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ALTER TABLE .. ALTER COLUMN .. SET GENERATED BY DEFAULT AS IDENTITY
Applies to ✅ Open Source Edition ✅ Express Edition ✅ Professional Edition ✅ Enterprise Edition
A column IDENTITY flag can be added to a column using the ALTER TABLE's SET GENERATED BY DEFAULT AS IDENTITY clause on a column:
// Specify a new identity flag for a column
create.alterTable("table").alter("column").setGeneratedByDefaultAsIdentity().execute();
Dialect support
This example using jOOQ:
alterTable("t").alter("c").setGeneratedByDefaultAsIdentity()
Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:
Aurora Postgres, CockroachDB, Postgres, YugabyteDB
ALTER TABLE t ALTER c ADD GENERATED BY DEFAULT AS IDENTITY
DB2, HSQLDB
ALTER TABLE t ALTER c SET GENERATED BY DEFAULT AS IDENTITY
Exasol
ALTER TABLE t ALTER c SET IDENTITY
H2
ALTER TABLE t ALTER c SET GENERATED BY DEFAULT
ASE, Access, Aurora MySQL, BigQuery, ClickHouse, Databricks, Derby, DuckDB, Firebird, Hana, Informix, MariaDB, MemSQL, MySQL, Oracle, Redshift, SQLDataWarehouse, SQLServer, SQLite, Snowflake, Sybase, Teradata, Trino, Vertica
/* UNSUPPORTED */
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