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ALTER INDEX .. RENAME

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

Like most object types, indexes can be renamed:

// Renaming the index
create.alterIndex("old_index").renameTo("new_index").execute();

Dialect support

This example using jOOQ:

alterIndex("i").renameTo("j")

Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:

ASE

EXEC sp_rename 'i', j, 'index'

Aurora MySQL, MariaDB, MemSQL, MySQL

ALTER TABLE  RENAME INDEX i TO j

Aurora Postgres, CockroachDB, H2, HSQLDB, Oracle, Postgres

ALTER INDEX i RENAME TO j

DB2, Derby, Hana

RENAME INDEX i TO j

SQLDataWarehouse, SQLServer

EXEC sp_rename 'i', j, 'INDEX'

Access, BigQuery, ClickHouse, DuckDB, Exasol, Firebird, Informix, Redshift, SQLite, Snowflake, Sybase, Teradata, Trino, Vertica, YugabyteDB

/* UNSUPPORTED */
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