feat(query-db): add cached opaque cursor pagination - #1824
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Reuse Query's infinite-page cache to satisfy offset/limit windows without refetching fresh prefixes. Keep existing peek-ahead and core behavior unchanged. Protect the internal page shape from inherited defaults and preserve cancellation rejection during growth and refresh. Add full-relation and cache-history oracles, real QueryCollection window integration, and retained test-only no-peek experiments. Record the scope decisions and red/green review evidence.
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Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes Change: Feature · Severity of issue fixed: Medium Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant QueryCollection
participant CursorPager
participant QueryClient
participant Backend
QueryCollection->>CursorPager: read(offset, limit)
CursorPager->>QueryClient: acquire cached page sequence
QueryClient->>Backend: fetchPage(cursor, signal)
Backend-->>QueryClient: rows and nextCursor
QueryClient-->>CursorPager: return sliced window
CursorPager-->>QueryCollection: publish rows
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In `@packages/query-db-collection/tests/cursor-pagination.cache-oracle.test.ts`:
- Around line 290-292: Update both late-page fence assertions in the test,
including the assertion near the earlier referenced location, to synchronize
with transport completion: set a marker after the held fetch callback resumes,
await that marker, then yield a macrotask before checking the cache. Replace the
fixed Promise.resolve flushes while preserving the expected undefined cache
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In `@packages/query-db-collection/tests/cursor-pagination.integration.test.ts`:
- Line 46: Update the backend setup around createBackend so each backend
instance uses a unique token namespace rather than resetting into a reusable
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| queryKey: [`cursor-experiment`, scope, `opaque-pages`, rank ?? null], | ||
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| if (cursor === undefined) transport = makeBackend() |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Use a unique token namespace for each backend sequence.
createBackend resets its token serial and private token map for every new backend. The refreshed backend can therefore accept a continuation token from the previous sequence as its own token. The refresh assertions compare rows and pagination state, but they do not reject this cross-sequence reuse. The pager’s duplicate-cursor check only covers repetition within the current sequence. Give each backend instance a unique token namespace and assert that the refreshed sequence rejects tokens from the previous sequence.
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In `@packages/query-db-collection/tests/cursor-pagination.integration.test.ts` at
line 46, Update the backend setup around createBackend so each backend instance
uses a unique token namespace rather than resetting into a reusable namespace.
Extend the refresh assertions to verify that the refreshed backend rejects a
continuation token issued by the previous backend sequence, while preserving the
existing row and pagination-state checks.
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Extend the cache oracle with held-growth refresh, malformed final cursors, shared waiters, retries, recovery, and bounded slice work. Validate continuations before Query publishes cache data and collect only requested rows. Document cancellation before prefix invalidation for forced refresh.
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Reviewed the current head and accept the documented cursor API tradeoffs: sequential windows, full loaded-prefix refresh, separate page-cache keys, and reader versus transport cancellation. All 120 cursor tests and standalone types passed locally; the combined cursor/cache-ownership run also passed 168 tests. CI is green. Approved.
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createCursorPagerto Query DB Collection so opaque-cursor endpoints can fulfill DB's offset/limit requests. Fresh page growth reuses cached pages and fetches only the missing suffix.This fully closes #863 with the chosen design: cached cursor loading over Query's cache, retaining N+1. The broader collection-metadata/no-peek proposal is intentionally not pursued, not deferred work needed to finish the issue.
Approach and contracts
['posts', 'rows']and['posts', 'pages', scope]. For a forced refresh, cancel the shared resource prefix, then invalidate it. Invalidation alone can join an old append and mark stale data fresh;utils.refetch()alone can reuse fresh pages.nextCursor: nullmeans exhaustion. Short or empty nonterminal pages continue loading; malformed or repeated continuations fail before cache publication. Preserve the full raw page prefix despite inheritedmaxPagesorselectdefaults.AbortError, not Query's internal control error that can strand an enclosing row query. Silent cancelling refetches move waiters to the replacement. Browser and server acquisition phases use the same resolved retry policy.Trade-offs and non-goals
Stale reads refresh the entire loaded prefix, even for a shallow window. Query's freshness clock includes successful page growth; inactive page-cache GC can run while outer collection rows remain visible. Applications translate filters/order and supply a stable, totally ordered backend sequence—TTL does not create snapshot consistency.
Keep N+1. No metadata API, new D2 graph, total counts, previous-page API or offset-to-cursor jump. No-peek experiments remain test-only evidence. Core and framework hooks are unchanged.
Verification
The independent reference filters, sorts and slices a complete relation. Generated histories exercise real Query caches and QueryCollection/window-controller paths, including ties, defaults, expiry, cancellation, replacement, recovery and manual writes. Review-driven oracle extensions reproduced bugs before fixes; a no-op cache-write mutant also fails because preserving page contents alone still clears invalidation. Refresh checks cover both new pagers and reads queued on a retained pager.
Receipts for
cbc987a5b, based onmainat3b991173f(Query Core 5.90.20):no-shadowwarnings in unchanged code.Actual commands from
packages/query-db-collection, with core and db-ivm built:../../node_modules/.bin/vitest run --typecheck.enabled=false --maxWorkers=2 TANSTACK_DB_ORACLE_RUNS_MULTIPLIER=100 TANSTACK_DB_ORACLE_SEED=863 \ ../../node_modules/.bin/vitest run tests/cursor-pagination*.test.ts \ --typecheck.enabled=false --maxWorkers=1 --testTimeout=60000 ../../node_modules/.bin/tsc --noEmit -p tsconfig.json ../../node_modules/.bin/vite buildIdentical browser-ESM/esbuild/ES2020 diagnostic imports at this head:
queryCollectionOptionsalone is 46,655 minified / 15,000 gzip bytes; adding the pager is 52,079 / 17,017 (+5,424 / +2,017). These are opt-in import measurements, not universal application bundle sizes.cursor-pagination.tsandindex.tsimplement/export the helper;query.tscontains the small raw-cache guard. The guide explains integration. Oracle suites, fixtures and replay registration carry the evidence. The suite README and loss audit preserve red/green receipts and limits. The tests do not establish arbitrary endpoint consistency or framework rendering behavior.✅ Checklist
pnpm testlauncher; types checked separately.🚀 Release Impact
.changeset/add-cached-cursor-pagination.mdcovers@tanstack/query-db-collectionas a patch, per maintainer decision.Closes #863