Re: Rename a column if not already renamed.?

On 8/20/19 12:50 PM, Day, David wrote:
> Thanks for the feedback.
> 
> The error is something like column already exists and
> Quoting issue is Unlikely, and as I mentioned it works as expected if Im repeating the patch in 11

The above and below us are the parts I am not understanding.

Can you provide us a step-by-step(workflow) for what you are doing?

> And I assume would if I was in 9.6.
> 
> I suspect it has something to do with the content,  or lack of, in  the pg_attribute table following an upgrade.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Luca Ferrari [mailto:fluca1978@gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2019 3:41 PM
> To: Day, David <david.day@redcom.com>
> Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: Rename a column if not already renamed.?
> 
> On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 9:07 PM Day, David <david.day@redcom.com> wrote:
>>      EXECUTE format ('ALTER TABLE %s RENAME %s TO %s', schema_table_,
>> old_name_, new_name);
> 
> Hard to say without the error, but any chance there is a quoting problem?
> EXECUTE format ('ALTER TABLE %s RENAME %I TO %I', schema_table_, old_name_, new_name);
> 
> Luca
> 


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