Bug #26949 Add ALTER TABLE t RENAME COLUMN old_name TO new_name
Submitted: 8 Mar 2007 6:20 Modified: 24 Aug 2017 23:55
Reporter: Hans Ginzel Email Updates:
Status: Closed Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Server: DDL Severity:S4 (Feature request)
Version:5.0.26-community-nt OS:Windows (MS Windows XP)
Assigned to: CPU Architecture:Any
Tags: rename column

[8 Mar 2007 6:20] Hans Ginzel 
Description:
Add expected, ituitive, user friendly way to rename columns, please.

How to repeat:
Try to rename table column.

Suggested fix:
ALTER TABLE t
RENAM COLUMN [FROM] old_name [TO] new_name;
[29 Apr 2007 12:41] Valeriy Kravchuk 
Thank you for a reasonable feature request.
[3 Mar 2012 12:30] Valeriy Kravchuk 
Bug #58006 was marked as a duplicate of this one.
[3 Mar 2012 12:33] Valeriy Kravchuk 
Bug #32497 was marked as a duplicate of this one.
[23 Feb 2013 11:07] Jan Naruskevic 
It's been 6 years already... Ant still no fix for this?
[10 Dec 2015 6:52] MySQL Verification Team 
I would like this because I'm writing a schema anonymizer that only has to rename columns, but now it has to provide the datatype and nullibility flags and do a ALTER TABLE .. CHANGE .. which is more complex.
[1 May 2017 6:22] Daniël van Eeden 
This exact syntax is supported in PostgreSQL, so it also makes migration easier.

test=# create table t1 (id int, name varchar(100));
CREATE TABLE
test=# alter table t1 rename column name to foo;
ALTER TABLE

test=# \d t1
              Table "public.t1"
 Column |          Type          | Modifiers 
--------+------------------------+-----------
 id     | integer                | 
 foo    | character varying(100) |
[24 Aug 2017 18:19] Abhishek Ranjan 
Posted by developer:
 
Implemented via worklog WL#10761
[24 Aug 2017 23:55] Paul DuBois 
Posted by developer:
 
Fixed in 8.0.3.

ALTER TABLE now supports easier column renaming using RENAME COLUMN
old_name TO new_name syntax. RENAME COLUMN is more convenient than
CHANGE, which requires respecifying the current column definition.