Re: questions on ALTER TABLE ... OWNER

Sorry, 7.3 only.  Doc changes aren't really done for minor releases.

Your patch has been added to the PostgreSQL unapplied patches list at:
http://candle.pha.pa.us/cgi-bin/pgpatches

I will try to apply it within the next 48 hours.

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Neil Conway wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 02:03:38PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> > nconway@klamath.dyndns.org (Neil Conway) writes:
> > > Currently, ALTER TABLE ... OWNER will change the ownership of a table,
> > > view, sequence or index -- despite the fact that its name hints that it
> > > is only for 'altering tables'.
> > 
> > > 1) Is this behavior optimal? There is clearly a need to change the
> > > ownership of relations other than tables, but it seems to me that
> > > pushing this functionality into ALTER TABLE is unintuitive.
> > 
> > > On the other hand, creating ALTER INDEX ... OWNER, ALTER SEQUENCE ...
> > > OWNER, etc. seems like overkill.
> > 
> > Definitely overkill.
> 
> You're probably right -- although there is a symmetry between 'create
> sequence', 'alter sequence', and 'drop sequence', rather than 'create
> sequence', 'alter table' and 'drop sequence'.
> 
> BTW, the same semantic problems also apply to ALTER TABLE ... rename.
> 
> > I'd say tweak the docs and leave the code alone.
> 
> Okay, fixed. I also corrected another minor inaccuracy in the ALTER
> TABLE docs.
> 
> Bruce/Tom: Please apply for 7.2.1 and 7.3.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Neil
> 
> -- 
> Neil Conway <neilconway@rogers.com>
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