Renaming tables and their indexes simultaneously

[Moshe Jacobson <moshe@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have a stored procedure that renames a table as part of a partitioning scheme, then re-creates it.

Up until recently (I'm not sure what changed), renaming the table would cause the pkey index/constraint, as well as all other indexes, to be renamed according to the new table name.

However, they now do not rename, and cause collisions when the new table is created.

I would prefer not having to drop and re-create the primary key index, as it takes quite a while to drop and re-create an index that large.

How can I cause Postgres to rename the table's attached indexes when I rename the table, and what might have caused it to stop doing so recently?

We are on Postgres 9.1, but we did not recently upgrade...

Thanks.

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Moshe Jacobson
Nead Werx, Inc. | Senior Systems Engineer

2323 Cumberland Parkway, Suite 201 | Atlanta, GA 30339
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