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ALTER TABLE .. RENAME INDEX

Applies to ✅ Open Source Edition   ✅ Express Edition   ✅ Professional Edition   ✅ Enterprise Edition

Like most object types, indexes can be renamed. As some RDBMS treat indexes as objects contained in tables, just like constraints, this syntax is offered also as an alternative to the more popular variant of the ALTER INDEX .. RENAME statement:

// Rename a index (as a convenience for the ALTER INDEX statement)
create.alterTable("table").renameIndex("old_index").to("new_index").execute();

Dialect support

This example using jOOQ:

alterTable("t").renameIndex("i").to("j")

Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:

ASE

EXEC sp_rename 't.i', j, 'index'

Aurora MySQL, MariaDB, MemSQL, MySQL

ALTER TABLE t RENAME INDEX i TO j

Aurora Postgres, CockroachDB, H2, HSQLDB, Oracle, Postgres

ALTER INDEX i RENAME TO j

DB2, Derby, Hana

RENAME INDEX i TO j

SQLDataWarehouse, SQLServer

EXEC sp_rename 't.i', j, 'INDEX'

Access, BigQuery, ClickHouse, DuckDB, Exasol, Firebird, Informix, Redshift, SQLite, Snowflake, Sybase, Teradata, Trino, Vertica, YugabyteDB

/* UNSUPPORTED */
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