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It should be so rare that if it did happen, you likely have a serious bug somewhere. Crash dumping and investigating is the right course of action, not building in retry logic.

So if you are using it as a PK value, only ever insert and if there is a duplicate, blow up loudly.

Performance wise, that isn’t particularly impactful IMO.



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