Spanner clients hangs for a few seconds after running a query

Environment details

• OS: linux
• Node.js version: 10
• npm version: 7
• @google-cloud/spanner version: 5.5.0

Steps to reproduce

1. Create the following javascript file in test.js

const Spanner = require("@google-cloud/spanner").Spanner;

const projectId = "projectid";
const instance = "instance";
const database = "database";
process.env.SPANNER_EMULATOR_HOST = "localhost:9010";

const spanner = new Spanner({
    projectId: projectId,
});
const spannerInstance = spanner.instance(instance);
const spannerDatabase = spannerInstance.database(database, {
    acquireTimeout: 5000,
});

async function run() {
    try {
        console.time("run and close");
        await spannerDatabase.run({
            sql: `SELECT 1`,
        });

        await spannerDatabase.close();
        console.timeEnd("run and close");
    } catch (e) {
        console.error("caught", e);
    }
}

run();

1. run time node test.js

Output:

$ time node ./test.js 
run and close: 142.309ms

real    0m5.420s
user    0m0.575s
sys     0m0.066s

As you can see it hangs after the query has run and it takes 5 seconds to finish the process.

The same without a the sql query spannerDatabase.run will finish almost immediately.

I only tried with spanner emulator.

Thanks

[olavloite]

Is that going to be released with version 5.7 ? When can we expect it to be bumped?

It should be included in 5.6.1 and higher: https://github.com/googleapis/nodejs-spanner/pull/1328

[skuruppu]

I will merge the release PR shortly. Hopefully it’ll be done by tomorrow.