DROP TRIGGER
DROP TRIGGER
DROP TRIGGER - remove a trigger
Synopsis
DROP TRIGGER [ IF EXISTS ]nameONtable_name[ CASCADE | RESTRICT ]
Description
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.
Parameters
-
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 Section 5.13 ).
-
RESTRICT -
Refuse to drop the trigger if any objects depend on it. This is the default.
Examples
Destroy the trigger
if_dist_exists
on the table
films
:
DROP TRIGGER if_dist_exists ON films;
Compatibility
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