Changing column names in tables

From: "Tony Cade" <arcade646(at)googlemail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Changing column names in tables
Date: 2008-03-05 19:28:40
Message-ID: ed13db1b0803051128l260c8478x49842a19e9b1543@mail.gmail.com
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I have an Access database that I have exported to PostgreSQL via ODBC, which
has worked ok & the data is in PostgreSQL but some of the column names were
in mixed case e.g. AccountCode

When I look at the table definitions in pgadmin these are shown in quotes
e.g."AccountCode" and any queries made that reference these columns require
the quotes.

There are too many fields to issue alter table commands to rename in SQL so
my question is , is it safe to use a query such as

select relfilenode from pg_class where relname='rates'

update pg_attribute set attname=lower(attname) where attnum >0 and
attrelid=23424

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