Re: Move a table to another schema

From: Lee Kindness <lkindness(at)csl(dot)co(dot)uk>
To: Shridhar Daithankar <shridhar_daithankar(at)persistent(dot)co(dot)in>
Cc: Lee Kindness <lkindness(at)csl(dot)co(dot)uk>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Move a table to another schema
Date: 2003-11-18 09:13:18
Message-ID: 16313.58030.741345.972265@kelvin.csl.co.uk
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Shridhar,

Shridhar Daithankar writes:
> Lee Kindness wrote:
> I have many tables created in the "public" schema and I would like to
> migrate these into an "x001" schema. Unfortunately there is no ALTER
> TABLE construct for this... The following SQL would seem to move the
> "zxc" table from "public.zxc" to "x001.zxc":
>
> Why not just rename the schema itself? You can recreate a public
> schema later..:-)
>
> Simple, isn't it? (Unless public is a specieal schema)

Thanks Shridhar - it's good when someone has a different angle on
things!

Of course I'm using 7.3, so there is no ALTER SCHEMA - but the
catalogue magic required to rename a single schema will be a lot less
than renaming 100s of tables, indices and views!

L.

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