The failure here was not a crash — it was the opposite, and that is why it would
never have been noticed.
server.tsx fired initQueue() and cleanupOnStartup() as bare promises with a
.catch() that logged. postgres-js connects lazily, so nothing fails at import;
the first query does. If Postgres is a few seconds behind — exactly what a reboot
looks like, with pm2's resurrect racing Docker starting the container — both log
one line during boot and do nothing else.
cleanupOnStartup is the one that matters. It marks jobs interrupted by the
previous shutdown and promotes the queued backlog, so failing it once leaves
those jobs marked running forever: nothing retries, nothing complains again, and
the only thing that would have corrected them has already run.
officerdb now exports waitForDatabase(timeoutMs = 60s): polls `select 1`, logs
once while waiting, resolves true or false rather than throwing. Bounded on
purpose — an unbounded wait holds a process open with no way to tell starting
from hung, and the caller decides what giving up means.
Deliberately NOT awaited before serve(). The listener is already up by that point
and holding it closed would turn a database thirty seconds late into a reverse
proxy answering connection-refused instead of a page. Requests needing the
database fail honestly in the meantime.
The rest of the estate was already fine, which is worth recording so nobody
"fixes" it again: postgres() opens no socket at construction, officer-agent's
resolveOwner is an unbounded 5s retry loop written after this exact failure cost
a session, and opencode, pty, headscale and the anthropic proxy touch no database
at boot at all.
officer-setup's Services section also waits for pg_isready before starting pm2.
Not because starting early breaks anything, but because Verify would then report
a failure that is really a race — and a red line that is usually noise is a red
line people stop reading.
Verified waitForDatabase against a dead port: logged once, returned false after
the timeout, did not throw.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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