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Problem

On Appwrite Cloud (database 8.3.12), a Redis reply that misses the 0.1s readTimeout still turns writes into 500s. All three groups still firing on 1.51.40 fail after the commit, so the client sees a 500 for a write that is stored, and queue workers (e.g. worker.certificates, attempt 1 of 5) run it again:

Sentry	Throws from	Last 24h
CLOUD-3R97 Cache purge … could not be confirmed	purgeWrittenDocuments() after commit	~60
CLOUD-3R95 Cache purge … could not be confirmed	publishDocumentCacheEpoch() → definition purge, after commit	~30
CLOUD-3R8D / 3R8J Failed to activate document cache epoch	publishDocumentCacheEpoch() save, after commit	~10

Each is Utopia\Cache\Adapter\Redis\TimeoutException: Timed out waiting for Redis response after 0.100s underneath.

Fix

After the commit (invalidateCommitted()): throwing cannot undo the write, and every step already leaves the cache fail-closed when it cannot be confirmed (#1042: a tombstone left in place lapses into a new epoch, never back to the old one). So:

• each step is retried: the document purge, the owner release, the #finished purge, the epoch save and the definition purge
• a step that still fails is logged with Console::warning, not thrown
• purgeWrittenDocuments() reports a failure only when the epoch fallback could not cover it, and stops retrying per document once the cache is unreachable, so a large batch does not pay the backoff for every row
• purge events still fire after the commit, and a listener failure still reaches the caller as a committed failure

Before the commit: a document purge that outlasts its retries used to refuse the write. It now blocks the collection's epoch, the marker #1042 showed is the one that guarantees no stale read after recovery. A write is refused only when that fails too, as during a real outage (testAWriteTheCacheCannotInvalidateIsRolledBack still holds). A collection already blocked in the scope skips the per-document retries.

#finished is never counted twice: the finish purge is retried only while the generation is unchanged, re-read before each retry, so a purge that timed out but landed is not repeated.

Tests

New in CacheUnavailableTest, all red on main, green here:

• testAWritePastThePurgeRetriesCommitsBehindATombstone (update, update in a transaction): 3 failed purges no longer refuse the write, and the old document is not served
• testAPurgeFailingAfterTheCommitRetiresTheCollectionInstead: now also asserts the stored write is not reported as failed
• testACommittedWriteWhoseEpochCannotBePublishedStaysFailClosed: the CLOUD-3R8D path; the write succeeds and refills never cache the old document
• testAnEpochPublishBlipAfterTheCommitIsRetried: a 2-save blip still publishes a fresh epoch

The tests that asserted a post-commit cache failure reaches the caller (DocumentCacheEpochTest, Cache\DatabaseTest, CoreMinorsTest, CreateCollectionCleanupTest, DocumentPurgeTest, DocumentCacheInvalidationTest) now assert the write succeeds. Their fail-closed assertions (stays uncached, keeps its table/index, purge events fire, never serves a pre-commit fill) are unchanged and pass. AbandoningCache now loses every release of the abandoned registration, since one lost purge is now retried.

Checks

• Unit suite (13,128 tests via paratest): passes except BaseAdapterStateTest::testAKeyThePatternEngineCannotFilterIsAnError and SwooleAbsentTest. Both fail identically on unmodified main on my machine because it has ext-redis and ext-swoole loaded.
• Pint passes; PHPStan passes with both configs.

Not changed

The block path (blockDocumentCacheEpoch) still refuses a write whose tombstone cannot be placed. It has had no events since 8.3.11 added retries.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Database writes now report success when the data has committed, even if a subsequent cache update fails.
  • Improved cache recovery helps prevent outdated document data from being served after a write, while allowing other cache invalidation steps to continue.
  • Brief cache failures are retried where possible; unresolved failures no longer undo or misreport an already-committed write.

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📝 Walkthrough

Document-cache operations now retry purges and epoch updates, with collection-epoch fallback after purge failures. After a transaction commits, document and query cache invalidation failures are logged and do not stop later steps. Purge-event announcement failures can still be reported.

Changes: Post-commit cache invalidation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Document-cache retries and epoch fallback src/Database/Trait/Documents.php, tests/unit/Cache/DatabaseTest.php, tests/unit/Cache/UnavailableCache.php, tests/unit/Documents/*	Document-cache purges, owner releases, and epoch operations now use retries or verification. Failed document purges can advance a collection epoch. Tests cover writes, reads, owner registration, and simulated cache failures.
Committed transaction invalidation src/Database/Database.php, src/Database/Trait/Transactions.php, tests/unit/CoreMinorsTest.php, tests/unit/CreateCollectionCleanupTest.php, tests/unit/Event/DocumentPurgeTest.php	Post-commit document purging and document and query cache invalidation run in order. Failures are logged, and later invalidation steps continue. Tests expect committed writes to succeed despite cache-invalidation failures.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant withInvalidationScope
  participant invalidateCommitted
  participant DocumentCache
  participant QueryCache
  participant PurgeEvents
  withInvalidationScope->>invalidateCommitted: Run post-commit invalidation
  invalidateCommitted->>DocumentCache: Purge documents and invalidate document cache
  invalidateCommitted->>QueryCache: Invalidate query cache
  invalidateCommitted-->>withInvalidationScope: Log failures and continue
  withInvalidationScope->>PurgeEvents: Announce queued purge events

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to ed301

Writes remain protected against stale query results, but a cache outage can delay responses after commit. The reader-fill regression test also needs a longer failure fixture to protect its intended fallback path. These are bounded follow-ups rather than a demonstrated reason to block the merge.

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src/Database/Trait/Documents.php: 1

3921-3928: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Share cache reachability across post-commit activation.

withRetries() makes three attempts and sleeps 100 ms and 200 ms between retryable failures. activateDocumentInvalidation() continues through every collection token after an activation failure. Each activation can run multiple retry groups for owner release, #finished completion, epoch publication, and definition purging.

A cache outage can therefore add at least 300 ms per retry group for every remaining collection, in addition to cache-operation latency. Carry reachability through post-commit activation after a retry group exhausts its attempts. Keep the owner-release load check and the #finished/epoch verification on the remaining attempt. These checks preserve fail-closed behavior and determine whether a purge landed.

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Review comment at @src/Database/Trait/Documents.php around lines 3921 - 3928:
Update post-commit activation in activateDocumentInvalidation to carry cache
reachability across retry groups, so an exhausted group prevents repeated retry
delays for later cache operations. Preserve the owner-release load check and the
#finished/epoch verification on the remaining attempt, since they determine
whether activation and purging completed.

tests/unit/Documents/DocumentCacheInvalidationTest.php: 1

246-246: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Keep the refusal active through the post-commit retry.

The callback refuses only one purge. purgeWrittenDocuments() retries the purge up to three times, so the retry can succeed before the epoch fallback runs. The test can therefore pass without covering the failed-purge path. The related tests do not cover this paused-commit reader-fill scenario.

🐛 Suggested fix

-/** @var bool $refusing */
-$refusing = false;
-$cache = $this->purgeRefusingCache(static function () use (&$refusing): bool {
-    $refused = $refusing;
-    $refusing = false;
-
-    return $refused;
+/** @var int $refusals */
+$refusals = 0;
+$cache = $this->purgeRefusingCache(static function () use (&$refusals): bool {
+    if ($refusals === 0) {
+        return false;
+    }
+    $refusals--;
+
+    return true;
 });
 // ...
-$adapter->pauseNextCommit(function () use ($reader, &$duringCommit, &$refusing): void {
+$adapter->pauseNextCommit(function () use ($reader, &$duringCommit, &$refusals): void {
     $duringCommit = $reader->getDocument('webhooks', 'hook')->getAttribute('name');
-    $refusing = true;
+    $refusals = 3;
 });

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Review comment at @tests/unit/Documents/DocumentCacheInvalidationTest.php at
line 246:
Update the paused-commit reader-fill test so its purge refusal remains active
for all three retries in purgeWrittenDocuments(), rather than refusing only
once. Use the refusal callback in purgeRefusingCache() and the pauseNextCommit()
setup to ensure the purge fails through the retry sequence and the epoch
fallback is exercised.

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Nitpick comments:
Review comments at @src/Database/Trait/Documents.php:
- Around line 3921-3928: Update post-commit activation in
activateDocumentInvalidation to carry cache reachability across retry groups, so
an exhausted group prevents repeated retry delays for later cache operations.
Preserve the owner-release load check and the #finished/epoch verification on
the remaining attempt, since they determine whether activation and purging
completed.

Review comments at @tests/unit/Documents/DocumentCacheInvalidationTest.php:
- Line 246: Update the paused-commit reader-fill test so its purge refusal
remains active for all three retries in purgeWrittenDocuments(), rather than
refusing only once. Use the refusal callback in purgeRefusingCache() and the
pauseNextCommit() setup to ensure the purge fails through the retry sequence and
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• src/Database/Database.php
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• src/Database/Trait/Transactions.php
• tests/unit/Cache/DatabaseTest.php
• tests/unit/Cache/UnavailableCache.php
• tests/unit/CoreMinorsTest.php
• tests/unit/CreateCollectionCleanupTest.php
• tests/unit/Documents/CacheUnavailableTest.php
• tests/unit/Documents/DocumentCacheEpochTest.php
• tests/unit/Documents/DocumentCacheInvalidationTest.php
• tests/unit/Event/DocumentPurgeTest.php

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