Re: Prevent internal error at concurrent CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION

On Tue, 27 May 2025 09:00:01 +0300
Alexander Lakhin <exclusion@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Yugo,
> 
> 31.03.2025 14:22, Yugo Nagata wrote:
> >> I found that multiple sessions concurrently execute CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION
> >> for a same function, the error "tuple concurrently updated" is raised. This is
> >> an internal error output by elog, also the message is not user-friendly.
> > I also found the same error is raised when concurrent ALTER FUNCTION commands are
> > executed. I've added a patch to fix this in the similar way.
> 
> FWIW, the same error is raised also with concurrent GRANT/REVOKE on a
> database:
> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/18dcfb7f-5deb-4487-ae22-a2c16839519a%40gmail.com
> 
> Maybe you would also find relevant this thread:
> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/ZiYjn0eVc7pxVY45%40ip-10-97-1-34.eu-west-3.compute.internal

Thank you for sharing the information.

I know there are other scenarios where the same is raises and I agree that
it would be better to consider a more global solution instead of addressing
each of them. However, I am not sure that improving the error message for
each case doesn't not make sense.

Regards,
Yugo Nagata

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Yugo Nagata <nagata@sraoss.co.jp>