On 9 Dec 2006 at 18:22, brian wrote: > I'd like to rename a table but am unsure how this will affect the > primary key. That is, the table currently being named 'service', it has a > pkey named 'service_id_pkey'. I'd like to change the table name to > 'service_provider' (which would mean i'd get 'service_provider_id_pkey'). I just tried it on 8.2, and it seems that renaming the table doesn't rename the primary key index - you have to do it explicitely. > There's a second table that has a foreign key constraint on > service_id_pkey, so do i need to drop that constraint first, rename the > first table, then re-create the constraint using the new pkey name? Without having tried it, I don't think so - my understanding is that database objects are represented internally as OIDs, so renaming the object changes only the name and not the OID. --Ray. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Raymond O'Donnell Director of Music, Galway Cathedral, Galway, Ireland rod@xxxxxx ----------------------------------------------------------------------
