Problems with renaming a column

From: Rod Taylor <rbt(at)rbt(dot)ca>
To: PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Problems with renaming a column
Date: 2003-06-02 16:54:35
Message-ID: 1054572874.79386.13.camel@jester
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As you can see below, after a rename the check constraint still refers
to 'col' and not 'newname' as pg_constraint.consrc is not updated.

Of course, this functions fine (conbin is still valid) but when it comes
time to do a pg_dump, the database is dumped using the old column name.

It seems this is a problem in 7.3 as well. I believe the solution is to
outright remove consrc, and enable the interface to request a text
version of conbin on the fly.

test=# CREATE TABLE test (col integer check(col > 2));
CREATE TABLE
test=#
test=# ALTER TABLE test RENAME COLUMN col TO newname;
ALTER TABLE
test=#
test=# \d test
Table "public.test"
Column | Type | Modifiers
---------+---------+-----------
newname | integer |
Check Constraints:
"test_col" CHECK (col > 2)

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Rod Taylor <rbt(at)rbt(dot)ca>

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