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# ALTER TEXT SEARCH DICTIONARY

### ALTER TEXT SEARCH DICTIONARY

ALTER TEXT SEARCH DICTIONARY — change the definition of a text search dictionary

### Synopsis

```

ALTER TEXT SEARCH DICTIONARY name (
    option [ = value ] [, ... ]
)
ALTER TEXT SEARCH DICTIONARY name RENAME TO new_name
ALTER TEXT SEARCH DICTIONARY name OWNER TO { new_owner | CURRENT_ROLE | CURRENT_USER | SESSION_USER }
ALTER TEXT SEARCH DICTIONARY name SET SCHEMA new_schema
```

### Description

`ALTER TEXT SEARCH DICTIONARY` changes the definition of a text search dictionary. You can change the dictionary's template-specific options, or change the dictionary's name or owner.

You must be the owner of the dictionary to use `ALTER TEXT SEARCH DICTIONARY`.

### Parameters

*`name`* : The name (optionally schema-qualified) of an existing text search dictionary.

*`option`* : The name of a template-specific option to be set for this dictionary.

*`value`* : The new value to use for a template-specific option. If the equal sign and value are omitted, then any previous setting for the option is removed from the dictionary, allowing the default to be used.

*`new_name`* : The new name of the text search dictionary.

*`new_owner`* : The new owner of the text search dictionary.

*`new_schema`* : The new schema for the text search dictionary.

Template-specific options can appear in any order.

### Examples

The following example command changes the stopword list for a Snowball-based dictionary. Other parameters remain unchanged.

```

ALTER TEXT SEARCH DICTIONARY my_dict ( StopWords = newrussian );
```

The following example command changes the language option to `dutch`, and removes the stopword option entirely.

```

ALTER TEXT SEARCH DICTIONARY my_dict ( language = dutch, StopWords );
```

The following example command “updates” the dictionary's definition without actually changing anything.

```

ALTER TEXT SEARCH DICTIONARY my_dict ( dummy );
```

(The reason this works is that the option removal code doesn't complain if there is no such option.) This trick is useful when changing configuration files for the dictionary: the `ALTER` will force existing database sessions to re-read the configuration files, which otherwise they would never do if they had read them earlier.

### Compatibility

There is no `ALTER TEXT SEARCH DICTIONARY` statement in the SQL standard.

### See Also

[CREATE TEXT SEARCH DICTIONARY](/reference/sql-commands/sql-createtsdictionary.md), [DROP TEXT SEARCH DICTIONARY](/reference/sql-commands/sql-droptsdictionary.md)

***

原文：[PostgreSQL 18.6 Documentation](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/18/sql-altertsdictionary.html)（英文原文，待翻譯）


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