> Dear all,
>
> When altering table ownership with
>
> ALTER TABLE table OWNER TO new owner
>
> is there any way to have PostgreSQL 7.1.3 (the version I use) recursively
> change
> ownership of all indexes, triggers, and metadata related to or implicitly
> created by
> the renamed table? If not, then what is the solution? What I do now is (1) drop
> indexes, (2) rename the table to table_old, (3) create a new table with desired
> owner, (4) insert into table select * from table_old, and finally (5) drop
> table table_old.
> There has got to be an easier way.
You can update pg_class directly to change ownership for those indexes.
Added to TODO:
o Have ALTER TABLE OWNER change all dependant objects like indexes
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