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On-demand Query Collections now keep cache ownership and post-write readiness correct across shared QueryClients, co-owners, deferred cleanup, request reuse, error recovery, cache replacement, cancellation, and custom query hashes. Manual writes remain immediately visible, while only an authoritative provider fetch that started after the write may replace them.

Root cause

The original direct-write fix coupled authority to this collection's wrapped queryFn and recursively refetched until that wrapper reported completion. That excluded successful foreign/shared fetches, treated cancelled raw promises as authoritative, retained stale Query identity after cache replacement, and could retry forever after errors. Its write path also skipped unobserved prefetched or hydrated sibling scopes and scanned the whole QueryClient.

Approach

  • Observe Query Cache fetch and success actions and assign a shared fetch-start epoch.
  • Require a successful fetch whose start epoch is later than the manual write, preserving the pre-write request-reuse boundary.
  • Share authority and cache-owner identity across Query Collections which own the same Query while keeping unrelated collections isolated.
  • Recheck the observer's current Query after settlement so cache removal/replacement cannot strand authority on a retired object.
  • Bound post-write refetching: one normal attempt and at most one follow-up for a reused or reverted request; errors terminate the attempt.
  • Track relevant cache entries as they are added and removed, then operate directly on those Query objects.
  • Remove unobserved matching sibling scopes so prefetched, hydrated, and setQueryData entries cannot retain ghost rows.
  • Lazily materialize the normalized collection snapshot so on-demand writes do not allocate data they never use.

Key invariants

  • A fetch started before a manual write cannot establish post-write authority.
  • Foreign/shared successes count; cancellation, reversion, and errors do not.
  • Query replacement cannot create a refetch loop or readiness hang.
  • One collection does not refetch or remove a Query owned by another collection.
  • Unobserved matching scopes are evicted after a manual write.
  • Overlapping writes remain bounded.

RED/GREEN evidence

The external-review evaluation reproduced the failures with controlled probes before implementation. Permanent oracle regressions now cover:

  • a failed post-write refetch stopping at exactly one attempt;
  • overlapping writes producing exactly three starts and one abort;
  • successful foreign fetches satisfying readiness;
  • cache clear/replacement completing with exactly one replacement fetch;
  • cancellation/reversion requiring another authoritative fetch;
  • unobserved sibling eviction;
  • zero whole-cache scans and zero normalized-snapshot materializations on the on-demand path.

Existing cross-collection isolation, disabled-observer, deferred cleanup, pre-write request-reuse, custom-hash, reset, and error-recovery regressions remain green.

Final verification:

pnpm --filter @tanstack/query-db-collection test:oracles -- --pool-options.threads.maxThreads=2
pnpm --filter @tanstack/query-db-collection test -- --pool-options.threads.maxThreads=2
pnpm --filter @tanstack/query-db-collection lint
pnpm --filter @tanstack/query-db-collection build
git diff --check

All commands pass with no type errors.

Closes #1497.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved direct-write cache handling for on-demand collections by revalidating active queries and removing inactive or disabled entries.
    • Isolated cache ownership across collections to prevent unrelated queries from being modified or removed.
    • Improved handling of write-triggered refetches, errors, cancellations, custom query hashes, and remounts.
  • Documentation

    • Clarified direct-write behavior in eager and on-demand sync modes, including refetch controls and query function guidance.

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The PR changes on-demand direct writes from broad cache patching to scoped revalidation. It adds fetch-start authority tracking, ownership-aware cleanup, lazy synced-data reads, lifecycle tests, and documentation for eager and on-demand modes.

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Query cache revalidation

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Contracts and documentation
.changeset/*, docs/collections/query-collection.md, docs/reference/query-db-collection/interfaces/QueryCollectionUtils.md, packages/query-db-collection/src/manual-sync.ts, packages/query-db-collection/src/query.ts
Documentation and JSDoc describe mode-specific direct-write behavior. SyncContext.updateCacheData receives a lazy synced-data getter.
Post-write authority tracking
packages/query-db-collection/src/query.ts
Queries record fetch starts, required post-write fetches, cache ownership, and manual-write snapshots. Result handling applies data only after post-write authority is established.
Ownership and cache updates
packages/query-db-collection/src/query.ts
On-demand writes revalidate active enabled owned queries, preserve shared queries, remove inactive owned entries, and use tracked queries for eager cache patches.
Revalidation and ownership tests
packages/query-db-collection/tests/query.test.ts, packages/query-db-collection/tests/ownership-lifecycle.oracle.test.ts
Tests cover scoped isolation, shared observers, custom hashes, cleanup, deferred barriers, errors, resets, remounts, and authoritative post-write results.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~90 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

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sequenceDiagram
  participant QueryCollectionUtils
  participant updateCacheData
  participant Query
  participant queryFunction
  participant handleQueryResult
  QueryCollectionUtils->>updateCacheData: process direct write
  updateCacheData->>Query: require post-write authority
  updateCacheData->>queryFunction: refetch active enabled scope
  queryFunction-->>Query: return post-write result
  Query->>handleQueryResult: notify result
  handleQueryResult->>Query: apply authoritative data
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Long-lived collections that load many distinct subsets can retain stale cache-authority markers after those subsets are unloaded. This is a bounded performance and memory concern rather than a demonstrated functional failure.

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Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The code, tests, documentation, and changeset changes directly support query cache ownership and post-write revalidation.
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely identifies the primary change: isolating query cache lifecycle ownership for query-db-collection.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed Issue #1497 requires on-demand direct writes to preserve each predicate-, order-, limit-, and pagination-scoped cache shape. query.ts now tracks actual Query ownership, rebuilds tracking when sync s…
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818-819: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Reclaim per-hash state only after its lifecycle ends.

The maps accumulate per hash, but cleanupQueryInternal does not prove that a hash is finished. A deferred refetch still compares postWriteRefetchGenerations, and a replacement Query may still need requiredFetchStarts to reject cached data from before the write. The shared WeakMap protects the same Query object, but not every replacement Query.

Keep requiredFetchStarts until an authoritative fetch succeeds or the hash can no longer remount or be replaced with cached data. Keep postWriteRefetchGenerations until all callbacks for that generation settle. Per-query cleanup is not a safe reclamation point.

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In `@packages/query-db-collection/src/query.ts` around lines 818 - 819, Move
reclamation of requiredFetchStarts and postWriteRefetchGenerations out of
cleanupQueryInternal; retain requiredFetchStarts through authoritative fetch
completion or until the hash can no longer remount or accept cached data, and
retain postWriteRefetchGenerations until every callback for its generation has
settled. Ensure replacement Query instances and deferred refetch callbacks still
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In `@packages/query-db-collection/src/query.ts`:
- Around line 818-819: Move reclamation of requiredFetchStarts and
postWriteRefetchGenerations out of cleanupQueryInternal; retain
requiredFetchStarts through authoritative fetch completion or until the hash can
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The review reproduced one cache-tracking gap: a sibling entry prefetched after collection construction but before sync starts survives a manual delete. I am adding a focused startup/restart regression and fixing tracking initialization on this branch, then will rerun the ownership checks before approval.

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Reviewed the original changes and the cache-start follow-up. Delayed startup and restart regressions now pass, along with all 283 Query Collection tests and standalone types. The fix rebuilds tracking once per sync start and preserves the no-scan manual-write path. Approved; waiting for the new CI run before merging.

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