Fix SnapshotTooOld in parameter queries

.changeset/lovely-olives-type.md

@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+---
+'@powersync/service-module-mongodb-storage': patch
+'@powersync/service-core': patch
+'@powersync/service-image': patch
+---
+
+Fix SnapshotTooOld on parameter queries in some cases.

modules/module-mongodb-storage/src/storage/implementation/MongoSyncBucketStorage.ts

@@ -41,6 +41,17 @@ export interface MongoSyncBucketStorageOptions {
   checksumOptions?: MongoChecksumOptions;
 }
 
+/**
+ * Only keep checkpoints around for a minute, before fetching a fresh one.
+ *
+ * The reason is that we keep a MongoDB snapshot reference (clusterTime) with the checkpoint,
+ * and they expire after 5 minutes by default. This is an issue if the checkpoint stream is idle,
+ * but new clients connect and use an outdated checkpoint snapshot for parameter queries.
+ *
+ * These will be filtered out for existing clients, so should not create significant overhead.
+ */
+const CHECKPOINT_TIMEOUT_MS = 60_000;
+
 export class MongoSyncBucketStorage
   extends BaseObserver<storage.SyncRulesBucketStorageListener>
   implements storage.SyncRulesBucketStorage
@@ -680,25 +691,45 @@ export class MongoSyncBucketStorage
 
     // We only watch changes to the active sync rules.
     // If it changes to inactive, we abort and restart with the new sync rules.
-    let lastOp: storage.ReplicationCheckpoint | null = null;
+    try {
+      while (true) {
+        // If the stream is idle, we wait a max of a minute (CHECKPOINT_TIMEOUT_MS)
+        // before we get another checkpoint, to avoid stale checkpoint snapshots.
+        const timeout = timers
+          .setTimeout(CHECKPOINT_TIMEOUT_MS, { done: false }, { signal })
+          .catch(() => ({ done: true }));
+        try {
+          const result = await Promise.race([stream.next(), timeout]);
+          if (result.done) {
+            break;
+          }
+        } catch (e) {
+          if (e.name == 'AbortError') {
+            break;
+          }
+          throw e;
+        }
 
-    for await (const _ of stream) {
-      if (signal.aborted) {
-        break;
-      }
+        if (signal.aborted) {
+          // Would likely have been caught by the signal on the timeout or the upstream stream, but we check here anyway
+          break;
+        }
 
-      const op = await this.getCheckpointInternal();
-      if (op == null) {
-        // Sync rules have changed - abort and restart.
-        // We do a soft close of the stream here - no error
-        break;
-      }
+        const op = await this.getCheckpointInternal();
+        if (op == null) {
+          // Sync rules have changed - abort and restart.
+          // We do a soft close of the stream here - no error
+          break;
+        }
 
-      // Check for LSN / checkpoint changes - ignore other metadata changes
-      if (lastOp == null || op.lsn != lastOp.lsn || op.checkpoint != lastOp.checkpoint) {
-        lastOp = op;
+        // Previously, we only yielded when the checkpoint or lsn changed.
+        // However, we always want to use the latest snapshotTime, so we skip that filtering here.
+        // That filtering could be added in the per-user streams if needed, but in general the capped collection
+        // should already only contain useful changes in most cases.
         yield op;
       }
+    } finally {
+      await stream.return(null);
     }
   }
 

test-client/src/ndjson.ts

@@ -10,48 +10,53 @@ export function ndjsonStream<T>(
       var decoder = new TextDecoder();
       var data_buf = '';
 
-      reader.read().then(function processResult(result): void | Promise<any> {
-        if (result.done) {
-          if (cancellationRequest) {
-            // Immediately exit
-            return;
-          }
-
-          data_buf = data_buf.trim();
-          if (data_buf.length !== 0) {
-            try {
-              var data_l = JSON.parse(data_buf);
-              controller.enqueue({ chunk: data_l, size: data_l.length });
-            } catch (e) {
-              controller.error(e);
+      reader
+        .read()
+        .then(function processResult(result): void | Promise<any> {
+          if (result.done) {
+            if (cancellationRequest) {
+              // Immediately exit
               return;
             }
+
+            data_buf = data_buf.trim();
+            if (data_buf.length !== 0) {
+              try {
+                var data_l = JSON.parse(data_buf);
+                controller.enqueue({ chunk: data_l, size: data_l.length });
+              } catch (e) {
+                controller.error(e);
+                return;
+              }
+            }
+            controller.close();
+            return;
           }
-          controller.close();
-          return;
-        }
 
-        var data = decoder.decode(result.value, { stream: true });
-        data_buf += data;
-        var lines = data_buf.split('\n');
-        for (var i = 0; i < lines.length - 1; ++i) {
-          var l = lines[i].trim();
-          if (l.length > 0) {
-            try {
-              var data_line = JSON.parse(l);
-              controller.enqueue({ chunk: data_line, size: l.length });
-            } catch (e) {
-              controller.error(e);
-              cancellationRequest = true;
-              reader.cancel();
-              return;
+          var data = decoder.decode(result.value, { stream: true });
+          data_buf += data;
+          var lines = data_buf.split('\n');
+          for (var i = 0; i < lines.length - 1; ++i) {
+            var l = lines[i].trim();
+            if (l.length > 0) {
+              try {
+                var data_line = JSON.parse(l);
+                controller.enqueue({ chunk: data_line, size: l.length });
+              } catch (e) {
+                controller.error(e);
+                cancellationRequest = true;
+                reader.cancel();
+                return;
+              }
             }
           }
-        }
-        data_buf = lines[lines.length - 1];
+          data_buf = lines[lines.length - 1];
 
-        return reader.read().then(processResult);
-      });
+          return reader.read().then(processResult);
+        })
+        .catch((e) => {
+          controller.error(e);
+        });
     },
     cancel: function (reason) {
       cancellationRequest = true;