Apologies all - this is a false alarm. It was a buggy back-end hook
provided by a colleague.
Matt
On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 10:09 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Matthew Byrne <mjw.byrne@gmail.com> writes:
> > The commands "ALTER INDEX ... RENAME TO..." and "ALTER INDEX ... SET
> > TABLESPACE ..." seem to work as expected in PostgreSQL 9.4.5 but in 9.5.1
> > they fail with "ERROR: <index_name> is an index".
>
> [ scratches head... ] Your test case works OK for me. Admittedly,
> I'm checking 9.5-branch-from-a-day-or-two-back rather than exactly
> release 9.5.1; but if we'd broken and then fixed something as basic
> as that, I expect we'd know about it.
>
> Is this on a clean compile of 9.5.1 community sources? Using what
> compiler exactly, on what platform? Maybe you've got something
> like a badly-written event trigger installed?
>
> regards, tom lane
>
