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diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/man7/DROP_EXTENSION.7 b/doc/src/sgml/man7/DROP_EXTENSION.7 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d089e42 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/src/sgml/man7/DROP_EXTENSION.7 @@ -0,0 +1,98 @@ +'\" t +.\" Title: DROP EXTENSION +.\" Author: The PostgreSQL Global Development Group +.\" Generator: DocBook XSL Stylesheets vsnapshot <http://docbook.sf.net/> +.\" Date: 2023 +.\" Manual: PostgreSQL 15.4 Documentation +.\" Source: PostgreSQL 15.4 +.\" Language: English +.\" +.TH "DROP EXTENSION" "7" "2023" "PostgreSQL 15.4" "PostgreSQL 15.4 Documentation" +.\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- +.\" * Define some portability stuff +.\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- +.\" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +.\" http://bugs.debian.org/507673 +.\" http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2009-02/msg00013.html +.\" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +.ie \n(.g .ds Aq \(aq +.el .ds Aq ' +.\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- +.\" * set default formatting +.\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- +.\" disable hyphenation +.nh +.\" disable justification (adjust text to left margin only) +.ad l +.\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- +.\" * MAIN CONTENT STARTS HERE * +.\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- +.SH "NAME" +DROP_EXTENSION \- remove an extension +.SH "SYNOPSIS" +.sp +.nf +DROP EXTENSION [ IF EXISTS ] \fIname\fR [, \&.\&.\&.] [ CASCADE | RESTRICT ] +.fi +.SH "DESCRIPTION" +.PP +\fBDROP EXTENSION\fR +removes extensions from the database\&. Dropping an extension causes its member objects, and other explicitly dependent routines (see +ALTER ROUTINE (\fBALTER_ROUTINE\fR(7)), the +DEPENDS ON EXTENSION \fIextension_name\fR +action), to be dropped as well\&. +.PP +You must own the extension to use +\fBDROP EXTENSION\fR\&. +.SH "PARAMETERS" +.PP +IF EXISTS +.RS 4 +Do not throw an error if the extension does not exist\&. A notice is issued in this case\&. +.RE +.PP +\fIname\fR +.RS 4 +The name of an installed extension\&. +.RE +.PP +CASCADE +.RS 4 +Automatically drop objects that depend on the extension, and in turn all objects that depend on those objects (see +Section\ \&5.14)\&. +.RE +.PP +RESTRICT +.RS 4 +This option prevents the specified extensions from being dropped if other objects, besides these extensions, their members, and their explicitly dependent routines, depend on them\&.\ \& This is the default\&. +.RE +.SH "EXAMPLES" +.PP +To remove the extension +hstore +from the current database: +.sp +.if n \{\ +.RS 4 +.\} +.nf +DROP EXTENSION hstore; +.fi +.if n \{\ +.RE +.\} +.sp +This command will fail if any of +hstore\*(Aqs objects are in use in the database, for example if any tables have columns of the +hstore +type\&. Add the +CASCADE +option to forcibly remove those dependent objects as well\&. +.SH "COMPATIBILITY" +.PP +\fBDROP EXTENSION\fR +is a +PostgreSQL +extension\&. +.SH "SEE ALSO" +CREATE EXTENSION (\fBCREATE_EXTENSION\fR(7)), ALTER EXTENSION (\fBALTER_EXTENSION\fR(7)) |