DROP_POLICY(7pg16)

💖 DROP POLICY(7) 💖

Okay bestie, welcome to the DROP POLICY(7) page from the PostgreSQL 16.15 Documentation — this is the one where we learn how to yeet a row-level security policy off a table. Slay.

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✨ NAME ✨

DROP_POLICY — remove a row-level security policy from a table. No cap, that's literally the whole vibe.

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

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

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

So DROP POLICY removes the specified policy from the table. Simple, iconic, done.

But listen: 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. That's the plot twist, bestie.

And if you wanna turn row-level security off for a table entirely, 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. Periodt.

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🎀 PARAMETERS 🎀

• IF EXISTS — do not throw an error if the policy does not exist. A notice is issued in this case. So it's giving polite, not dramatic.
• name — the name of the policy to drop. Bye, policy.
• 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. They're just there looking cute, honestly.

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🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

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

DROP POLICY p1 ON my_table;

Ate. No crumbs.

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🔥 COMPATIBILITY 🔥

DROP POLICY is a PostgreSQL extension. It's a PostgreSQL original, iykyk.

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🌸 SEE ALSO 🌸

• CREATE POLICY (CREATE_POLICY(7))
• ALTER POLICY (ALTER_POLICY(7))

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💖 Friendly reminder: if you drop the last policy and row-level security is still enabled via ALTER TABLE, the default-deny policy will be used. That's not me being extra — that's just the docs.

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Cute little sign-off tea: this whole page is from PostgreSQL 16.15, dated 2026, and it's literally the DROP POLICY(7) manual page. Bye bestie, go drop your policies responsibly 💅✨