Re: alter table schema in 8.0 - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: alter table schema in 8.0
Date
Msg-id 21524.1134237582@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to alter table schema in 8.0  (Marcin Inkielman <marn@wsisiz.edu.pl>)
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Marcin Inkielman <marn@wsisiz.edu.pl> writes:
> I am migrating a relativly huge database from postgres 7.2 to 8.0. I
> need to alter schema
> for sth about 500 tables and twice as many other objects. Do I need to
> sth other on a new database than:

I'd suggest updating to 8.1 (where there's ALTER SET SCHEMA commands)
instead of trying to mess with the system catalogs by hand.  Your sketch
fails to account for updating pg_depend, and I'm not sure offhand if you
missed anything else.

            regards, tom lane

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