ALTER TABLESPACE
ALTER TABLESPACE — change the definition of a tablespace
Synopsis
ALTER TABLESPACEname
RENAME TOnew_name
ALTER TABLESPACEname
OWNER TO {new_owner
| CURRENT_USER | SESSION_USER }ALTER TABLESPACEname
SET (tablespace_option
=value
[, ... ] )ALTER TABLESPACEname
RESET (tablespace_option
[, ... ] )
Description
ALTER TABLESPACE
can be used to change the definition of a tablespace.
You must own the tablespace to change the definition of a tablespace. To alter the owner, you must also be a direct or indirect member of the new owning role. (Note that superusers have these privileges automatically.)
Parameters
name
The name of an existing tablespace.
new_name
The new name of the tablespace. The new name cannot begin with
pg_
, as such names are reserved for system tablespaces.new_owner
The new owner of the tablespace.
tablespace_option
A tablespace parameter to be set or reset. Currently, the only available parameters are
seq_page_cost
andrandom_page_cost
. Setting either value for a particular tablespace will override the planner's usual estimate of the cost of reading pages from tables in that tablespace, as established by the configuration parameters of the same name (seeseq_page_cost,random_page_cost). This may be useful if one tablespace is located on a disk which is faster or slower than the remainder of the I/O subsystem.
Examples
Rename tablespaceindex_space
tofast_raid
:
ALTER TABLESPACE index_space RENAME TO fast_raid;
Change the owner of tablespaceindex_space
:
ALTER TABLESPACE index_space OWNER TO mary;
Compatibility
There is noALTER TABLESPACE
statement in the SQL standard.