Unable to update user email

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
42/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
go
Domain
authentication

Research direction

Start by reproducing the failure through supabase.auth.updateUser({ email: emailToVerify }) after an unconfirmed email change, using the duplicate identities_pkey error as the signal. Trace the email-change handling and identity constraint path; done means a pending email can be replaced with a different value without requiring confirmation of the original address.

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Description

auth bug

Bug report

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Describe the bug

Unable to update a user's email if they have an outstanding email change request already.

To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior, please provide code snippets or a repository:

  1. Create a user using a provider other than email (i.e. signInWithOtp())
  2. Add an email to the same user using "supabase.auth.updateUser({ email: emailToVerify })"
  3. Before confirming this email, attempt the change the email of this user by calling again "supabase.auth.updateUser({ email: emailToVerify })" but with a different value of emailToVerify
  4. Will get an error "duplicate key value violates unique constraint 'identities_pkey'"

Expected behavior

If a user accidentally enters an incorrect email on their first attempt, they will want to update to the correct email. But there is no way to change the email unless the original email entered is confirmed, which may be impossible if the user made a typo. Therefore if a user enters an incorrect email on their first attempt, the only way to resolve the issue is through an admin account.

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System information

  • OS: macOS
  • Version of supabase-js: 2.25

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