ALTER PROCEDURE(7) PostgreSQL 16.7 Documentation ALTER PROCEDURE(7)
NAME
ALTER_PROCEDURE - change the definition of a procedure
SYNOPSIS
ALTER PROCEDURE name [ ( [ [ argmode ] [ argname ] argtype [, ...] ] ) ]
action [ ... ] [ RESTRICT ]
ALTER PROCEDURE name [ ( [ [ argmode ] [ argname ] argtype [, ...] ] ) ]
RENAME TO new_name
ALTER PROCEDURE name [ ( [ [ argmode ] [ argname ] argtype [, ...] ] ) ]
OWNER TO { new_owner | CURRENT_ROLE | CURRENT_USER | SESSION_USER }
ALTER PROCEDURE name [ ( [ [ argmode ] [ argname ] argtype [, ...] ] ) ]
SET SCHEMA new_schema
ALTER PROCEDURE name [ ( [ [ argmode ] [ argname ] argtype [, ...] ] ) ]
[ NO ] DEPENDS ON EXTENSION extension_name
where action is one of:
[ EXTERNAL ] SECURITY INVOKER | [ EXTERNAL ] SECURITY DEFINER
SET configuration_parameter { TO | = } { value | DEFAULT }
SET configuration_parameter FROM CURRENT
RESET configuration_parameter
RESET ALL
DESCRIPTION
ALTER PROCEDURE changes the definition of a procedure.
You must own the procedure to use ALTER PROCEDURE. To change a
procedure's schema, you must also have CREATE privilege on the new
schema. To alter the owner, you must be able to SET ROLE to the new
owning role, and that role must have CREATE privilege on the
procedure's schema. (These restrictions enforce that altering the owner
doesn't do anything you couldn't do by dropping and recreating the
procedure. However, a superuser can alter ownership of any procedure
anyway.)
PARAMETERS
name
The name (optionally schema-qualified) of an existing procedure. If
no argument list is specified, the name must be unique in its
schema.
argmode
The mode of an argument: IN, OUT, INOUT, or VARIADIC. If omitted,
the default is IN.
argname
The name of an argument. Note that ALTER PROCEDURE does not
actually pay any attention to argument names, since only the
argument data types are used to determine the procedure's identity.
argtype
The data type(s) of the procedure's arguments (optionally
schema-qualified), if any. See DROP PROCEDURE (DROP_PROCEDURE(7))
for the details of how the procedure is looked up using the
argument data type(s).
new_name
The new name of the procedure.
new_owner
The new owner of the procedure. Note that if the procedure is
marked SECURITY DEFINER, it will subsequently execute as the new
owner.
new_schema
The new schema for the procedure.
extension_name
This form marks the procedure as dependent on the extension, or no
longer dependent on the extension if NO is specified. A procedure
that's marked as dependent on an extension is dropped when the
extension is dropped, even if cascade is not specified. A procedure
can depend upon multiple extensions, and will be dropped when any
one of those extensions is dropped.
[ EXTERNAL ] SECURITY INVOKER
[ EXTERNAL ] SECURITY DEFINER
Change whether the procedure is a security definer or not. The key
word EXTERNAL is ignored for SQL conformance. See CREATE PROCEDURE
(CREATE_PROCEDURE(7)) for more information about this capability.
configuration_parameter
value
Add or change the assignment to be made to a configuration
parameter when the procedure is called. If value is DEFAULT or,
equivalently, RESET is used, the procedure-local setting is
removed, so that the procedure executes with the value present in
its environment. Use RESET ALL to clear all procedure-local
settings. SET FROM CURRENT saves the value of the parameter that
is current when ALTER PROCEDURE is executed as the value to be
applied when the procedure is entered.
See SET(7) and Chapter 20 for more information about allowed
parameter names and values.
RESTRICT
Ignored for conformance with the SQL standard.
EXAMPLES
To rename the procedure insert_data with two arguments of type integer
to insert_record:
ALTER PROCEDURE insert_data(integer, integer) RENAME TO insert_record;
To change the owner of the procedure insert_data with two arguments of
type integer to joe:
ALTER PROCEDURE insert_data(integer, integer) OWNER TO joe;
To change the schema of the procedure insert_data with two arguments of
type integer to accounting:
ALTER PROCEDURE insert_data(integer, integer) SET SCHEMA accounting;
To mark the procedure insert_data(integer, integer) as being dependent
on the extension myext:
ALTER PROCEDURE insert_data(integer, integer) DEPENDS ON EXTENSION myext;
To adjust the search path that is automatically set for a procedure:
ALTER PROCEDURE check_password(text) SET search_path = admin, pg_temp;
To disable automatic setting of search_path for a procedure:
ALTER PROCEDURE check_password(text) RESET search_path;
The procedure will now execute with whatever search path is used by its
caller.
COMPATIBILITY
This statement is partially compatible with the ALTER PROCEDURE
statement in the SQL standard. The standard allows more properties of a
procedure to be modified, but does not provide the ability to rename a
procedure, make a procedure a security definer, attach configuration
parameter values to a procedure, or change the owner, schema, or
volatility of a procedure. The standard also requires the RESTRICT key
word, which is optional in PostgreSQL.
SEE ALSO
CREATE PROCEDURE (CREATE_PROCEDURE(7)), DROP PROCEDURE
(DROP_PROCEDURE(7)), ALTER FUNCTION (ALTER_FUNCTION(7)), ALTER ROUTINE
(ALTER_ROUTINE(7))
PostgreSQL 16.7 2025 ALTER PROCEDURE(7)
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