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Re: [BUGS] General Bug Report: alter table tabname rename to newname does not rename extra files

Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us> — 1999-05-10T16:38:30Z

Added to TODO list.


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>                         POSTGRESQL BUG REPORT TEMPLATE
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> Your name               : Jim Mercer
> Your email address      : jim@reptiles.org
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> Category                : runtime: back-end
> Severity                : critical
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> Summary: alter table tabname rename to newname does not rename extra files
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> System Configuration
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>   Operating System   : FreeBSD 2.x/3.x
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>   PostgreSQL version : 6.4 and 6.4.2
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>   Compiler used      : gcc
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> 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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> Versions of other tools:
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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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