DROP_TYPE(7pg17)

✨ NAME ✨

okay so welcome to the DROP_TYPE(7pg17) page, bestie — this is from the PostgreSQL 17.11 docs, and it's literally the manual for DROP TYPE, aka removing a data type. 💅

DROP TYPE removes a user-defined data type. Only the owner of a type can remove it. periodt. 👑

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

DROP TYPE [ IF EXISTS ] name [, ...] [ CASCADE | RESTRICT ]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So DROP TYPE removes a user-defined data type. Only the owner of a type can remove it — like, you can't just yeet someone else's type, bestie. 👑

🎀 PARAMETERS 🎀

• IF EXISTS — do not throw an error if the type does not exist. A notice is issued in this case. 🫶
• name — the name (optionally schema-qualified) of the data type to remove. ✨
• CASCADE — automatically drop objects that depend on the type (such as table columns, functions, and operators), and in turn all objects that depend on those objects (see Section 5.15). 💀
• RESTRICT — refuse to drop the type if any objects depend on it. This is the default. 🚫

💖 EXAMPLES 💖

To remove the data type box:

DROP TYPE box;

🌈 COMPATIBILITY 🌈

This command is similar to the corresponding command in the SQL standard, apart from the IF EXISTS option, which is a PostgreSQL extension. But note that much of the CREATE TYPE command and the data type extension mechanisms in PostgreSQL differ from the SQL standard. no cap. 🌈

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• ALTER TYPE (ALTER_TYPE(7))
• CREATE TYPE (CREATE_TYPE(7))

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xoxo, your Unix bestie 💖 — PostgreSQL 17.11, 2026. 🎀