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Mutation conformance oracle for sync adapters, and the write bugs it found - #2354
A shared mutation oracle now checks that each sync adapter persists an application's writes faithfully and settles each write at the right time. It runs against RxDB, TrailBase, PowerSync, Electric, and Convex. The oracle found seven write bugs in RxDB and TrailBase, and this PR fixes them. PowerSync, Electric, and Convex pass with no adapter change.
What the oracle checks
An application writes to a Collection with insert, update, and delete. Core shows the optimistic state at once, and the adapter's mutation function persists the write to the provider. The oracle checks the laws every such adapter owes (law set v18, section 9):
MUT-1. The public rows show the optimistic state until the mutation function settles. No publication shows the earlier synced value in between.
MUT-2. A provider rejection rejects when('settled') with the provider's error, and the optimistic state rolls back.
MUT-7. Under confirmation through sync, a write settles only when its own copy arrives through the sync stream.
MUT-8 and MUT-13. Each write reaches the provider once, as the operation for its key, with the authored row.
MUT-10. A write reaches the provider only after the provider answers the earlier write on the same Collection.
FID-5. When nothing is pending, the public rows, the exposed authoritative base (collection.base), and the provider's rows are identical.
The oracle holds a small independent model of the provider and of core's optimistic state. Its grammar generates histories of writes, held answers, withheld copies, and commits by other clients. Before each write, the check gives the provider a plan: accept or reject, at once or held. Then it compares the provider's request log, the public rows, and every settlement with the model at each cut.
Each driver declares what its provider can do, and the grammar uses only those capabilities. The table shows the declarations that differ between adapters.
Adapter
Who persists
Update form
Confirmation
RxDB
adapter
merges named fields (merged-updates)
at the write's return
TrailBase
adapter
changed fields (field-updates)
its own change event (held-echoes)
PowerSync
adapter
changed fields (field-updates)
its diff trigger
Electric
application handlers
complete row
awaitTxId on the shape log
Convex
application handlers
complete row
the transition after the mutation
A reference adapter calibrates the check in five provider configurations: structured clone, JSON, SQL, an Electric-like log, and a Convex-like log. Fourteen hostile mutants each break one law, and the check rejects each one with that law.
Bugs found and fixed
RxDB
Writes did not wait for each other, so a later write could reach RxDB first. Writes now run one at a time per Collection (MUT-10).
A rejected delete rejected with an array of write errors. It now rejects with RxDB's RxError, as a rejected insert does (MUT-2).
An update whose document another tab deleted reported success and persisted nothing. It now rejects with UpdateKeyNotFoundError.
An update that cleared a field sent an empty patch, because JSON drops undefined. TrailBase kept the old value. The adapter now sends null, which clears the column.
Writes did not wait for each other. A write now starts after TrailBase answers the earlier write. It does not wait for the earlier write's change event.
A write accepted any change event on its key as its confirmation. An earlier write's late event could then settle a later write, and the earlier value showed again. The adapter now settles the n-th answered write on a record at the n-th event on that record.
A transaction's requests went out together, so a rejection let the next write start early. The requests now go out one at a time, in mutation order.
With the new confirmation, TrailBase no longer needs its periodic cleanup timer, so this PR drops it. Production size changes by +23 gzip bytes for TrailBase and +66 for RxDB. The typical app bundle does not change.
Decisions this PR records
These maintainer decisions are in docs/contributing/oracle-coverage.md and packages/db-adapter-conformance/MIGRATION.md:
MUT-10's "the earlier write decides" means the provider's answer, not confirmation through sync. Core does not chain independent transactions. With application-written handlers (Electric, Convex), MUT-10 is the application's job.
An update that clears a field holds it as an own undefined in core's optimistic row. The core optimistic-history-oracle now generates such updates and compares rows by own fields.
RxDB keeps incrementalPatch. An update writes the fields it names and keeps the others. This revises the law set's complete-row MUT-8 clause for RxDB.
When an update clears a field, TrailBase does not call that field's serialize function. A NOT NULL column rejects the update.
Limits and follow-ups
The grammar does not generate multi-mutation transactions. The law for a rejection partway through a transaction is also open. trailbase.test.ts holds a supplemental witness for the in-order requests.
Commits by another client arrive only while no write is pending, so the oracle does not check MUT-11. rxdb.test.ts holds a supplemental witness for the deleted-document update.
After a rejected insert or delete, the oracle does not generate the next write on that key. That case depends on the law set's per-adapter unknownKeyUpdate, which no driver declares.
PowerSync declares no held writes or held echoes. A held statement holds the one write lock that the adapter's diff flush also needs.
The drivers use controlled providers, not live services. TrailBase uses a record API double, Electric an HTTP shape log, and Convex a WebSocket server. PowerSync uses real local SQLite, and RxDB real memory storage.
Verification
Each production fix ran first against its parent and failed, then passed after the fix. On the merged head, these suites pass:
Package
Tests
db-adapter-conformance (reference campaigns and mutants)
106 passed
rxdb-db-collection
26 passed
trailbase-db-collection
154 passed
powersync-db-collection
198 passed
electric-db-collection
1245 passed, 4 skipped
convex-db-collection
118 passed
db replay manifest and the optimistic-history and proxy owners
233 passed
Every mutation campaign meets its reach minimum of five histories per declared state, in a fixed-seed run (seed 2118) and a random run.
Where to start in the diff
packages/db-adapter-conformance/src/mutation-oracle.ts: the laws, model, grammar, and check, each with its prose.
packages/db-adapter-conformance/tests/reference-mutation-adapter.ts: the reference adapter and its mutants.
packages/*/tests/mutation-conformance-driver.ts: one receiving driver per adapter.
packages/rxdb-db-collection/src/rxdb.ts and packages/trailbase-db-collection/src/trailbase.ts: the production fixes.
This pull request and its description were written by Isaac.
Summary by CodeRabbit
Bug Fixes
RxDB collection writes now run in order, and later writes proceed after an earlier write succeeds or fails.
Updates to documents deleted before the update runs now fail with UpdateKeyNotFoundError and roll back the optimistic change.
Rejected deletes now report RxDB’s write-error type rather than an array of write errors.
TrailBase confirms each write against its own change event. Writes run in order, and a rejected transaction request prevents later requests from being sent.
Removing a TrailBase field sends null without invoking that field’s serializer; NOT NULL columns still reject the update.
Compatibility
RxDB 17.6.0 or later is required.
Documentation
Clarified TrailBase field-removal behavior and added adapter mutation-conformance guidance.
The core owner's rows had three required fields and its edits only
assigned, so no history removed a field, and its row comparisons used
toEqual, which cannot tell an own undefined from an absent field. Rows now
carry an optional `d` that only edits set; an edit can remove it with
`delete draft.d`, always after an edit that sets it on that key. The model
represents the removal as an own `undefined`, in the row and in `changes`,
the documented rule of proxy-detachment-contract-oracle (maintainer
decision 2026-11-03). Reads, replicas, downstream rows, and the same-tick
optimistic check now compare strictly, and a `removedFieldEdits` count
must be above zero in the fixed campaign's histories.
- No production change: the dimension encodes the existing contract. A
core change that left the removed field absent failed
proxy-detachment-contract-oracle, which led to the decision.
- GREEN: @tanstack/db 30887 passed; the persisted optimistic-history lane
in db-sqlite-persistence-core passes.
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…adapter
A shared oracle for adapters that persist an application's writes:
MUT-1, MUT-2, MUT-8, MUT-10, MUT-13, and FID-5, over auto-transaction
inserts, updates, and deletes on a ready Collection. The model holds the
provider's rows and the pending mutations in author order; MUT-10 lets a
write reach the provider only after the earlier one is decided. A
controlled provider answers each request by a plan the check hands it
first (accept or reject, at once or held until a release), records every
request, and commits changes from other clients. At each cut the check
compares the provider's request log, the public rows, and every
when('settled') outcome; at a quiescent cut it requires the public rows,
collection.base, and the provider's rows to be identical. Publications
compare row values, so core's $hasPendingWrites update is not a change.
The reference adapter persists each write one at a time per Collection,
and its sync run applies the provider's change feed, so an accepted
write's copy commits before the mutation function settles.
- Law: the law set's section 9 and FID-5 (issue #2118).
- Reach: nine declared states, at least five histories each, in the fixed
(seed 2118, 300 histories) and random campaigns.
- Mutants: a copy applied after settling (MUT-1), a swallowed and a
wrapped rejection (MUT-2), a duplicated insert and writes that do not
wait (MUT-10/MUT-13), a skipped delete and changes-only updates (MUT-8),
each rejected with its law.
- Limits: one pending mutation per key; commits from other clients only
while nothing is pending; no manual transactions, MUT-7, schema
validation, or no-op updates; no published adapter driver yet.
ConformanceViolation's history is now `unknown`, so both families use it.
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… value domain
A JSON provider cannot store an own `undefined`, so a field an update
removes is absent from its request and its copy, while core's optimistic
row holds it as an own `undefined`. A driver now declares this with
`undefinedField` (`own` or `absent`), from FID-1's value domain.
With copies that can differ from the authored row, the model must also
follow the glossary's accepted sync transaction: an accepted write's copy
is held while any mutation is persisting, and the write's held optimistic
row stays until it applies. The model now keeps the applied synced rows
and the held rows apart from the provider's rows.
- Law: MUT-1 and MUT-8 under FID-1's value domain; glossary terms
accepted sync transaction and held optimistic row.
- Reach: new states `field-removed` and `held-optimistic-row`, at least
five histories each, in the reference campaigns and a new JSON-provider
campaign.
- RED: before the held-row rule, the JSON-provider fixed campaign failed
MUT-1 (public rows) on a fulfilled removal behind a pending write.
- GREEN: db-adapter-conformance 97 passed.
- Mutant: `echoes-authored-row` (the change feed carries the authored row,
not the stored copy) is rejected with FID-5.
- Limits: the reference provider is the only `absent` calibration.
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A receiving driver runs the RxDB adapter on the shared mutation oracle,
over a real RxDB database on memory storage. Its provider wraps the
storage's `bulkWrite`: it stores JSON documents, as RxDB's persistent
storages do, answers each request by plan, and rejects with a per-row
write error, as schema validation does.
The oracle found two defects. A write reached RxDB while an earlier one
was still pending, so writes could land out of author order. A rejected
delete rejected with an array of write errors instead of an Error. Writes
now run one after another per collection, and a failed delete rejects
with RxDB's RxError, as a failed insert does.
- Law: MUT-10 (law set v18: a write submitted while an earlier one is
pending reaches the backend only after the earlier one decides) and
MUT-2 (a rejection rejects with the provider's error, here the RxError
that wraps the storage's write error).
- Reach: every declared mutation state, at least five histories each, in
the fixed (seed 2118, 300 histories) and random campaigns.
- RED: on the parent rxdb.ts, 38 of the fixed campaign's 300 histories
failed MUT-10 and 24 failed MUT-2; the campaign shrinks to an insert, a
held update, and a second insert that reached RxDB early.
- GREEN: both campaigns pass; rxdb-db-collection 25 passed.
- Mutant: the parent is the hostile mutant for each half of the fix.
- Limits: a `bulkWrite` that throws is not generated. RxDB 17.1.0's
incremental write queue does not catch it, so `incrementalPatch` never
settles; avoiding it needs a maintainer decision (coverage map). No
conflicts (409), and no update of a document another client deleted
while the update was pending.
- Size: rxdb-db-collection +43 gzip bytes. Insert and delete now share one
write-error check; the ordering chain is the remaining cost.
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…om the write
Providers often store something other than what the client wrote: server
defaults, triggers, normalization, a dropped field. A new capability,
`server-rewrites`, lets an accepted insert's or update's plan rewrite the
stored row (upper-case the title, drop `note`, or set `note`). The request
must still carry the authored row (MUT-8); the provider's copy, not the
authored row, is the row's value once it applies (MUT-1, FID-5). A grammar
arm now generates updates without `note`, so field removals are common.
RxDB declares the capability: the driver rewrites through RxDB's
`preInsert` and `preSave` hooks, and its request log keeps the document as
the adapter sent it. RxDB 17.1.0's incremental-write-queue wedge is
pubkey/rxdb#9025, fixed in 17.6.0; the adapter keeps `incrementalPatch`
(maintainer decision 2026-11-03).
- Law: FID-5 and MUT-1 (law set v18): the Collection's state equals the
provider's at a quiescent cut, and the optimistic row gives way to the
provider's copy; MUT-8 for the request.
- Reach: new state `server-rewrote-copy`, 78 to 146 histories of 400 per
seed for the reference adapter; `field-removed` rose from 5 to 20 to 49
to 71 per seed with the new arm. Both reference campaigns and both RxDB
campaigns meet every declared state.
- RED: the reference mutant `writes-back-authored` (the adapter writes the
authored row into its synced rows after the provider accepts) survives
the fixed campaign without the capability.
- GREEN: db-adapter-conformance 98 passed; rxdb-db-collection 25 passed.
- Mutant: `writes-back-authored` fails FID-5 with the capability; RxDB
with no-op hooks fails FID-5 on a `set-note` insert.
- Limits: four rewrites over `title` and `note`; no rewrite of a delete,
no server-generated key, and no rewrite on a commit by another client.
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In RxDB 17.1.0 to 17.5.0, a storage write that throws stops the
incremental write queue (pubkey/rxdb#9025): the throw is an unhandled
rejection, `incrementalPatch` never settles, and every later update on the
collection waits forever. RxDB 17.6.0 fixes it (pubkey/rxdb#9058). The
adapter keeps `incrementalPatch` and its conflict retry, and now requires
RxDB 17.6.0 as its peer and dev dependency (maintainer decision
2026-11-03). The lockfile changes come from RxDB 17.6.0's own
dependencies (graphql 17, graphql-ws 6, ws, @babel/runtime 8).
The mutation oracle can now generate several ways a provider rejects: a
driver declares `rejectionKinds`, the grammar picks one per rejection,
and each kind has a reach state. RxDB declares a per-row write error and
a thrown storage error.
- Law: MUT-2 (a rejection rejects `when('settled')` with the provider's
error) and HEALTH-5 (no unhandled rejection), for every rejection kind.
- Reach: `rejected-as-write-error` and `rejected-as-thrown`, at least five
histories each, with every other declared state, in both RxDB campaigns.
- RED: on RxDB 17.1.0 both campaigns failed HEALTH-5 at an update whose
storage write throws (an unhandled rejection).
- GREEN: on RxDB 17.6.0 both campaigns pass; rxdb-db-collection 25
passed, db-adapter-conformance 98 passed.
- Mutant: RxDB 17.1.0 is the hostile mutant.
- Limits: no conflict (409) rejection; the reference adapter declares no
rejection kinds.
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…sync
TrailBase and PowerSync send updates as changed fields to a SQL service
and confirm each write through their change stream. The mutation oracle
now models both:
- `field-updates` (the law set's MUT-8 clause): an update sends only its
changed fields, as core's `changes` holds them, and the provider merges
them into its row as it is when the write is accepted.
- `undefinedField: 'null'`: a SQL row. A removed field is sent as `null`
and stored as `NULL`, which the provider reports as absent; a complete
row sends every column.
- `held-echoes` and a `deliver` step: the provider can answer an accepted
write before its change feed delivers the copy. Under MUT-7 the
mutation stays pending, holding later writes (MUT-10), until it does.
Requests now compare by the fields they carry. A reach count that
credited a rejected write as `*-accepted` when the driver declares no
rejection kinds is fixed.
- Law: MUT-7, MUT-8 under `field-updates`, MUT-10 (law set v18).
- Reach: new state `echo-held`; a SQL-provider reference campaign meets
every declared state.
- RED/mutant: under the SQL provider, three reference mutants fail: an
update that sends the complete row (MUT-8), one that sends a removal as
JSON as it is so it never arrives (MUT-8), and a mutation function that
settles when the provider answers (MUT-1).
- GREEN: db-adapter-conformance 102 passed; RxDB mutation campaigns pass.
- Limits: no multi-mutation transaction, so no mutation order within one;
no newer backend value in a disjoint field; no server-generated key.
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… fresh events
A receiving driver runs the TrailBase adapter on the shared mutation
oracle. Its RecordApi acts as a TrailBase service with SQL rows: it
records each request as JSON, as the SDK sends it, merges updates field
by field, can rewrite stored rows, and sends change events at once or
after it answers.
The oracle found three defects:
- A removed field (`draft.note = undefined`) was sent as an empty patch,
since JSON drops `undefined`, so the service kept the old value. It is
now sent as `null`, the column's NULL.
- Writes did not wait for the earlier one. They now run in author order;
a write starts at once when no other is admitted.
- `awaitIds` accepted any event for the key within the last 300 seconds,
so an earlier event confirmed a later write and its optimistic row
dropped, showing the old value, before its own event arrived. A write
now waits for an event after it began. Events are recorded only while
a write is admitted and cleared after, which removes the periodic
cleanup timer.
- Law: MUT-8 (field updates send the authored fields), MUT-10, MUT-1 and
MUT-7 (law set v18).
- Reach: every declared mutation state, at least five histories each, in
both campaigns.
- RED: on the parent trailbase.ts, of the fixed campaign's 300 histories,
37 failed MUT-8, 27 failed MUT-10, and 5 failed MUT-1.
- GREEN: both campaigns pass; trailbase-db-collection 154 passed.
- Mutant: restoring the old confirmation fails MUT-1; the parent fails
MUT-8 and MUT-10.
- Test change: three `trailbase.test.ts` cases asserted that the removed
cleanup interval was installed and cleared; those assertions are gone,
and the no-unhandled-rejection and release checks stay.
- Limits: removal by assigning `null` is not generated; the record API
bypasses the SDK's fetch and SSE decoding; multi-mutation transactions
still persist their mutations concurrently.
- Size: trailbase-db-collection -46 gzip bytes.
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…ote-copy
The model counted any accepted copy that differs from its authored row
as `server-rewrote-copy`. Under `undefinedField: 'null'` a removal's copy
differs by the value domain alone (an own `undefined` authored, an absent
field stored), so a driver that declares no `server-rewrites` reached a
state it does not declare, and its campaign failed reach. The count now
needs the plan's rewrite.
- Reach: the reference campaigns still meet `server-rewrote-copy`.
- RED: the PowerSync driver's campaigns failed with "undeclared reach
state server-rewrote-copy".
- GREEN: db-adapter-conformance 102 passed; PowerSync, TrailBase, and
RxDB mutation campaigns pass.
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A receiving driver runs the PowerSync adapter on the shared mutation
oracle over a real local PowerSync database, the adapter's provider.
Each statement the adapter executes on the table is a request; a plan
can reject it (the statement throws and the write transaction rolls
back) or hold it inside the write lock. A held echo holds the change
watcher's next callback, so the adapter's confirmation through its diff
trigger (MUT-7) arrives late.
The oracle found that a write started as soon as the earlier one
committed locally, before the collection had observed it. The law set's
MUT-10 orders a write after the earlier one decides, and counts a
synchronously failed handler as decided before its receipt settles as
the exception, so "decides" is settlement. Each write now starts after
the earlier one on the collection settles.
- Law: MUT-10 (law set v18).
- Reach: every declared mutation state, at least five histories each, in
the fixed (seed 2118, 300 histories) and random campaigns.
- RED: on the parent powersync.ts both campaigns failed MUT-10, shrunk to
an update whose echo is held and an insert that ran before it settled.
- GREEN: both campaigns pass (about 47 s each); powersync-db-collection
198 passed.
- Mutant: the parent is the hostile mutant.
- Limits: the local database rewrites nothing, so no `server-rewrites`;
removal by assigning `null`, multi-mutation transactions, and the
upload queue to a PowerSync service are outside these histories.
- Size: powersync-db-collection +26 gzip bytes, the ordering chain.
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…swers
MUT-10 orders a write after the earlier one decides. The model read that
as the earlier write's settlement, so under confirmation through sync a
write had to wait for the earlier one's copy to arrive. The maintainer
decided (2026-11-03) that "decides" is the provider's answer: core does
not chain independent transactions, and an application that needs that
chains them itself. Waiting for confirmation had made a burst of 50
PowerSync inserts take 1.6 s instead of 31 ms.
The model now treats an answered write as decided, so the next write's
request is owed at once; the answered write stays pending until its
copy arrives (MUT-7). `deliver` delivers the oldest withheld copy, and
`held-echoes` is declared only by a driver that can withhold each
write's copy on its own.
The reference SQL adapter now starts the next write at the provider's
answer and confirms each write by its own commit. Its earlier
confirmation by the highest applied commit confirmed a withheld copy as
soon as a later one applied; that design is now a mutant.
- Law: MUT-10 as decided; MUT-7.
- RED: under the new model the reference SQL adapter failed MUT-1 (a
withheld insert confirmed by a later insert's copy), and the committed
TrailBase, which waits for each event, fails the fixed campaign.
- GREEN: db-adapter-conformance 104 passed.
- Mutants: `chains-on-confirmation` (waits for the earlier copy) fails
MUT-8, a request owed after the answer is missing;
`confirms-by-high-water` fails MUT-1.
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…ponse
Under MUT-10 as decided (a write is decided when the provider answers),
a write waits for the earlier one's HTTP response, not for its change
event. Each write still settles only once the change stream carries its
own ids after it began.
- Law: MUT-10 as decided 2026-11-03; MUT-7.
- RED: the parent, which started a write only after the earlier one's
event, fails the fixed campaign: the next request is missing at the
cut after the answer.
- GREEN: both TrailBase mutation campaigns pass; trailbase-db-collection
153 passed, including the synchronous first request.
- Size: trailbase-db-collection -8 gzip bytes against main.
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…te lock
The previous fix made each PowerSync write wait until the earlier one's
diff trigger had observed it. Under MUT-10 as decided (2026-11-03), a
write is decided when the database answers it, and PowerSync's write
lock already orders its writes, so that wait only slowed bursts (50
inserts: 31 ms before, 1.6 s with it). The adapter is restored as it was;
its changeset was removed in 2cbae92.
The driver no longer declares `held-writes` or `held-echoes`. A held
statement holds the database's one write lock, which the adapter's diff
flush also needs, so it delayed the confirmation of earlier writes, a
coupling the model does not represent; and one watcher callback applies
every committed write, so the driver cannot withhold one write's copy
while a later write proceeds. The propagation step is simpler for it.
- Law: MUT-10 as decided; MUT-7; MUT-8 under `field-updates`.
- GREEN: both PowerSync campaigns pass with no adapter change;
powersync-db-collection 198 passed.
- Mutant: an `applyTransaction` that does not wait for its diff trigger
to observe the write fails MUT-1 at the first insert.
- Limits: no held write or held echo for PowerSync (coverage map).
- Size: powersync-db-collection unchanged against main.
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…s, in-order answers
Electric and Convex do not persist writes: the application's handlers do,
through its own backend, and the adapter confirms them through sync. The
mutation oracle now models those providers:
- `application-handlers`: each write's request goes out when it is made.
The adapter cannot order the application's handlers, and core does not
chain independent transactions, so MUT-10 is the application's
(maintainer decision 2026-11-03).
- `ordered-answers`: the provider answers requests in arrival order, as a
Convex server runs one client's mutations in order.
- `log-ordered-echoes`: the change feed delivers copies in commit order,
as Electric's shape log and Convex's transitions do, so a withheld copy
holds back every later one; `deliver` releases it with the copies
queued behind it.
Writes that settle at one step settle in an order no law fixes, so the
publication check then compares each row's own sequence of values, which
still rejects an earlier synced value or an extra change on any row. A
step that settles one write keeps the whole-sequence comparison. The
reference adapter separates confirmation through sync from SQL rows.
- Law: MUT-1, MUT-7, MUT-10 as decided.
- Reach: new state `echo-queued-behind-withheld`; Electric-like (SQL, log,
application handlers) and Convex-like (JSON, log, application handlers,
in-order answers) reference campaigns meet every declared state.
- RED: a provider whose copies overtake a withheld one fails MUT-7 under
`log-ordered-echoes`; an adapter that orders its writes fails MUT-8
under `application-handlers`; a provider that answers out of order fails
MUT-13 under `ordered-answers`. Before the per-row rule, the Convex-like
campaign failed MUT-1 (publication) where a rejection and an earlier
acceptance settled together in the other order.
- GREEN: db-adapter-conformance 106 passed; the RxDB, TrailBase, and
PowerSync mutation campaigns pass.
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… shape stream
A receiving driver runs the Electric adapter on the shared mutation
oracle. Electric does not persist writes, so the driver supplies the
application: handlers that write the complete SQL row through a backend
API, which answers by plan with the commit's txid, then await the
adapter's `awaitTxId`. The real `ShapeStream` reads a shape log over a
controlled `fetchClient`: each commit is one batch with its txid, in
commit order, and a held echo stalls the log until `deliver`.
- Law: MUT-7 (a handler's confirmation waits for its own transaction in
the shape stream), MUT-1, MUT-2, FID-5; MUT-8 and MUT-10 are the
application's.
- Reach: every declared mutation state, at least five histories each, in
the fixed (seed 2118, 300 histories) and random campaigns, about 15 s
each.
- GREEN: both campaigns pass with no adapter change;
electric-db-collection 1245 passed.
- Mutant: a txid evidence check that accepts any txid fails MUT-1 at the
first insert.
- Limits: one sync run, so no reconnect or must-refetch while a write
waits; `awaitMatch` is not exercised. The documented guidance handlers
stay with `tests/documented-mutations-oracle.test.ts`.
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…lient
A receiving driver runs the Convex adapter on the shared mutation oracle
over the real Convex JavaScript client, whose WebSocket it controls; the
driver plays the server. Convex does not persist writes, so the driver
supplies the application: handlers that call one Convex mutation per
write with the complete row as Convex values. The server runs one
client's mutations in arrival order, answers each by plan, and commits
an acceptance at a new timestamp; its `Transition` carries the query's
complete result after the `MutationResponse`. The client resolves a
mutation only at a transition that reaches its timestamp, so the
transitions are the copies, in commit order, and a held echo stalls them.
- Law: MUT-7 (the wrapped handler settles only once the subscription
holds the result after the mutation), MUT-1, MUT-2, FID-5; MUT-8 and
MUT-10 are the application's.
- Reach: every declared mutation state, at least five histories each, in
the fixed (seed 2118, 300 histories) and random campaigns, about 16 s
each.
- GREEN: both campaigns pass with no adapter change;
convex-db-collection 118 passed.
- Mutant: an adapter that does not await the application's handler fails
MUT-1.
- Limits: an adapter that skips its wait for the source after the handler
survives these histories, which keep one subscription whose result the
client applies before it resolves the mutation; `tests/collection.test.ts`
and the ownership oracle own that cached-listener path and reject the
mutant. JavaScript client only; no reconnect while a mutation waits.
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…ending
Review found that the grammar never let a write follow a pending one on
its key, so a TrailBase write confirmed by an earlier write's late event
on that key was unreachable (R1, R2). The grammar now allows it, with a
`same-key-pending` reach state and an arm that writes one key twice in a
row, behind writes whose plans accept them; for an adapter that does not
order writes, only behind answered ones. After a rejected insert or
delete, the next write on the key depends on the law set's per-adapter
`unknownKeyUpdate`, which no driver declares, so those histories are not
generated.
Same-key histories exposed model gaps, each fixed against its authority:
- every provider keeps one key's copies in commit order, so a copy waits
behind an undelivered one for its key; TrailBase's change stream is in
commit order, so its driver declares `log-ordered-echoes`;
- writes that settle at one step may settle in any order, also on one
key, so the publication check accepts each row value that some subset
of them settled shows, with at most one change per settled write;
- `deliver` records the public rows after each copy it confirms;
- an update removes `note` only when the held row holds a note value (a
held own `undefined` stays), in the model and every writer.
Also from the review: `write-queued-behind-held` counts only a write an
ordering adapter holds back behind a held request (R5), and a fixture's
`drain` runs before cleanup, since cleanup closes the stream a later
drain would use (R7).
- RED: with same-key histories the TrailBase campaigns fail MUT-1 and
MUT-7 on unchanged production (an update or a delete confirmed by an
earlier write's event on its key).
- GREEN: db-adapter-conformance 106 passed; RxDB, PowerSync, Electric,
and Convex campaigns pass with same-key histories.
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A write waited for any change event on its key after it began. Since a
write now starts once the earlier one is answered, the earlier write's
event can still be in flight, so it confirmed the later write and the
later write's optimistic row dropped, showing the earlier value, before
its own event arrived. Each answered write on a key produces one event
there, in order, so the adapter now numbers this client's answered
writes per key and confirms the n-th by the n-th event on that key.
- Law: MUT-1 and MUT-7 (law set v18).
- RED: with same-key histories, both TrailBase mutation campaigns failed
MUT-1 (an update's optimistic row dropped at the earlier insert's event)
and MUT-7 (a delete settled at the earlier insert's event).
- GREEN: both campaigns pass; trailbase-db-collection 153 passed.
- Mutant: the parent, confirming by any event after the write began, is
the hostile mutant.
- Limits: an event from another client on the key while a write is
pending would still count (MUT-11, outside these histories).
- Size: +19 gzip bytes over the parent for the per-key numbering;
trailbase-db-collection is +11 against main.
Coverage map: corrects prose that said MUT-7 was unchecked and that
TrailBase waited for settlement, and records the same-key rules.
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onUpdate and onDelete sent every request of a transaction at once with
Promise.all. When one was rejected, the transaction's send failed at
once, so the next write started while a sibling request was still
unanswered, against MUT-10, and the requests were unordered, against
MUT-8. They now go out one at a time in mutation order, and a rejection
ends the transaction there.
- Law: MUT-8 (mutation order within a transaction) and MUT-10 (law set
v18).
- RED: the new `trailbase.test.ts` witness failed on the parent: the next
write's request started before row 2's request was answered.
- GREEN: trailbase-db-collection 154 passed.
- Limits: the mutation oracle generates no multi-mutation transactions,
so this is a supplemental witness; generating them, and the law for a
rejection partway through a transaction, are a recorded follow-up
(maintainer decision 2026-11-03).
- Size: +12 gzip bytes; trailbase-db-collection is +23 against main.
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onUpdate skipped a mutation whose document `findOne` no longer found and
fulfilled, so an update whose document another client deleted while the
update waited was silently lost and reported as persisted. It now rejects
with core's `UpdateKeyNotFoundError`, so the optimistic change rolls back
(maintainer decision 2026-11-03: reject rather than recreate the row).
- Law: MUT-2 and MUT-13 (a handler's settlement reports whether it
persisted); MUT-11 composes the other client's delete with it.
- RED: the new `rxdb.test.ts` witness failed on the parent: the receipt
resolved instead of rejecting.
- GREEN: rxdb-db-collection 26 passed (the RxDB random mutation campaign
can fail on a separate, pre-existing finding; see the coverage map).
- Limits: commits by another client while a write is pending are not
generated by the mutation oracle (MUT-11), so this is a supplemental
witness.
- Size: rxdb-db-collection +23 gzip bytes over the parent (the error
import and throw).
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Same-key histories found that RxDB's `incrementalPatch` keeps a stored
field an update does not name: a held insert stored with a server-set
`note`, then an update authored over the optimistic row without one, left
the note in place (random seed 371775937, MUT-8). The maintainer kept
that behavior (2026-11-03), revising the law set's complete-row MUT-8
clause for RxDB.
A new capability, `merged-updates`: an update's stored row, and its write
as the provider stores it, is the authored row merged into the
provider's row. A grammar arm stores a field the client has not seen,
from a held write's rewrite, before an update that does not name it,
which also checks that complete-row adapters drop it.
- Law: MUT-8 as revised for RxDB; FID-5.
- Reach: new state `merge-kept-field`, 7 to 13 of 300 histories per seed
for RxDB; all other declared states still met.
- RED: the seed failed MUT-8 before the mode.
- GREEN: the seed replays clean; RxDB, TrailBase, PowerSync, Electric,
Convex, and the reference campaigns pass.
- Mutant: an RxDB update that replaces the row through `incrementalModify`
fails MUT-8.
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An update that removes a field sends `null`, which clears the column,
without calling that field's `serialize` conversion; a NOT NULL column
rejects it (maintainer decision 2026-11-03). Documented in the collection
guide and on the `serialize` option.
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Behavior-preserving cleanups the prep review proposed and the maintainer
accepted:
- the model reads a plan's `echoHeld` instead of a copied `withheld`
field (S1);
- the check's reach updates live in one helper, and its write index and
write count come from the receipts (S2, S3);
- a `WriteStep` alias replaces four `Extract`s, and grammar arms lose a
branch that never ran (S4);
- reach states declare the capabilities they need in one table (S5);
- `stepModel` names the public rows `rows`, not `held`, a glossary term
(S6); the core optimistic-history oracle computes its removal
condition once (S7);
- one exported `acceptAtOnce`, an optional `release` tied to
`held-writes`, the check's unsettled-receipt count passed to a
fixture's `settle`, and a shared `settleWhenQuiet` helper replace the
drivers' copies and their `track` wrappers (S8); a dead `?? null`
and Electric's shift-then-unshift go (S9, S10).
- GREEN: db-adapter-conformance 106, rxdb 26, trailbase 154, powersync
198, electric 1245, convex 118 passed.
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The TrailBase changeset now covers the in-order transaction requests and
that a removal does not call the field's serializer.
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This pull request adds a shared property-based oracle for collection mutations and drivers for five adapters. It changes RxDB and TrailBase write handling, extends optimistic-history coverage for field removal, and registers and documents the conformance campaigns.
Changes: Mutation conformance
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Summary
Removed-field model and shared mutation oracle packages/db/tests/optimistic-history-oracle.ts, packages/db-adapter-conformance/src/*
The optimistic-history model now generates and checks removed-field edits. The mutation oracle models adapter capabilities, generated histories, requests, settlements, row publications, and quiescent state.
The reference driver supports provider modes, planned outcomes, ordering, rewrites, and confirmation. Property campaigns test provider variants and check injected mutants against expected laws.
RxDB serializes writes, converts storage errors to RxDB errors, and rejects updates for missing documents. TrailBase serializes writes, confirms them through per-key change events, sends removed fields as null, and sends transaction mutations sequentially.
Adapter mutation drivers and campaigns packages/powersync-db-collection/tests/mutation-conformance-*, packages/rxdb-db-collection/tests/mutation-conformance-*, packages/electric-db-collection/tests/mutation-conformance-*, packages/trailbase-db-collection/tests/mutation-conformance-*, packages/convex-db-collection/tests/mutation-conformance-*
Drivers connect five adapters to the shared oracle. Their property campaigns run generated mutation histories and check reachability.
Coverage registration and records packages/db/tests/oracle-config.ts, packages/db/tests/oracle-replay-manifest.ts, docs/contributing/oracle-coverage.md, packages/db-adapter-conformance/MIGRATION.md
The properties are registered for oracle execution and replay. The documentation and migration log record the covered laws, adapter results, behavior, and limits.
TanStack/db#2244: The Electric driver checks confirmation through awaitTxId, but does not model the scoped move-in snapshot scenario described in the issue.
TanStack/db#2118: This pull request implements part of the proposed shared adapter conformance oracle. Settlement, cancellation, readiness, reset, and ownership laws remain outside this change.
Suggested reviewers:obeattie
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The campaign can pass without exercising optimistic field removal. Strengthen its reach tracking before relying on that coverage.
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Comparing 10c609ad6 (this PR) against 8feab6ea3 (base). Write times are per-write medians over 100 iterations (20 warmup writes). Cold hydrate is one timed first load of each query.
Overall median write time vs base: 0.97× · cold hydrate time: 1.00× (geometric mean of per-case ratios; lower is faster).
Writes: 1 regression(s), 3 improvement(s) (threshold: ±20% and >0.05ms).
Cold hydrate: 1 regression(s), 0 improvement(s) (threshold: ±50% and >5ms).
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Each row aggregates the 14.4 scale/index/write-mode configurations of that query; per-configuration tables below.
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- Line 75: Update the transaction coverage statement in the migration guide to
clarify that the mutation oracle does not currently generate manual or
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- Line 600: Update the write-confirmation description in the migration document
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The mangle check rejects `instance` outside packages/db, because core's
minified build mangles a private member with that name. The RxDB
mutation driver's field is now `storageInstance`.
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- The removed-field reach came from a 40-history sample of the fixed
seed, so the random campaign's reach was never measured (ORC-015). Both
optimistic-history campaigns now declare `removed-held-field` with a
minimum of five histories and assert it after the campaign; a path
replay skips the assertion. The sampled test is gone.
- MIGRATION.md's plan said the grammar generates manual transactions and
same-key commits by another client. It now says those are planned
extensions. The TrailBase log entry now records the per-key numbered
confirmation that replaced "any event after the write began".
- GREEN: collection-state-retention-oracle and oracle-replay, 189 passed;
removal reach met in three runs of each campaign.
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removedFieldEdits also counts non-optimistic removals. A non-optimistic removal can follow an optimistic edit that supplied d, increment the counter, and leave the earlier optimistic row visible. The reach requirement can therefore pass without exposing an optimistic row with an own undefined field. Count only optimistic removals.
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A shared mutation oracle now checks that each sync adapter persists an application's writes faithfully and settles each write at the right time. It runs against RxDB, TrailBase, PowerSync, Electric, and Convex. The oracle found seven write bugs in RxDB and TrailBase, and this PR fixes them. PowerSync, Electric, and Convex pass with no adapter change.
What the oracle checks
An application writes to a Collection with
insert,update, anddelete. Core shows the optimistic state at once, and the adapter's mutation function persists the write to the provider. The oracle checks the laws every such adapter owes (law set v18, section 9):when('settled')with the provider's error, and the optimistic state rolls back.collection.base), and the provider's rows are identical.The oracle holds a small independent model of the provider and of core's optimistic state. Its grammar generates histories of writes, held answers, withheld copies, and commits by other clients. Before each write, the check gives the provider a plan: accept or reject, at once or held. Then it compares the provider's request log, the public rows, and every settlement with the model at each cut.
Each driver declares what its provider can do, and the grammar uses only those capabilities. The table shows the declarations that differ between adapters.
merged-updates)field-updates)held-echoes)field-updates)awaitTxIdon the shape logA reference adapter calibrates the check in five provider configurations: structured clone, JSON, SQL, an Electric-like log, and a Convex-like log. Fourteen hostile mutants each break one law, and the check rejects each one with that law.
Bugs found and fixed
RxDB
RxError, as a rejected insert does (MUT-2).UpdateKeyNotFoundError.TrailBase
undefined. TrailBase kept the old value. The adapter now sendsnull, which clears the column.With the new confirmation, TrailBase no longer needs its periodic cleanup timer, so this PR drops it. Production size changes by +23 gzip bytes for TrailBase and +66 for RxDB. The typical app bundle does not change.
Decisions this PR records
These maintainer decisions are in
docs/contributing/oracle-coverage.mdandpackages/db-adapter-conformance/MIGRATION.md:undefinedin core's optimistic row. The coreoptimistic-history-oraclenow generates such updates and compares rows by own fields.incrementalPatch. An update writes the fields it names and keeps the others. This revises the law set's complete-row MUT-8 clause for RxDB.serializefunction. ANOT NULLcolumn rejects the update.Limits and follow-ups
trailbase.test.tsholds a supplemental witness for the in-order requests.rxdb.test.tsholds a supplemental witness for the deleted-document update.unknownKeyUpdate, which no driver declares.Verification
Each production fix ran first against its parent and failed, then passed after the fix. On the merged head, these suites pass:
db-adapter-conformance(reference campaigns and mutants)rxdb-db-collectiontrailbase-db-collectionpowersync-db-collectionelectric-db-collectionconvex-db-collectiondbreplay manifest and the optimistic-history and proxy ownersEvery mutation campaign meets its reach minimum of five histories per declared state, in a fixed-seed run (seed 2118) and a random run.
Where to start in the diff
packages/db-adapter-conformance/src/mutation-oracle.ts: the laws, model, grammar, and check, each with its prose.packages/db-adapter-conformance/tests/reference-mutation-adapter.ts: the reference adapter and its mutants.packages/*/tests/mutation-conformance-driver.ts: one receiving driver per adapter.packages/rxdb-db-collection/src/rxdb.tsandpackages/trailbase-db-collection/src/trailbase.ts: the production fixes.Refs #2118
This pull request and its description were written by Isaac.
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UpdateKeyNotFoundErrorand roll back the optimistic change.nullwithout invoking that field’s serializer;NOT NULLcolumns still reject the update.