Re: pg_subscription_rel entry can be updated concurrently

From: Petr Jelinek <petr(dot)jelinek(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Masahiko Sawada <sawada(dot)mshk(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pg_subscription_rel entry can be updated concurrently
Date: 2017-06-13 05:55:01
Message-ID: cc79942f-96d2-08ba-e29f-b7c23b4b77d7@2ndquadrant.com
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On 13/06/17 02:52, Masahiko Sawada wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I often get an error "ERROR: tuple concurrently updated" when
> changing subscription state(ALTER SUBSCRIPTION or DROP SUBSCRIPTION).
> The cause of this error is that table sync worker and apply worker can
> try to update the same tuple in pg_subscription_rel. Especially it
> often happens when we do initial copy for many tables and change it
> during executing.
>
> I think that touching the same tuple by two worker processes happens
> when aborting replication for a table or a subscription, so it would
> be the same result as when the worker ends up with an error. But I
> think since it's not an appropriate behavior we should deal with it.
> Any thoughts?
>

This has been already reported by tushar in different thread and it's
still on my list to fix.

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Petr Jelinek http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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