<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >ALTER TYPE</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79"><LINK REV="MADE" HREF="mailto:pgsql-docs@postgresql.org"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PostgreSQL 8.0.11 Documentation" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="SQL Commands" HREF="sql-commands.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="ALTER TRIGGER" HREF="sql-altertrigger.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="ALTER USER" HREF="sql-alteruser.html"><LINK REL="STYLESHEET" TYPE="text/css" HREF="stylesheet.css"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><META NAME="creation" CONTENT="2007-02-02T03:57:22"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="REFENTRY" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="5" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" >PostgreSQL 8.0.11 Documentation</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="sql-altertrigger.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="sql-altertrigger.html" >Fast Backward</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="60%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="sql-alteruser.html" >Fast Forward</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="sql-alteruser.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="SQL-ALTERTYPE" ></A >ALTER TYPE</H1 ><DIV CLASS="REFNAMEDIV" ><A NAME="AEN37540" ></A ><H2 >Name</H2 > ALTER TYPE -- change the definition of a type </DIV ><A NAME="AEN37543" ></A ><DIV CLASS="REFSYNOPSISDIV" ><A NAME="AEN37545" ></A ><H2 >Synopsis</H2 ><PRE CLASS="SYNOPSIS" >ALTER TYPE <TT CLASS="REPLACEABLE" ><I >name</I ></TT > OWNER TO <TT CLASS="REPLACEABLE" ><I >new_owner</I ></TT > </PRE ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN37549" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 ><P > <TT CLASS="COMMAND" >ALTER TYPE</TT > changes the definition of an existing type. The only currently available capability is changing the owner of a type. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN37553" ></A ><H2 >Parameters</H2 ><P > <P ></P ></P><DIV CLASS="VARIABLELIST" ><DL ><DT ><TT CLASS="REPLACEABLE" ><I >name</I ></TT ></DT ><DD ><P > The name (possibly schema-qualified) of an existing type to alter. </P ></DD ><DT ><TT CLASS="REPLACEABLE" ><I >new_owner</I ></TT ></DT ><DD ><P > The user name of the new owner of the type. You must be a superuser to change a type's owner. </P ></DD ></DL ></DIV ><P> </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN37567" ></A ><H2 >Examples</H2 ><P > To change the owner of the user-defined type <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >email</TT > to <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >joe</TT >: </P><PRE CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING" >ALTER TYPE email OWNER TO joe; </PRE ><P> </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN37573" ></A ><H2 >Compatibility</H2 ><P > There is no <TT CLASS="COMMAND" >ALTER TYPE</TT > statement in the SQL standard. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="sql-altertrigger.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="sql-alteruser.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >ALTER TRIGGER</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="sql-commands.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >ALTER USER</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >