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- Around line 1154-1169: In the speculative insert path, update the code around
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Collect a relation's immediate unique indexes when its mapping is built and keep the list beside the other state derived from that mapping. Nothing uses it yet. The apply path does in the next commit, where it has to name the indexes that may reject a tuple it is about to store, and recomputing that for every applied row would be wasted work on a hot path. Like the delta-apply metadata next to it, the list has to be rebuilt explicitly whenever the mapping is rebuilt: a relcache invalidation only resets reloid, so a stale list would otherwise outlive the index set it was derived from. The apply path already forces pending invalidations to be processed before it uses a cached relation, which is what makes rebuilding at mapping time sufficient. Deferrable unique indexes are left out. They are checked at commit rather than at insert, and the executor only reports an insert-time conflict for immediate ones, so listing them would achieve nothing.
spock_apply_heap_insert() decided whether an incoming row conflicted by probing for a local tuple and, finding none, falling straight into ExecSimpleRelationInsert(). A probe cannot settle that question. It runs a scan that a concurrent local writer can race, and it runs before the store in any case, so a row committed in between is missed either way. Acting on a stale "no conflict" turned an insert on a relation where the operator had configured conflict resolution into a duplicate key violation, left for the exception machinery to clean up. Store the tuple speculatively instead, with every immediate unique index as an arbiter. The index AM reports a duplicate back through specConflict rather than raising it, and only once the competing inserter has committed, so the lookup on the next pass finds that row and hands it to the normal conflict resolution path. Losing the race costs a super-deleted tuple; winning it costs the speculative token and its confirm record. The lookup still runs first. It settles the common case without storing anything, and its false negatives are now harmless -- the same bargain core strikes in check_exclusion_or_unique_constraint(). Arbitration covers every unique index while the lookup covers only those the operator opted into, so an arbiter can report a conflict the lookup is not allowed to chase: a clash on a secondary unique index, where the replica identity search looks for a different key and finds nothing. Treating the row found through some other index as the same row is the policy spock.check_all_uc_indexes gates, so instead of taking it upon ourselves we stop after a few passes and report a serialization failure that names the setting, leaving the decision to spock.exception_behaviour. How many passes such a conflict is worth depends on the relation. Where every arbiter is an index the lookup searches, a second pass covers a lookup that merely lost a race and a third the winner being deleted again in between. Where it is not, only that second pass can help, so that is all we spend. Relations with no immediate unique index keep the plain insert path: nothing there can reject the tuple, so there is nothing to arbitrate. This also answers the TODO asking whether the insert path needed the retry loop the UPDATE and DELETE paths have. It needs a different thing: an arbiter that sees the key under a page lock. ExecInsertIndexTuples() gained its last argument in PG16 and was reshaped in PG19, where the booleans became an EIIT_* bitmask and the parameters were reordered, so the call needs a compatibility macro on both ends.
The race -- a conflicting local row committed between the apply worker's lookup and its store -- cannot be hit reliably by timing, so hold the worker in exactly that window and commit the conflicting row while it waits. The index then reports the duplicate and the next pass resolves against the row that appeared. That window is Spock's own code, so the injection point can live here instead of in core, and the test needs no patched server: it skips unless the core injection_points module is installed, and the point compiles to nothing unless the server was built with --enable-injection-points. It follows the existing spock_injection.h pattern, including the argument count the macro takes on each supported major version. What this covers is our half of the problem: that the apply path survives a lookup answer that went stale, whatever made it stale. Reproducing the stale answer through the dirty-snapshot index scan that produces it in the field would mean pausing inside core's index_getnext_slot(), which an extension cannot reach; that belongs with the fix proposed upstream.
Applying an INSERT costs two pieces of work that only a possible collision with a local row justifies: the lookup for that row, and the speculative store that lets the unique indexes report a duplicate instead of raising one. Where the key ranges are partitioned between the nodes, no applied insert can collide and both are pure overhead. Add a boolean GUC with which the operator asserts exactly that. With it on the apply worker skips the lookup and the speculative store and inserts the row directly. Nothing verifies the assertion: a collision then raises a duplicate key error, which spock.exception_behaviour disposes of as it does any other apply error. Off by default. The test arms the stall injection point and checks that an insert replicates straight through it, which it can only do if neither path ran.
The scan used match(s, r, arr), a gawk extension that captures a group into an array. macOS ships the one true awk as /usr/bin/awk, where match() takes two arguments, so the program did not parse at all there and the script died before reaching pgindent. Peel the typedef name off the closing line with sub() instead, which every awk has. No change to what the scan recognises.
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Problem
spock_apply_heap_insert() decided whether an incoming row conflicted with a local one by probing for it and, finding nothing, falling straight into ExecSimpleRelationInsert().
A probe cannot settle that question. It runs an index scan that a concurrent local writer can race — the dirty-snapshot scan skips a row that is being updated, a known issue in the core scan machinery — and it runs before the tuple is stored in any case, so a row committed in between is missed regardless of the race.
Acting on a stale "no conflict" meant an insert on a relation where the operator had configured conflict resolution ended as duplicate key value violates unique constraint, left for spock.exception_behaviour to dispose of: a discarded transaction, or a disabled subscription.
Approach
Let the index decide. It is the only participant that sees the key under a page lock, and it reports a duplicate only after the competing inserter has committed.
The tuple is now stored speculatively, with every immediate unique index of the relation as an arbiter. ExecInsertIndexTuples() reports a duplicate through specConflict rather than raising it; the speculative tuple is super-deleted, the lookup on the next pass finds the row that appeared, and it goes through the normal conflict resolution path. Losing the race costs a super-deleted tuple; winning it costs the speculative token and its confirm record.
The lookup still runs first — it settles the common case without storing anything, and its false negatives are now harmless. That is the same bargain core strikes in check_exclusion_or_unique_constraint().