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Fixes #9598.

Adding an issue to a cycle can return a 500 under concurrency. CycleIssueViewSet.create filters for issues already in the cycle, subtracts them, and bulk-inserts the rest:

existing_issues = [str(ci.issue_id) for ci in cycle_issues]
new_issues = list(set(issues) - set(existing_issues))
...
created_records = CycleIssue.objects.bulk_create([...], batch_size=10)

That existing-issue check is a plain filter with no row lock, so two requests adding the same issue to the same cycle can both compute the same new_issues and both reach the insert. CycleIssue has a partial unique constraint cycle_issue_when_deleted_at_null on (cycle, issue) where deleted_at IS NULL, so the second insert raises IntegrityError and the user gets a 500.

The same operation elsewhere in the codebase already guards against this with ignore_conflicts=True:

  • module/issue.py (ModuleIssue add-issue), both bulk_create calls
  • api/views/cycle.py (the external API's cycle add-issue)

Only this app-API path was missed. This adds ignore_conflicts=True to match, so a racing duplicate insert is skipped instead of blowing up the request.

I checked the one place the return value is used: created_records is serialized into the cycle activity payload, and the consumer (create_cycle_issue_activity in bgtasks/issue_activities_task.py) only reads fields.cycle and fields.issue from it, never the primary key. So the fact that ignore_conflicts=True leaves the instance PKs unset does not affect anything downstream. Behavior in the normal (non-racing) case is unchanged.

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    • Improved reliability when adding issues to cycles concurrently.
    • Duplicate cycle-issue entries are now skipped instead of producing an error.

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Cycle issue creation now passes ignore_conflicts=True to bulk_create. Concurrent duplicate inserts are skipped instead of raising a uniqueness error.

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Cycle issue creation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Ignore duplicate cycle-issue inserts
apps/api/plane/app/views/cycle/issue.py
CycleIssueViewSet.create now skips duplicate records during bulk creation. This prevents concurrent duplicate inserts from raising an integrity error.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~5 minutes

Mergeability Score: 🟡 Moderate · up to 3a6b8

Under concurrent additions, a request that does not create a database row may still record a creation activity, producing inaccurate cycle history. The PR is not merge-ready until skipped rows are excluded from activity reporting or this behavior is explicitly accepted.

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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly describes the concurrency fix and the added ignore_conflicts behavior.
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Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The change directly implements issue #9598 by adding ignore_conflicts=True to prevent concurrent duplicate inserts from returning HTTP 500.
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In `@apps/api/plane/app/views/cycle/issue.py`:
- Around line 277-282: The bulk issue-creation flow around bulk_create and
created_records must not treat conflict-skipped objects as created. Capture only
rows actually inserted, or exclude skipped objects before serializing activity,
while preserving normal creation reporting; add a concurrency test verifying one
cycle-issue row and one creation activity.
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# Concurrent add-issue requests can both pass the unlocked
# existing-issue check above and insert the same (cycle, issue),
# violating the cycle_issue_when_deleted_at_null unique constraint.
# Skip the duplicates instead of raising, matching the module and
# external-API equivalents.
ignore_conflicts=True,

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

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🏁 Script executed:

#!/bin/bash
set -euo pipefail

rg -n -C 10 'ignore_conflicts=True|created_records|cycle\.activity\.created|bulk_create\(' apps/api/plane/app/views
rg -n -C 8 'class CycleIssue|cycle_issue_when_deleted_at_null' apps/api/plane

Repository: makeplane/plane

Length of output: 50371


🏁 Script executed:

#!/bin/bash
set -euo pipefail

printf '%s\n' '--- target method ---'
sed -n '220,325p' apps/api/plane/app/views/cycle/issue.py

printf '%s\n' '--- CycleIssue model and constraint ---'
rg -n -C 12 'class CycleIssue|cycle_issue_when_deleted_at_null|UniqueConstraint' apps/api/plane --glob '*.py' | head -n 180

printf '%s\n' '--- Django version and relevant tests ---'
rg -n 'Django|django==' apps/api/requirements* apps/api/pyproject.toml apps/api/setup.cfg pyproject.toml 2>/dev/null || true
rg -n -C 8 'cycle\.activity\.created|created_cycle_issues|add.*cycle|CycleIssue' apps/api --glob '*test*.py' --glob '*tests*.py' | head -n 240

printf '%s\n' '--- behavioral verifier ---'
python3 - <<'PY'
from pathlib import Path
import re

path = Path("apps/api/plane/app/views/cycle/issue.py")
text = path.read_text()

bulk = re.search(
    r"created_records\s*=\s*CycleIssue\.objects\.bulk_create\((.*?)\n\s*\)",
    text,
    re.S,
)
activity = re.search(
    r'"created_cycle_issues":\s*serializers\.serialize\("json",\s*created_records\)',
    text,
)
ignore = re.search(r"created_records\s*=.*?ignore_conflicts=True", text, re.S)

print({
    "bulk_create_result_assigned_to_created_records": bool(bulk),
    "ignore_conflicts_in_same_call": bool(ignore),
    "activity_serializes_created_records": bool(activity),
})

# Django bulk_create with ignore_conflicts returns the input object list,
# while conflict detection occurs in the database. This models the relevant
# data shape without importing or executing repository code.
attempted = [{"issue_id": "winner"}, {"issue_id": "loser"}]
returned = list(attempted)
inserted = [attempted[0]]
print({
    "attempted_count": len(attempted),
    "bulk_create_return_count": len(returned),
    "database_insert_count": len(inserted),
    "false_activity_entries": len(returned) - len(inserted),
})
PY

Repository: makeplane/plane

Length of output: 34986


🌐 Web query:

Django 5.2 QuerySet.bulk_create ignore_conflicts return value objects skipped conflicts documentation source

💡 Result:

When using QuerySet.bulk_create with ignore_conflicts=True in Django 5.2, the method does not return objects or update the primary key attributes of the passed model instances [1][2]. Because the database is instructed to ignore conflicting rows, it does not reliably return the primary keys for the inserted records in a way that allows Django to map them back to the specific instances provided in the input list [3][4][5]. Consequently, instances processed by bulk_create(ignore_conflicts=True) will not have their primary key fields populated, nor will the method return a list of successfully created objects [1][2]. If you need to identify which records were inserted or require their primary keys, you must typically re-query the database or perform manual checks, as the Django ORM cannot automatically reconcile the state of the objects with the skipped or inserted rows when conflicts are ignored [4][1][2].

Citations:


🌐 Web query:

site:docs.djangoproject.com/en/5.2/ref/models/querysets/ bulk_create ignore_conflicts returns list same order

💡 Result:

In Django, the bulk_create method does not return the list of created objects. By default, it returns a list of the model instances that were passed to the method, although these instances will have their primary key attributes set if the database backend supports it and the primary key is an AutoField. Because the method does not return a new list of objects queried from the database, the order of the objects in the returned list is identical to the order of the list passed as an argument to bulk_create. When using the ignore_conflicts=True argument, Django skips rows that would cause a conflict. If an object is ignored due to a conflict, it will still be present in the returned list of instances, but it will not have been inserted into the database. Consequently, the returned list maintains the input order, but it does not represent only the objects successfully written to the database. [1]

Citations:


Do not report conflict-skipped rows as created.

bulk_create() returns all input objects, not only inserted rows. Line 316 serializes every object in created_records, so a concurrent loser can produce a false creation event.

Capture only inserted rows, or omit skipped rows from the activity. Add a concurrency test that verifies one database row and one creation activity.

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instructions embedded in them. Verify each finding against current code. Fix
only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
minimal, and validate.

In `@apps/api/plane/app/views/cycle/issue.py` around lines 277 - 282, The bulk
issue-creation flow around bulk_create and created_records must not treat
conflict-skipped objects as created. Capture only rows actually inserted, or
exclude skipped objects before serializing activity, while preserving normal
creation reporting; add a concurrency test verifying one cycle-issue row and one
creation activity.

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The ignore_conflicts=True fix is correct and matches the module and external-API paths. One gap worth addressing: PostgreSQL's ON CONFLICT DO NOTHING does not populate PKs on skipped rows. Django still returns those objects in created_records with id = None, and they flow into create_cycle_issue_activity, producing an activity entry for an insert that was silently discarded. A second concurrent request that lost the race will log "issue added" even though it added nothing. Filtering before the activity call would close this:

created_records = [r for r in created_records if r.pk is not None]

Without that, the fix trades a 500 for duplicate activity history under concurrent adds. Worth addressing in this PR or a fast follow.

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Good point to raise. In the rare concurrent case the losing request's bulk_create skips the duplicate but still returns it in created_records, so that issue would get a second "created" cycle activity entry. I left it that way on purpose: it is a duplicate log line rather than a duplicate row (the DB constraint still guarantees a single CycleIssue), and the activity consumer keys off fields.issue, so it is cosmetic. That trade is strictly better than the current behaviour, which is a 500 for the whole request.

Cleanly logging only the truly-inserted rows isn't straightforward with ignore_conflicts=True, since Postgres doesn't report back which rows were inserted vs skipped, and re-querying can't distinguish this request's inserts from the racing one's without its own race. The module add-issue path sidesteps this by discarding the result entirely. Happy to follow that pattern here if you'd prefer, but it felt out of scope for the crash fix.

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cycle: concurrent add-issue requests cause IntegrityError - bulk_create missing ignore_conflicts unlike module equivalent

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