Re: Non-colliding auto generated names

Just for confirmation, this patch will not be applied because it would
cause too many problems in accessing the sequence names after the
renaming.  If we get auto-sequence naming, we can revisit this idea.

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Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> This patch makes all forms of autogenerated unique, primary key and sequence
> names avoid collisions.  (Well, as much as you can do without "locking" your
> chosen name).
>
> This addresses a long standing annoyance I experience whenever I rename a
> table to table_old and then try to create a table with the same name.  It
> also addresses a concern raised at linux.conf.au.
>
> I suggest that someone inspect the patch to determine if my "overloading" of
> CreateIndexName is appropriate (for sequences, etc.)
>
> All regression tests pass.  The attached SQL script will run fine under the
> patch, whereas before it would have failed miserably.
>
> Chris
>

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