On lör, 2011-01-01 at 13:17 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > ALTER RENAME and ALTER SET SCHEMA are both in the nature of changing the > object's identity. Consider the fairly typical use-case where you are > renaming an "old" instance out of the way and renaming another one into > the same schema/name. Do you really want that to be a low-lock > operation? I find it really hard to envision a use case where it'd be > smart to allow some concurrent operations to continue using the the old > instance while others start using the new one.
At least in Unix land, that's a handy property. And we're frequently cursing those other operating systems where it doesn't work that way. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
