DROP SUBSCRIPTION — remove a subscription
DROP SUBSCRIPTION [ IF EXISTS ] name
[ CASCADE | RESTRICT ]
DROP SUBSCRIPTION
removes a
subscription from the database cluster.
A subscription can only be dropped by a superuser.
DROP SUBSCRIPTION
cannot be
executed inside a transaction block if the subscription is
associated with a replication slot. (You can use ALTER SUBSCRIPTION
to unset the slot.)
name
The name of a subscription to be dropped.
CASCADE
RESTRICT
These key words do not have any effect, since there are no dependencies on subscriptions.
When dropping a subscription that is associated with a
replication slot on the remote host (the normal state),
DROP SUBSCRIPTION
will connect to the
remote host and try to drop the replication slot as part of its
operation. This is necessary so that the resources allocated for
the subscription on the remote host are released. If this fails,
either because the remote host is not reachable or because the
remote replication slot cannot be dropped or does not exist or
never existed, the DROP SUBSCRIPTION
command will fail. To proceed in this situation, disassociate the
subscription from the replication slot by executing ALTER SUBSCRIPTION ... SET (slot_name = NONE)
.
After that, DROP SUBSCRIPTION
will no
longer attempt any actions on a remote host. Note that if the
remote replication slot still exists, it should then be dropped
manually; otherwise it will continue to reserve WAL and might
eventually cause the disk to fill up. See also Section 31.2.1.
If a subscription is associated with a replication slot, then
DROP SUBSCRIPTION
cannot be executed
inside a transaction block.
Drop a subscription:
DROP SUBSCRIPTION mysub;
DROP SUBSCRIPTION
is a PostgreSQL extension.
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