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ALTER TYPE .. RENAME

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

Like most object types, types can be renamed. This is independent of the object type:

// Renaming the type
create.alterType("old_type").renameTo("new_type").execute();

Dialect support

This example using jOOQ:

alterType("old").renameTo("new")

Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:

-- AURORA_POSTGRES, COCKROACHDB, POSTGRES
ALTER TYPE old RENAME TO new

-- ACCESS, ASE, AURORA_MYSQL, BIGQUERY, DB2, DERBY, DUCKDB, EXASOL, FIREBIRD, H2, HANA, HSQLDB, INFORMIX, MARIADB, MEMSQL, 
-- MYSQL, ORACLE, REDSHIFT, SNOWFLAKE, SQLDATAWAREHOUSE, SQLITE, SQLSERVER, SYBASE, TERADATA, TRINO, VERTICA, YUGABYTEDB
/* UNSUPPORTED */

(These are currently generated with jOOQ 3.19, see #10141), or translate your own on our website

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