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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+
+"""
+This script can be pointed at a memgraph server that
+you wish to assert "forward progress" for concurrent
+clients on, for instance, for testing replication or
+durability in the face of machine failures.
+
+Of particular note are the arguments:
+    --host              the first connection is made to this host:port
+    --port
+    --reconnect-host    after any disconnects, reconnection is attempted to reconnect-host:reconnect-port
+    --reconnect-port
+
+For any testing, it is likely that you will want to set the server argument:
+    --storage-wal-file-flush-every-n-tx=1
+which will ensure that the client will receive no success responses unless the
+data is fsynced on disk.
+
+For example, this will let you keep running a server container from the terminal in
+a loop that is fairly kill friendly, also mounting an external directory into
+/var/lib/memgraph to retain storage files across restarts:
+
+terminal 1:
+    run this script
+terminal 2: (server running in a restart loop if it gets killed)
+    while true; do docker run -v some/local/storage/directory:/var/lib/memgraph -it -p 7687:7687 -p 3000:3000 memgraph/memgraph --storage-wal-file-flush-every-n-tx=1; done
+terminal 3: (killer that will restart it every few seconds)
+    while true; do sleep `shuf -i 1-5 -n1`; pkill 'docker' -u `id -u`; done
+
+If you are testing with replication, it makes the most sense
+to configure SYNC replication, and to set the fall-back
+reconnect-host and reconnect-port to the replica that will
+take over after you kill main.
+
+If you set the --ops argument to 0, it will run forever,
+which may be useful for long-running correctness tests.
+
+It works by having each concurrent thread (--concurrency argument)
+create a unique vertex that has a "counter" attribute. This counter
+attribute is expected to always make forward progress. The client
+remembers the last value that it wrote, and it asserts that if it
+ever receives a successful response for a write that it does, that
+this counter has advanced by one.
+"""
+
+from os import kill
+from multiprocessing import Process, Event
+from uuid import uuid4
+from time import sleep
+
+import argparse
+import mgclient
+
+shutdown = Event()
+
+
+def forward_progress(args):
+    conn = mgclient.connect(host=args.host, port=args.port)
+    conn.autocommit = True
+    cursor = conn.cursor()
+
+    id = str(uuid4())
+
+    cursor.execute("CREATE (v:Vsn { id: $id, counter: 0 }) RETURN v;", {"id": id})
+    cursor.fetchall()
+
+    counter = 0
+
+    for i in range(args.ops):
+        if shutdown.is_set():
+            return
+        try:
+            cursor.execute(
+                """
+                MATCH (v: Vsn { id: $id, counter: $old })
+                SET v.counter = $new
+                RETURN v
+            """,
+                {"id": id, "old": counter, "new": counter + 1},
+            )
+            ret = cursor.fetchall()
+            if len(ret) != 1:
+                print("expected there to be exactly one Vsn associated with this counter, but we got:", ret)
+                shutdown.set()
+            counter += 1
+            continue
+        except mgclient.DatabaseError as e:
+            if not "failed to receive" in str(e):
+                print("encountered unexpected exception:", str(e))
+                shutdown.set()
+        except mgclient.InterfaceError as e:
+            assert "bad session" in str(e)
+
+        print("waiting for server to come back")
+
+        sleep(1)
+
+        try:
+            conn = mgclient.connect(host=args.reconnect_host, port=args.reconnect_port)
+            conn.autocommit = True
+            cursor = conn.cursor()
+        except:
+            pass
+
+
+children = []
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("-s", "--host", default="127.0.0.1")
+    parser.add_argument("-p", "--port", type=int, default=7687)
+    parser.add_argument("--reconnect-host", default="127.0.0.1")
+    parser.add_argument("--reconnect-port", type=int, default=7687)
+    parser.add_argument("-c", "--concurrency", type=int, default=20)
+    parser.add_argument("-o", "--ops", type=int, default=1000)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+
+    if args.ops == 0:
+        args.ops = 2**64
+
+    for i in range(args.concurrency):
+        child = Process(target=forward_progress, args=(args,))
+        child.start()
+        children.append(child)
+
+    for child in children:
+        child.join()