[yordis]

• When the lock session ends and the database stops answering new connections, Postgres frees the lock right away but the subscription keeps believing it holds it for up to the connection timeout, so another node can take the lock and both process the same events.
• The delay comes from the connection reporting the disconnect only after its cancel request to the database gives up, which is the one step that hangs when the database stops answering.

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PR Summary

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Changes subscription advisory-lock lifecycle and timing of lock_released notifications, which affects fencing and duplicate-event prevention across nodes.

Overview
Advisory lock owners are notified as soon as the lock DB session begins closing, instead of waiting for Postgrex to finish its slow cancel/disconnect when the database stops responding.

The advisory-lock pool now uses a thin AdvisoryLocks.Protocol wrapper that hooks DBConnection.disconnect and sends {AdvisoryLocks, :session_lost, conn_pid} before delegating to Postgrex. AdvisoryLocks treats that like a session end (notify owners with :session_ended, clear in-memory locks) but tracks lost_connection so a later :disconnected for the same PID is ignored and locks acquired in the gap are not spuriously released. Wiring is via Config.add_session_listener and the supervisor starting the protocol instead of raw Postgrex.

Tests cover the blackholed-proxy “DB gone but connection still closing” case and locks taken after session_lost but before full disconnect.

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Walkthrough

The advisory-lock connection reports session loss to the lock process. The lock process tracks lost connection pids and handles duplicate disconnect notices. Configuration and supervision set up the protocol wrapper. Tests cover backend loss and delayed disconnect handling.

Changes

Advisory lock session-loss handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Protocol and session-listener wiring lib/event_store/advisory_locks/protocol.ex, lib/event_store/config.ex, lib/event_store/supervisor.ex	The protocol wrapper delegates connection operations to Postgrex.Protocol and sends a session-loss notice when it disconnects. Configuration and supervision set up the listener and start the wrapper.
Lost-connection state handling lib/event_store/advisory_locks.ex	The lock process records a lost connection pid, ignores its duplicate disconnect notice, and clears the recorded pid on connection. It releases the current connection’s locks when that connection disconnects.
Session-loss integration tests test/support/tcp_proxy.ex, test/advisory_locks_test.exs	The TCP proxy forwards traffic or leaves new connections open without a response. Tests check lock release after backend loss and verify lock behavior while a lost connection is still closing.

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Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Protocol as AdvisoryLocks.Protocol
  participant LockProcess as EventStore.AdvisoryLocks
  participant Postgrex as Postgrex.Protocol
  Protocol-)LockProcess: Sends session_lost with the connection pid
  Protocol->>Postgrex: Delegates disconnect
  LockProcess->>LockProcess: Handles session_lost as session_ended

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Possibly related PRs

• TrogonStack/commanded_eventstore#25: Changes the monitored advisory-lock pool and failed lock-query handling. This PR adds session-loss notification to the same lock-server lifecycle.

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The test now waits for the lock process to handle the disconnect notice. No actionable merge-blocking issue remains after normal checks.

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Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
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Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly describes the main change: notifying lock owners that their lock was lost before the database connection finishes closing.
Description check		The description accurately explains the delayed lock-release notification and the risk of multiple nodes processing the same events.
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[yordis]

@vheathen do you think you could help me to test the entire stacked pr and help me to code review and approve? 🙏🏻

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@vheathen do you think you could help me to test the entire stacked pr and help me to code review and approve? 🙏🏻

Happy to help. I'm starting with #25 and #27 now and will test them the same way as #24.

Do you want me to look at #28 to #31 as well?

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I ran the scripts from #330 and #331 and my own scripts for the hanging-reconnect case and the 120 s refusal case against the PR head (e8abd12). The hanging-reconnect case is closed in my runs: in all three runs the Lost 1 advisory lock(s) warning came 1 to 4 ms after the connection logged the disconnect, and no sample showed the subscription subscribed without its lock. On #25 the same warning came after 15 s. Once the proxy forwarded again, the subscription took the lock on the new connection and received the next events.

The script from #330 is still fixed (only NodeB handles the events). The #331 script (two runs) and the 120 s refusal case (two runs) behave as on #25: AdvisoryLocks never got stuck in checkout_call/5, the locks were taken again once the pool was back, and a new subscription got its lock.

The full suite passes at the head in two runs (502 passed, 14 excluded). The new test where the database stops answering new connections fails on #25 with no lock_released within 1 s, and also fails when I move the notice after Postgrex.Protocol.disconnect/2. Removing the lost_connection clause fails both the new test for a late :disconnected notice and the reconnect test from #24.

I also tried two event stores on one database where only A's lock connection goes silent: a proxy in front of A stopped relaying that connection in both directions without closing it, and then the server ended the session. A learned of the loss about 16 s later, when its idle ping timed out, or 15 to 35 s later if a lock query was in flight on that connection; on #25 it took as long or longer. B, connected directly, took the locks within about 1 s, so for that whole time both stores handled the same events.

I couldn't come up with a real failure where only this one connection goes silent while the others keep working, so I think the chance is low and it isn't worth handling here, especially if #29 and #30 cover it with progress fencing (I haven't looked at those yet).

Three smaller points are in inline comments.

[yordis]

Do you want me to look at #28 to #31 as well?

@vheathen there may be the case that things would change drastically as far as I can tell thus far, I think I prefer to try to merge the this batch (#24 #25 #27) and then continue ... at this point, even new migration is needed so

Thank you so much for the help!

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Thank you so much for the help!

No probs at all, thank you for all your efforts!

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@vheathen do you think you could help me to test as much as we could the version in main? Open issue here I will take care of them ASAP