Just for confirmation, this patch will not be applied because it would
cause too many problems in accessing the sequence names after the
renaming. If we get auto-sequence naming, we can revisit this idea.
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Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> This patch makes all forms of autogenerated unique, primary key and sequence
> names avoid collisions. (Well, as much as you can do without "locking" your
> chosen name).
>
> This addresses a long standing annoyance I experience whenever I rename a
> table to table_old and then try to create a table with the same name. It
> also addresses a concern raised at linux.conf.au.
>
> I suggest that someone inspect the patch to determine if my "overloading" of
> CreateIndexName is appropriate (for sequences, etc.)
>
> All regression tests pass. The attached SQL script will run fine under the
> patch, whereas before it would have failed miserably.
>
> Chris
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