Duplicate entry on wp_statistics_pages

Using ver 10.1.
I get the following error fairly often and would beg your indulgence to confirm whether I have the right understanding of what causes it, and whether it should be of concern.

The error is similar to:
[Fri Jun 17 06:36:08 2016] [error] [client xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] FastCGI: server “/home/blahblah/.fpm/php5.external” stderr: PHP message: WordPress database error Duplicate entry ‘2016-06-17-/some_blog_page/’ for key ‘date_2’ for query INSERT INTO wp_statistics_pages (uri, date, count, id) VALUES (‘/some_blog_page/’, ‘2016-06-17’, 1, ‘2080’) made by shutdown_action_hook, do_action(‘shutdown’), wp_statistics_shutdown_action, Hits->Pages, referer: https://mysite.com/some_blog_page/

When I look in the access log, I see that Google attempted to access that page at 02:09:17 of that day. It was the first access of that page of the day. But, as crawlers are filtered out, no record is created in wp_statistics_pages.

At 06:36:06, a single client attempts to do two GETs of that page. It is not a crawler. One of those attempts results in the insertion of a new row in the table; the other one fails, as it would break the uniqueness constraint. On the assumption that the second GET queries the database to see if the row already exists before it attempts an INSERT, mySQL apparently doesn’t do a good job of detecting the concurrency, or is not told to lock the row while the insert is in progress. Furthermore, the second GET does not increment the count for that page. For I see that a different site (but from the same domain!) did a GET on the page at 06:36:07, which would account for the second hit on the page that I see in the table’s row for that page and date.

If that is what has happened, should I be concerned? I have tried numerous times to access the same page in quick succession, but have always failed. So, I assume that my dear guest is using some automated tool and is probably up to no good. But it is extremely tedious to verify that this sort of thing is really happening. I am surprised that the technology cannot be used to avoid generating the error in the first place.

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