Django: Using get_or_create to prevent race conditions
3 min readFeb 2, 2018
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get_or_create
, is an awesome helper utility to have at your disposal when you need an object matching some specifications, but there should only be exactly one match — you want to retrieve it if it already exists, and create it if it doesn’t.
However, there’s a scenario where it doesn’t quite do what we expect in the case of race conditions (exactly the thing we’re…