Re: ALTER INDEX .. RENAME allows to rename tables/views as well

On 10/19/21, 3:13 PM, "Alvaro Herrera"  wrote:
> On 2021-Oct-19, Bossart, Nathan wrote:
>
>> I did consider this, but I figured it might be better to keep the lock
>> level consistent for a given object type no matter what the statement
>> type is.  I don't have a strong opinion about this, though.
>
> Yeah, the problem is that if there is a concurrent process waiting on
> your lock, we'll release ours and they'll grab theirs, so we'll be
> waiting on them afterwards, which is worse.

Makes sense.

> BTW I noticed that the case of partitioned indexes was wrong too.  I
> fixed that, added it to the tests, and pushed.

Ah, good catch.  Thanks!

Nathan