<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >DEALLOCATE</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.73 "><LINK REV="MADE" HREF="mailto:pgsql-docs@postgresql.org"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PostgreSQL 7.3.2 Documentation" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="SQL Commands" HREF="sql-commands.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="CREATE VIEW" HREF="sql-createview.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="DECLARE" HREF="sql-declare.html"><LINK REL="STYLESHEET" TYPE="text/css" HREF="stylesheet.css"><META NAME="creation" CONTENT="2003-02-03T20:17:34"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="REFENTRY" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >PostgreSQL 7.3.2 Documentation</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="sql-createview.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="sql-declare.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="SQL-DEALLOCATE" >DEALLOCATE</A ></H1 ><DIV CLASS="REFNAMEDIV" ><A NAME="AEN41852" ></A ><H2 >Name</H2 > DEALLOCATE -- remove a prepared query </DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSYNOPSISDIV" ><A NAME="AEN41855" ></A ><H2 >Synopsis</H2 ><PRE CLASS="SYNOPSIS" > DEALLOCATE [ PREPARE ] <TT CLASS="REPLACEABLE" ><I >plan_name</I ></TT > </PRE ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT2" ><A NAME="R2-SQL-DEALLOCATE-1" ></A ><H3 > Inputs </H3 ><P > <P ></P ></P><DIV CLASS="VARIABLELIST" ><DL ><DT >PREPARE</DT ><DD ><P > This keyword is ignored. </P ></DD ><DT ><TT CLASS="REPLACEABLE" ><I >plan_name</I ></TT ></DT ><DD ><P > The name of the prepared query to remove. </P ></DD ></DL ></DIV ><P> </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT2" ><A NAME="R2-SQL-DEALLOCATE-2" ></A ><H3 > Outputs </H3 ><P > <P ></P ></P><DIV CLASS="VARIABLELIST" ><DL ><DT ><TT CLASS="COMPUTEROUTPUT" > <SPAN CLASS="RETURNVALUE" >DEALLOCATE</SPAN > </TT ></DT ><DD ><P > The prepared query was removed successfully. </P ></DD ></DL ></DIV ><P> </P ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="R1-SQL-DEALLOCATE-1" ></A ><H2 > Description </H2 ><P > <TT CLASS="COMMAND" >DEALLOCATE</TT > is used to remove a previously prepared query. If you do not explicitly <TT CLASS="COMMAND" >DEALLOCATE</TT > a prepared query, it is removed when the session ends. </P ><P > For more information on prepared queries, see <A HREF="sql-prepare.html" ><I >PREPARE</I ></A >. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="R1-SQL-DEALLOCATE-2" ></A ><H2 > Compatibility </H2 ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT2" ><A NAME="R2-SQL-DEALLOCATE-3" ></A ><H3 > SQL92 </H3 ><P > SQL92 includes a <TT CLASS="COMMAND" >DEALLOCATE</TT > statement, but it is only for use in embedded SQL clients. </P ></DIV ></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-createview.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-declare.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >CREATE VIEW</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" >DECLARE</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >