ALTER_CONVERSION - change the definition of a conversion
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Compatibility
There is no ALTERCONVERSION statement in the SQL standard.
Description
ALTERCONVERSION changes the definition of a conversion.
You must own the conversion to use ALTERCONVERSION. To alter the owner, you must be able to SET ROLE to
the new owning role, and that role must have CREATE privilege on the conversion's schema. (These
restrictions enforce that altering the owner doesn't do anything you couldn't do by dropping and
recreating the conversion. However, a superuser can alter ownership of any conversion anyway.)
Examples
To rename the conversion iso_8859_1_to_utf8 to latin1_to_unicode:
ALTER CONVERSION iso_8859_1_to_utf8 RENAME TO latin1_to_unicode;
To change the owner of the conversion iso_8859_1_to_utf8 to joe:
ALTER CONVERSION iso_8859_1_to_utf8 OWNER TO joe;
Name
ALTER_CONVERSION - change the definition of a conversion
Parameters
name
The name (optionally schema-qualified) of an existing conversion.
new_name
The new name of the conversion.
new_owner
The new owner of the conversion.
new_schema
The new schema for the conversion.
See Also
CREATE CONVERSION (CREATE_CONVERSION(7)), DROP CONVERSION (DROP_CONVERSION(7))
PostgreSQL 17.5 2025 ALTERCONVERSION(7)
Synopsis
ALTER CONVERSION name RENAME TO new_name
ALTER CONVERSION name OWNER TO { new_owner | CURRENT_ROLE | CURRENT_USER | SESSION_USER }
ALTER CONVERSION name SET SCHEMA new_schema