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ALTER TABLE .. RENAME CONSTRAINT

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

Like most object types, constraints can be renamed:

// Rename a constraint
create.alterTable("table").renameConstraint("old_constraint").to("new_constraint").execute();

Dialect support

This example using jOOQ:

alterTable("t").renameConstraint("c").to("d")

Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:

Access, Aurora MySQL, Aurora Postgres, CockroachDB, DB2, H2, Informix, Oracle, Postgres, SQLDataWarehouse, SQLServer, Snowflake, Sybase, Vertica, YugabyteDB

ALTER TABLE t RENAME CONSTRAINT c TO d

ASE

EXEC sp_rename 't.c', d, 'index'

HSQLDB

ALTER CONSTRAINT c RENAME TO d

Teradata

ALTER TABLE t RENAME c TO d

BigQuery, ClickHouse, Derby, DuckDB, Exasol, Firebird, Hana, MariaDB, MemSQL, MySQL, Redshift, SQLite, Trino

/* UNSUPPORTED */
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