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>ALTER VIEW</H1
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>ALTER VIEW&nbsp;--&nbsp;change the definition of a view</DIV
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>ALTER VIEW <TT
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><I
>name</I
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> RENAME TO <TT
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>newname</I
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>   <TT
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>ALTER VIEW</TT
> changes the definition of a view.
   The only currently available functionality is to rename the view.
   To execute this command you must be the owner of the view.
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>name</I
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>      The name (optionally schema-qualified) of an existing view.
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>newname</I
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>      The new name of the view.
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>   Some variants of <TT
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>ALTER TABLE</TT
> can be used with
   views as well; for example, to rename a view it is also
   possible to use <TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>ALTER TABLE RENAME</TT
>.  To change
   the schema or owner of a view, you currently must use <TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>ALTER
   TABLE</TT
>.
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>Examples</H2
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>   To rename the view <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>foo</TT
> to
   <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>bar</TT
>:
</P><PRE
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>ALTER VIEW foo RENAME TO bar;</PRE
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>Compatibility</H2
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>   <TT
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>ALTER VIEW</TT
> is a <SPAN
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   extension of the SQL standard.
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>CREATE VIEW</I
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