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fix(browser-db-sqlite-persistence): release OPFS workers on pagehide - #1844

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openBrowserWASQLiteOPFSDatabase() now synchronously releases its dedicated worker when the page is hidden, including while initialization is pending. Pending calls reject predictably, stale worker responses cannot revive the connection, and startup diagnostics retain an available OPFS VFS cause.

Root cause

The browser adapter owned a dedicated worker but only disposed it through explicit close and worker-error paths. A document entering pagehide or the back/forward cache could therefore retain the worker and its native OPFS handles. Initialization was especially problematic because the caller did not yet have a database handle it could close.

SQLite also reduced an open_v2 failure to its generic message even when OPFSCoopSyncVFS.lastError contained the useful native error name and path.

Approach

  • Register a pagehide handler as soon as the worker request channel is created.
  • Reject every pending init/query/close request with AbortError before terminating the worker synchronously.
  • Make disposal idempotent and remove the page, message, error, and messageerror listeners on every terminal path.
  • Preserve the original SQLite message and append the VFS error name/message only when both are available.
  • Document that pagehide cleanup is not a durability guarantee and that a bfcache-restored page must recreate persistence instances.
  • Replace the focused lifecycle/diagnostic examples with replayable oracle suites whose authority is the README lifecycle/diagnostic contract, the public persistence error classes, and the worker protocol classifications.

The lifecycle oracle now covers pagehide before response production, after production but before delivery, and after delivery; mixed completed/pending siblings; forward and reverse response delivery; Worker error and messageerror; late responses; closed next use; negative post-disposal worker reach; and all init/close response codes. The diagnostic oracle computes expected text from immutable scalar input before production receives any Error object.

Key invariants

  • Worker termination occurs before the pagehide handler returns.
  • Each request pending at that boundary has one public settlement with AbortError.
  • Completed siblings retain their result while still-pending siblings abort; sibling completion order is not part of the contract.
  • Responses produced before disposal but delivered afterward have no effect.
  • Disposal terminates once and leaves no page or worker listeners behind.
  • Calls after disposal fail without posting another Worker request.
  • VFS details enrich an open failure without replacing the original message when no cause exists.

Non-goals

  • Proving that real navigation was admitted to bfcache. Synthetic page events exercise the handler boundary only.
  • Making pagehide durable, flushing uncommitted writes, or automatically reconnecting after pageshow.
  • Fixing wa-sqlite's separate partial-open race or adding native-handle retries. That work remains with powersync-ja/wa-sqlite#88.
  • Treating fake-worker tests as proof of native OPFS handle release. The linked standalone Chromium reproduction owns the current native evidence; future real-bfcache admission and native-handle proof remain open evidence boundaries.

Trade-offs

Synchronous termination is necessary because a cached document can freeze as soon as pagehide returns, but it cannot wait for asynchronous close or guarantee pending writes are durable. Applications should flush and explicitly close before navigation when possible. On pageshow with event.persisted, they must recreate database, persistence, and collection instances or reload.

The property suites keep fixed replayable seeds plus exhaustive examples for cheap structural products. They do not add a nondeterministic or stress lane because these state spaces are small and ordinary package CI is the permanent campaign.

Standalone reproduction

https://github.com/zhy0216/tanstack-opfs-repro

git clone https://github.com/zhy0216/tanstack-opfs-repro.git
cd tanstack-opfs-repro
bun install --frozen-lockfile
bunx playwright install chromium
bun run repro

For manual inspection, run bun run start, open http://127.0.0.1:4173 in Chrome, and select pagehide-initializing or pagehide-ready. The default harness uses published @tanstack/browser-db-sqlite-persistence@0.2.23; it has no application backend, framework, or collection setup.

bun run repro intentionally succeeds when it observes the unfixed baseline symptoms. verify:fixed asserts the corrected behavior. The repository preserves baseline and combined-fix Chromium receipts. This oracle audit inspected but did not independently rerun those native receipts.

The related VFS fix drains partial opens, bounds retries for native NoModificationAllowedError contention, closes late handles, and retains failure causes. This PR does not vendor it or change the wa-sqlite peer range. Because TanStack embeds the VFS in its generated worker, delivering that separate fix requires adopting a released/backported VFS and rebuilding the worker.

Oracle transfer accounting

Replaced focused example Receiving permanent oracle Preserved observation
pending init, persisted=false lifecycle fixed init × before-production × false synchronous termination and AbortError
pending init, persisted=true lifecycle fixed init × before-production × true synchronous termination and AbortError
two pending queries lifecycle fixed execute-count 2 plus mixed-sibling property both-pending abort and completed/pending isolation
rejected query after pagehide shared post-disposal checkpoint closed error and unchanged Worker request count
pending close lifecycle fixed close × before-production synchronous termination and AbortError
listener cleanup after close lifecycle close × response-before-pagehide page/Worker listeners removed once
listener cleanup after init failure exhaustive init response-error matrix exact error and listener/worker cleanup
listener cleanup after pagehide every aborting lifecycle history listener ownership and idempotency
VFS cause with [/locked.sqlite-wal] diagnostic fixed Error × DOMException example exact primary/name/bracketed-path text
open failure without cause diagnostic fixed Error × no-cause example original message unchanged

Verification

Exact verified revision: e1e626918132105782a11895155fc599b1b119b1, based on f4de23c91bf43ec38c00a0c8d684d82a38d10a9d.

Runtime: macOS arm64, Node 24.19.0, Vitest 3.2.4, FastCheck 3.23.2, TypeScript 5.9.3.

Unchanged final oracle files against the exact PR base production files:

  • five oracle properties fail semantically with verbose seed/path counterexamples;
  • the four retained pre-existing OPFS unit tests pass;
  • no RED or mutation result receives credit for a timeout or setup failure.

PR head:

  • 7 files and 39/39 top-level runtime tests pass with coverage.
  • Five property lanes execute 162 cases: 48 lifecycle cases (34 fixed structural examples), 32 mixed-sibling cases (12 fixed), 24 terminal-event cases (10 fixed), 18 response-error cases (all six stage/code cells fixed), and 40 diagnostic cases (all six primary/cause cells fixed).
  • opfs-database.ts: 95.69% statement, 92.59% branch, and 100% function coverage; both Worker terminal handlers execute.
  • Standalone widened-root typecheck, ESLint, Prettier, git diff --check, the normal lint-staged commit gate, and the browser persistence production build pass.

Fault-control receipts

Every killed mutant reached production and failed a semantic assertion. Reverse sibling completion is retained as an allowed control, not mislabeled as a defect.

Mutation Result and observation
remove pagehide registration killed: lifecycle registration/termination checkpoint
delay pagehide registration by one microtask killed: seed 1844, path 0, before-response-production registration checkpoint
change pending pagehide rejection away from AbortError killed: lifecycle settlement error comparison
omit pagehide listener cleanup killed: page listener ownership checkpoint
remove the idempotent disposal guard killed: repeated-disposal termination count
post a request from the disposed branch killed: unchanged Worker request-count checkpoint
corrupt remaining siblings only after one sibling completes killed: seed 1845, path 0, mixed-sibling settlement comparison
change Worker error rejection diagnostic killed: seed 1847, path 0, terminal-event error comparison
change Worker messageerror rejection diagnostic killed: seed 1847, path 1, terminal-event error comparison
remove VFS cause enrichment killed: diagnostic complete-response comparison
mutate the primary Error before formatting killed: seed 1846, path 0, immutable-input diagnostic comparison
deliver sibling responses in reverse allowed: forward/reverse examples both pass; no ordering promise exists

Verbose FastCheck output preserves the original counterexample sequence alongside the reduced counterexample and replay seed/path.

Replay controls are property-specific:

  • TANSTACK_DB_OPFS_LIFECYCLE_ORACLE_{SEED,RUNS,PATH}
  • TANSTACK_DB_OPFS_MIXED_ORACLE_{SEED,RUNS,PATH}
  • TANSTACK_DB_OPFS_TERMINAL_EVENT_ORACLE_{SEED,RUNS,PATH}
  • TANSTACK_DB_OPFS_FAILURE_ORACLE_{SEED,RUNS,PATH}
  • TANSTACK_DB_OPFS_DIAGNOSTIC_ORACLE_{SEED,RUNS,PATH}

Commands run from the repository root unless noted:

./node_modules/.bin/tsc --noEmit \
  -p packages/browser-db-sqlite-persistence/tsconfig.json --rootDir .
./node_modules/.bin/eslint \
  packages/browser-db-sqlite-persistence/src/opfs-database.ts \
  packages/browser-db-sqlite-persistence/src/opfs-worker.ts \
  packages/browser-db-sqlite-persistence/tests/opfs-database.test.ts \
  packages/browser-db-sqlite-persistence/tests/opfs-page-lifecycle-oracle.test.ts \
  packages/browser-db-sqlite-persistence/tests/opfs-worker-diagnostics-oracle.test.ts

cd packages/browser-db-sqlite-persistence
../../node_modules/.bin/vitest --run --typecheck.enabled=false
../../node_modules/.bin/vite build

The package's ordinary Vitest typecheck wrapper still emits unrelated monorepo cross-package rootDir source errors in this checkout; the widened-root standalone command above passes with no type errors.

Files changed

  • src/opfs-database.ts: pagehide registration, pending-request rejection, and idempotent listener/worker disposal.
  • src/opfs-worker.ts: conditional VFS-cause enrichment for open failures.
  • tests/opfs-page-lifecycle-oracle.test.ts: generated lifecycle, mixed-sibling, terminal-event, settlement, reach, ownership, and cleanup model.
  • tests/opfs-worker-diagnostics-oracle.test.ts: immutable-input generated worker-response diagnostic oracle.
  • tests/opfs-database.test.ts: neutral page event fixture support for retained pre-existing tests.
  • README.md: page lifecycle, durability, restoration, and diagnostic guidance.
  • docs/contributing/oracle-coverage.md: oracle ownership and evidence limits.
  • .changeset/fix-opfs-page-lifecycle.md: patch release note.

Release impact

  • Published behavior changes; patch changeset included.
  • Affected package runtime, type surface, lint, formatting, and build verified.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • OPFS workers now terminate cleanly when a page is hidden or enters the back/forward cache.
    • Pending initialization, query, and close operations are rejected with AbortError during page lifecycle transitions.
    • SQLite opening errors now include additional VFS diagnostic details.
    • Restored pages require newly created database connections.
    • Worker failures now preserve relevant error causes for improved diagnostics.
  • Documentation

    • Added guidance for page navigation, flushing writes, closing databases, and interpreting SQLite errors.

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OPFS lifecycle and error reporting

Layer / File(s) Summary
Page lifecycle termination
packages/browser-db-sqlite-persistence/src/opfs-database.ts, packages/browser-db-sqlite-persistence/tests/opfs-database.test.ts, packages/browser-db-sqlite-persistence/tests/opfs-page-lifecycle-oracle.test.ts
pagehide now rejects pending requests with AbortError, disposes the worker, and removes the listener. Tests cover lifecycle ordering, cleanup, termination, and post-disposal behavior.
SQLite VFS error reporting
packages/browser-db-sqlite-persistence/src/wa-sqlite-examples.d.ts, packages/browser-db-sqlite-persistence/src/opfs-worker.ts, packages/browser-db-sqlite-persistence/tests/opfs-worker-diagnostics-oracle.test.ts
SQLite open failures include available VFS error details. The VFS declaration exposes lastError, and property-based tests verify diagnostic formatting.
Release and lifecycle documentation
.changeset/fix-opfs-page-lifecycle.md, packages/browser-db-sqlite-persistence/README.md, docs/contributing/oracle-coverage.md
Documentation describes page lifecycle handling, bfcache restoration, write durability guidance, VFS diagnostics, oracle coverage, and test limitations.

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Change: Bug fix

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Page
  participant OPFSDatabase
  participant PendingRequests
  participant Worker
  Page->>OPFSDatabase: dispatch pagehide
  OPFSDatabase->>PendingRequests: reject pending requests with AbortError
  OPFSDatabase->>Worker: dispose and terminate worker
  OPFSDatabase->>Page: remove pagehide listener
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Thanks for the nice PR!

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I have some other persistence PRs in flight which should hopefully improve your experience as well.

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