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Classic298andGitHub ba0c4b3932 fix: don't hold a database connection for the lifetime of an SSE stream (#28183)
With database session sharing enabled, which the docs recommend for PostgreSQL and for multi-replica deployments, the knowledge pending-files and file process-status endpoints each pinned one pooled connection for as long as their SSE stream stayed open, up to one and two hours respectively. A file wedged in processing keeps a stream open for the full duration, so a handful of users sitting on that page can consume every connection in the pool, and the held transactions sit idle and block autovacuum on those tables.

Both handlers took a request-scoped session for their access checks, and FastAPI only releases a yield dependency once the response body has finished streaming, so the session outlived the handler by the whole life of the stream. Neither generator ever used it. They no longer take that dependency, and the queries they run already open their own short-lived sessions when none is passed. This is the approach the chat completion endpoints already use for the same long-response problem.

Measured against a pool with capacity 11: before, at most 11 concurrent streams could ever be open and every further attempt failed, deterministically across repeat runs. After, 25 of 25 opened. Non-stream latency is unchanged, within run-to-run noise, and behaviour is identical whether session sharing is on or off.
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