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• A subscription's advisory lock lives only as long as the database session that took it, but the event store only noticed a lost lock when the whole lock connection pool died. A lock session ending while the pool survived (a terminated backend, a failover, a network drop the pool reconnects from) went unnoticed.
• The subscription kept processing events with no lock held, so the next node retrying the lock took it too and both processed every event. Event handlers ran twice and process managers dispatched their commands twice, appending duplicate events for a single source event when the command was not idempotent.
• Nothing was logged when this happened, so the only symptom was duplicated work showing up downstream.
• Telling the subscription about the lost lock sends it back to retrying, which is the same recovery it already gets when the pool itself goes down.

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PR Summary

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Changes subscription exclusivity and lock lifecycle on DB reconnects; incorrect session/verification logic could cause false lock loss or leave stale locks, with duplicate or missed event processing.

Overview
Fixes a case where subscription advisory locks were tied to a Postgres session, but the event store only treated locks as lost when the whole lock pool died. After a backend termination or reconnect on the same pool, subscribers could keep processing without a lock while another node acquired it—causing duplicate event handling.

Advisory lock tracking now records the holding session (pg_backend_pid + a stable eventstore.session_id custom setting) when acquiring locks, and the advisory-lock GenServer registers as a Postgrex connection listener for connect/disconnect. On disconnect it notifies owners with lock_released, logs a warning, and reconciles state on reconnect via session verification (with retries when verification queries fail). Startup forces a fresh connection so early connects can deliver notices; Config.add_connection_listener wires the listener safely.

Subscriptions get the same recovery path as a full pool shutdown—retry and resend in-flight events—when only the lock session ends.

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Walkthrough

Advisory locks now record the PostgreSQL session that acquired each lock. Connection notifications and process monitors trigger session checks, lost-lock notifications, and retries for queued releases. The supervisor registers a connection listener. Tests cover reconnect handling and subscription event redelivery after lock-session termination.

Changes

Advisory lock session tracking

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Session identity and lock acquisition lib/event_store/sql/statements*, lib/event_store/storage/{session,lock}.ex, lib/event_store/advisory_locks.ex, test/storage/lock_test.exs	SQL statements return backend PID and session ID. Storage code builds session values and returns them when it acquires an exclusive session lock. Advisory locks store the returned session.
Connection events and lock verification lib/event_store/{config,supervisor,advisory_locks}.ex, test/config_test.exs, test/advisory_locks_test.exs, test/subscriptions/subscription_locking_test.exs	The advisory-lock connection registers a listener. Connection events trigger session verification, lost-lock notifications, and retries for queued releases. Tests cover connection loss, reconnection, and event redelivery after lock-session termination.

Priority: High

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant PostgrexConnection
  participant AdvisoryLocks
  participant StorageSession
  participant PostgreSQL
  participant LockOwner
  PostgrexConnection->>AdvisoryLocks: Send connection event
  AdvisoryLocks->>StorageSession: Query current session
  StorageSession->>PostgreSQL: Query backend PID and session ID
  PostgreSQL-->>StorageSession: Return session identity
  StorageSession-->>AdvisoryLocks: Return current session
  AdvisoryLocks->>LockOwner: Notify about lost locks

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Possibly related PRs

• TrogonStack/commanded_eventstore#27: Adds a protocol-level session-loss notification before connection shutdown, related to the lock-release notification path.
• TrogonStack/commanded_eventstore#25: Adds session-aware release checks and retry handling for lock-pool operations.

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Merge Risk: Moderate · up to 62d13

Advisory-lock startup can stall while its database connection is unavailable. Resolve that initialization path before merging.

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Title check		The title clearly describes the primary change: releasing advisory locks when the lock connection reconnects with a new database session.
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When after_connect runs SET ROLE to a role that cannot see the session's own backend_start, such as a schema owner role, the lock server crashes on every lock it acquires and the migration lock raises, where main works. The inline comment has the details and a proposal.

My runs of the #330 and #331 scripts against this head (36afae1) are in commanded/eventstore#330. The full suite passes in two runs (497 passed, 14 excluded), and each of these changes makes at least one of the new tests in advisory_locks_test.exs fail: removing the connection :DOWN clause, not unlocking a lock reported lost while its session lives, treating every lock as lost after a reconnect.

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Thanks for the quick fix. At 83dad02 the store with SET ROLE pg_signal_backend in after_connect subscribes and its lock server keeps running, and the migration lock returns :ok with the same after_connect. The three new tests fail at 36afae1 with the FunctionClauseError in Session.new/2 and pass here.

The full suite passes in two runs (500 passed, 14 excluded). The #330 script gives the same result as at 36afae1: the locks are reported lost within milliseconds of the disconnect and the other node takes both. Two small test notes are inline.

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A missed startup notification can leave the connection worker unmonitored, allowing subscriptions to continue without locks after a worker crash.

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• Monitor pre-connected advisory workers to prevent silent lock loss · New

What changed in this PR

This PR adds session-aware advisory lock tracking so subscriptions can recover when a database session ends while its connection pool survives, reducing duplicate event processing.

Changes:

• Track database session identity alongside acquired locks.
• Handle connection notifications and worker exits, notify lock owners, and log lock loss.
• Add coverage for reconnection, worker crashes, role switching, and subscription recovery.

File	Description
test/​subscriptions/​subscription_locking_test.exs	Test in-flight event redelivery after session loss.
test/​storage/​lock_test.exs	Test session locks on role-switched connections.
test/​config_test.exs	Test preservation of existing connection listeners.
test/​advisory_locks_test.exs	Cover session loss, worker crashes, and reconnect handling.
lib/​event_store/​supervisor.ex	Register the advisory lock connection listener.
lib/​event_store/​storage/​session.ex	Represent and query database session identity.
lib/​event_store/​storage/​lock.ex	Return session identity when acquiring locks.
lib/​event_store/​sql/​statements/​try_advisory_session_lock.sql.eex	Acquire a lock and return its session identity.
lib/​event_store/​sql/​statements/​query_session.sql.eex	Read or initialize the session identifier.
lib/​event_store/​sql/​statements.ex	Register the new SQL templates.
lib/​event_store/​config.ex	Add listeners while preserving configured listeners and tags.
lib/​event_store/​advisory_locks.ex	Monitor workers, reconcile session locks, and report lock loss.

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Concurrency-sensitive recovery needs human validation and PostgreSQL integration coverage, particularly for query failures that leave sessions connected.

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• Handle connected-session failures during lock recovery · New

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• Monitor pre-connected advisory workers to prevent silent lock loss

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Failed session verification can skip retries for active locks, leaving owners processing after their database locks are lost.

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