Improves compatibility of eventstore and related database components
with the new relational table package.
## Which problems are solved
1. **Incompatible Database Interfaces**: The existing eventstore was
tightly coupled to the database package, which is incompatible with the
new, more abstract relational table package in v3. This prevented the
new command-side logic from pushing events to the legacy eventstore.
2. **Missing Health Checks**: The database interfaces in the new package
lacked a Ping method, making it impossible to perform health checks on
database connections.
3. **Event Publishing Logic**: The command handling logic in domain
needed a way to collect and push events to the legacy eventstore after a
command was successfully executed.
## How the problems are solved
1. **`LegacyEventstore` Interface**:
* A new `LegacyEventstore` interface is introduced in the new
`database/eventstore` . This interface exposes a `PushWithNewClient`
method that accepts the new `database.QueryExecutor` interface,
decoupling the v3 domain from the legacy implementation.
* The `internal/eventstore.Eventstore` now implements this interface. A
wrapper, PushWithClient, is added to convert the old database client
types (`*sql.DB`, `*sql.Tx`) into the new `QueryExecutor` types before
calling `PushWithNewClient`.
2. **Database Interface Updates**:
* The `database.Pool` and `database.Client` interfaces in
`storage/eventstore` have been updated to include a Ping method,
allowing for consistent health checks across different database
dialects.
* The `postgres` and `sql` dialect implementations have been updated to
support this new method.
3. **Command and Invoker Refactoring**:
* The `Commander` interface in domain now includes an `Events()
[]legacy_es.Command` method. This allows commands to declare which
events they will generate.
* The `eventCollector` in the invoker logic has been redesigned. It now
ensures a database transaction is started before executing a command.
After successful execution, it calls the `Events()` method on the
command to collect the generated events and appends them to a list.
* The `eventStoreInvoker` then pushes all collected events to the legacy
eventstore using the new `LegacyEventstore` interface, ensuring that
events are only pushed if the entire command (and any sub-commands)
executes successfully within the transaction.
4. **Testing**:
* New unit tests have been added for the invoker to verify that events
are correctly collected from single commands, batched commands, and
nested commands.
These changes create a clean bridge between the new v3 command-side
logic and the existing v1 eventstore, allowing for incremental adoption
of the new architecture while maintaining full functionality.
## Additional Information
closes https://github.com/zitadel/zitadel/issues/10442
# Which Problems Are Solved
It was noticed that on actions v2 when subscribing to events, the
webhook would always receive an empty `event_payload`:
```
{
"aggregateID": "336494809936035843",
"aggregateType": "user",
"resourceOwner": "336392597046099971",
"instanceID": "336392597046034435",
"version": "v2",
"sequence": 1,
"event_type": "user.human.added",
"created_at": "2025-09-05T08:55:36.156333Z",
"userID": "336392597046755331",
"event_payload":
{}
}
```
The problem was due to using `json.Marshal` on the `Event` interface,
where the underlying `BaseEvent` prevents the data to be marshalled:
https://github.com/zitadel/zitadel/blob/131f70db3423b80da1b038a822da59c908e4ffa6/internal/eventstore/event_base.go#L38
# How the Problems Are Solved
The `Event`s `Unmarshal` function is used with a `json.RawMessage`.
# Additional Changes
none
# Additional Context
- closes https://github.com/zitadel/zitadel/issues/10650
- requires backport to v4.x
# Which Problems Are Solved
The event execution system currently uses a projection handler that
subscribes to and processes all events for all instances. This creates a
high static cost because the system over-fetches event data, handling
many events that are not needed by most instances. This inefficiency is
also reflected in high "rows returned" metrics in the database.
# How the Problems Are Solved
Eliminate the use of a project handler. Instead, events for which
"execution targets" are defined, are directly pushed to the queue by the
eventstore. A Router is populated in the Instance object in the authz
middleware.
- By joining the execution targets to the instance, no additional
queries are needed anymore.
- As part of the instance object, execution targets are now cached as
well.
- Events are queued within the same transaction, giving transactional
guarantees on delivery.
- Uses the "insert many fast` variant of River. Multiple jobs are queued
in a single round-trip to the database.
- Fix compatibility with PostgreSQL 15
# Additional Changes
- The signing key was stored as plain-text in the river job payload in
the DB. This violated our [Secrets
Storage](https://zitadel.com/docs/concepts/architecture/secrets#secrets-storage)
principle. This change removed the field and only uses the encrypted
version of the signing key.
- Fixed the target ordering from descending to ascending.
- Some minor linter warnings on the use of `io.WriteString()`.
# Additional Context
- Introduced in https://github.com/zitadel/zitadel/pull/9249
- Closes https://github.com/zitadel/zitadel/issues/10553
- Closes https://github.com/zitadel/zitadel/issues/9832
- Closes https://github.com/zitadel/zitadel/issues/10372
- Closes https://github.com/zitadel/zitadel/issues/10492
---------
Co-authored-by: Stefan Benz <[email protected]>
This implementation increases parallel write capabilities of the eventstore.
Please have a look at the technical advisories: [05](https://zitadel.com/docs/support/advisory/a10005) and [06](https://zitadel.com/docs/support/advisory/a10006).
The implementation of eventstore.push is rewritten and stored events are migrated to a new table `eventstore.events2`.
If you are using cockroach: make sure that the database user of ZITADEL has `VIEWACTIVITY` grant. This is used to query events.
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