Re: ALTER RENAME and indexes - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Brent Verner
Subject Re: ALTER RENAME and indexes
Date
Msg-id 20011006194932.A13304@rcfile.org
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In response to Re: ALTER RENAME and indexes  (Brent Verner <brent@rcfile.org>)
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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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