Don Y wrote: > Bruce Momjian wrote: > > Don Y wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> It doesn't appear that there is a way to rename a sequence > >> (ideally with a "cascade" action). > > > > > > Uh, the ALTER SEQUENCE manual page says: > > Uh, the 8.0.3 man page for ALTER SEQUENCE makes no mention of this. > Nor does "\h ALTER SEQUENCE" in psql yield any pointers. > > > Some variants of ALTER TABLE can be used with sequences as > > well; for example, to rename a sequence use ALTER TABLE > > RENAME. > > > > Does that help? > > Sure! It appears to allow both the rename and change of ownership. > Thanks! I see the documentation mention added August 1, 2005 byt Tom Lane. > Obviously, the documentation doesn't agree with the code :-( > > But, it still leaves unanswered the question of the risk involved > in just changing the name/owner in the system tables... It is best to use ALTER. The only other sure-safe way to do it is to look at the ALTER code and do the same things with the system tables. However, in most cases a system table modification works fine, but I don't recommend it for production servers. -- Bruce Momjian http://candle.pha.pa.us EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. +
