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Tom Lane 0adfa2c39d Support renaming of tablespaces, and changing the owners of
aggregates, conversions, functions, operators, operator classes,
schemas, types, and tablespaces.  Fold the existing implementations
of alter domain owner and alter database owner in with these.

Christopher Kings-Lynne
2004-06-25 21:55:59 +00:00

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<refentry id="SQL-DROPOPERATOR">
<refmeta>
<refentrytitle id="SQL-DROPOPERATOR-TITLE">DROP OPERATOR</refentrytitle>
<refmiscinfo>SQL - Language Statements</refmiscinfo>
</refmeta>
<refnamediv>
<refname>DROP OPERATOR</refname>
<refpurpose>remove an operator</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<indexterm zone="sql-dropoperator">
<primary>DROP OPERATOR</primary>
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<refsynopsisdiv>
<synopsis>
DROP OPERATOR <replaceable class="PARAMETER">name</replaceable> ( { <replaceable class="PARAMETER">lefttype</replaceable> | NONE } , { <replaceable class="PARAMETER">righttype</replaceable> | NONE } ) [ CASCADE | RESTRICT ]
</synopsis>
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<refsect1>
<title>Description</title>
<para>
<command>DROP OPERATOR</command> drops an existing operator from
the database system. To execute this command you must be the owner
of the operator.
</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>Parameters</title>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><replaceable class="parameter">name</replaceable></term>
<listitem>
<para>
The name (optionally schema-qualified) of an existing operator.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><replaceable class="parameter">lefttype</replaceable></term>
<listitem>
<para>
The data type of the operator's left operand; write
<literal>NONE</literal> if the operator has no left operand.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><replaceable class="parameter">righttype</replaceable></term>
<listitem>
<para>
The data type of the operator's right operand; write
<literal>NONE</literal> if the operator has no right operand.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><literal>CASCADE</literal></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Automatically drop objects that depend on the operator.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><literal>RESTRICT</literal></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Refuse to drop the operator if any objects depend on it. This
is the default.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>Examples</title>
<para>
Remove the power operator <literal>a^b</literal> for type <type>integer</type>:
<programlisting>
DROP OPERATOR ^ (integer, integer);
</programlisting>
</para>
<para>
Remove the left unary bitwise complement operator
<literal>~b</literal> for type <type>bit</type>:
<programlisting>
DROP OPERATOR ~ (none, bit);
</programlisting>
</para>
<para>
Remove the right unary factorial operator <literal>x!</literal>
for type <type>bigint</type>:
<programlisting>
DROP OPERATOR ! (bigint, none);
</programlisting>
</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>Compatibility</title>
<para>
There is no <command>DROP OPERATOR</command> statement in the SQL standard.
</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>See Also</title>
<simplelist type="inline">
<member><xref linkend="sql-createoperator" endterm="sql-createoperator-title"></member>
<member><xref linkend="sql-alteroperator" endterm="sql-alteroperator-title"></member>
</simplelist>
</refsect1>
</refentry>
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