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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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