This has been applied by Tom.
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Petr Jelinek wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > Hm, I'm not entirely sure if you got the point or not. For either
> > relations or composite types, there is both a pg_class entry and a
> > pg_typ
Petr Jelinek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Anyway, I am sending second version of the patch.
Applied with minor corrections.
regards, tom lane
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Petr Jelinek wrote:
> Hi,
> I noticed we don't have ALTER TYPE foo RENAME TO bar command which would
> be handy for
Tom Lane wrote:
Hm, I'm not entirely sure if you got the point or not. For either
relations or composite types, there is both a pg_class entry and a
pg_type entry, and their names *must* stay in sync. We could allow
people to rename both entries using either ALTER TABLE or ALTER TYPE,
but the g
Petr Jelinek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Currently, since there's no ALTER TYPE RENAME command, this is useful
>> functionality and I wouldn't want to forbid it. But if we provide
>> ALTER TYPE RENAME then consistency would suggest requiring people to
>> use that for composite
Tom Lane wrote:
BTW, another issue this brings up is whether we should reject
regression=# create type footyp as (f2 int);
CREATE TYPE
regression=# alter table footyp rename to foobar;
ALTER TABLE
Currently, since there's no ALTER TYPE RENAME command, this is useful
functionality and I wouldn't
BTW, another issue this brings up is whether we should reject
regression=# create type footyp as (f2 int);
CREATE TYPE
regression=# alter table footyp rename to foobar;
ALTER TABLE
Currently, since there's no ALTER TYPE RENAME command, this is useful
functionality and I wouldn't want to forbid it
I wrote:
> Hm, it's definitely a bug/oversight that AlterTypeNamespace doesn't make
> a similar test for that.
On closer look, there *is* such a test, but it's down inside
AlterTypeNamespaceInternal.
regards, tom lane
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Petr Jelinek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I noticed we don't have ALTER TYPE foo RENAME TO bar command which would
> be handy for me especially for enum types.
> So I wrote this little patch (including very brief doc) which adds above
> syntax. It basically just does some checks and calls existi
