Re: [patch] ALTER RENAME and indexes

On 07 Oct 2001 at 10:56 (-0400), Tom Lane wrote:
| It occurs to me that the real problem is not so much ALTER RENAME not
| doing enough, as it is psql doing the wrong thing.  The \d display for
| indexes is almost entirely unhelpful, since it doesn't tell you such
| critical stuff as whether the index is a functional index nor which
| index opclasses are being used.  I wonder whether we oughtn't rip out
| the whole display and make it report the results of pg_get_indexdef(),
| instead.

This would solve the display problem for sure, but we'd still have
bad data in the pg_attribute tuple for the index -- specifically, 
attname would still contain the original column name that the index
was created on.  I'm now aware that PG does not use this attname
directly/internally, but it would still be wrong if anyone happens
to look at the system catalog.

cheers. Brent

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