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Derived from Steven's efforts in powersync-ja/powersync-js#983, and addresses TanStack#1563.

Problem

PowerSync ships an attachment helper for syncing files (photos, documents) between local and remote storage. It's separate from regular synced tables: a local-only attachments table tracks each file's lifecycle (QUEUED_UPLOAD, SYNCED, QUEUED_DELETE), and an AttachmentQueue drives uploads/downloads in the background.

TanStackDB, on the other hand, gives you an optimistic, reactive, joinable view over synced data. For users who want to use the attachment helper alongside the PowerSync+TanstackDB integration there are blockers. Saving a file (in the local-only attachments table) and associating it with a record (e.g. setting user.photo_id) are two independent writes which could make data races and fatal errors a problem for data consistency.

The original POC (powersync-js#983) proved this integration was viable. This PR productionises a a subset of it as reusable functionality.

Solution

A TanStackDBAttachmentQueue that extends the SDK's AttachmentQueue (for saving and deleting a file) and backs it with a TanStack DB collection.

The package owns the collection-backed saveFile/delete implementation and leaves the wiring to the application (covered in documentation).

Future Work

After this has been released, we can merge the changes made to the PowerSync JS TanstackDB demo.

AI Disclosure

I used Claude Opus to help investigate, implement, and verify this work.

@Chriztiaan Chriztiaan marked this pull request as ready for review June 23, 2026 12:02
@Chriztiaan Chriztiaan changed the title feat: add attachments support feat(PowerSync): add attachments support Jun 23, 2026

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Overall I'm happy with the approach here. Left a few comments, mostly nits.

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