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ALTER TYPE IF EXISTS

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

A popular subclause of DDL statements that jOOQ can usually emulate, is the IF EXISTS clause:

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

Dialect support

This example using jOOQ:

alterTypeIfExists("old").renameTo("new")

Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:

Aurora Postgres, Postgres

DO $$
BEGIN
  ALTER TYPE old RENAME TO new;
EXCEPTION
  WHEN SQLSTATE '42704' THEN NULL;
END $$

ASE, Access, Aurora MySQL, BigQuery, ClickHouse, CockroachDB, DB2, Derby, DuckDB, Exasol, Firebird, H2, HSQLDB, Hana, Informix, MariaDB, MemSQL, MySQL, Oracle, Redshift, SQLDataWarehouse, SQLServer, SQLite, Snowflake, Sybase, Teradata, Trino, Vertica, YugabyteDB

/* UNSUPPORTED */
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