Updated on 2025-09-04 GMT+08:00

Changing a DB Instance Name

Function

This API is used to change a DB instance name. Before calling this API:

URI

PUT /v3/{project_id}/instances/{instance_id}/name

Table 1 URI parameters

Parameter

Mandatory

Type

Description

project_id

Yes

String

Definition

Project ID of a tenant in a region.

To obtain this value, see Obtaining a Project ID.

Constraints

N/A

Range

The value contains 32 characters. Only letters and digits are allowed.

Default Value

N/A

instance_id

Yes

String

Definition

Instance ID, which uniquely identifies an instance.

Constraints

N/A

Range

The value contains 36 characters with a suffix of in07. Only letters and digits are allowed.

Default Value

N/A

Request Parameters

Table 2 Request header parameters

Parameter

Mandatory

Type

Description

X-Auth-Token

Yes

String

Definition

User token. To obtain this value, call the IAM API for obtaining a user token.

The value of X-Subject-Token in the response header is the token value.

Constraints

N/A

Range

N/A

Default Value

N/A

X-Language

No

String

Definition

Request language type.

Constraints

N/A

Range

  • en-us

  • zh-cn

Default Value

en-us

Table 3 Request body parameters

Parameter

Mandatory

Type

Description

name

Yes

String

Definition

Instance name.

Constraints

Instances of the same type can have the same name under the same tenant.

Range

The name must start with a letter and consist of 4 to 64 characters. Only letters (case-sensitive), digits, hyphens (-), and underscores (_) are allowed.

Default Value

N/A

is_modify_node_name

No

String

Definition

Whether to synchronously change the node name.

Constraints

N/A

Range

  • true: The node name will be synchronously changed.

  • false: The node name will not be synchronously changed.

Default Value

true

Response Parameters

Status code: 200

Table 4 Response body parameter

Parameter

Type

Description

job_id

String

Definition

ID of the task for changing an instance name.

Range

N/A

Status code: 400

Table 5 Response body parameters

Parameter

Type

Description

error_code

String

Error code.

error_msg

String

Error message.

Status code: 500

Table 6 Response body parameters

Parameter

Type

Description

error_code

String

Error code.

error_msg

String

Error message.

Example Request

Changing the instance name to gaussdb-name

PUT https://{endpoint}/v3/054e292c9880d4992f02c0196d3ea468/instances/ba62a0b83a1b42bfab275829d86ac0fdin07/name
{
  "name" : "gaussdb-name"
}

Example Response

Status code: 200

Success.

{
  "job_id" : "0f6b6a9e-bd39-4e95-9374-e4d134e5a3d1"
}

Status Code

For details, see Status Codes.

Error Code

For details, see Error Codes.