Re: [HACKERS] Foreign key bugs (Re: "New" bug?? Serious - crashes backend.)

Tom Lane wrote:
>
> >> but a larger question is why the system let you drop a table that
> >> is the target of a referential integrity check (which I assume is
> >> what you did to get into this state).
>
> > For me too.
>
> What about renaming as opposed to dropping? Since the triggers are set
> up to use names rather than OIDs, seems like they are vulnerable to a
> rename. Maybe they should be using table OIDs in their parameter lists.
> (That'd make pg_dump's life harder however...)

That at least shows how he might have gotten there. And yes,
they need to either keep track of renamings or use OID's.

Jan

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