HDF5: Is there a way to rename the column names in an existing HDF5 table?
<p>I used Pandas to create a large, indexed HDF5 table. I'd like to rename 2 of the columns out of the 12 columns in my table. I would prefer not to rebuild/reindex the table.</p>

<p>Can this be done without copying all the data (140GB)? I'm hoping there are just a couple pieces of metadata in the file that could be easily swapped out with the right command.</p>

<p>This came up for me because I have a few "non-natural" column names with spaces in them, and didn't realize this was an issue until trying to run a select statement.</p>