getting "ERROR: tuple concurrently updated" during concurrent grant/revoke operations (9.2.13)

From: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-bugs <pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: getting "ERROR: tuple concurrently updated" during concurrent grant/revoke operations (9.2.13)
Date: 2015-06-24 15:43:22
Message-ID: CAHyXU0y3M1Znv=MJ7u1y3pSMutALcoryQx9-v8c-WkaTdvvQ7Q@mail.gmail.com
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I was experiencing a problem where a script which was simultaneously
loading multiple database backups to private schemas was reliably
drawing the error, "ERROR: tuple concurrently updated" during
grant/revoke steps of the restore. (The problem isn't at all serious
because the impacted statement is irrelevant to this server.) If I
create a file,

breakit.sql:
GRANT ALL ON SCHEMA public TO PUBLIC;
REVOKE ALL ON SCHEMA public FROM PUBLIC;

and bench it, it immediately draws the error:
[merlin(at)mernix ~]# pgbench -n -c16 -T30 -f breakit.sql postgres
Client 4 aborted in state 0: ERROR: tuple concurrently updated
Client 2 aborted in state 0: ERROR: tuple concurrently updated
Client 0 aborted in state 0: ERROR: tuple concurrently updated
Client 1 aborted in state 0: ERROR: tuple concurrently updated
Client 10 aborted in state 0: ERROR: tuple concurrently updated
Client 5 aborted in state 0: ERROR: tuple concurrently updated
Client 7 aborted in state 0: ERROR: tuple concurrently updated
Client 12 aborted in state 0: ERROR: tuple concurrently updated
Client 14 aborted in state 0: ERROR: tuple concurrently updated
Client 3 aborted in state 0: ERROR: tuple concurrently updated
Client 11 aborted in state 0: ERROR: tuple concurrently updated
Client 9 aborted in state 0: ERROR: tuple concurrently updated
Client 13 aborted in state 0: ERROR: tuple concurrently updated
Client 15 aborted in state 0: ERROR: tuple concurrently updated
Client 8 aborted in state 0: ERROR: tuple concurrently updated

Also confirmed this on 9.4.

merlin

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