Changes the definition of a rule.

Synopsis

ALTER RULE name ON table\_name RENAME TO new\_name

Description

ALTER RULE changes properties of an existing rule. Currently, the only available action is to change the rule's name.

To use ALTER RULE, you must own the table or view that the rule applies to.

Parameters

• name

  The name of an existing rule to alter.

• table_name

  The name (optionally schema-qualified) of the table or view that the rule applies to.

• new_name

  The new name for the rule.

Compatibility

ALTER RULE is a WarehousePG language extension, as is the entire query rewrite system.

See Also

CREATE RULE, DROP RULE

Parent topic: SQL Commands