diff --git a/rust/plex-pg-core/src/upsert.rs b/rust/plex-pg-core/src/upsert.rs
index 86f770a..b284e0f 100644
--- a/rust/plex-pg-core/src/upsert.rs
+++ b/rust/plex-pg-core/src/upsert.rs
@@ -86,6 +86,45 @@ fn transform_insert(insert: &mut Insert) {
             action: OnConflictAction::DoNothing,
         }));
         insert.or = None;
+    } else if conflict_cols.is_some() {
+        // Plain INSERT into a table where the shim has added a UNIQUE
+        // constraint that SQLite did not have (see plex_schema.sql vs
+        // sqlite_schema.sql for statistics_bandwidth, statistics_media,
+        // metadata_item_settings, etc.). Without this branch, plain
+        // `INSERT INTO statistics_bandwidth (...) VALUES (...)` succeeds
+        // on SQLite (no UNIQUE) but raises `unique_violation` on PG when
+        // the row already exists. Plex's caller does not catch that
+        // and it propagates as `DB::Exception: std::exception`, crashing
+        // PMS — observed on startup roll-up for statistics_bandwidth /
+        // statistics_media on a freshly migrated PG database.
+        //
+        // Use ON CONFLICT DO UPDATE (not DO NOTHING). DO NOTHING returns
+        // zero rows from the trailing `RETURNING id` that
+        // `rust_step_cached_write_build_exec_sql` appends to every INSERT;
+        // Plex's SOCI wrapper expects a row back to populate
+        // `last_insert_rowid()` and throws DB::Exception on the empty
+        // result, leaving the server stuck in startup Maintenance with
+        // an "Uncaught exception running async task" log spam every 5s.
+        // DO UPDATE preserves the row id (RETURNING id returns it) and
+        // overwrites the non-key columns, which matches what Plex would
+        // have done after its SELECT-or-INSERT pattern anyway: store the
+        // latest measurement for this (account, device, timespan, at,
+        // lan) tuple.
+        let columns = insert.columns.clone();
+        let conflict_col_names: Vec<String> = conflict_cols
+            .as_ref()
+            .map(|cols| cols.iter().map(|c| c.to_lowercase()).collect())
+            .unwrap_or_default();
+        insert.on = Some(OnInsert::OnConflict(make_do_update(
+            columns,
+            conflict_target,
+            &conflict_col_names,
+        )));
+        if should_add_returning_id(&conflict_cols) {
+            insert.returning = Some(vec![SelectItem::UnnamedExpr(Expr::Identifier(Ident::new(
+                "id",
+            )))]);
+        }
     }
 }