diff --git a/backend/.sqlx/query-341491d10649cf76c6d3bce963cf03d449a85e186e4c0a10303f3a043ecb6816.json b/backend/.sqlx/query-341491d10649cf76c6d3bce963cf03d449a85e186e4c0a10303f3a043ecb6816.json
deleted file mode 100644
index 35d01aa0b1..0000000000
--- a/backend/.sqlx/query-341491d10649cf76c6d3bce963cf03d449a85e186e4c0a10303f3a043ecb6816.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
-{
-  "db_name": "PostgreSQL",
-  "query": "SELECT 1 as _e FROM dbt_environment_state\n          WHERE workspace_id = $1 AND script_path = $2 AND environment = $3 FOR UPDATE",
-  "describe": {
-    "columns": [
-      {
-        "ordinal": 0,
-        "name": "_e",
-        "type_info": "Int4"
-      }
-    ],
-    "parameters": {
-      "Left": [
-        "Text",
-        "Text",
-        "Text"
-      ]
-    },
-    "nullable": [
-      null
-    ]
-  },
-  "hash": "341491d10649cf76c6d3bce963cf03d449a85e186e4c0a10303f3a043ecb6816"
-}
diff --git a/backend/.sqlx/query-a06e1d9f6f95e4c4c2b98310ebddcc9d963cc033582bf2e945e8bf3a301b4247.json b/backend/.sqlx/query-a06e1d9f6f95e4c4c2b98310ebddcc9d963cc033582bf2e945e8bf3a301b4247.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..909e6ad42d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/backend/.sqlx/query-a06e1d9f6f95e4c4c2b98310ebddcc9d963cc033582bf2e945e8bf3a301b4247.json
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+{
+  "db_name": "PostgreSQL",
+  "query": "SELECT pg_advisory_xact_lock($1)",
+  "describe": {
+    "columns": [
+      {
+        "ordinal": 0,
+        "name": "pg_advisory_xact_lock",
+        "type_info": "Void"
+      }
+    ],
+    "parameters": {
+      "Left": [
+        "Int8"
+      ]
+    },
+    "nullable": [
+      null
+    ]
+  },
+  "hash": "a06e1d9f6f95e4c4c2b98310ebddcc9d963cc033582bf2e945e8bf3a301b4247"
+}
diff --git a/backend/windmill-worker/src/dbt_state.rs b/backend/windmill-worker/src/dbt_state.rs
index d07a91a351..4664dbe6e6 100644
--- a/backend/windmill-worker/src/dbt_state.rs
+++ b/backend/windmill-worker/src/dbt_state.rs
@@ -141,15 +141,16 @@ pub(crate) async fn publish(
     // which describes the same project in the same environment — versioned keys
     // would move that window to a pointer at an object a reader may already have
     // been about to fetch, and buy a grace period to sweep.
+    //
+    // An advisory lock rather than the row's, because the first publish of an
+    // environment has no row to lock and is exactly when two runs of a newly
+    // deployed script are most likely to race.
     let mut tx = db.begin().await?;
-    sqlx::query!(
-        "SELECT 1 as _e FROM dbt_environment_state
-          WHERE workspace_id = $1 AND script_path = $2 AND environment = $3 FOR UPDATE",
-        w_id,
-        &p.script_path,
-        environment
+    sqlx::query_scalar!(
+        "SELECT pg_advisory_xact_lock($1)",
+        publication_lock(w_id, &p.script_path, &environment)
     )
-    .fetch_optional(&mut *tx)
+    .execute(&mut *tx)
     .await?;
     let manifest = store(
         manifest,
@@ -300,6 +301,19 @@ fn split(home: Option<Home>) -> (Option<String>, Option<String>) {
     }
 }
 
+/// The advisory lock one environment's publishers take, so that only one of them
+/// is between its first upload and its row at a time.
+///
+/// Derived from the same three components as the row's key. Two environments
+/// whose digests collide in 64 bits wait for each other, which costs a moment and
+/// nothing else.
+fn publication_lock(w_id: &str, script_path: &str, environment: &str) -> i64 {
+    let d = digest(&format!("{w_id}|{script_path}|{environment}"));
+    let mut bytes = [0u8; 8];
+    bytes.copy_from_slice(&d.as_bytes()[..8]);
+    i64::from_be_bytes(bytes)
+}
+
 /// The object-storage key an artifact takes.
 ///
 /// Derived from the row's own key rather than randomly, so a republish