Index creation fails with automatic names

Hi all,

I am not sure if this is a bug or a misuse on my part.

I am creating a number of indices in parallel on a table by using  
xargs. To do that, I write all my indices in a file indices.idx, and  
then have the indices build in parallel (in this case with 5  
concurrent processes)

cat indices.idx | xargs -P5 -I# psql -1 -c '#'

indices.idx contains lines like this:

ALTER TABLE schema.table1 ADD CONSTRAINT pk_activity PRIMARY KEY (field_sk);

CREATE INDEX ON schema.table1 ((LOWER(field2)));
CREATE INDEX ON schema.table1 ((LOWER(field3)));
CREATE INDEX ON schema.table1 (field4, field5);
CREATE INDEX ON schema.table1 (field4, field6, field5);


Upon running the above command, I see the following error:

ALTER TABLE
CREATE INDEX
ERROR:  duplicate key value violates unique constraint  
"pg_class_relname_nsp_index"
DETAIL:  Key (relname, relnamespace)=(table1_lower_idx, 2064404)  
already exists.

My question is then - where does this error come from? Is is because  
Postgres allocates the same name (table1_lower_idx) twice when the  
index begins building, because at that time there's no index present  
with that name? But if one index finishes earlier, then the second one  
can't be committed because it has the same name as an already present  
index?

Any clarifications would be greatly appreciated!

Best,

Flo

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