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Summary

Let eager SQLite-persisted collections become ready from whichever usable source wins first: compatible local hydration or an authoritative upstream snapshot. Electric data can now render immediately when the network wins, local cache remains usable when upstream startup fails, and Browser coordinator writes cannot collide with source snapshot positions.

Root cause

The persisted wrapper treated readiness as effectively upstream-owned and deferred it behind local startup work. That made a healthy source wait for SQLite hydration and allowed failure ordering to produce false terminal errors. Authoritative source transactions were also allocated and persisted outside the Browser coordinator's writer-owned position path, so a peer mutation could reuse the same (term, seq) and silently lose durable data.

Approach

  • Add a dual-source startup arbiter for eager collections:
    • compatible SQLite hydration can establish readiness;
    • an authoritative truncate snapshot can establish readiness immediately;
    • startup becomes terminally errored only when every available startup path fails;
    • on-demand/progressive startup remains upstream-gated.
  • Fence stale hydration, invalidation reload, cleanup, and restart work so a late local result cannot overwrite an authoritative network winner.
  • Surface post-ready durability failures with exact error identity while keeping application-receipt failures separate; later explicit upstream readiness can recover the lifecycle.
  • Add an optional positionless persisted-transaction capability to the coordinator contract. Browser leader and follower paths reconcile, allocate, durably apply, advance state, and publish source snapshots and local mutations under the same database writer lock.
  • Preserve the existing direct path for SingleProcessCoordinator and custom coordinators that do not implement the optional capability.
  • Cover the real Electric + BrowserCollectionCoordinator + OPFS path in Chromium and register it in E2E CI.

Key invariants

  • An authoritative network winner becomes visible and ready without waiting for slower row hydration.
  • Late hydration or reload work cannot replace a newer authoritative snapshot.
  • A successful local startup is not invalidated by the upstream's first startup failure; a later failure after upstream readiness still surfaces.
  • Persistence errors are reported only after collection application succeeds, and application-receipt rejection is never mislabeled as a durability failure.
  • Browser source snapshots and peer mutations cannot share a stream position on the supported coordinator path.
  • Empty snapshots, row metadata, collection metadata, cleanup/restart fencing, and on-demand behavior retain their existing semantics.

Non-goals

  • PowerSync does not currently emit the authoritative truncate snapshot used by the immediate-network-readiness path; this PR does not change its startup protocol.
  • Arbitrary direct adapter writers that bypass the Browser coordinator are outside the coordinator serialization contract.
  • This PR does not define readiness behavior for a permanently pending startup-metadata read.

Trade-offs

The Browser coordinator serializes full source snapshots with local mutations under its database-wide writer lock. This adds contention during a large snapshot, but it gives allocation and durable apply one owner and prevents silent position reuse. Keeping the capability optional avoids breaking custom and single-process coordinators, whose existing direct fallback remains appropriate for their ownership model.

Verification

  • SQLite persistence core: 123/123
  • Browser persistence: 43/43
  • Electric collection: 497/497
  • Real Chromium + OPFS + BrowserCollectionCoordinator + Electric ShapeStream: 4/4
  • Core, browser, and Electric TypeScript: pass
  • Core, browser, and Electric production builds: pass
  • Prettier and git diff --check: pass
  • ESLint: 0 errors; existing warnings only

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pnpm --filter @tanstack/db-sqlite-persistence-core test
pnpm --filter @tanstack/browser-db-sqlite-persistence test
pnpm --filter @tanstack/electric-db-collection test
pnpm --filter @tanstack/browser-db-sqlite-persistence test:e2e:readiness

Files changed

  • packages/db-sqlite-persistence-core/src/persisted.ts: dual-source readiness, lifecycle/error fencing, and optional coordinator-owned source persistence.
  • packages/db-sqlite-persistence-core/tests/persisted.test.ts: deterministic readiness, failure-order, supersession, abort, durability, and cleanup/restart regressions.
  • packages/browser-db-sqlite-persistence/src/browser-coordinator.ts: serialized full persisted transactions and local mutations with coherent stream positions.
  • packages/browser-db-sqlite-persistence/tests/browser-coordinator.test.ts: leader/follower collision, position observation, transaction fidelity, and failure-without-retry coverage.
  • packages/electric-db-collection/src/electric.ts and recovery oracles: authoritative fresh-snapshot readiness and mode-aware recovery laws.
  • Browser E2E fixtures/config and .github/workflows/e2e-tests.yml: real Chromium/OPFS/Electric readiness matrix in CI.
  • .changeset/fix-persisted-dual-source-readiness.md: patch releases for the affected persistence and Electric packages.

Follow-ups

These are useful non-blocking extensions identified during review:

  • Decide and test whether upstream startup should bypass a permanently pending SQLite startup-metadata read.
  • Add a real two-context Chromium/OPFS stream-position oracle; this PR's coordinator collision proof uses two real coordinator instances with a shared adapter.
  • Add a generated dual-source lifecycle model and broader hostile-mutant coverage beyond the permanent pinned schedules in this PR.

Part of #1659

Fixes #1443

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved persisted collection startup so collections can become ready from local SQLite data or an authoritative upstream snapshot.
    • Ensured authoritative network snapshots appear promptly and supersede stale persisted data.
    • Improved coordination of concurrent local, network, and cross-tab mutations to preserve transaction ordering and prevent data loss.
    • Improved recovery from persistence failures, hydration conflicts, and startup errors, including clearer error states and recovery when upstream readiness returns.
  • Tests

    • Added browser end-to-end coverage for empty, populated, on-demand, and network-priority readiness scenarios.

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The change updates persisted collection readiness, browser coordinator transaction handling, and Electric snapshot processing. It adds unit and OPFS end-to-end coverage for hydration, authoritative snapshots, on-demand mode, transaction serialization, failures, and cleanup.

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Persisted readiness and synchronization

Layer / File(s) Summary
Readiness and hydration behavior
packages/electric-db-collection/src/electric.ts, packages/db-sqlite-persistence-core/src/persisted.ts, packages/db-sqlite-persistence-core/tests/persisted.test.ts, packages/electric-db-collection/tests/electric-recovery-oracle.test.ts
Persistence tracks local and upstream readiness separately. Authoritative snapshots can supersede hydration. Stale work is fenced, failures are aggregated, and durability errors enter the collection error state.
Coordinator transaction serialization
packages/browser-db-sqlite-persistence/src/browser-coordinator.ts, packages/browser-db-sqlite-persistence/tests/browser-coordinator.test.ts
The coordinator routes persisted transactions through the leader, serializes writes under the writer lock, assigns durable positions, deduplicates transactions, preserves metadata, and handles leadership and adapter failures without replaying application errors.
OPFS readiness validation
packages/browser-db-sqlite-persistence/e2e/*, packages/browser-db-sqlite-persistence/package.json, packages/browser-db-sqlite-persistence/*.config.ts, packages/browser-db-sqlite-persistence/tsconfig.json, .github/workflows/e2e-tests.yml
New Playwright and Vite wiring runs OPFS readiness scenarios for eager, on-demand, empty, non-empty, and network-wins modes. The tests report readiness, hydration, upstream request, row, and cleanup results. CI runs the new readiness command.
Release and coverage records
.changeset/fix-persisted-dual-source-readiness.md, docs/contributing/oracle-coverage.md
The changeset records patch releases. Contributor documentation records the readiness and recovery coverage.

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Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Suggested reviewers: kevin-dp

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sequenceDiagram
  participant ElectricSync
  participant PersistedCollection
  participant BrowserCollectionCoordinator
  participant SQLitePersistence
  ElectricSync->>PersistedCollection: deliver authoritative snapshot
  PersistedCollection->>BrowserCollectionCoordinator: apply positionless transaction
  BrowserCollectionCoordinator->>SQLitePersistence: serialize and persist transaction
  SQLitePersistence-->>BrowserCollectionCoordinator: return committed position
  BrowserCollectionCoordinator-->>PersistedCollection: publish committed changes
  PersistedCollection-->>ElectricSync: expose ready network rows
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🟠 Major · Ignore upstream failures after cleanup. · persisted.ts:2675

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Ignore upstream failures after cleanup.

signalUpstreamFailure can call params.markError after cleanup() sets startupState.cleanedUp. This occurs when an upstream source reports an error after it previously reported ready. The retired sync run can then put a restarted collection into error.

Check startupState.cleanedUp before changing the upstream state or calling params.markError.

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 const signalUpstreamFailure = (error: unknown) => {
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   const failedAfterUpstreamReady = startupState.upstream === `ready`

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