id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc	stage	has_patch	needs_docs	needs_tests	needs_better_patch	easy	ui_ux
3462	model objects can fail during save	Jack Moffitt <metajack@…>	nobody	"Currently django uses an existence test (at least on postgresql_psycopg2 backend, but I assume it does the same thing everywhere) before and INSERT or UPDATE to decide which to do.  This can fail if another connection does an INSERT or a DELETE while the existence test is running, even in a transaction block (unless the transaction isolation level is serializable) as each statement can potentially see a different view of the database depending on which transactions have already completed before that statement executes.

I'm not sure how to fix this (serializable transactions are probably not the right answer), and it is probably an edge case for most applications, but I'm entered a bug for it so that people know this issue exists."		closed	Generic views	dev		wontfix			Design decision needed	0	0	0	0	0	0