Re: ALTER INDEX/ALTER TABLE on indexes can cause unrestorable dumps - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

dup 3854
thanks

Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote:

> the reason for this seems to be that pg_dump is using the constraint name
> (which is not changed by ALTER TABLE/ALTER INDEX) and not the index name to
> dump this kind of information but I wonder if it would actually be more
> sensible (until we get ALTER TABLE .. ALTER CONSTRAINT) to simply forbid
> renaming indexes that are part of a constraint like that and hint towards
> ALTER TABLE ADD/DROP CONSTRAINT ?

I think the fix is to make pg_dump emit ALTER TABLE/CLUSTER ON using the
right index name ...

(This makes me wonder whether we should be making pg_dump emit sorted
output for tables with a clustering index.)

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