diff --git a/src/@types/event.ts b/src/@types/event.ts
index 37c4c92..f3183e8 100644
--- a/src/@types/event.ts
+++ b/src/@types/event.ts
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ export interface DBEvent {
   event_delegator?: Buffer | null
   event_deduplication?: string | null
   first_seen: Date
-  deleted_at: Date
+  deleted_at?: Date
 }
 
 export interface CanonicalEvent {
diff --git a/src/handlers/subscribe-message-handler.ts b/src/handlers/subscribe-message-handler.ts
index aa37322..fdd2f13 100644
--- a/src/handlers/subscribe-message-handler.ts
+++ b/src/handlers/subscribe-message-handler.ts
@@ -2,12 +2,12 @@ import { anyPass, equals, map, uniqWith } from 'ramda'
 import { pipeline } from 'stream/promises'
 
 import { createEndOfStoredEventsNoticeMessage, createNoticeMessage, createOutgoingEventMessage } from '../utils/messages'
+import { DBEvent, Event } from '../@types/event'
 import { IAbortable, IMessageHandler } from '../@types/message-handlers'
 import { isEventMatchingFilter, toNostrEvent } from '../utils/event'
 import { streamEach, streamEnd, streamFilter, streamMap } from '../utils/stream'
 import { SubscriptionFilter, SubscriptionId } from '../@types/subscription'
 import { createLogger } from '../factories/logger-factory'
-import { Event } from '../@types/event'
 import { IEventRepository } from '../@types/repositories'
 import { ISettings } from '../@types/settings'
 import { IWebSocketAdapter } from '../@types/adapters'
@@ -57,9 +57,12 @@ export class SubscribeMessageHandler implements IMessageHandler, IAbortable {
 
     const findEvents = this.eventRepository.findByFilters(filters).stream()
 
+    const isNotDeleted = (row: DBEvent) => { console.log(row); return true }
+
     try {
       await pipeline(
         findEvents,
+        streamFilter(isNotDeleted),
         streamMap(toNostrEvent),
         streamFilter(isSubscribedToEvent),
         streamEach(sendEvent),
diff --git a/src/repositories/event-repository.ts b/src/repositories/event-repository.ts
index 022e7a2..03f7f71 100644
--- a/src/repositories/event-repository.ts
+++ b/src/repositories/event-repository.ts
@@ -232,9 +232,7 @@ export class EventRepository implements IEventRepository {
   public deleteByPubkeyAndIds(pubkey: string, ids: EventId[]): Promise<number> {
     debug('deleting events from %s: %o', pubkey, ids)
     return this.dbClient('events')
-      .where({
-        event_pubkey: toBuffer(pubkey),
-      })
+      .where('event_pubkey', toBuffer(pubkey))
       .whereIn('event_id', map(toBuffer)(ids))
       .whereNull('deleted_at')
       .update({
diff --git a/test/integration/docker-compose.yml b/test/integration/docker-compose.yml
index d99b595..965d467 100644
--- a/test/integration/docker-compose.yml
+++ b/test/integration/docker-compose.yml
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ services:
       REDIS_USER: default
       REDIS_PASSWORD: nostr_ts_relay_test
       NOSTR_CONFIG_DIR: /code
+      DEBUG: knex:query,primary:event-repository
     volumes:
       - ../../package.json:/code/package.json
       - ../../settings.sample.json:/code/settings.sample.json
@@ -47,6 +48,8 @@ services:
       POSTGRES_DB: nostr_ts_relay_test
     networks:
       - nostream-test
+    ports:
+      - 25432:5432
     healthcheck:
       test: ["CMD-SHELL", "pg_isready -U postgres"]
       timeout: 5s
diff --git a/test/integration/features/nip-09/nip-09.feature b/test/integration/features/nip-09/nip-09.feature
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e954089
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/integration/features/nip-09/nip-09.feature
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+@Test
+Feature: NIP-09
+  Scenario: Charlie deletes an event
+    Given someone called Charlie
+    And someone called Bob
+    And Charlie sends a text_note event with content "Twitter > Nostr"
+    And Charlie subscribes to author Charlie
+    And Charlie receives a text_note event from Charlie with content "Twitter > Nostr"
+    And Charlie unsubscribes from author Charlie
+    When Charlie sends a delete event for their last event
+    And Charlie subscribes to author Charlie
+    And Charlie receives 1 delete event from Charlie and EOSE
+    Then Bob subscribes to author Charlie
+    Then Bob receives 1 delete event from Charlie and EOSE
diff --git a/test/integration/features/nip-09/nip-09.feature.ts b/test/integration/features/nip-09/nip-09.feature.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..50c588d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/integration/features/nip-09/nip-09.feature.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+import { Then, When } from '@cucumber/cucumber'
+import { expect } from 'chai'
+import WebSocket from 'ws'
+
+import { createEvent, sendEvent, waitForEventCount } from '../helpers'
+import { Event } from '../../../../src/@types/event'
+import { EventTags } from '../../../../src/constants/base'
+import { Tag } from '../../../../src/@types/base'
+
+When(/^(\w+) sends a delete event for their last event$/, async function(
+  name: string,
+) {
+  const ws = this.parameters.clients[name] as WebSocket
+  const { pubkey, privkey } = this.parameters.identities[name]
+
+  const tags: Tag[] = [
+    [EventTags.Event, this.parameters.events[name][this.parameters.events[name].length - 1].id],
+  ]
+
+  const event: Event = await createEvent({ pubkey, kind: 5, content: '', tags }, privkey)
+
+  console.log('event', event)
+
+  await sendEvent(ws, event)
+  this.parameters.events[name].push(event)
+})
+
+Then(
+  /(\w+) receives (\d+) delete events? from (\w+) and EOSE/,
+  async function(name: string, count: string, author: string) {
+  const ws = this.parameters.clients[name] as WebSocket
+  const subscription = this.parameters.subscriptions[name][this.parameters.subscriptions[name].length - 1]
+  const [event] = await waitForEventCount(ws, subscription.name, Number(count), true)
+
+  expect(event.kind).to.equal(5)
+  expect(event.pubkey).to.equal(this.parameters.identities[author].pubkey)
+})
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