>> I was wondering if anyone had any ideas on how renaming document >> attributes might be achieved without taking the database offline. > > Perhaps I don't understand, but can't you simply make a new attribute, > copy over the value of the old attribute, delete the old attribute, > and save to the database? >
I guess I was thinking along the lines of what to do if, say, hundreds of thousands of documents contained an attribute to be renamed. Copying the old attribute to the new one and saving would certainly work, but this would presumably take some time, during which views that referenced the attribute might return inconsistent data. At some point all views that reference the old attribute would need to be updated with the new attribute name. As I say, I have no need for this myself, at least not now. My question was mostly motivated by curiosity. Paul
