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DROP EXTENSION(7)                  PostgreSQL 14.23 Documentation                  DROP EXTENSION(7)



NAME
       DROP_EXTENSION - remove an extension

SYNOPSIS
       DROP EXTENSION [ IF EXISTS ] name [, ...] [ CASCADE | RESTRICT ]

DESCRIPTION
       DROP EXTENSION removes extensions from the database. Dropping an extension causes its member
       objects, and other explicitly dependent routines (see ALTER ROUTINE (ALTER_ROUTINE(7)), the
       DEPENDS ON EXTENSION extension_name action), to be dropped as well.

       You must own the extension to use DROP EXTENSION.

PARAMETERS
       IF EXISTS
           Do not throw an error if the extension does not exist. A notice is issued in this case.

       name
           The name of an installed extension.

       CASCADE
           Automatically drop objects that depend on the extension, and in turn all objects that
           depend on those objects (see Section 5.14).

       RESTRICT
           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.

EXAMPLES
       To remove the extension hstore from the current database:

           DROP EXTENSION hstore;

       This command will fail if any of hstore's 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.

COMPATIBILITY
       DROP EXTENSION is a PostgreSQL extension.

SEE ALSO
       CREATE EXTENSION (CREATE_EXTENSION(7)), ALTER EXTENSION (ALTER_EXTENSION(7))



PostgreSQL 14.23                                2026                               DROP EXTENSION(7)