ALTER EXTENSION(7) PostgreSQL 9.6.6 Documentation ALTER EXTENSION(7)
NAME
ALTER_EXTENSION - change the definition of an extension
SYNOPSIS
ALTER EXTENSION name UPDATE [ TO new_version ]
ALTER EXTENSION name SET SCHEMA new_schema
ALTER EXTENSION name ADD member_object
ALTER EXTENSION name DROP member_object
where member_object is:
ACCESS METHOD object_name |
AGGREGATE aggregate_name ( aggregate_signature ) |
CAST (source_type AS target_type) |
COLLATION object_name |
CONVERSION object_name |
DOMAIN object_name |
EVENT TRIGGER object_name |
FOREIGN DATA WRAPPER object_name |
FOREIGN TABLE object_name |
FUNCTION function_name ( [ [ argmode ] [ argname ] argtype [, ...] ] ) |
MATERIALIZED VIEW object_name |
OPERATOR operator_name (left_type, right_type) |
OPERATOR CLASS object_name USING index_method |
OPERATOR FAMILY object_name USING index_method |
[ PROCEDURAL ] LANGUAGE object_name |
SCHEMA object_name |
SEQUENCE object_name |
SERVER object_name |
TABLE object_name |
TEXT SEARCH CONFIGURATION object_name |
TEXT SEARCH DICTIONARY object_name |
TEXT SEARCH PARSER object_name |
TEXT SEARCH TEMPLATE object_name |
TRANSFORM FOR type_name LANGUAGE lang_name |
TYPE object_name |
VIEW object_name
and aggregate_signature is:
* |
[ argmode ] [ argname ] argtype [ , ... ] |
[ [ argmode ] [ argname ] argtype [ , ... ] ] ORDER BY [ argmode ] [ argname ] argtype [ , ... ]
DESCRIPTION
ALTER EXTENSION changes the definition of an installed extension. There
are several subforms:
UPDATE
This form updates the extension to a newer version. The extension
must supply a suitable update script (or series of scripts) that
can modify the currently-installed version into the requested
version.
SET SCHEMA
This form moves the extension's objects into another schema. The
extension has to be relocatable for this command to succeed.
ADD member_object
This form adds an existing object to the extension. This is mainly
useful in extension update scripts. The object will subsequently be
treated as a member of the extension; notably, it can only be
dropped by dropping the extension.
DROP member_object
This form removes a member object from the extension. This is
mainly useful in extension update scripts. The object is not
dropped, only disassociated from the extension.
See Section 36.15, "Packaging Related Objects into an Extension", in
the documentation for more information about these operations.
You must own the extension to use ALTER EXTENSION. The ADD/DROP forms
require ownership of the added/dropped object as well.
PARAMETERS
name
The name of an installed extension.
new_version
The desired new version of the extension. This can be written as
either an identifier or a string literal. If not specified, ALTER
EXTENSION UPDATE attempts to update to whatever is shown as the
default version in the extension's control file.
new_schema
The new schema for the extension.
object_name
aggregate_name
function_name
operator_name
The name of an object to be added to or removed from the extension.
Names of tables, aggregates, domains, foreign tables, functions,
operators, operator classes, operator families, sequences, text
search objects, types, and views can be schema-qualified.
source_type
The name of the source data type of the cast.
target_type
The name of the target data type of the cast.
argmode
The mode of a function or aggregate argument: IN, OUT, INOUT, or
VARIADIC. If omitted, the default is IN. Note that ALTER EXTENSION
does not actually pay any attention to OUT arguments, since only
the input arguments are needed to determine the function's
identity. So it is sufficient to list the IN, INOUT, and VARIADIC
arguments.
argname
The name of a function or aggregate argument. Note that ALTER
EXTENSION does not actually pay any attention to argument names,
since only the argument data types are needed to determine the
function's identity.
argtype
The data type of a function or aggregate argument.
left_type
right_type
The data type(s) of the operator's arguments (optionally
schema-qualified). Write NONE for the missing argument of a prefix
or postfix operator.
PROCEDURAL
This is a noise word.
type_name
The name of the data type of the transform.
lang_name
The name of the language of the transform.
EXAMPLES
To update the hstore extension to version 2.0:
ALTER EXTENSION hstore UPDATE TO '2.0';
To change the schema of the hstore extension to utils:
ALTER EXTENSION hstore SET SCHEMA utils;
To add an existing function to the hstore extension:
ALTER EXTENSION hstore ADD FUNCTION populate_record(anyelement, hstore);
COMPATIBILITY
ALTER EXTENSION is a PostgreSQL extension.
SEE ALSO
CREATE EXTENSION (CREATE_EXTENSION(7)), DROP EXTENSION
(DROP_EXTENSION(7))
PostgreSQL 9.6.6 2017 ALTER EXTENSION(7)
PostgreSQL 9.6.6 - Generated Fri Dec 1 19:46:09 CST 2017