Re: ERROR: tuple concurrently updated when modifying privileges

From: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
To: Chris Travers <chris(dot)travers(at)adjust(dot)com>
Cc: nickb <nickb(at)imap(dot)cc>, Postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: ERROR: tuple concurrently updated when modifying privileges
Date: 2019-05-14 07:11:53
Message-ID: 20190514071153.GA1376@paquier.xyz
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On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 08:08:05AM +0200, Chris Travers wrote:
> Having thought about this a bit, I think the best solution would be to have
> grant take out an access share lock to the tables granted. This would
> prevent concurrent alter table operations from altering the schema
> underneath the grant as well, and thus possibly cause other race conditions.
>
> Any thoughts?

"tuple concurrently updated" is an error message which should never be
user-facing, and unfortunately there are many scenarios where it can
be triggered by playing with concurrent DDLs:
https://postgr.es/m/20171228063004.GB6181@paquier.xyz

If you have an idea of patch, could you write it? Having an isolation
test case would be nice as well.
--
Michael

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