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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>2<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /><title>ALTER POLICY</title><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="stylesheet.css" /><link rev="made" href="pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org" /><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets Vsnapshot" /><link rel="prev" href="sql-alteropfamily.html" title="ALTER OPERATOR FAMILY" /><link rel="next" href="sql-alterprocedure.html" title="ALTER PROCEDURE" /></head><body id="docContent" class="container-fluid col-10"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="5" align="center">ALTER POLICY</th></tr><tr><td width="10%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="sql-alteropfamily.html" title="ALTER OPERATOR FAMILY">Prev</a> </td><td width="10%" align="left"><a accesskey="u" href="sql-commands.html" title="SQL Commands">Up</a></td><th width="60%" align="center">SQL Commands</th><td width="10%" align="right"><a accesskey="h" href="index.html" title="PostgreSQL 16.3 Documentation">Home</a></td><td width="10%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="sql-alterprocedure.html" title="ALTER PROCEDURE">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr /></div><div class="refentry" id="SQL-ALTERPOLICY"><div class="titlepage"></div><a id="id-1.9.3.23.1" class="indexterm"></a><div class="refnamediv"><h2><span class="refentrytitle">ALTER POLICY</span></h2><p>ALTER POLICY — change the definition of a row-level security policy</p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv"><h2>Synopsis</h2><pre class="synopsis">3ALTER POLICY <em class="replaceable"><code>name</code></em> ON <em class="replaceable"><code>table_name</code></em> RENAME TO <em class="replaceable"><code>new_name</code></em>4 5ALTER POLICY <em class="replaceable"><code>name</code></em> ON <em class="replaceable"><code>table_name</code></em>6    [ TO { <em class="replaceable"><code>role_name</code></em> | PUBLIC | CURRENT_ROLE | CURRENT_USER | SESSION_USER } [, ...] ]7    [ USING ( <em class="replaceable"><code>using_expression</code></em> ) ]8    [ WITH CHECK ( <em class="replaceable"><code>check_expression</code></em> ) ]9</pre></div><div class="refsect1" id="id-1.9.3.23.5"><h2>Description</h2><p>10   <code class="command">ALTER POLICY</code> changes the definition of an existing11   row-level security policy.  Note that <code class="command">ALTER POLICY</code>12   only allows the set of roles to which the policy applies and the13   <code class="literal">USING</code> and <code class="literal">WITH CHECK</code> expressions to14   be modified.  To change other properties of a policy, such as the command15   to which it applies or whether it is permissive or restrictive, the policy16   must be dropped and recreated.17  </p><p>18   To use <code class="command">ALTER POLICY</code>, you must own the table that19   the policy applies to.20  </p><p>21   In the second form of <code class="command">ALTER POLICY</code>, the role list,22   <em class="replaceable"><code>using_expression</code></em>, and23   <em class="replaceable"><code>check_expression</code></em> are replaced24   independently if specified.  When one of those clauses is omitted, the25   corresponding part of the policy is unchanged.26  </p></div><div class="refsect1" id="id-1.9.3.23.6"><h2>Parameters</h2><div class="variablelist"><dl class="variablelist"><dt><span class="term"><em class="replaceable"><code>name</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>27      The name of an existing policy to alter.28     </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><em class="replaceable"><code>table_name</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>29      The name (optionally schema-qualified) of the table that the30      policy is on.31     </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><em class="replaceable"><code>new_name</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>32      The new name for the policy.33     </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><em class="replaceable"><code>role_name</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>34      The role(s) to which the policy applies.  Multiple roles can be35      specified at one time.  To apply the policy to all roles,36      use <code class="literal">PUBLIC</code>.37     </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><em class="replaceable"><code>using_expression</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>38      The <code class="literal">USING</code> expression for the policy.39      See <a class="xref" href="sql-createpolicy.html" title="CREATE POLICY"><span class="refentrytitle">CREATE POLICY</span></a> for details.40     </p></dd><dt><span class="term"><em class="replaceable"><code>check_expression</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>41      The <code class="literal">WITH CHECK</code> expression for the policy.42      See <a class="xref" href="sql-createpolicy.html" title="CREATE POLICY"><span class="refentrytitle">CREATE POLICY</span></a> for details.43     </p></dd></dl></div></div><div class="refsect1" id="id-1.9.3.23.7"><h2>Compatibility</h2><p>44   <code class="command">ALTER POLICY</code> is a <span class="productname">PostgreSQL</span> extension.45  </p></div><div class="refsect1" id="id-1.9.3.23.8"><h2>See Also</h2><span class="simplelist"><a class="xref" href="sql-createpolicy.html" title="CREATE POLICY"><span class="refentrytitle">CREATE POLICY</span></a>, <a class="xref" href="sql-droppolicy.html" title="DROP POLICY"><span class="refentrytitle">DROP POLICY</span></a></span></div></div><div class="navfooter"><hr /><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="sql-alteropfamily.html" title="ALTER OPERATOR FAMILY">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="sql-commands.html" title="SQL Commands">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="sql-alterprocedure.html" title="ALTER PROCEDURE">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">ALTER OPERATOR FAMILY </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="index.html" title="PostgreSQL 16.3 Documentation">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> ALTER PROCEDURE</td></tr></table></div></body></html>