can then update the same id, after which the replayed ON CONFLICT ... DO UPDATE overwrites that newer row with stale values. The same race affects metadata UPDATE, reinserted rows targeted by DELETE, and rows selected by a later rename_wing batch.
The documented idempotency invariant only makes isolated repetition converge. It does not preserve concurrent commit order. Restrict transparent replay to reads and writes that cannot overwrite later state. For mutating operations, use persisted request deduplication or an expected-row-version/compare-and-set condition, with explicit handling for ambiguous outcomes.
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In `@mempalace/backends/postgres.py` at line 361, Update _RetryingCursor.execute
and its retry path so connection-loss retries do not transparently replay
mutating SQL under autocommit. Restrict automatic replay to reads or provably
non-overwriting operations; require persisted request deduplication or an
expected-row-version/compare-and-set guard for mutations, with explicit handling
for ambiguous commit outcomes. Preserve normal execution for the initial
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| A verbatim-first local AI memory system. This fork tracks `upstream/develop` through the post-v3.9.0 sync (2026-09-01, commit `e8098348`) and runs in production on a **618K+ drawer Postgres + pgvector + Apache AGE palace** behind [palace-daemon](https://github.com/techempower-org/palace-daemon). It carries fork-ahead commits that compose with — not replace — bensig's release direction; the v3.3.5 release (2026-05-10) includes our co-authored `_get_collection` retry-once via upstream #1377. 6822 tests pass on `main`. |
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Label 6,822 as the collected-test count.
ship-prep.sh and check-docs.sh derive 6,822 with pytest --collect-only -q, while 6,801 passed and 82 skipped describe an executed run. The README phrase "6822 tests pass" conflates these metrics. Change it and the CLAUDE.md example to say "6822 tests collected", update the matching count patterns in both scripts, and regenerate website/public/llms-full.txt from the sources.
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After any server-side disconnect -- DB restart, pg_terminate_backend, or the
idle_session_timeout = 10min now set on the production palace DB -- the first
call on an unguarded cached-connection path raised raw and surfaced as a 500;
the call after that healed. Verified live on the prod daemon 2026-08-08, and
observed during the 2026-08-07/08 outage on count() -> tool_status and on
graph_stats.
The mechanism, empirically confirmed on psycopg 3:
closed before: False
closed immediately after server-side kill: False | broken: False
query after kill raised: AdminShutdown
closed AFTER failed query: True | broken: True
.closed is a client-side flag updated only on I/O, so _get_conn() hands the
dead connection straight back and the statement that runs on it is what
discovers the socket is gone.
Fixed at the seam rather than per call site: every statement on the cached
connection now goes through _cursor(), a _RetryingCursor that classifies the
failure and, only for a connection-class error, drops the socket, reconnects
and re-runs once. Statement errors (a bad query, a statement_timeout) are
re-raised untouched and do not churn the connection -- retrying those would
mask real faults and cost a second failure.
Retrying is safe here because the backend connection is autocommit: each
statement is its own transaction, so a reconnect mid-sequence loses no
transactional state and cannot half-apply one. (knowledge_graph_age needs a
rollback companion for the opposite reason -- its connection is not
autocommit.) Reconnecting through _get_conn() rather than by hand also
re-applies the session GUCs; a hand-rolled reconnect that dropped
hnsw.iterative_scan (#446) would have turned wing-scoped search silently back
into zero rows, so there is a test pinning that.
_drop_conn() closes the dead socket rather than abandoning it -- two
forever-cached idle connections are what pinned a smart shutdown open for
37.5 hours on 2026-08-07.
Blast radius: mempalace/backends/postgres.py only. All 11 cached-connection
cursor sites were routed through the new seam; the three connections that are
deliberately not cached (session-settings bootstrap, the index-build
connection, the backend health probe) are untouched.
Tests: tests/test_postgres_reconnect.py, 7 cases -- count() and get() both
survive a kill, the dead socket is closed not leaked, a statement error is
re-raised without reconnecting, exactly one retry then the error surfaces,
message-based classification for unfamiliar wrapper classes, and session
settings re-applied on the replacement connection.
Part of #385
Fixes #385
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Entry + the three renderers, plus the README/CLAUDE test count moved 7050 -> 7057 for the 7 new cases. Rebased onto 823547f; the entry's commit hash tracks the rebased code commit so check-docs's hash-resolution check stays green. The entry's retry-safety paragraph carries the reviewer's correction with the code: a connection error does not imply the statement never ran, so the justification is the per-statement idempotency invariant, not autocommit. Part of #385 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Every statement on the postgres backend's cached connection now goes through one retrying seam that reconnects once on a connection-class failure, instead of letting the first call after a server-side disconnect raise raw.
The measured incident
After any server-side disconnect — a DB restart, a
pg_terminate_backend, or theidle_session_timeout = 10minset on the production palace DB after the 2026-08-07 incident — the first call on an unguarded cached-connection path raised raw and surfaced as a 500; the call after that healed. Verified live on the prod daemon 2026-08-08, and observed during the 2026-08-07/08 outage itself oncount()→tool_statusand ongraph_stats. Every DB restart cost one failed request per cached-conn path.Mechanism (psycopg 3, empirically confirmed)
.closedis a client-side flag updated only on I/O. It staysFalseafter a server-side kill, so_get_conn()'sif self._conn is None or self._conn.closedguard hands the dead connection straight back — and the statement that runs on it is what discovers the socket is gone. The connection is only ever marked closed by the failure it causes.How
Fixed at the seam rather than per call site. The failure is a property of the cached connection, not of any particular query, so guarding
count()andgraph_statsindividually would just leave the next path to be found the same way in production._cursor()returns a_RetryingCursor. Onexecute, it classifies the exception and — only for a connection-class error — drops the socket, reconnects, and re-runs once.statement_timeoutis the caller's problem; retrying it would mask a real fault and cost a second failure. There is a test asserting no reconnect happens on one.knowledge_graph_age(KG: cached AGE connection never reconnects after a fatal session error — one DiskFull poisons every later traversal #405):OperationalError/InterfaceErrorby class, with a message fallback for wrappers that inherit from neither.AdminShutdown— what apg_terminate_backendor a smart shutdown actually raises — subclassesOperationalError.Why retrying is safe here — corrected after review
An earlier draft of this PR justified the retry with "a connection error means the statement never ran." That is false, and the reviewer was right to catch it: the connection is
autocommit, so each statement commits on its own, and the socket can die after the server committed and before the acknowledgement reaches the client. A retry in that window re-runs a statement that already took effect. Autocommit buys only that there is no half-applied multi-statement transaction to unwind — it says nothing about the ambiguous window. (That is still the opposite ofknowledge_graph_age, which needs arollbackcompanion because its connection is not autocommit; no rollback path is needed here.)The retry is safe because of an invariant this class cannot enforce: every statement routed through the seam is idempotent. All twelve call sites, checked:
_insert_rowsINSERT … ON CONFLICT DO UPDATE/DO NOTHINGupdateSET metadata = metadata || %s::jsonb WHERE id = %sdeleteDELETE … WHERE id IN (…)rename_wingUPDATE … WHERE wing = <from> LIMIT ncount,_estimated_count,_table_exists,get,_query_oneSELECT_detect_extensionsCREATE EXTENSION IF NOT EXISTSIF NOT EXISTSTwo honest caveats now written into the docstring rather than left implicit:
rename_wing's counter. A lost acknowledgement under-counts the returnedrenamedtotal. It does not leave the rename unfinished — the loop keeps going while rows remain — but the number it reports can be low._create_tableissues bareCREATE TABLE/CREATE INDEX, guarded by a preceding_table_exists()rather than byIF NOT EXISTS. A disconnect in the ambiguous window during first creation fails loudly on the retry withrelation already existsinstead of silently doing the wrong thing, and the next call succeeds because the guard then sees the table.The docstring states the invariant as a requirement for anything new routed through
_cursor(), names the exception, and says to use a fresh connection for a statement that cannot satisfy it. The same correction is carried into thedocs/fork-changes.yamlentry, so the durable record does not keep the over-claim the throwaway draft had.The trap the test pins
Reconnecting goes through
_get_conn(), not by hand, so the replacement connection gets_apply_session_settingsre-run. A hand-rolled reconnect would have silently droppedhnsw.iterative_scan(#446) — session-scoped — and turned wing-scoped search back into zero rows on any connection that had been replaced.test_reconnect_reapplies_session_settingsfails if that regresses._drop_conn()closes the dead socket rather than abandoning it: two forever-cached idle connections are what pinned a smart shutdown open for 37.5 hours on 2026-08-07.Blast radius
mempalace/backends/postgres.pyonly. All 11 cached-connection cursor sites route through the new seam. The three connections that are deliberately not cached are untouched: the session-settings bootstrap (using the retrying cursor there would recurse), the dedicated index-build connection, and the backend health probe. Call sites that already open a fresh connection per call (_tool_status_via_postgres) were immune by construction and are unchanged.Tests
tests/test_postgres_reconnect.py— 7 cases, driven by a fake connection that reproduces the exact.closed-stays-False sequence:count()survives a server-side disconnect (the path that produced the raw 500s)get()survives one too — the seam is shared, not per-methodAll watched failing against
mainfirst (6 of 7 red; the statement-error guard passes today because nothing retries yet — it locks in that the fix does not over-retry).Full suite: 6801 passed, 82 skipped, 115 deselected. (5 pre-existing
test_init_filters_sys_path_from_leaked_pythonpathfailures reproduce on an unmodified branch in any git worktree — #454, unrelated.)ruff checkandruff format --checkclean;scripts/check-docs.shgreen after all three renderers.Part of #385
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