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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, Databricks, Derby, DuckDB, Exasol, Firebird, Hana, MariaDB, MemSQL, MySQL, Redshift, SQLite, Trino
/* UNSUPPORTED */
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