# X_RATE_LIMIT_STORE_UNAVAILABLE

## Means

the shared rate-limit store did not answer, so nothing decided

## Typical cause

the `PgExecutor` handed to `postgresRateLimitStore` returned no row for a statement whose `returning` clause always produces one — a swallowed driver error, a pooler that dropped the statement, or an executor that maps `returning` away. Raised rather than defaulted: a limiter that cannot read its bucket has no safe assumption, and guessing `allowed` hands out the fleet-wide budget to every replica at once

## Fix

`psql "$DATABASE_URL" -c "select * from x_rate_limit limit 1"` — then confirm the `PgExecutor` passed to `postgresRateLimitStore` returns the rows of `returning`

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