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# ALTER CONVERSION

## Name

ALTER CONVERSION -- change the definition of a conversion

## Synopsis

    ALTER CONVERSION name RENAME TO newname

## Description

`ALTER CONVERSION` changes the definition of a conversion. The only currently available functionality is to rename the conversion.

## Parameters

name

  The name (optionally schema-qualified) of an existing conversion.

newname

  The new name of the conversion.

## Examples

To rename the conversion iso_8859_1_to_utf_8 to latin1_to_unicode:

    ALTER CONVERSION iso_8859_1_to_utf_8 RENAME TO latin1_to_unicode;

## Compatibility

There is no `ALTER CONVERSION` statement in the SQL standard.

## See Also

CREATE CONVERSION, DROP CONVERSION

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