Re: Problem with ALTER TABLE - occasional "tuple concurrently updated"

Robert Haas wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 10:37 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> > Robert Haas wrote:
> >> On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 4:08 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> >> > Was this fixed?
> >>
> >> Not yet. ?I can probably fix it, if nobody else wants to do it.
> >
> > Well, it has languished for five months, so the "nobody else wants" part
> > is probably accurate. ?;-)
>
> OK.  Do we want to back-patch this, and if so how far?  On the one
> hand, the symptom that OP is experiencing clearly sucks for him, but
> on the other hand upgrading the strength of a lock in releases that
> have been out in the field for a long time seems like an open
> invitation to have the villagers show up with pitchforks.  Then again,
> ShareUpdateExclusiveLock doesn't interfere with routine queries, so
> maybe it's no big deal.  Given that we have only one report, I'm
> inclined to just fix it in the master branch, but I could easily be
> talked into the other approach if someone wants to make an argument
> for it.

Agree on master-only.

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