Tom Lane wrote:
Russell Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
I got this error the other day, I was under the impression that vacuum could 
get a concurrently updated tuple.  I could be wrong.  It is possible for 
somebody to quickly explain this situation?  Message follows;

vacuumdb: vacuuming of table "school.person" in database "sqlfilter" failed: 
ERROR:  tuple concurrently updated

Was this a VACUUM ANALYZE, and if so might there have been another
ANALYZE running concurrently on that table?  If so, this is just a
reflection of concurrent attempts to update the same pg_statistic
row.  It's harmless since the ANALYZE that didn't fail presumably
stored pretty nearly the same results.  There is some interlocking
to prevent the error in CVS HEAD, though.
Thanks Tom, that makes a lot on sense. There is an analyze in that. Plus 8.1 autovac probably got its hand in at the same time. I didn't expect it to give the error about the vacuumed table if pg_statistic was the table having the concurrent update. I will remember that for the future. Thanks again for the fast and concise response.

Russell Smith
                        regards, tom lane

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