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ALTER TABLE 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 table
create.alterTableIfExists("old_table").renameTo("new_table").execute();

Dialect support

This example using jOOQ:

alterTableIfExists("old").renameTo("new")

Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:

Aurora Postgres, BigQuery, CockroachDB, DuckDB, H2, Oracle, Postgres, Snowflake, Trino, YugabyteDB

ALTER TABLE IF EXISTS old RENAME TO new

DB2

BEGIN
  DECLARE CONTINUE HANDLER FOR SQLSTATE '42704' BEGIN END;
  EXECUTE IMMEDIATE '
    RENAME TABLE old TO new
  ';
END

Hana

DO BEGIN
  DECLARE EXIT HANDLER FOR SQL_ERROR_CODE 259 BEGIN END;
  EXECUTE IMMEDIATE '
    RENAME TABLE old TO new
  ';
END;

MariaDB

BEGIN NOT ATOMIC
  DECLARE CONTINUE HANDLER FOR SQLSTATE '42S02' BEGIN END;
  ALTER TABLE old RENAME TO new;
END

SQLServer

BEGIN TRY
  EXEC sp_executesql N'
    EXEC sp_rename ''old'', new
  ';
END TRY
BEGIN CATCH
  IF error_number() != 4902 and error_number() != 15165 and error_number() != 15225 THROW;
END CATCH

ASE, Access, Aurora MySQL, ClickHouse, Derby, Exasol, Firebird, HSQLDB, Informix, MemSQL, MySQL, Redshift, SQLDataWarehouse, SQLite, Sybase, Teradata, Vertica

/* UNSUPPORTED */
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