Re: ALTER TABLE schema SCHEMA TO new_schema?

Tom Lane wrote:
> Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com> writes:
>>Someone asked earlier about how to change a bunch of existing tables int the
>>PUBLIC schema to some other schema. For grins I tried:
>>regression=# update pg_class set relnamespace=556829 where relname = 'foo' and
>>relnamespace=2200;
>>UPDATE 1
>
>>and it seemed to work fine (i.e. moved foo from schema public to schema bar).
>
> But it didn't fix the pg_depend entries linking the table to its schema :-(

Yeah, I knew there was something I was forgetting. That's why I didn't
actually offer it up as a solution to anyone.

>>But it made me wonder if we shouldn't have:
>> ALTER TABLE table SCHEMA TO new_schema
>
> I was thinking more along the lines of ALTER TABLE a.b RENAME TO x.y
>
> I don't see anything in the SQL spec about this; anyone know what
> precedent is in Oracle or other DBMSes?

Good question. I can't find anything in the Oracle docs indicating it is even
possible. We should probably just go with your suggestion. Anything else
beyond the relnamespace and pg_depend entries that need to be dealt with?

Joe