Tony Cade wrote: > 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=nnnn ( from above query) Don't do that. It's far better to create a shell script, or PL/pgSQL function, whatever suits you, to get the table/column names from the catalog and then produce the ALTER TABLE commands you need. Playing directly with the catalogs is *never* supposed. -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
