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ALTER OPERATOR CLASS — change the definition of an operator class

Synopsis

ALTER OPERATOR CLASS name USING indexmethod RENAME TO newname

ALTER OPERATOR CLASS name USING indexmethod OWNER TO { newowner | CURRENT_ROLE | CURRENT_USER | SESSION_USER }

ALTER OPERATOR CLASS name USING indexmethod SET SCHEMA newschema

Description

ALTER OPERATOR CLASS changes the definition of an operator class.

You must own the operator class to use ALTER OPERATOR CLASS. To alter the owner, you must be able to SET ROLE to the new owning role, and that role must have CREATE privilege on the operator class's schema. (These restrictions enforce that altering the owner doesn't do anything you couldn't do by dropping and recreating the operator class. However, a superuser can alter ownership of any operator class anyway.)

Parameters

name

The name (optionally schema-qualified) of an existing operator class.

indexmethod

The name of the index method this operator class is for.

newname

The new name of the operator class.

newowner

The new owner of the operator class.

newschema

The new schema for the operator class.

Compatibility

There is no ALTER OPERATOR CLASS statement in the SQL standard.