Received: from localhost (maia-1.hub.org [200.46.204.191]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 605639FB93B for ; Sat, 30 Jun 2007 02:48:58 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.191]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 72701-01 for ; Sat, 30 Jun 2007 02:48:55 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.4 Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us (sss.pgh.pa.us [66.207.139.130]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70F3A9FBE7A for ; Sat, 30 Jun 2007 02:48:55 -0300 (ADT) Received: from sss2.sss.pgh.pa.us (tgl@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id l5U5mpSa015363; Sat, 30 Jun 2007 01:48:51 -0400 (EDT) To: Neil Conway cc: Euler Taveira de Oliveira , David Fetter , Susanne Ebrecht , pgsql-docs@postgresql.org Subject: Re: rename of a view In-reply-to: <1183182221.20942.8.camel@goldbach> References: <46839C05.7050307@miracee.de> <3450.1183040211@sss.pgh.pa.us> <20070629183219.GO7636@fetter.org> <20070630001653.GQ7636@fetter.org> <4685D8C8.2070808@timbira.com> <12776.1183177571@sss.pgh.pa.us> <1183181585.20942.1.camel@goldbach> <15084.1183181782@sss.pgh.pa.us> <1183182221.20942.8.camel@goldbach> Comments: In-reply-to Neil Conway message dated "Fri, 29 Jun 2007 22:43:41 -0700" Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 01:48:51 -0400 Message-ID: <15362.1183182531@sss.pgh.pa.us> From: Tom Lane X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200706/38 X-Sequence-Number: 4327 Neil Conway writes: > For the ALTER SEQUENCE case, I think it's also a little weird to have an > ALTER SEQUENCE command that modifies some of the properties of a > sequence, but not the sequence's name. While that argument doesn't apply > to ALTER VIEW at the moment, recent history suggests that it may only be > a matter of time before we need to add an ALTER VIEW command anyway... OK, that's a fairly convincing argument. Fire away. (I'm still not sure you found all the relevant places in the documentation, however.) regards, tom lane