На чт, 27.02.2020 г. в 17:52 Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> написа:
> There's a lot of stuff like that that you can probably get away with... > but I'm not sure it's prudent to try it on valuable production data. > If it breaks your database nobody is going to have any sympathy for you. > > FWIW, I can't immediately think of a reason this would cause a problem, > at least not on 9.4 and up which use MVCC catalog scans. If you're > really still on 9.3 then it's notably more risky. In any case, I've > not had any caffeine yet today, so this doesn't count for much. > Ah, 9.3 is not using MVCC for system catalogs?... Ouch. Then most probably it is really not a good idea. That said, I am not modifying table names, only index names... and I guess the internals, the planner etc. are not working with names, but with oids instead? Thanks and caffeine regards, -- Kouber Saparev