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What?

Deleting a document doesn't remove its pending scheduled publish job on SQL adapters with numeric ids. The stale job stays in the queue, and on SQLite (which reuses ids) it can later publish a different document.

Why?

The admin UI queues the job with value: String(id) (#10481), but deleteScheduledPublishJobs matches input.doc.value against the raw numeric id, so nothing is found.

How?

Match input.doc.value against both the raw id and String(id), so jobs queued from the admin UI and from the Local API with a raw id both get deleted. deleteByID now passes the stored document id, so a string id passed to payload.delete still matches a job queued with a number. Added int tests for both cases.

Fixes #19448

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Walkthrough

Scheduled-publish cleanup now receives the retrieved document ID and matches job document values against both that ID and its string form. Tests cover cleanup when the queued job stores the ID as either a string or a native ID.

Changes: Scheduled publish job cleanup

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Cleanup ID matching and regression coverage packages/payload/src/collections/operations/deleteByID.ts, packages/payload/src/versions/deleteScheduledPublishJobs.ts, test/versions/int.spec.ts	Deletion passes the retrieved document ID to cleanup. The cleanup filter matches the ID and its string form. Tests cover both forms of the queued job ID.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~8 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Suggested reviewers: alessiogr

Merge Risk: Moderate · up to 36bb6

Stale scheduled jobs can publish a replacement document. Fix ID matching before merging; a failed test can also leave a draft behind.

Pre-merge checks: 5

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title names the fix and its scope: deleting scheduled publish jobs that were queued with a string document ID. The raw summary says deleteScheduledPublishJobs now matches input.doc.value against b…
Description check		The description explains what breaks (scheduled publish jobs survive document deletion on SQL adapters with numeric IDs), why it happens (the admin UI queues with String(id) while deleteScheduledPubli…
Linked Issues check		[#19448] The issue requires that deleting a document also deletes its pending schedulePublish job when the job stores the ID as a string and cleanup receives the raw numeric ID. At head, deleteSchedul…
Out of Scope Changes check		The whole-PR diff (mergeBase 6eb8e57 to head 36bb616) changes three files. (1) packages/payload/src/versions/deleteScheduledPublishJobs.ts changes the filter to 'in: [id, String(id)]'. This is the d…
Docstring Coverage		No eligible functions found in the changed files. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documentat…

Full details: Title check

Explanation

The title names the fix and its scope: deleting scheduled publish jobs that were queued with a string document ID. The raw summary says deleteScheduledPublishJobs now matches input.doc.value against both the raw ID and its string form, and deleteByID passes the retrieved document's ID. The title fits the main change and is specific enough for a reviewer scanning history.

Full details: Description check

Explanation

The description explains what breaks (scheduled publish jobs survive document deletion on SQL adapters with numeric IDs), why it happens (the admin UI queues with String(id) while deleteScheduledPublishJobs matches the raw numeric id), and how the change fixes it (matching both forms and adding an int test). It also links the issue it fixes. It relates directly to the changeset.

Full details: Linked Issues check

Explanation

[#19448] The issue requires that deleting a document also deletes its pending schedulePublish job when the job stores the ID as a string and cleanup receives the raw numeric ID. At head, deleteScheduledPublishJobs (packages/payload/src/versions/deleteScheduledPublishJobs.ts) filters 'input.doc.value' with 'in: [id, String(id)]'. Both the raw and the string form now match. The other filters are unchanged: completedAt not existing, processing equal to false, input.doc.relationTo equal to slug, and taskSlug equal to schedulePublish. The issue's suggested fix (compare against String(id)) is implemented. The caller in deleteByID.ts now passes docToDelete!.id, the native ID of the retrieved document. The guards before the call throw when docToDelete is missing, so the value is defined. The delete path described in the issue therefore reaches the fixed filter. Two integration tests were added in test/versions/int.spec.ts: one queues with a string ID and deletes by native ID, the other queues with a native ID and deletes by string form. Both assert that no matching job remains. The tests were not executed during this review. The issue's ids.map(...) form does not exist in the reviewed code, because the function accepts a single id. The Postgres and MongoDB expectations in the issue are untested reasoning, and they are not coding requirements of this PR.

Full details: Out of Scope Changes check

Explanation

The whole-PR diff (mergeBase 6eb8e57 to head 36bb616) changes three files. (1) packages/payload/src/versions/deleteScheduledPublishJobs.ts changes the filter to 'in: [id, String(id)]'. This is the direct fix for #19448. (2) packages/payload/src/collections/operations/deleteByID.ts changes the argument from the requested id to docToDelete!.id. This is a one-line change in the same deletion flow that calls deleteScheduledPublishJobs. It supplies the stored native ID to the cleanup and does not alter other behavior. It is related to the objective and is not unrelated. (3) test/versions/int.spec.ts adds two integration tests for the same scheduled-publish deletion behavior. These tests support the objective. No other files are changed. Test execution was not verified during this review.

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No eligible functions found in the changed files. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documentation-only edits and deletions within surviving functions are included; unchanged diff context and fully deleted functions are excluded. Analyzed 0 functions across 3 files.

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Review comments at @packages/payload/src/versions/deleteScheduledPublishJobs.ts:
- Line 38: Update deleteScheduledPublishJobs so its ID filter includes the
numeric form when the collection’s ID type is numeric, even when the delete ID
is a string; resolve the ID type using the established collection metadata and
preserve existing matching behavior for other ID types.

Review comments at @test/versions/int.spec.ts:
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Run draft cleanup after failures.

If queuing fails, the draft remains. The existing afterEach only deletes jobs. Move the draft cleanup to a scoped afterEach hook.

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Review comment at @test/versions/int.spec.ts at line 4726:
Move the draft cleanup around the queuing test into a scoped afterEach hook so
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I kept the inline cleanup. Every other test in this Scheduled Publish block cleans up the same way, so I matched them.

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Review comments at @packages/payload/src/collections/operations/deleteByID.ts:
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Preserve the requested ID in the cleanup filter.

If a job stores "01" and deletion uses "01", cleanup can leave the job. If SQLite reuses ID 1, the job can publish the replacement document.

Suggested fix

--- a/packages/payload/src/collections/operations/deleteByID.ts
+++ b/packages/payload/src/collections/operations/deleteByID.ts
@@
       await deleteScheduledPublishJobs({
         id: docToDelete!.id,
+        requestedID: id,
         slug: collectionConfig.slug,

--- a/packages/payload/src/versions/deleteScheduledPublishJobs.ts
+++ b/packages/payload/src/versions/deleteScheduledPublishJobs.ts
@@
 type Args = {
   id?: number | string
+  requestedID?: number | string
   payload: Payload
@@
 export const deleteScheduledPublishJobs = async ({
   id,
+  requestedID,
   slug,
@@
-              in: [id, String(id)],
+              in: [id, String(id), ...(requestedID !== undefined ? [requestedID, String(requestedID)] : [])],

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Review comment at @packages/payload/src/collections/operations/deleteByID.ts at
line 169:
Update the deleteScheduledPublishJobs call in deleteByID to preserve the
requested id alongside docToDelete.id, and ensure its cleanup filter matches
jobs stored using either representation. Keep cleanup scoped to the deleted
document so a stale job cannot publish a replacement after ID reuse.

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