ALTER DATABASE IF 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 EXISTS clause:
// Renaming the database
create.alterDatabaseIfExists("old_database").renameTo("new_database").execute();
Dialect support
This example using jOOQ:
alterDatabaseIfExists("d").renameTo("e")
Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:
Aurora Postgres, Postgres, YugabyteDB
DO $$ BEGIN ALTER DATABASE d RENAME TO e; EXCEPTION WHEN SQLSTATE '3D000' THEN NULL; END $$
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