Thanks for the feedback.
The error is something like column already exists and
Quoting issue is Unlikely, and as I mentioned it works as expected if Im repeating the patch in 11.3
And I assume would if I was in 9.6.
I suspect it has something to do with the content, or lack of, in the pg_attribute table following an upgrade.
-----Original Message-----
From: Luca Ferrari [mailto:fluca1978@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2019 3:41 PM
To: Day, David <david.day@redcom.com>
Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Rename a column if not already renamed.?
On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 9:07 PM Day, David <david.day@redcom.com> wrote:
> EXECUTE format ('ALTER TABLE %s RENAME %s TO %s', schema_table_,
> old_name_, new_name);
Hard to say without the error, but any chance there is a quoting problem?
EXECUTE format ('ALTER TABLE %s RENAME %I TO %I', schema_table_, old_name_, new_name);
Luca