ALTER FOREIGN TABLE (for Import and Export)

Function

ALTER FOREIGN TABLE modifies a foreign table.

Precautions

When multi-layer quotation marks are used for sensitive columns (such as password and secret_access_key) in OPTIONS, the semantics is different from that in the scenario where quotation marks are not used. Therefore, sensitive columns are not identified for anonymization.

Syntax

Set the attributes of a foreign table.

      
           ALTER FOREIGN TABLE [ IF EXISTS ]  table_name
    OPTIONS ( {[ ADD | SET | DROP ] option ['value']}[, ... ]);

Set a new owner.

      
           ALTER FOREIGN TABLE [ IF EXISTS ] tablename
    OWNER TO new_owner;

Set foreign table column options.

ALTER FOREIGN TABLE [ IF EXISTS ] table_name
    ALTER column_name OPTIONS;

Parameter Description

table_name
Specifies the name of an existing foreign table to be modified.

Value range: an existing table name
option
Specifies the name of the option to be modified.

Value range: See Parameter Description in CREATE FOREIGN TABLE.
value
Specifies the new value of option.

Examples

    
     
       
       
         -- Create a foreign table.
openGauss=# CREATE FOREIGN TABLE tpcds.customer_ft
(
    c_customer_sk             integer               ,
    c_customer_id             char(16)              ,
    c_current_cdemo_sk        integer               ,
    c_current_hdemo_sk        integer               ,
    c_current_addr_sk         integer               ,
    c_first_shipto_date_sk    integer               ,
    c_first_sales_date_sk     integer               ,
    c_salutation              char(10)              ,
    c_first_name              char(20)              ,
    c_last_name               char(30)              ,
    c_preferred_cust_flag     char(1)               ,
    c_birth_day               integer               ,
    c_birth_month             integer               ,
    c_birth_year              integer                       ,
    c_birth_country           varchar(20)                   ,
    c_login                   char(13)                      ,
    c_email_address           char(50)                      ,
    c_last_review_date        char(10)
)
    SERVER gsmpp_server
    OPTIONS
(
    location 'gsfs://10.185.179.143:5000/customer1*.dat',
    FORMAT 'TEXT' ,
    DELIMITER '|',
    encoding 'utf8',
    mode 'Normal')
READ ONLY;

-- Modify foreign table attributes and delete the mode option.
openGauss=# ALTER FOREIGN TABLE tpcds.customer_ft options(drop mode);

-- Delete the foreign table.
openGauss=# DROP FOREIGN TABLE tpcds.customer_ft;

        

      

    
   