DROP EXTENSION
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## DROP EXTENSION

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, 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 5.15).

`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, ALTER EXTENSION

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