Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
>> Bruce seems to be willing to accept a window of failure for RENAME
>> TABLE in order to make database admin easier. That is very possibly
>> the right tradeoff --- but it is *not* an open-and-shut decision.
>> We need to talk about it.
> How about creating a hard link during RENAME, and you can just remove
> the old link on commit or remove the new link on transaction rollback?
Still non-atomic as far as I can see...
regards, tom lane