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TieredEventStore reports existing streams as missing #612
Description
Related test issue
Discovered while implementing #609 — tiered event-store coverage.
Problem
TieredEventStore.StreamExists effectively requires a stream to exist in both the hot and archive stores. Streams that exist in only one tier are incorrectly reported as missing. Existence checks also fail to account for an archive exposed only through IEventReader, which the constructor accepts.
This makes the existence result inconsistent with readable data: an archived stream can still be read after hot-store deletion, yet StreamExists returns false.
Reproduction
- Create separate hot and archive
InMemoryEventStoreinstances. - Append events to a stream in only the hot store.
- Construct
TieredEventStore(hot, archive)and callStreamExistsfor that stream. - Repeat with events in only the archive store.
Actual: both single-tier cases return false.
Expected: a stream exists if either tier contains it.
| Hot tier | Archive tier | Expected result |
|---|---|---|
| Missing | Missing | false |
| Present | Missing | true |
| Missing | Present | true |
| Present | Present | true |
Fix and acceptance criteria
- Return
truewhen the hot store contains the stream, without requiring an archive lookup. - Otherwise check archive existence directly when it implements
IEventStore. - For an archive implementing only
IEventReader, establish existence with a bounded read according to that interface's missing-stream contract. - A successful empty read represents an existing empty stream;
StreamNotFoundrepresents absence. - Archive failures and cancellation propagate rather than being converted into
false. - Dispose the archive enumerator and forward cancellation to the read.
- Deleting the hot copy does not make an existing archive copy disappear from the existence result.
- Preserve existing cross-tier read behavior and hot-only append, truncate, and delete behavior.
Existing regression tests and implementation
TieredEventStoreTests.cs in src/Core/test/Eventuous.Tests.Application reproduced five failing cases before the fix:
- Hot-only stream existence.
- Archive-only stream existence.
- An existing stream in an archive exposed only as
IEventReader. - An empty existing stream in a read-only archive.
- Existence after deleting the hot copy while retaining the archive copy.
Additional tests cover archive failures, cancellation, an unavailable archive when the hot stream exists, bounded reads across tiers, and hot-only mutations.
An implementation is already committed locally on fix/issue-609-tiered-store, commit 1639f36c. All 36 tests in the application test project pass on .NET 10, including 15 tiered-store cases. The branch has not been published or merged as part of this work.
Activity
linear commentedon Oct 6, 2026
EVE-263
nmummau commentedon Oct 6, 2026
I’ve implemented this locally with regression tests. I’m waiting for a prerequisite PR 603 to merge so I can rebase and open a focused PR. I’ll link it here once it’s ready.