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ALTER CONVERSION

Name

ALTER CONVERSION -- change the definition of a conversion

Synopsis

ALTER CONVERSION name RENAME TO newname
ALTER CONVERSION name OWNER TO newowner

Description

ALTER CONVERSION changes the definition of a conversion.

Parameters

name

The name (optionally schema-qualified) of an existing conversion.

newname

The new name of the conversion.

newowner

The new owner of the conversion. To change the owner of a conversion, you must be a superuser.

Examples

To rename the conversion iso_8859_1_to_utf_8 to latin1_to_unicode:

ALTER CONVERSION iso_8859_1_to_utf_8 RENAME TO latin1_to_unicode;

To change the owner of the conversion iso_8859_1_to_utf_8 to joe:

ALTER CONVERSION iso_8859_1_to_utf_8 OWNER TO joe;

Compatibility

There is no ALTER CONVERSION statement in the SQL standard.