DROP TRIGGER DROP TRIGGER 7 SQL - Language Statements DROP TRIGGER remove a trigger DROP TRIGGER [ IF EXISTS ] name ON table_name [ CASCADE | RESTRICT ] DROP TRIGGER removes an existing trigger definition. To execute this command, the current user must be the owner of the table for which the trigger is defined. IF EXISTS Do not throw an error if the trigger does not exist. A notice is issued in this case. name The name of the trigger to remove. table_name The name (optionally schema-qualified) of the table for which the trigger is defined. CASCADE Automatically drop objects that depend on the trigger, and in turn all objects that depend on those objects (see ). RESTRICT Refuse to drop the trigger if any objects depend on it. This is the default. Destroy the trigger if_dist_exists on the table films: DROP TRIGGER if_dist_exists ON films; The DROP TRIGGER statement in PostgreSQL is incompatible with the SQL standard. In the SQL standard, trigger names are not local to tables, so the command is simply DROP TRIGGER name.