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  1. General Bug Report: alter table tabname rename to newname does not rename extra files

    Unprivileged user <nobody> — 1999-04-29T14:49:11Z

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Your name               : Jim Mercer
Your email address      : jim@reptiles.org

Category                : runtime: back-end
Severity                : critical

Summary: alter table tabname rename to newname does not rename extra files

System Configuration
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  Operating System   : FreeBSD 2.x/3.x

  PostgreSQL version : 6.4 and 6.4.2

  Compiler used      : gcc

Hardware:
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Pentium 128M ram
FreeBSD bigbird.nag.ca 3.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE #1: Tue Feb  2 22:50:41 EST 1999     root@bigbird.nag.ca:/usr/src/sys/compile/BIGBIRD  i386


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Problem Description:
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when a table exceeds 2gb, it appears that postgres will create subfiles for the data.
when you rename a table, the sub files do no get renamed.
see backend/commands/rename.c [renamerel()]

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Test Case:
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create a table in excess of 2gig, which in turn creates subfiles
in data/base/tabname.
rename the table.
the subfiles are not renamed.


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Solution:
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possible solution is to check if the table has subfiles, look for those subfiles and rename them as well.


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