Postgresql Rename Table without Updating View Definitions

I've found out today that renaming tables in Postgresql also renames the VIEW definitions for Views that use the table I renamed automatically? Is there any way to turn this off?

So I rename the table with:

ALTER TABLE xyz RENAME TO abc;

And my VIEW defition for the sake of example is:

CREATE VIEW foo AS SELECT * FROM xyz;

Next thing I know after I rename the table, the definition for foo has changed to point to table abc.

I'm using Postgresql 8.4