preventing ALTER TABLE RENAME from changing view definitions?

Currently "ALTER TABLE ... RENAME TO ..." results in all views that
refer to the table to be rewritten with the new table name. This is a
good thing in the general case, but there are also situations where it
is not (e.g. temporarily renaming tables for data reorg reasons). I
can't seem to find a clean way to only rename the table without causing
change to the view. The ONLY keyword does not work in this case.
Anything I am missing (short of re-creating all views). I am on 8.1.

test=> create table a (col int);
CREATE TABLE
test=> create view v_a as select col from a;
CREATE VIEW
test=> \d v_a
      View "public.v_a"
 Column |  Type   | Modifiers
--------+---------+-----------
 col    | integer |
View definition:
 SELECT a.col
   FROM a;

test=> alter table a rename to b;
ALTER TABLE
test=> \d v_a
      View "public.v_a"
 Column |  Type   | Modifiers
--------+---------+-----------
 col    | integer |
View definition:
 SELECT a.col
   FROM b a;