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ALTER


NAME

  ALTER TYPE - change the definition of a type


SYNOPSIS

  ALTER TYPE name OWNER TO new_owner


DESCRIPTION

  ALTER TYPE changes the definition of an existing type.  The only currently
  available capability is changing the owner of a type.


PARAMETERS

  name The name (possibly schema-qualified) of an existing type to alter.

  new_owner
       The user name of the new owner of the type.  You must be a superuser
       to change a type's owner.


EXAMPLES

  To change the owner of the user-defined type email to joe:

  ALTER TYPE email OWNER TO joe;


COMPATIBILITY

  There is no ALTER TYPE statement in the SQL standard.

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