DROP POLICY

DROP POLICY — remove a row level security policy from a table

Synopsis

  1. DROP POLICY [ IF EXISTS ] 
  2. name
  3.  ON 
  4. table_name
  5.  [ CASCADE | RESTRICT ]

Description

DROP POLICYremoves the specified policy from the table. Note that if the last policy is removed for a table and the table still has row level security enabled viaALTER TABLE, then the default-deny policy will be used.ALTER TABLE ... DISABLE ROW LEVEL SECURITYcan be used to disable row level security for a table, whether policies for the table exist or not.

Parameters

IF EXISTS

Do not throw an error if the policy does not exist. A notice is issued in this case.

name

The name of the policy to drop.

table_name

The name (optionally schema-qualified) of the table that the policy is on.

CASCADE

RESTRICT

These key words do not have any effect, since there are no dependencies on policies.

Examples

To drop the policy calledp1on the table namedmy_table:

  1. DROP POLICY p1 ON my_table;

Compatibility

DROP POLICYis aPostgreSQLextension.

See Also

CREATE POLICY

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ALTER POLICY