Re: error-free disabling of individual child partition - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 03:28:39PM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> >
> >BEGIN;
> >-- Don't do the drop right now, because it might take awhile
> >ALTER TABLE tablename RENAME TO delete_tablename;
> >ALTER TABLE temporary_tablename RENAME TO tablename;
> >COMMIT;
> >DROP delete_tablename;
> >
> >  
> 
> What if there are dependencies? Might be better to have a view, which 
> everything depends on, and change the view definition from one table to 
> another back and forth.

What dependencies would there be that a view would solve? You can't
define RI on a view AFAIK...
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