DROP_POLICY - remove a row-level security policy from a table

DROPPOLICY is a PostgreSQL extension.

DROPPOLICY removes the specified policy from the table. Note that if the last policy is removed for a table and the table still has row-level security enabled via ALTERTABLE, then the default-deny policy will be used. 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.

To drop the policy called p1 on the table named my_table: DROP POLICY p1 ON my_table;

DROP_POLICY - remove a row-level security policy from a table

IF EXISTS Do not throw an error if the policy does not exist. A notice is issued in this case. name The name of the policy to drop. 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.

CREATE POLICY (CREATE_POLICY(7)), ALTER POLICY (ALTER_POLICY(7)) PostgreSQL 17.5 2025 DROPPOLICY(7)

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