Complete-uninstall

In order to completely uninstall PL/Java you need to have super user privileges on the database. Here’s how you do it.

1. Get rid of the sqlj schema and all objects depending on it.

   • If you installed PL/Java with CREATE EXTENSION pljava then drop it with DROP EXTENSION pljava CASCADE
   • If you installed PL/Java with a LOAD command, then drop it with DROP SCHEMA sqlj CASCADE

   Caution: Either command will drop the PL/Java schema and language declarations, all jars you may have loaded, all functions and types they provided, and everything else in your database that depends on any of those things.

   You can try either command without CASCADE first, to see a list of what would be dropped.

2. Remove any settings of PL/Java variables (configuration variables with names starting with pljava.) that you may have changed from their defaults.

   • If you had set a variable var for a particular database using ALTER DATABASE dbname SET var ... then reset it using ALTER DATABASE dbname RESET var.

   • If you had set it for the whole cluster using ALTER SYSTEM SET var ... then reset it using ALTER SYSTEM RESET var and, when you have reset all, use SELECT pg_reload_conf().

   • If you had set PL/Java variables by editing the configuration file (particularly on PostgreSQL before 9.2, where this is the only available method), remove the settings from the file, then use SELECT pg_reload_conf() in SQL.

   • The variable dynamic_library_path is not specific to PL/Java, but if you added a directory to it for the sake of PL/Java, undo that.

3. Remove the PL/Java files from the file system.

   • If you installed PL/Java with a package manager, uninstall it the same way.
   • Otherwise, remove the installed files from wherever you installed them.