Re: tuple concurrently updated

On 2018-Aug-28, wambacher@posteo.de wrote:

> updates are done using a program, that is without my control: osm2pgsql.
> 
> this program does everthing which is necessary including locking. and
> it't running for years on many, many openstreetmap servers.
> 
> because there was a crash before, it must be a data corruption problem,
> not programming error.

It's curious that you reply to my email and not respond to a single of
the questions I posed, and instead answered questions I didn't ask.
Perhaps you thought I asked them because I was bored?

> > What is the definition of the table?  It sounds like there's some GIS
> > datatype -- Right?  Are there any triggers or some other fun fact about
> > this delete?  What is the isolation level in effect when the delete
> > runs?

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