ALTER SCHEMA

Function

Changes the attributes of a schema.

Precautions

Only the owner of a schema, a user granted with the ALTER permission for the schema, or a system administrator has the permission to run the ALTER SCHEMA statement.

Only the schema owner or the system administrator can change the owner of a schema.

Syntax

  • Rename a schema.

    ALTER SCHEMA schema_name
        RENAME TO new_name;
    
  • Changes the owner of a schema.

    ALTER SCHEMA schema_name
        OWNER TO new_owner;
    
  • Changes the storage space limit of the permanent table in the schema.

    ALTER SCHEMA schema_name
        WITH PERM SPACE 'space_limit';
    

Parameter Description

  • schema_name

    Indicates the name of the current schema.

    Value range: An existing schema name.

  • RENAME TO new_name

    Renames a schema.

    new_name: new name of the schema

    Value range: A string. It must comply with the naming convention.

  • OWNER TO new_owner

    Changes the owner of a schema. To do this as a non-administrator, you must be a direct or indirect member of the new owning role, and that role must have CREATE permission in the database.

    new_owner: new owner of a schema

    Value range: An existing user name/role.

  • WITH PERM SPACE

    Changes the storage upper limit of the permanent table in the schema. If a non-administrator user wants to change the storage upper limit, the user must be a direct or indirect member of all new roles, and the member must have the CREATE permission on the database.

    space_limit: storage upper limit of the permanent table in the new schema.

    Value range: A string consists of an integer and unit. The unit can be K/M/G/T/P currently. The unit of parsed value is K and cannot exceed the range that can be expressed in 64 bits, which is 1 KB to 9007199254740991 KB.

Examples

Rename the ds schema to ds_new.

ALTER SCHEMA ds RENAME TO ds_new;

Change the owner of ds_new to jack.

ALTER SCHEMA ds_new OWNER TO jack;