Name

Synopsis

ALTER COLLATIONname RENAME TOnew_nameALTER COLLATIONname OWNER TOnew_ownerALTER COLLATIONname SET SCHEMAnew_schema

Description

ALTER COLLATION changes the definition of a collation.

You must own the collation to useALTER COLLATION. To alter the owner, you must also be a direct or indirect member of the new owning role, and that role must haveCREATE privilege on the collation's schema. (These restrictions enforce that altering the owner doesn't do anything you couldn't do by dropping and recreating the collation. However, a superuser can alter ownership of any collation anyway.)

Parameters

Examples

To rename the collationde_DE togerman:

ALTER COLLATION "de_DE" RENAME TO german;

To change the owner of the collationen_US tojoe:

ALTER COLLATION "en_US" OWNER TO joe;

Compatibility

There is noALTER COLLATION statement in the SQL standard.

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