2 doc/src/sgml/ref/alter_conversion.sgml
3 PostgreSQL documentation
6 <refentry id="SQL-ALTERCONVERSION">
8 <refentrytitle>ALTER CONVERSION</refentrytitle>
9 <manvolnum>7</manvolnum>
10 <refmiscinfo>SQL - Language Statements</refmiscinfo>
14 <refname>ALTER CONVERSION</refname>
15 <refpurpose>change the definition of a conversion</refpurpose>
18 <indexterm zone="sql-alterconversion">
19 <primary>ALTER CONVERSION</primary>
24 ALTER CONVERSION <replaceable>name</replaceable> RENAME TO <replaceable>new_name</replaceable>
25 ALTER CONVERSION <replaceable>name</replaceable> OWNER TO <replaceable>new_owner</replaceable>
26 ALTER CONVERSION <replaceable>name</replaceable> SET SCHEMA <replaceable>new_schema</replaceable>
31 <title>Description</title>
34 <command>ALTER CONVERSION</command> changes the definition of a
39 You must own the conversion to use <command>ALTER CONVERSION</>.
40 To alter the owner, you must also be a direct or indirect member of the new
41 owning role, and that role must have <literal>CREATE</literal> privilege on
42 the conversion's schema. (These restrictions enforce that altering the
43 owner doesn't do anything you couldn't do by dropping and recreating the
44 conversion. However, a superuser can alter ownership of any conversion
50 <title>Parameters</title>
54 <term><replaceable class="parameter">name</replaceable></term>
57 The name (optionally schema-qualified) of an existing conversion.
63 <term><replaceable class="parameter">new_name</replaceable></term>
66 The new name of the conversion.
72 <term><replaceable class="parameter">new_owner</replaceable></term>
75 The new owner of the conversion.
81 <term><replaceable class="parameter">new_schema</replaceable></term>
84 The new schema for the conversion.
92 <title>Examples</title>
95 To rename the conversion <literal>iso_8859_1_to_utf8</literal> to
96 <literal>latin1_to_unicode</literal>:
98 ALTER CONVERSION iso_8859_1_to_utf8 RENAME TO latin1_to_unicode;
103 To change the owner of the conversion <literal>iso_8859_1_to_utf8</literal> to
104 <literal>joe</literal>:
106 ALTER CONVERSION iso_8859_1_to_utf8 OWNER TO joe;
107 </programlisting></para>
111 <title>Compatibility</title>
114 There is no <command>ALTER CONVERSION</command> statement in the SQL
120 <title>See Also</title>
122 <simplelist type="inline">
123 <member><xref linkend="sql-createconversion"></member>
124 <member><xref linkend="sql-dropconversion"></member>