On 05 Oct 2001 at 10:18 (-0400), Brent Verner wrote:
| On 05 Oct 2001 at 09:46 (-0400), Tom Lane wrote:
| | Brent Verner <brent@rcfile.org> writes:
| | > 'ALTER TABLE tbl RENAME col1 TO col2' does not update any indices that
| | > reference the old column name.
| |
| | It doesn't need to; the indexes link to column numbers, not column
| | names.
ah, I think I see the problem... The pg_attribute.attname just needs
updating, right? I suspect this after noticing that the
pg_get_indexdef(Oid) function produced the correct(expected) results,
while those using pg_attribute were wrong.
If this is the _wrong_ answer for this, stop me before I make a
big mess :-)
working... b
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