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This is from one of our internal bug reports:

If you lose your connection (which happens to me a lot), Store will offer to reconnect. In many circumstances this is useful, but if you're in the middle of publishing, it's a very bad idea. In the best case, the publish won't succeed, as you'll almost certainly encounter errors due to data Store thinks it wrote, but which was in a different transaction. Even worse, it might succeed, leaving partial data in the database.

The bottom line is this - if you are publishing to Store and the db connection drops, do not accept the offer the reconnect. Yes, this is an ugly, ugly bug - and it will get addressed. In the meantime, be aware that it's a nasty one...