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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: Dominique Devienne <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: #XX000: ERROR: tuple concurrently updated
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2025 10:27:53 -0500
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Dominique Devienne <[email protected]> writes:
> Hi. A tester just tried to restore two custom backups (not official
> PostgreSQL ones) concurrently.
> ...
> The second session completed OK.
> But the first session errors out with:

> Error: DDL Error: GRANT USAGE ON SCHEMA "SCH1", "SCH2" TO "SCH2:RO",
> "SCH2:RW", "SCH2:SU": #XX000: ERROR:  tuple concurrently updated

> Thus I'm trying to understand what's going on.

Since both restores tried to grant some permissions on SCH1, they
both had to update SCH1's pg_namespace row (specifically nspacl).
We have no support for concurrent updates in the catalog-manipulation
code, so if the second run arrives at that step before the first
one has committed its pg_namespace change, you get this error.

> Is the issue related to trying to change SCHEMA ACLs for SCH1 concurrently,
> in two long running transactions? How am I supposed to resolve this?

The window is probably too small to hit if each restore is committing
as it goes, but if you run in --single-transaction mode then this
isn't surprising.  I'd say don't try to run concurrent restores.

			regards, tom lane

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