Worrying MySQL behaviour -- unlogged insert. Bug?

Had a bug on my production server last night that I’ve managed to track
down. Only prob is the cause makes me a bit nervous. I’ve got a postcode
model where the code attribute must be unique (checked with
validates_uniqueness_of). OK. No prob there. However I got an error
where there shouldn’t have been one, because a postcode (just one) was
showing as invalid – because it had a duplicate code.

I check the MySQL table and sure enough there’s a duplicate code – the
records with ids 6783 and 6784 were the same, and both created at the
same time.

OK, so how come there was a duplicate code in there? Checked the logs,
and this gets even more strange. I see where 6782 is inserted, and I see
where 6784 is inserted (or at least where the validation occurs which
references 6784 occurs), but no 6783. There’s only one insertion.

So where’s the prob occurring. In the code or Rails (unlikely, as I
would think it would be in the logs). In the MySQL adapter. In MySQL?

Anyone got any ideas?

TIA
Chris

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