Re: reproducable command sequence to get "mdopen: Couldn't open..."
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Philip Warner <pjw@rhyme.com.au>
Cc: Palle Girgensohn <girgen@partitur.se>, pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org
Date: 2000-10-16T01:55:10Z
Lists: pgsql-bugs
Philip Warner <pjw@rhyme.com.au> writes: > Er...it was a joke. My mistake, missed the smiley :-( >> Personally, I'd vote for disallowing ALTER RENAME inside transaction >> blocks until we can do it safely. > I agree totally. Well, does anyone want to re-open the issue? ALTER TABLE RENAME and DROP TABLE both have this problem, and both would have to be disallowed inside xact blocks to close up the hole. That might be too much functionality lost... regards, tom lane