Re: OK, OK, Hiroshi's right: use a seperately-generated filename

> Tom Lane wrote:
>   So
> > the thing would act a lot like the original-relname-plus-OID variant
> > that's been discussed so far.  (Original relname because ALTER TABLE
> > RENAME would *not* change the physical file name.  But we could
> > think about a form of VACUUM that creates a whole new table by
> > versioning, and that would presumably bring the physical name back
> > in sync with the logical relname.)
> 
> At least on UNIX, couldn't you use a hard-link and change the name in
> pg_class immediately? Let the brain-dead operating systems use the
> vacuum method.

Yes, we can hard-link, and let vacuum remove the old link.

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