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Stop a migration from stalling live queries while it waits on a lock - #3096
When a deploy runs a database migration, the migration connection now gives up on a lock after five seconds instead of waiting indefinitely. The existing retry then tries the migration again after a pause.
Why
Deploys run migrations while the previous release is still serving users. A migration that needs a lock a running request holds sits in line for it, and every later query on that table lines up behind the migration. During the last deploy, a migration that rewrote policies on every table deadlocked live requests that way, failing a run and a space list for users. Giving up quickly and retrying keeps the app responsive while the migration waits for a quiet moment.
Changes
The migration connection sets a five-second lock timeout. A migration that hits it is marked rolled back and retried by the lock-conflict handling added in Retry a migration that loses a lock to live traffic #3040, which already covers deadlocks and lock timeouts.
A run that includes a pending migration building an index concurrently skips the timeout. That build waits for every open transaction to finish, and a lock timeout would cancel it and fail the deploy.
If a migration still can't get its locks after the retries, the deploy fails and the previous release keeps running, as with any failed migration.
Risk
Migrations: a migration on a table that stays busy for longer than the retries allow now fails the deploy instead of eventually going through after stalling traffic. Rerunning the deploy at a quieter moment resolves it.
Tested
Ran the Postgres-backed migration tests against a scratch database. A migration blocked by a held lock now times out and succeeds on retry without setting a timeout in its own SQL. A new test shows a concurrent index build still waits out an open transaction, and that test fails if the timeout is applied to it. Typecheck passes.
Database migration deployments now support a configurable lock-wait timeout, with a default of five seconds. Concurrent index migrations retain their existing connection behavior.
Migration status checks now handle databases where migration tracking has not yet been created.
Documentation
Updated migration deployment guidance to explain lock-wait behavior.
A migration that waits on a lock the running release holds queues every
later query on that table behind it. The migration connection now gives
up after five seconds, and the existing lock-conflict retry runs it
again. A run that builds an index concurrently keeps waiting, since that
build waits for open transactions and a timeout would cancel it.
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Walkthrough
Deferred migration deployment now checks applied migration state and configures lock timeouts for migrations without concurrent index operations. PostgreSQL integration tests cover lock retry and concurrent index deployment.
Changes: Deferred migration deployment
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Summary
Applied migration state packages/db/src/deferred-migrations.ts
appliedMigrations returns undefined when _prisma_migrations does not exist. heldBackMigrations uses the helper and returns no held migrations when no applied migration names are available.
Lock timeout routing and verification packages/db/src/deferred-migrations.ts, packages/db/src/deferred-migrations.postgres.test.ts
deployMigrations accepts an optional lockTimeoutMs value, defaulting to 5,000 ms. It uses the original URL when unapplied SQL contains CONCURRENTLY; otherwise, it adds the timeout to the connection options. Tests cover lock retry and concurrent index deployment.
sequenceDiagram
participant deployMigrations
participant MigrationSQL
participant PrismaMigrate
participant PostgreSQL
deployMigrations->>MigrationSQL: Check unapplied SQL for CONCURRENTLY
MigrationSQL-->>deployMigrations: Return unapplied migration SQL
alt SQL contains CONCURRENTLY
deployMigrations->>PrismaMigrate: Deploy with original URL
else SQL does not contain CONCURRENTLY
deployMigrations->>PrismaMigrate: Deploy with URL containing lock timeout
end
PrismaMigrate->>PostgreSQL: Apply migrations
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elie222/rakazo#3040: Adds the lock-conflict retry behavior that this change configures with a lock timeout.
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An ordinary migration containing “CONCURRENTLY” in a comment or string can still wait indefinitely on a lock and queue live queries. Correct that routing before merging; the concurrent-index test also needs to exercise a real wait.
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Make the concurrent-index test hold a transaction that the build must wait for.
The reader at packages/db/src/deferred-migrations.postgres.test.ts:135-137 runs at READ COMMITTED. Each statement takes its own snapshot, and the snapshot ends when the statement completes. SELECT txid_current() takes no lock on lockTable. The concurrent index build therefore has no open transaction to wait for. The pg_indexes assertion at line 151 passes either way. A regression that caused the build to time out would not fail this test.
The PR summary says this test checks the wait. It does not.
If the build did wait, deployMigrations would block the Node.js thread in execFileSync (packages/db/src/deferred-migrations.ts:170). The timer that commits the reader could not run, so the test would hang.
To make the test check the wait:
Start the reader with BEGIN ISOLATION LEVEL REPEATABLE READ. The snapshot then lasts until COMMIT, so a concurrent build must wait for it.
Run deployMigrations without blocking the test's event loop. A worker or child process can do this if the test runner can load the TypeScript migration code there. Keep the production function unchanged if that works. Changing only the BEGIN line makes the test hang when the build waits.
Assert that the deployment is still pending after 200 ms. Then release the reader, await the deployment, and assert that the index exists.
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Review comment at @packages/db/src/deferred-migrations.postgres.test.ts around
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Update the concurrent-index test in the reader/deployment flow so the reader
uses a REPEATABLE READ transaction that remains open until explicitly released,
and run deployMigrations without blocking the test event loop so that release
can occur while the build waits; use a worker or child process only if it can
load the TypeScript migration code. Assert deployment remains pending before
releasing the reader, then await deployment and verify the index exists, keeping
production behavior unchanged.
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Exclude comments and strings from concurrent-index detection.
If a pending migration contains a comment such as -- Build this index concurrently in a later release, this test matches even when its SQL only runs an ordinary ALTER TABLE. deployMigrations then uses the URL without lock_timeout, so the lock wait can again queue live queries without a time limit. Detect an executable concurrent-index statement instead of searching all SQL text. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
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Review comment at @packages/db/src/deferred-migrations.ts at line 88:
The BUILDS_INDEX_CONCURRENTLY check can match text in SQL comments or string
literals and incorrectly affect deployMigrations lock-timeout handling. Update
the detection to identify an executable concurrent-index statement while
ignoring comments and string literals, preserving the existing behavior for
actual concurrent index creation.
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@elie222 The comment example is fixed. However, SQL_COMMENTS does not remove string literals. This SQL still matches BUILDS_INDEX_CONCURRENTLY:
COMMENT ON TABLE example IS 'Build this index concurrently later';
That match disables lock_timeout without an executable concurrent-index statement. Please exclude string literals from detection as well. The original finding is only partially addressed.
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Leaving this one. A false match only skips the timeout for that run, which is how every deploy behaved before this PR, so it fails safe; a 'concurrently' inside a string literal in a migration is rare enough that a SQL tokenizer isn't worth it here.
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@elie222 Understood. A false match retains the previous lock-wait behavior for that run. I accept this trade-off and will not press for a SQL tokenizer here.
Addressed the follow-up on the concurrent-index test: it now holds a REPEATABLE READ snapshot from a separate process (so the synchronous deploy can't block its release), asserts the deploy waited past it, and checks the index exists. Verified it fails with the lock-timeout error when the timeout is forced on for that run.
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What
When a deploy runs a database migration, the migration connection now gives up on a lock after five seconds instead of waiting indefinitely. The existing retry then tries the migration again after a pause.
Why
Deploys run migrations while the previous release is still serving users. A migration that needs a lock a running request holds sits in line for it, and every later query on that table lines up behind the migration. During the last deploy, a migration that rewrote policies on every table deadlocked live requests that way, failing a run and a space list for users. Giving up quickly and retrying keeps the app responsive while the migration waits for a quiet moment.
Changes
Risk
Migrations: a migration on a table that stays busy for longer than the retries allow now fails the deploy instead of eventually going through after stalling traffic. Rerunning the deploy at a quieter moment resolves it.
Tested
Ran the Postgres-backed migration tests against a scratch database. A migration blocked by a held lock now times out and succeeds on retry without setting a timeout in its own SQL. A new test shows a concurrent index build still waits out an open transaction, and that test fails if the timeout is applied to it. Typecheck passes.
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