RENAME TABLE

Description

In the same statement, changing the name of a single table or multiple tables does not affect the stored data.

Precautions

When the name of a single table is changed, this syntax is equivalent to RENAME in ALTER TABLE.
Changing the names of multiple tables is equivalent to running ALTER TABLE for multiple times. However, changing the names of local and non-local temporary tables at the same time is not supported.

Syntax

    
         RENAME { TABLE | TABLES } table_name TO new_table_name [, table_name2 TO new_table_name2, ...];

If you run this command in a version 5.7 B-compatible database (sql_compatibility set to 'B', b_format_version set to '5.7', and b_format_dev_version set to 's2'), the following situations may occur:

If the new table name starts with "#MySQL50#" and is followed by other characters, "#MySQL50#" will be ignored.
If the old and new table names are the same, no error is reported.

Parameters

TABLE | TABLES
TABLE and TABLES can be used interchangeably, regardless of the number of tables operated in the statement.
table_name TO new_table_name [, table_name2 TO new_table_name2, ...]
table_name and table_name2 indicate the names of the tables to be modified.

new_table_name and new_table_name2 indicate the new table names.

TO is the connection word.

Examples

Rename a single table.

gaussdb=# CREATE TABLE aa(c1 int, c2 int);
gaussdb=# RENAME TABLE aa TO test_alt1;
gaussdb=# DROP TABLE test_alt1;

Rename multiple tables.

gaussdb=# CREATE TABLE aa(c1 int, c2 int);
gaussdb=# CREATE TABLE bb(c1 int, c2 int);
gaussdb=# RENAME TABLE aa TO test_alt1, bb TO test_alt2;
gaussdb=# DROP TABLE test_alt1,test_alt2;