Re: Issues with ON CONFLICT UPDATE and REINDEX CONCURRENTLY

Mikhail Nikalayeu <mihailnikalayeu@gmail.com>

From: Mihail Nikalayeu <mihailnikalayeu@gmail.com>

To: Alexander Lakhin <exclusion@gmail.com>

Cc: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@kurilemu.de>, Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Date: 2025-11-30T17:26:18Z

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Replace flaky CIC/RI isolation tests with a TAP test
- e1c971945d62 19 (unreleased) landed
Disable recently added CIC/RI isolation tests
- 77038d6d0b49 19 (unreleased) landed
Fix infer_arbiter_index for partitioned tables
- 81f72115cf18 19 (unreleased) landed
Stabilize tests some more
- a4a0fa0c7587 19 (unreleased) landed
Put back alternative-output expected files
- be25c7767728 19 (unreleased) landed
Remove doc and code comments about ON CONFLICT deficiencies
- 758479213d57 19 (unreleased) landed
Avoid use of NOTICE to wait for snapshot invalidation
- 5dee7a603f66 19 (unreleased) landed
Fix ON CONFLICT with REINDEX CONCURRENTLY and partitions
- 90eae926abbb 19 (unreleased) landed
Fix ON CONFLICT ON CONSTRAINT during REINDEX CONCURRENTLY
- 2bc7e886fc1b 19 (unreleased) landed
Fix new test for CATCACHE_FORCE_RELEASE builds
- 9e8fa05d3412 19 (unreleased) landed
Improve test case stability
- 417ac9c1eeeb 19 (unreleased) landed
Fix infer_arbiter_index during concurrent index operations
- bc32a12e0db2 19 (unreleased) landed
Doc: cover index CONCURRENTLY causing errors in INSERT ... ON CONFLICT.
- 438ccd33a37a 13.23 landed
- faba2595d619 14.20 landed
- e1dd1f924e19 15.15 landed
- 4c2895629f6f 16.11 landed
- 46524d519a2d 18.1 landed
- 27f714b5dad7 17.7 landed
- 8b18ed6dfbb8 19 (unreleased) landed
Fix infer_arbiter_indexes() to not assume resultRelation is 1.
- 915de706d28c 17.0 cited
Revert temporal primary keys and foreign keys
- 8aee330af55d 17.0 cited

Hello!

On Sun, Nov 30, 2025 at 6:00 PM Alexander Lakhin <exclusion@gmail.com> wrote:
>   s1: NOTICE:  notice triggered for injection point pre-invalidate-catalog-snapshot-end
> +s1: NOTICE:  notice triggered for injection point pre-invalidate-catalog-snapshot-end
>   step s1_start_upsert: <... completed>
>   step s2_start_upsert: <... completed>
>   step s3_start_create_index: <... completed>

Oh, I'm afraid it may become an endless fight....

I think it is better to implement something in isolationtester to
natively support the case from [0] (in such case we don't need NOTICE
on .pre-invalidate-catalog-snapshot-end).

Best regards,
Mikhail.

[0]: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CADzfLwUc%3DjtSUEaQCtyt8zTeOJ-gHZ8%3Dw_KJsVjDOYSLqaY9Lg%40mail.gmail.com