The following bug has been logged on the website:
Bug reference: 10316
Logged by: Parthi
Email address: parthibanp2@gmail.com
PostgreSQL version: 9.3.2
Operating system: Mac OSX 10.9.2
Description:
Hi I'm facing one peculiar behaviour(bug?) with Alter table rename query
SQL.
-- I have created one new table with name t1
test=# \d
No relations found.
test=# create table t1 (name varchar(10));
CREATE TABLE
-- After that i tried to rename 't1' table as '_t1', now the Postgres server
saying '_t1' is already exists. i'm sure there is no other table in the
database other than 't1'.
test=# alter table t1 rename to _t1;
ERROR: type "_t1" already exists
-- Now i renaming table from 't1' to '__t1' and again i renaming from '__t1'
to '_t1' now its working.
test=# alter table t1 rename to __t1;
ALTER TABLE
test=# alter table __t1 rename to _t1;
ALTER TABLE
-- Again i renamed '_t1' to 't1', once again i tried the first query , now
its working.
test=# alter table _t1 rename to t1;
ALTER TABLE
test=# alter table t1 rename to _t1;
ALTER TABLE
May i know , why the rename query failed initially? if it is bug then how
the same query succeeded during second time?
