SQL COMMANDS / ROLES & PRIVILEGES

DROP POLICY

remove a row-level security policy from a table

Syntax

DROP POLICY [ IF EXISTS ] name ON table_name [ CASCADE | RESTRICT ]

Syntax diagrams

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Description

DROP POLICY removes the specified policy from the table. Note that if the last policy is removed for a table and the table still has row-level security enabled via ALTER TABLE, then the default-deny policy will be used. ALTER TABLE ... DISABLE ROW LEVEL SECURITY can be used to disable row-level security for a table, whether policies for the table exist or not.

Parameters

IF EXISTS: Do not throw an error if the policy does not exist. A notice is issued in this case.
name: The name of the policy to drop.
table_name: The name (optionally schema-qualified) of the table that the policy is on.
CASCADE RESTRICT: These key words do not have any effect, since there are no dependencies on policies.

Examples

To drop the policy called p1 on the table named my_table:

DROP POLICY p1 ON my_table;

Compatibility

DROP POLICY is a PostgreSQL extension.

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