Race condition when ensuring a partition exists often causes AlreadyExistsException for the partition

Hiya! I'm using Apache Beam's HCatalogIO to store data in Hive. As part of HCatOutputFormatWriter#commit(), partitions are registered in FileOutputCommitterContainer#registerPartitions(). Here, it checks for the existence of the partitions, and, if so needed, creates them. For parallel processes, this fails a lot of the time, because, as far as I understand, another process creates the partition in the meantime. This causes an AlreadyExistsException to be created for the partition, which bubbles up to the API consumer.

Relevant logic: https://github.com/apache/hive/blob/release-1.2.1/hcatalog/core/src/main/java/org/apache/hive/hcatalog/mapreduce/FileOutputCommitterContainer.java#L898-L920. Logic is also present on master.

Am I missing something, and if not, is it an acceptable solution to swallow the AlreadyExistsException when adding the partitions?