Re: ALTER TABLE ... REPLACE WITH

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 4:24 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com> writes:
>> Heikki's suggestion seemed straightforward, so much so that I couldn't figure
>> why nobody had done it.  That would usually mean I'm missing something.
>
> If you're willing to substitute an incompatible table, it's not clear
> why you don't just do
>
>                begin;
>                drop table t;
>                alter table t_new rename to t;
>                commit;

Because the whole source of this problem is dependency hell.

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