risingwavelabs/risingwave · error · ErrorCode::StorageError

Storage error: {0}

Error message

Storage error: {0}

What it means

`ErrorCode::StorageError` wraps a type-erased `BoxedError` propagated from the storage engine (Hummock/state store). The storage layer's own error is preserved as `#[source]`; the display string just prefixes 'Storage error:'.

Source

Thrown at src/frontend/src/error.rs:67

        #[backtrace]
        anyhow::Error,
    ),
    #[error("connector error: {0}")]
    ConnectorError(
        #[source]
        #[backtrace]
        BoxedError,
    ),
    #[error(transparent)]
    NotImplemented(#[from] NotImplemented),
    // Tips: Use this only if it's intended to reject the query
    #[error("Not supported: {0}\nHINT: {1}")]
    NotSupported(String, String),
    #[error(transparent)]
    NoFunction(#[from] NoFunction),
    #[error(transparent)]
    IoError(#[from] std::io::Error),
    #[error("Storage error: {0}")]
    StorageError(
        #[backtrace]
        #[source]
        BoxedError,
    ),
    #[error("Expr error: {0}")]
    ExprError(
        #[source]
        #[backtrace]
        BoxedError,
    ),
    // TODO(error-handling): there's a limitation that `#[transparent]` can't be used with `#[backtrace]` if no `#[from]`
    // So we emulate a transparent error with "{0}" display here.
    #[error("{0}")]
    BatchError(
        #[source]
        #[backtrace]
        // `BatchError`

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Solutions

1. Inspect the `#[source]`/chained error for the storage-specific cause
2. Verify object-store config (endpoint, region, credentials) in the RisingWave configuration
3. Test bucket access with aws/gs CLI from the same network
4. Check meta node logs for hummock errors
5. Restart/restore connectivity and retry the failing operation

null

fn is_storage_error(e: &RwError) -> bool { matches!(e.get_code(), ErrorCode::StorageError(_)) }

if matches!(err.get_code(), ErrorCode::StorageError(_)) { backoff_retry(op, max_attempts=3); } // only retry transient causes

When it happens

Trigger: Frontend or batch/stream operators interact with the state store and it fails: S3/GCS object-store auth or connectivity failures, hummock RPC errors to the meta node, read/write of table state.

Common situations: Wrong object-store credentials (access key expired), S3 endpoint misconfiguration, network partition between compute and meta/S3, bucket permissions.

Understand the failure class

Background: Database query failed: Internal Server Error 500s wrapping SQL, Prisma, and connection failures — what to check first — this error's family across 16 libraries.

Related errors

• SstableUpload error: {0}
• Storage error: {0}
• only Hummock state store is supported in risectl
• StorageError {error}
• Hummock error: {0}

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