PostgreSQL 7.4.18 Documentation
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# ALTER FUNCTION

## Name

ALTER FUNCTION -- change the definition of a function

## Synopsis

    ALTER FUNCTION name ( [ type [, ...] ] ) RENAME TO newname

## Description

`ALTER FUNCTION` changes the definition of a function. The only functionality is to rename the function.

## Parameters

`name`

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

`type`

  The data type of an argument of the function.

`newname`

  The new name of the function.

## Examples

To rename the function `sqrt` for type `integer` to `square_root`:

    ALTER FUNCTION sqrt(integer) RENAME TO square_root;

## Compatibility

There is an `ALTER FUNCTION` statement in the SQL standard, but it does not provide the option to rename the function.

## See Also

CREATE FUNCTION, DROP FUNCTION

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