* Bruce Momjian (pgman@candle.pha.pa.us) wrote:
> Added to TODO:
> 
>         o Have ALTER INDEX update the name of a constraint using that index
>         o Allow ALTER TABLE RENAME CONSTRAINT

More like:
Add ALTER TABLE RENAME CONSTRAINT; implicitly rename linked indexes also

Is there much dependency on constraint names?  If not, it'd seem like
implementing this would be pretty straight-forward.  For some reason, I
thought there was some dependency on constraint names, but I can't
remember what...

        Thanks,

                Stephen

> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > Stephen Frost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > * Tom Lane ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > >> Arguably we should forbid ALTER INDEX RENAME on an index that belongs to
> > >> a constraint, and make you rename the constraint instead (and have that
> > >> implicitly change the index name too).
> > 
> > > That would work too, though I don't think you can just rename a
> > > constraint.
> > 
> > Yeah, we'd need to add syntax for that, but it seems useful anyway.
> > 
> > Plan B would be to make the ALTER INDEX RENAME update the associated
> > constraint too, but that doesn't give you a facility to rename
> > constraints of other types.
> > 
> > Anyway, point is that I think we should force the index and constraint
> > names to track each other, rather than complicating matters by
> > supporting the situation where they are different.
> > 
> >                     regards, tom lane
> > 
> > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)---------------------------
> > TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to
> >        choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not
> >        match
> > 
> 
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