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

There is no guarantee that a given sequence is used only for one column 
in one table, as I understand it. So renaming it could screw you up badly.

If we made 'serial-ness' first class, and hid the sequence completely 
from view, this would make more sense.

Or am I smoking crack?

andrew

Jonathan Gardner wrote:

>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.
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>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.
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>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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