PostgreSQL 7.4.3 Documentation
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# ALTER AGGREGATE

## Name

ALTER AGGREGATE -- change the definition of an aggregate function

## Synopsis

    ALTER AGGREGATE name ( type ) RENAME TO newname

## Description

`ALTER AGGREGATE` changes the definition of an aggregate function. The only currently available functionality is to rename the aggregate function.

## Parameters

name

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

type

  The argument data type of the aggregate function, or `*` if the function accepts any data type.

newname

  The new name of the aggregate function.

## Examples

To rename the aggregate function `myavg` for type `integer` to `my_average`:

    ALTER AGGREGATE myavg(integer) RENAME TO my_average;

## Compatibility

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

## See Also

CREATE AGGREGATE, DROP AGGREGATE

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