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Alvaro Herrera 31eae6028e Allow CURRENT/SESSION_USER to be used in certain commands
Commands such as ALTER USER, ALTER GROUP, ALTER ROLE, GRANT, and the
various ALTER OBJECT / OWNER TO, as well as ad-hoc clauses related to
roles such as the AUTHORIZATION clause of CREATE SCHEMA, the FOR clause
of CREATE USER MAPPING, and the FOR ROLE clause of ALTER DEFAULT
PRIVILEGES can now take the keywords CURRENT_USER and SESSION_USER as
user specifiers in place of an explicit user name.

This commit also fixes some quite ugly handling of special standards-
mandated syntax in CREATE USER MAPPING, which in particular would fail
to work in presence of a role named "current_user".

The special role specifiers PUBLIC and NONE also have more consistent
handling now.

Also take the opportunity to add location tracking to user specifiers.

Authors: Kyotaro Horiguchi.  Heavily reworked by Álvaro Herrera.
Reviewed by: Rushabh Lathia, Adam Brightwell, Marti Raudsepp.
2015-03-09 15:41:54 -03:00

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doc/src/sgml/ref/alter_collation.sgml
PostgreSQL documentation
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<refentry id="SQL-ALTERCOLLATION">
<indexterm zone="sql-altercollation">
<primary>ALTER COLLATION</primary>
</indexterm>
<refmeta>
<refentrytitle>ALTER COLLATION</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>7</manvolnum>
<refmiscinfo>SQL - Language Statements</refmiscinfo>
</refmeta>
<refnamediv>
<refname>ALTER COLLATION</refname>
<refpurpose>change the definition of a collation</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsynopsisdiv>
<synopsis>
ALTER COLLATION <replaceable>name</replaceable> RENAME TO <replaceable>new_name</replaceable>
ALTER COLLATION <replaceable>name</replaceable> OWNER TO { <replaceable>new_owner</replaceable> | CURRENT_USER | SESSION_USER }
ALTER COLLATION <replaceable>name</replaceable> SET SCHEMA <replaceable>new_schema</replaceable>
</synopsis>
</refsynopsisdiv>
<refsect1>
<title>Description</title>
<para>
<command>ALTER COLLATION</command> changes the definition of a
collation.
</para>
<para>
You must own the collation to use <command>ALTER COLLATION</>.
To alter the owner, you must also be a direct or indirect member of the new
owning role, and that role must have <literal>CREATE</literal> privilege on
the collation's schema. (These restrictions enforce that altering the
owner doesn't do anything you couldn't do by dropping and recreating the
collation. However, a superuser can alter ownership of any collation
anyway.)
</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>Parameters</title>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><replaceable class="parameter">name</replaceable></term>
<listitem>
<para>
The name (optionally schema-qualified) of an existing collation.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><replaceable class="parameter">new_name</replaceable></term>
<listitem>
<para>
The new name of the collation.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><replaceable class="parameter">new_owner</replaceable></term>
<listitem>
<para>
The new owner of the collation.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><replaceable class="parameter">new_schema</replaceable></term>
<listitem>
<para>
The new schema for the collation.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>Examples</title>
<para>
To rename the collation <literal>de_DE</literal> to
<literal>german</literal>:
<programlisting>
ALTER COLLATION "de_DE" RENAME TO german;
</programlisting>
</para>
<para>
To change the owner of the collation <literal>en_US</literal> to
<literal>joe</literal>:
<programlisting>
ALTER COLLATION "en_US" OWNER TO joe;
</programlisting></para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>Compatibility</title>
<para>
There is no <command>ALTER COLLATION</command> statement in the SQL
standard.
</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>See Also</title>
<simplelist type="inline">
<member><xref linkend="sql-createcollation"></member>
<member><xref linkend="sql-dropcollation"></member>
</simplelist>
</refsect1>
</refentry>