I sent this e-mail last week but hadn't received any response. Given
Thomas' last message about seeing responses to threads he never recalled
seeing in the first place, I'm wondering whether the original message
made it to the server.
-Tony
p.s. I still can't seem to get the "DIGEST" to work
Tom Lane wrote:
Your procedure was fine, but ALTER TABLE RENAME was mighty flaky in
pre-7.0 releases. Even in 7.0, doing it inside a transaction block is
asking for trouble (that's finally fixed for 7.1, thank goodness).
I suspect you got bit by an ALTER bug. I'm not sure about the exact
