Re: [BUGS] Concurrent ALTER SEQUENCE RESTART Regression

On 4/24/17 15:52, Jason Petersen wrote:
>   1. Create a new sequence: CREATE SEQUENCE my_seq;
>   2. Start this loop twice in different shells:
>        while true; do psql -1Xtc 'ALTER SEQUENCE my_seq RESTART 1'; done

> Each loop should repeatedly succeed and simply print ALTER SEQUENCE over and over.

> The output stream is punctuated by occasional "ERROR:  tuple concurrently updated" messages.

This message comes from the pg_sequence catalog update.  But in the case
of the RESTART clause, you don't need to update the catalog, because it
just needs to write to the sequence's relation.  So I have tweaked the
code a little to omit the catalog update if it's not needed.  Your test
case works without errors now.

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