Jim C. Nasby wrote:
BEGIN; -- Don't do the drop right now, because it might take awhile ALTER TABLE tablename RENAME TO delete_tablename; ALTER TABLE temporary_tablename RENAME TO tablename; COMMIT; DROP delete_tablename;
What if there are dependencies? Might be better to have a view, which everything depends on, and change the view definition from one table to another back and forth.
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