| From: | Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | "Bossart, Nathan" <bossartn(at)amazon(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Onder Kalaci <onderk(at)microsoft(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: ALTER INDEX .. RENAME allows to rename tables/views as well |
| Date: | 2021-10-07 02:00:51 |
| Message-ID: | YV5U07eLUmnesVyo@paquier.xyz |
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On Wed, Oct 06, 2021 at 06:43:25PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> ... as, no doubt, are a lot of applications that this will gratuitously
> break. We've long had a policy that ALTER TABLE will work on relations
> that aren't tables, so long as the requested operation is sensible.
Yeah, that was my first thought after seeing this thread. There is a
risk in breaking something that was working previously. Perhaps it
was just working by accident, but that could be surprising if an
application relied on the existing behavior.
--
Michael
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