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UNLISTEN(7)                        PostgreSQL 14.23 Documentation                        UNLISTEN(7)



NAME
       UNLISTEN - stop listening for a notification

SYNOPSIS
       UNLISTEN { channel | * }

DESCRIPTION
       UNLISTEN is used to remove an existing registration for NOTIFY events.  UNLISTEN cancels any
       existing registration of the current PostgreSQL session as a listener on the notification
       channel named channel. The special wildcard * cancels all listener registrations for the
       current session.

       NOTIFY(7) contains a more extensive discussion of the use of LISTEN and NOTIFY.

PARAMETERS
       channel
           Name of a notification channel (any identifier).

       *
           All current listen registrations for this session are cleared.

NOTES
       You can unlisten something you were not listening for; no warning or error will appear.

       At the end of each session, UNLISTEN * is automatically executed.

       A transaction that has executed UNLISTEN cannot be prepared for two-phase commit.

EXAMPLES
       To make a registration:

           LISTEN virtual;
           NOTIFY virtual;
           Asynchronous notification "virtual" received from server process with PID 8448.

       Once UNLISTEN has been executed, further NOTIFY messages will be ignored:

           UNLISTEN virtual;
           NOTIFY virtual;
           -- no NOTIFY event is received

COMPATIBILITY
       There is no UNLISTEN command in the SQL standard.

SEE ALSO
       LISTEN(7), NOTIFY(7)



PostgreSQL 14.23                                2026                                     UNLISTEN(7)