Someone once posted to a list a sql script that could be run to move / rename a table from one schema to another.
Don't remember if it was the General or Hacker list. Sorry.
On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 10:26:45AM -0700, Michael Fuhr wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 05:18:49PM +0100, Andreas Neumann wrote:
>
> > Is there a convenient way to move a table (or a bunch of tables) to a
> > different schema?
>
> It might be possible by fiddling with the system catalogs, although
> I haven't tried it myself.
>
> I'm just brainstorming now, but you could update the table's
> relnamespace column in pg_class. That alone probably wouldn't
> suffice, however -- I'd also look for dependent objects in pg_depend,
> pg_index, etc., and see if they needed to have columns updated as
> well. Maybe somebody else can think of a complete list.
>
> I see that the TODO list has the following item under ALTER:
> "Allow objects to be moved to different schemas."
>
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> Michael Fuhr
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