Re: "tuple concurrently updated" during index deletion

On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 16:49 -0700, Joe Conway wrote:
> On cvs head, I can get "tuple concurrently updated" if two separate 
> transactions are both trying to drop the same index:

>    ERROR:  tuple concurrently updated

> The reason I ask is that someone contacted me who is seeing this on a 
> production system, and the abort on session #2 is rolling back a large 
> bulkload.

This situation will always cause an error on session #2, since if you
lock this more closely you'll get an ERROR because the object does not
exist. 

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