Re: ALTER INDEX not working in 9.5.1?

On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 10:32 PM, Matthew Byrne <mjw(dot)byrne(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> The commands "ALTER INDEX ... RENAME TO..." and "ALTER INDEX ... SET
> TABLESPACE ..." seem to work as expected in PostgreSQL 9.4.5 but in 9.5.1
> they fail with "ERROR: <index_name> is an index".
>
> I can't find anything in the docs which would explain this.
>
> Sample code:
>
> CREATE TABLE test AS SELECT 1 AS x; --Works fine
> CREATE INDEX test_idx ON test(x); --Works fine
> ALTER INDEX test_idx RENAME TO other_idx; --Works fine in 9.4.5, throws
> "is an index" error in 9.5.1
> ALTER INDEX test_idx SET TABLESPACE other_tablespace; --Works fine in
> 9.4.5, throws "is an index" error in 9.5.1
>

In PostgreSQL-9.5.1 - it works fine for me -

postgres=# alter index idx rename to test_idx;
ALTER INDEX
postgres=# alter index test_idx set tablespace tbs;
ALTER INDEX

As said upthread, It must be a trigger or some code blocking the ALTER
INDEX command.

Regards,
Venkata B N

Fujitsu Australia