Re: ALTER TABLE RENAME and primary key

Raymond O'Donnell wrote:
> On 9 Dec 2006 at 18:22, brian wrote:
>
> > I'd like to rename a table but am unsure how this will affect the
> > primary key. That is, the table currently being named 'service', it has a
> > pkey named 'service_id_pkey'. I'd like to change the table name to
> > 'service_provider' (which would mean i'd get 'service_provider_id_pkey').
>
> I just tried it on 8.2, and it seems that renaming the table doesn't
> rename the primary key index - you have to do it explicitely.
>
> > There's a second table that has a foreign key constraint on
> > service_id_pkey, so do i need to drop that constraint first, rename the
> > first table, then re-create the constraint using the new pkey name?
>
> Without having tried it, I don't think so - my understanding is that
> database objects are represented internally as OIDs, so renaming the
> object changes only the name and not the OID.

We worked very hard to prevent renaming from affecting the behavior of
any objects.

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