ALTER_LOCATION_LABEL
Adds a label to a storage location, or changes or removes an existing label.
Adds a label to a storage location, or changes or removes an existing label. You can change a location label if it is not specified by any storage policy.
Caution
If you label a storage location that contains data, Vertica moves the data to an unlabeled location, if one exists. To prevent data movement between storage locations, labels should be applied either to all storage locations or none.This is a meta-function. You must call meta-functions in a top-level SELECT statement.
Behavior type
VolatileSyntax
ALTER_LOCATION_LABEL ( 'path' , '[node]' , '[location‑label]' )
Parameters
path- The storage location path.
node- The node where the label change is applied. If you supply an empty string, Vertica applies the change across all cluster nodes.
location‑label- The label to assign to the specified storage location.
If you supply an empty string, Vertica removes that storage location's label.
You can remove a location label only if the following conditions are both true:
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No database object has a storage policy that specifies this label.
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The labeled location is not the last available storage for the objects associated with it.
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Privileges
Superuser
Examples
The following ALTER_LOCATION_LABEL statement applies across all cluster nodes the label SSD to the storage location /home/dbadmin/SSD/tables:
=> SELECT ALTER_LOCATION_LABEL('/home/dbadmin/SSD/tables','', 'SSD');
ALTER_LOCATION_LABEL
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/home/dbadmin/SSD/tables label changed.
(1 row)