DROP_POLICY(7pg14)

👑 DROP POLICY 💅

okay bestie, so this is the DROP POLICY(7) page from the PostgreSQL 14.24 Documentation — yes, the big one, the icon itself — and we're gonna get you fluent in deleting row-level security policies like it's nothing. no cap. 🎀

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

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

like, that's the whole vibe check right there. IF EXISTS is optional, CASCADE/RESTRICT are optional, everything else is load-bearing. 🙈

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

DROP POLICY removes the specified policy from the table. boom, gone, she's not coming to the group chat anymore. ✨

⚠️ okay this is the important part, bestie, listen up: if you remove the last policy for a table and that table still has row-level security enabled via ALTER TABLE, then the default-deny policy kicks in. so literally nobody gets through. not you, not your bestie, not the app. nobody. 💀

and if you do want to turn it off? 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. slay, you always have an out. 🫶

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🌸 PARAMETERS 🌸

• IF EXISTS — do not throw an error if the policy does not exist. instead a notice is issued in this case, so you get a lil "hey, it wasn't there!" instead of a full-on crash. very demure, very mindful. 💜
• name — the name of the policy to drop. yep. that's the one you're yeeting. 🔥
• table_name — the name (optionally schema-qualified) of the table that the policy is on. so like my_schema.my_table is valid, iykyk. ⭐
• CASCADE, RESTRICT — these key words do not have any effect, since there are no dependencies on policies. they're literally just there. decorative. main character energy with zero lines. 💅

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🎀 EXAMPLES 🎀

to drop the policy called p1 on the table named my_table, you do:

DROP POLICY p1 ON my_table;

that's it. one line. ate and left no crumbs. 🍓

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🌈 COMPATIBILITY 🌈

DROP POLICY is a PostgreSQL extension — meaning she's special, she's our girl, other databases don't have her. periodt. 👑

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🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

• CREATE POLICY (CREATE_POLICY(7)) — make the policy in the first place 💖
• ALTER POLICY (ALTER_POLICY(7)) — tweak it when you change your mind ✨

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! 🦋 ngl you're now officially a row-level security girlie. this has been PostgreSQL 14.24, dated 2026 💖🎀💅