fix(postgrest): honour HTTP-date Retry-After and bound the retry delay - #2634
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`Retry-After` is either `delay-seconds` or an `HTTP-date` (RFC 9110 §10.2.3), but the retry path read it with `parseInt(value, 10) || 0`, which only handles the first form. Delays measured on a 503 carrying the header: Retry-After before after 2 2000 ms 2000 ms Thu, 27 Aug 2026 11:12:53 GMT 0 ms ~120000 ms 86400 86400000 ms 30000 ms soon 0 ms 1000 ms An HTTP-date collapsed to `NaN || 0`, so the client retried immediately against a server that had just asked it to wait, and the exponential backoff fallback was skipped as well because the header was present. An unparseable value behaved the same way. In the other direction there was no ceiling, so a day-long `Retry-After` stalled the request for a day even though `getRetryDelay` caps its own backoff at 30s. Parse both forms in `parseRetryAfter`, fall back to exponential backoff when the value matches neither, and clamp the result to the same 30s ceiling `getRetryDelay` already applies. delay-seconds is now matched strictly as `1*DIGIT`. A value such as `30s` previously became 30 seconds via `parseInt` and now takes the backoff fallback instead; guessing at units is unsafe in general, since `parseInt` reads `30m` as 30 seconds when the server meant 30 minutes.
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WalkthroughThe retry logic now supports Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant PostgrestBuilder
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PostgrestBuilder->>parseRetryAfter: Parse Retry-After
parseRetryAfter-->>PostgrestBuilder: Return delay or null
PostgrestBuilder->>RetryTimer: Wait for header delay or backoff
RetryTimer-->>PostgrestBuilder: Retry request
Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Malformed Retry-After values can still be interpreted as dates, causing requests to wait up to 30 seconds instead of using the intended bounded backoff. This creates unnecessary latency for affected retries and should be corrected or explicitly accepted before merging. Warning Some tools did not complete. Review the errors below. 🔧 ESLint
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In `@packages/core/postgrest-js/src/types/common/common.ts`:
- Around line 66-69: Update both parseRetryAfter implementations in
packages/core/postgrest-js/src/types/common/common.ts (lines 66-69) and
packages/core/supabase-js/src/lib/rest/types/common/common.ts (lines 76-79) to
accept only the three RFC 9110 HTTP-date forms before calling Date.parse;
otherwise return the existing fallback path. Add a regression test in
packages/core/postgrest-js/test/retry.test.ts (lines 476-487) confirming
2099-01-01 uses the 1000 ms exponential-backoff fallback rather than the capped
delay.
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| const retryAt = Date.parse(trimmed) | ||
| if (!Number.isNaN(retryAt)) { | ||
| return Math.max(0, retryAt - now) | ||
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Reject non-RFC 9110 HTTP-date values.
Both parseRetryAfter implementations pass non-numeric values directly to Date.parse. For 2099-01-01, this returns a timestamp, so PostgrestBuilder uses the capped 30-second delay instead of the 1000 ms exponential-backoff fallback. Validate the three RFC 9110 HTTP-date forms and add a regression test for this value.
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packages/core/postgrest-js/src/types/common/common.ts#L66-L69(this comment)packages/core/supabase-js/src/lib/rest/types/common/common.ts#L76-L79packages/core/postgrest-js/test/retry.test.ts#L476-L487
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In `@packages/core/postgrest-js/src/types/common/common.ts` around lines 66 - 69,
Update both parseRetryAfter implementations in
packages/core/postgrest-js/src/types/common/common.ts (lines 66-69) and
packages/core/supabase-js/src/lib/rest/types/common/common.ts (lines 76-79) to
accept only the three RFC 9110 HTTP-date forms before calling Date.parse;
otherwise return the existing fallback path. Add a regression test in
packages/core/postgrest-js/test/retry.test.ts (lines 476-487) confirming
2099-01-01 uses the 1000 ms exponential-backoff fallback rather than the capped
delay.
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Retry-Aftercan be eitherdelay-secondsor anHTTP-date(RFC 9110 §10.2.3):The retry path in
PostgrestBuilderread it withparseInt(retryAfterHeader, 10) || 0, which only handles the second form. Delays measured against a 503 carrying the header:Retry-After2Thu, 27 Aug 2026 11:12:53 GMT(~120 s out)86400soonThree separate problems, all in that one expression:
parseInt('Thu, 27 Aug …')isNaNandNaN || 0is0, so the client hot-retries a server that has just asked it to wait — the opposite of what the header means. That lands squarely on the path this code exists for: 503 is retryable forPGRST002, and the comment onRETRYABLE_STATUS_CODESsays 503 "signals retry via Retry-After header".getRetryDelay()is keyed on the header being absent, so any present-but-unparseable value yields 0 ms instead of backing off.getRetryDelay()caps its own backoff at 30 s, but aRetry-Afterof86400slept for 24 hours, leaving the caller's promise pending for a day.What changed?
parseRetryAfter()besidegetRetryDelay()inpostgrest-js/src/types/common/common.ts. It handlesdelay-secondsandHTTP-date, treats a timestamp already in the past as "retry now", and returnsnullwhen the value matches neither form so the caller falls back to its own backoff.MAX_RETRY_AFTER_DELAY— 30 s, the ceilinggetRetryDelayalready applies — and clamped the honoured delay to it.packages/core/supabase-js/src/lib/rest/types/common/common.ts, which is synced from that file (pnpm codegen;pnpm codegen:checkis clean).Why was this change needed?
A 503 with a date-form
Retry-Aftercurrently produces the worst possible behaviour: the client retries with no delay at all, three times in a row, against a service that explicitly asked for a pause. Falling back togetRetryDelay()on an unparseable value is also strictly safer than 0 ms, which matters becauseDate.parseis implementation-defined for non-ISO input — an engine that rejects a format now backs off instead of hot-looping.🔄 Breaking changes
Two behaviour changes I want to flag rather than bury, both easy to drop if you disagree:
delay-secondsis now matched strictly as1*DIGIT, so a non-conformingRetry-After: 30stakes the backoff fallback instead of being read as 30 seconds. I went strict because guessing at units is unsafe in the general case:parseIntreads30mas 30 seconds when the server meant 30 minutes. Happy to restore the lenient leading-integer behaviour if you would rather keep it.Retry-Afterabove 30 s now retries at 30 s rather than waiting the full period. The alternative is to stop retrying altogether when the server asks for longer than the ceiling, surfacing the error immediately instead of burning the retry budget. I picked the clamp because it matches the existinggetRetryDelayceiling, but I have no strong preference.📋 Checklist
<type>(<scope>): <description>prettierover every changed file (--checkclean)parseRetryAfterandMAX_RETRY_AFTER_DELAYcarry JSDoc citing the RFC📝 Additional notes
Verification
Reverting only the two
srcfiles and keeping the tests leaves5 failed, 26 passed, each failure naming the exact delay:With the change,
32 passed(9 new cases), stable over three consecutive runs.Package-wide, the counts are unchanged apart from the new tests. On an unmodified checkout the suite is
14 failed suites / 274 failed tests / 80 passed; with this branch it is14 failed / 274 failed / 88 passed. The failures are the Docker-backed integration suites failing withECONNREFUSEDbecause I have no local PostgREST — identical before and after, and the passing count moves by exactly the 8 tests I added at that point.npx tsdownbuilds clean for bothpostgrest-jsandsupabase-js, andsupabase-js's unit suite still passes 149/149 after the codegen sync.One caveat on HTTP-date parsing
RFC 9110 requires recipients to accept all three date formats.
Date.parsehandles IMF-fixdate (Sun, 06 Nov 1994 08:49:37 GMT) and, in V8, the obsolete RFC 850 form. The obsolete asctime form (Sun Nov 6 08:49:37 1994) parses but is interpreted as local time rather than UTC, so on a non-UTC host it is off by the local offset. In practice the clamp absorbs this — any date more than 30 s out yields the 30 s ceiling either way — and asctimeRetry-Aftervalues are vanishingly rare, so I left it rather than hand-rolling a date parser. Glad to add one if you want strict conformance.