<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >DROP OPERATOR</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 8.0.11 Documentation" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="SQL Commands" HREF="sql-commands.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="DROP LANGUAGE" HREF="sql-droplanguage.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="DROP OPERATOR CLASS" HREF="sql-dropopclass.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="2007-02-02T03:57:22"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="REFENTRY" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="5" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" >PostgreSQL 8.0.11 Documentation</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="sql-droplanguage.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="sql-droplanguage.html" >Fast Backward</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="60%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="sql-dropopclass.html" >Fast Forward</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="sql-dropopclass.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="SQL-DROPOPERATOR" ></A >DROP OPERATOR</H1 ><DIV CLASS="REFNAMEDIV" ><A NAME="AEN42349" ></A ><H2 >Name</H2 >DROP OPERATOR -- remove an operator</DIV ><A NAME="AEN42352" ></A ><DIV CLASS="REFSYNOPSISDIV" ><A NAME="AEN42354" ></A ><H2 >Synopsis</H2 ><PRE CLASS="SYNOPSIS" >DROP OPERATOR <TT CLASS="REPLACEABLE" ><I >name</I ></TT > ( { <TT CLASS="REPLACEABLE" ><I >lefttype</I ></TT > | NONE } , { <TT CLASS="REPLACEABLE" ><I >righttype</I ></TT > | NONE } ) [ CASCADE | RESTRICT ]</PRE ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN42359" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 ><P > <TT CLASS="COMMAND" >DROP OPERATOR</TT > drops an existing operator from the database system. To execute this command you must be the owner of the operator. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN42363" ></A ><H2 >Parameters</H2 ><P ></P ><DIV CLASS="VARIABLELIST" ><DL ><DT ><TT CLASS="REPLACEABLE" ><I >name</I ></TT ></DT ><DD ><P > The name (optionally schema-qualified) of an existing operator. </P ></DD ><DT ><TT CLASS="REPLACEABLE" ><I >lefttype</I ></TT ></DT ><DD ><P > The data type of the operator's left operand; write <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >NONE</TT > if the operator has no left operand. </P ></DD ><DT ><TT CLASS="REPLACEABLE" ><I >righttype</I ></TT ></DT ><DD ><P > The data type of the operator's right operand; write <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >NONE</TT > if the operator has no right operand. </P ></DD ><DT ><TT CLASS="LITERAL" >CASCADE</TT ></DT ><DD ><P > Automatically drop objects that depend on the operator. </P ></DD ><DT ><TT CLASS="LITERAL" >RESTRICT</TT ></DT ><DD ><P > Refuse to drop the operator if any objects depend on it. This is the default. </P ></DD ></DL ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN42393" ></A ><H2 >Examples</H2 ><P > Remove the power operator <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >a^b</TT > for type <TT CLASS="TYPE" >integer</TT >: </P><PRE CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING" >DROP OPERATOR ^ (integer, integer);</PRE ><P> </P ><P > Remove the left unary bitwise complement operator <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >~b</TT > for type <TT CLASS="TYPE" >bit</TT >: </P><PRE CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING" >DROP OPERATOR ~ (none, bit);</PRE ><P> </P ><P > Remove the right unary factorial operator <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >x!</TT > for type <TT CLASS="TYPE" >bigint</TT >: </P><PRE CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING" >DROP OPERATOR ! (bigint, none);</PRE ><P> </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN42407" ></A ><H2 >Compatibility</H2 ><P > There is no <TT CLASS="COMMAND" >DROP OPERATOR</TT > statement in the SQL standard. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN42411" ></A ><H2 >See Also</H2 ><A HREF="sql-createoperator.html" ><I >CREATE OPERATOR</I ></A >, <A HREF="sql-alteroperator.html" ><I >ALTER OPERATOR</I ></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-droplanguage.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-dropopclass.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >DROP LANGUAGE</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 OPERATOR CLASS</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >