SYNOPSIS
DROP COLLATION [ IF EXISTS ] name [ CASCADE | RESTRICT ]
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.
RESTRICT
- Refuse to drop the collation if any objects depend on it. This is the default.
EXAMPLES
To drop the collation named german:
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DROP COLLATION german;
COMPATIBILITY
The DROP COLLATION command conforms to the SQL standard, apart from the IF EXISTS option, which is a PostgreSQL extension.