DROP COLLATION

DROP COLLATION [ IF EXISTS ] name [ CASCADE | RESTRICT ]

Description

Description

DROP COLLATION removes a previously defined collation. To be able to drop a collation, you must own the collation.

Parameters

`IF EXISTS`

Do not throw an error if the collation does not exist. A notice is issued in this case.

*name*

The name of the collation. The collation name can be schema-qualified.

`CASCADE`

Automatically drop objects that depend on the collation, and in turn all objects that depend on those objects (see Dependency Tracking).

`RESTRICT`

Refuse to drop the collation if any objects depend on it. This is the default.

Examples

Examples

To drop the collation named german:

DROP COLLATION german;

Compatibility

Compatibility

The DROP COLLATION command conforms to the SQL standard, apart from the IF EXISTS option, which is a PostgreSQL extension.