fix(client-engine-runtime): refuse statements on a transaction once it starts closing

[kensac]

Fixes #29762

Problem

When a transaction times out while a query is still running, the query keeps sending its remaining statements on the transaction it was given. Adapters that close a transaction by sending ROLLBACK and then releasing the connection (usePhantomQuery: false, such as @prisma/adapter-pg) run those statements after the ROLLBACK, outside any transaction, so each one commits on its own. The caller gets P2028 and reasonably assumes nothing was written.

A nested write is enough to hit it, because it runs as several statements:

await prisma.$transaction(
  [
    prisma.user.create({ data: { name: 'created' } }),
    prisma.user.update({
      where: { id },
      data: { name: 'updated', posts: { createMany: { data: [{ title: 'first' }, { title: 'second' }] } } },
    }),
  ],
  { timeout: 1000 },
)
// Rejects with P2028. If the UPDATE was blocked past the timeout, the created user rolls back
// but both posts are still created.

Fix

TransactionManager.getTransaction now returns a view of the transaction whose queryRaw and executeRaw throw once the transaction has started closing. The manager sends its own COMMIT and ROLLBACK on the underlying transaction, so closing is unchanged.

A refused statement throws the error a new query on that transaction already gets: TransactionExecutionTimeoutError after a timeout, TransactionClosedError or TransactionRolledBackError otherwise. Callers see no new error. Statements sent before closing began still run inside the transaction and roll back with it.

The guard lives in the transaction manager because it is the only place that knows when closing begins. For usePhantomQuery: false adapters it sends ROLLBACK through executeRaw and calls rollback() only afterwards, to release the connection. A guard set in rollback() comes too late: a statement queued behind the ROLLBACK still runs. With #29769 applied on its own, the regression test below still fails the same way.

Tests

• transaction-manager.test.ts: a statement sent while the timeout ROLLBACK is in flight is refused and never reaches the driver. Statements on a committed or rolled-back transaction are refused. Both tests fail without the fix.
• issues/29762-timed-out-transaction-nested-write (PostgreSQL, run with js_pg): another transaction holds a FOR NO KEY UPDATE lock, so the nested write's UPDATE outlives a 1s timeout. The test asserts the batch rejects with P2028 and nothing was written. Without the fix, both posts commit.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Database operations are now rejected when a transaction is timing out, committed, or rolled back, preventing additional statements from being sent after it closes. The resulting error reflects whether the transaction timed out, committed, or rolled back.
  • Timed-out nested writes no longer leave unintended records in the database. While a timeout rollback is pending, further queries and raw operations are rejected, and the existing data remains unchanged.

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Walkthrough

The transaction manager now checks transaction state before query execution. Tests cover query rejection during timeout-triggered rollback, query rejection after transaction completion, and a timed nested write under a PostgreSQL row lock.

Changes

Timed transaction handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Query guards and closure errors packages/client-engine-runtime/src/transaction-manager/transaction-manager.ts, packages/client-engine-runtime/src/transaction-manager/transaction-manager.test.ts	getTransaction wraps the underlying transaction and rejects query calls during or after closure. Unit tests check timeout, commit, and rollback cases, including the statements recorded by the mock adapter.
Timed nested-write regression test packages/client/tests/functional/issues/29762-timed-out-transaction-nested-write/*	A PostgreSQL test holds a row lock while a timed batch transaction attempts a nested write. The test expects P2028 and checks that no posts were created and the existing user remains unchanged.

Priority: ⬆️ High

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: High

Suggested reviewers: aqrln

Merge Risk

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 75942

The transaction guard is exercised, and PostgreSQL verifies that timed-out writes leave no changes. MySQL uses a different rollback path without equivalent persisted-state coverage, so the change appears mergeable with that provider-specific gap noted.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 75942

The change strengthens transaction isolation by refusing later statements once closure begins. No introduced security concern was identified. Remaining uncertainty concerns adapter-specific ordering of operations already in flight, not newly accepted statements.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The change narrows statement execution through existing transaction handles. It adds no new transaction lookup authority or database privilege; its security-relevant outcome is stronger containment of writes when transaction closure overlaps query continuation.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Every guarded query call checks shared lifecycle state synchronously before invoking the underlying adapter. Manager-owned closure retains direct access to the underlying transaction, so the new guard cannot block its own COMMIT or ROLLBACK. Already-issued adapter operations are not cancelled or serialized by this guard.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — Lifecycle mutations remain serialized per transaction. Closure cleanup records a terminal state and removes the active entry even when the adapter fails, preventing further guarded statements. That bookkeeping does not prove database rollback succeeded; this failure-outcome limitation is unchanged from the base.

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Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
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Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check		Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check		The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: rejecting statements after a transaction begins closing.
Linked Issues check		Issue [#29762] requires atomic rollback after a transaction timeout. getTransaction now returns a wrapper that rejects queryRaw and executeRaw when closing starts. The manager sends ROLLBACK t…
Out of Scope Changes check		The production change directly addresses [#29762]. The transaction-manager tests cover timeout closing and closed transactions. The schema, matrix, and PostgreSQL functional test support the regressio…

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[kensac]

@aqrln this fixes #29762 (timed-out transaction leaking nested-write statements on pg). Happy to adjust the approach if you'd prefer it elsewhere.

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🔵 Trivial · Add MySQL adapter coverage for the timed-out nested write. · tests.ts:66-70

packages/client/tests/functional/issues/29762-timed-out-transaction-nested-write/tests.ts:66-70
🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add MySQL adapter coverage for the timed-out nested write.

The interactive transaction suite runs for MySQL, but its timeout tests finish the write before delay(). Its nested-transaction tests do not use a timeout. Neither test leaves a nested write in flight when timeout rollback begins.

MySQL uses js_planetscale and js_mariadb; js_mariadb sets usePhantomQuery: true, while the PostgreSQL test uses js_pg with usePhantomQuery: false. The mock transaction-manager test does not cover this adapter path or the persisted-data outcome. Add a MySQL adapter test with a MySQL-compatible lock and the existing P2028 and zero-persisted-writes assertions.

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Add timed-out nested-write coverage for the MySQL adapters in this test suite
using a MySQL-compatible lock, and verify the timeout raises P2028 with zero
persisted writes. Then remove mysql from the optOut list while preserving
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@coderabbitai Skipping the MySQL coverage suggestion. The leak only affects adapters with usePhantomQuery: false, which send ROLLBACK through executeRaw before releasing the connection. The MySQL adapters (mariadb, planetscale) use phantom queries, so this test wouldn't exercise the bug there. The test also relies on FOR NO KEY UPDATE, which has no MySQL equivalent. The guard itself is adapter-agnostic and covered by the unit tests in transaction-manager.test.ts.

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@kensac Thanks for the clarification. I withdraw the MySQL coverage suggestion.

The MariaDB and PlanetScale adapters set usePhantomQuery: true, so they do not exercise the manager’s explicit ROLLBACK path. The PostgreSQL test targets that path. The unit tests cover rejection of both executeRaw and queryRaw during timeout rollback, plus retained handles after commit or rollback.

No additional MySQL coverage is needed for this regression.

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Learnt from: kensac
URL: https://github.com/prisma/orm/pull/30650

Timestamp: 2026-10-09T05:28:09.478Z
Learning: For the timed-out nested-write regression in prisma/orm PR #30650, MySQL coverage does not exercise the affected explicit-ROLLBACK path: packages/adapter-mariadb/src/mariadb.ts and packages/adapter-planetscale/src/planetscale.ts set usePhantomQuery: true. The PostgreSQL functional test in packages/client/tests/functional/issues/29762-timed-out-transaction-nested-write/tests.ts uses FOR NO KEY UPDATE to block the user UPDATE without blocking foreign-key checks for post inserts. The adapter-agnostic statement guard has unit coverage in packages/client-engine-runtime/src/transaction-manager/transaction-manager.test.ts for statements during timeout rollback and retained handles after commit or rollback.

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