ALTER TABLE ... TO ... to change related names

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I've always wanted to be a PoatgreSQL hacker, and I am going to try this
change out first. Bruce said that it's kind of low on the priority list, so
hopefully I won't be holding anyone up if I take a while to get it right.

The bug is that when you craete a table with a "SERIAL" column, and/or a
"PRIMARY KEY", and then change that table's name via "ALTER TABLE", the
related sequence and primary key index do not change their names
accordingly.

I think the change is simple -- just update the names of the related
sequences and indexes when the table name changes. Of course, the entire
operation will have to be done in a transaction block.

I'm playing with the CVS version of PostgreSQL right now -- compiling it and
testing it. In the meantime, I am coming up with some unit tests to
determine whether I succeed or not.

Any comments about the project and its scope?

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Jonathan Gardner
jgardner@jonathangardner.net
Live Free, Use Linux!
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