Raymond O'Donnell wrote: > 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. We worked very hard to prevent renaming from affecting the behavior of any objects. -- Bruce Momjian bruce@xxxxxxxxxx EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. +
