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ALTER TABLE .. ADD COLUMN IF NOT 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 NOT EXISTS clause:
Dialect support
This example using jOOQ:
alterTable("t").addIfNotExists("c", INTEGER)
Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:
Aurora Postgres, DuckDB, Exasol, H2, MariaDB, Postgres, YugabyteDB
ALTER TABLE t ADD IF NOT EXISTS c int
BigQuery
ALTER TABLE t ADD COLUMN IF NOT EXISTS c int64
ClickHouse
ALTER TABLE t ADD COLUMN IF NOT EXISTS c Nullable(integer)
CockroachDB
ALTER TABLE t ADD IF NOT EXISTS c int4
DB2
BEGIN
DECLARE CONTINUE HANDLER FOR SQLSTATE '42711' BEGIN END;
EXECUTE IMMEDIATE '
ALTER TABLE t ADD c integer
';
END
Hana
DO BEGIN
DECLARE EXIT HANDLER FOR SQL_ERROR_CODE 308 BEGIN END;
EXECUTE IMMEDIATE '
ALTER TABLE t ADD (c integer)
';
END;
Oracle
BEGIN
EXECUTE IMMEDIATE '
ALTER TABLE t ADD c number(10)
';
EXCEPTION
WHEN others THEN
IF sqlerrm LIKE 'ORA-01430%' THEN NULL;
ELSE RAISE;
END IF;
END;
SQLDataWarehouse
BEGIN TRY
EXEC sp_executesql N'
ALTER TABLE t ADD c int
';
END TRY
BEGIN CATCH
IF error_number() != 2705 BEGIN
DECLARE @ErrorMessage NVARCHAR(4000) = ERROR_MESSAGE();
DECLARE @ErrorSeverity INT = ERROR_SEVERITY();
DECLARE @ErrorState INT = ERROR_STATE();
RAISERROR (@ErrorMessage, @ErrorSeverity, @ErrorState);
END;
END CATCH
SQLServer
BEGIN TRY
EXEC sp_executesql N'
ALTER TABLE t ADD c int
';
END TRY
BEGIN CATCH
IF error_number() != 2705 THROW;
END CATCH
Teradata
ALTER TABLE t ADD IF NOT EXISTS c integer
Trino
ALTER TABLE t ADD COLUMN IF NOT EXISTS c int
ASE, Access, Aurora MySQL, Derby, Firebird, HSQLDB, Informix, MemSQL, MySQL, Redshift, SQLite, Snowflake, Sybase, Vertica
/* UNSUPPORTED */
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