<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >DROP TABLESPACE</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 TABLE" HREF="sql-droptable.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="DROP TRIGGER" HREF="sql-droptrigger.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-droptable.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="sql-droptable.html" >Fast Backward</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="60%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="sql-droptrigger.html" >Fast Forward</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="sql-droptrigger.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="SQL-DROPTABLESPACE" ></A >DROP TABLESPACE</H1 ><DIV CLASS="REFNAMEDIV" ><A NAME="AEN42688" ></A ><H2 >Name</H2 >DROP TABLESPACE -- remove a tablespace</DIV ><A NAME="AEN42691" ></A ><DIV CLASS="REFSYNOPSISDIV" ><A NAME="AEN42693" ></A ><H2 >Synopsis</H2 ><PRE CLASS="SYNOPSIS" >DROP TABLESPACE <TT CLASS="REPLACEABLE" ><I >tablespacename</I ></TT ></PRE ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN42696" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 ><P > <TT CLASS="COMMAND" >DROP TABLESPACE</TT > removes a tablespace from the system. </P ><P > A tablespace can only be dropped by its owner or a superuser. The tablespace must be empty of all database objects before it can be dropped. It is possible that objects in other databases may still reside in the tablespace even if no objects in the current database are using the tablespace. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN42701" ></A ><H2 >Parameters</H2 ><P ></P ><DIV CLASS="VARIABLELIST" ><DL ><DT ><TT CLASS="REPLACEABLE" ><I >tablespacename</I ></TT ></DT ><DD ><P > The name of a tablespace. </P ></DD ></DL ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN42709" ></A ><H2 >Examples</H2 ><P > To remove tablespace <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >mystuff</TT > from the system: </P><PRE CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING" >DROP TABLESPACE mystuff;</PRE ><P> </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN42714" ></A ><H2 >Compatibility</H2 ><P > <TT CLASS="COMMAND" >DROP TABLESPACE</TT > is a <SPAN CLASS="PRODUCTNAME" >PostgreSQL</SPAN > extension. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN42719" ></A ><H2 >See Also</H2 ><A HREF="sql-createtablespace.html" ><I >CREATE TABLESPACE</I ></A >, <A HREF="sql-altertablespace.html" ><I >ALTER TABLESPACE</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-droptable.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-droptrigger.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >DROP TABLE</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 TRIGGER</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >