<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >DROP POLICY</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79"><LINK REV="MADE" HREF="mailto:pgsql-docs@postgresql.org"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PostgreSQL 9.6.15 Documentation" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="SQL Commands" HREF="sql-commands.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="DROP OWNED" HREF="sql-drop-owned.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="DROP ROLE" HREF="sql-droprole.html"><LINK REL="STYLESHEET" TYPE="text/css" HREF="stylesheet.css"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><META NAME="creation" CONTENT="2019-08-11T16:06:51"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="REFENTRY" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="4" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="index.html" >PostgreSQL 9.6.15 Documentation</A ></TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A TITLE="DROP OWNED" HREF="sql-drop-owned.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="sql-commands.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="60%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="20%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A TITLE="DROP ROLE" HREF="sql-droprole.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="SQL-DROPPOLICY" ></A >DROP POLICY</H1 ><DIV CLASS="REFNAMEDIV" ><A NAME="AEN86963" ></A ><H2 >Name</H2 >DROP POLICY -- remove a row level security policy from a table</DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSYNOPSISDIV" ><A NAME="AEN86966" ></A ><H2 >Synopsis</H2 ><PRE CLASS="SYNOPSIS" >DROP POLICY [ IF EXISTS ] <TT CLASS="REPLACEABLE" ><I >name</I ></TT > ON <TT CLASS="REPLACEABLE" ><I >table_name</I ></TT > [ CASCADE | RESTRICT ]</PRE ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN86970" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 ><P > <TT CLASS="COMMAND" >DROP POLICY</TT > removes the specified policy from the table. Note that if the last policy is removed for a table and the table still has row level security enabled via <TT CLASS="COMMAND" >ALTER TABLE</TT >, then the default-deny policy will be used. <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >ALTER TABLE ... DISABLE ROW LEVEL SECURITY</TT > can be used to disable row level security for a table, whether policies for the table exist or not. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN86976" ></A ><H2 >Parameters</H2 ><P ></P ><DIV CLASS="VARIABLELIST" ><DL ><DT ><TT CLASS="LITERAL" >IF EXISTS</TT ></DT ><DD ><P > Do not throw an error if the policy does not exist. A notice is issued in this case. </P ></DD ><DT ><TT CLASS="REPLACEABLE" ><I >name</I ></TT ></DT ><DD ><P > The name of the policy to drop. </P ></DD ><DT ><TT CLASS="REPLACEABLE" ><I >table_name</I ></TT ></DT ><DD ><P > The name (optionally schema-qualified) of the table that the policy is on. </P ></DD ><DT ><TT CLASS="LITERAL" >CASCADE</TT ><BR><TT CLASS="LITERAL" >RESTRICT</TT ></DT ><DD ><P > These key words do not have any effect, since there are no dependencies on policies. </P ></DD ></DL ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN87001" ></A ><H2 >Examples</H2 ><P > To drop the policy called <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >p1</TT > on the table named <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >my_table</TT >: </P><PRE CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING" >DROP POLICY p1 ON my_table;</PRE ><P> </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN87007" ></A ><H2 >Compatibility</H2 ><P > <TT CLASS="COMMAND" >DROP POLICY</TT > is a <SPAN CLASS="PRODUCTNAME" >PostgreSQL</SPAN > extension. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN87012" ></A ><H2 >See Also</H2 ><A HREF="sql-createpolicy.html" >CREATE POLICY</A >, <A HREF="sql-alterpolicy.html" >ALTER POLICY</A ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="sql-drop-owned.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="sql-droprole.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >DROP OWNED</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="sql-commands.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >DROP ROLE</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >