droplang(1)

1DROPLANG(1)             PostgreSQL 9.2.24 Documentation            DROPLANG(1)
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NAME

6       droplang - remove a PostgreSQL procedural language
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SYNOPSIS

9       droplang [connection-option...] langname [dbname]
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11       droplang [connection-option...] --list | -l  [dbname]
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DESCRIPTION

14       droplang is a utility for removing an existing procedural language from
15       a PostgreSQL database.
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17       droplang is just a wrapper around the DROP EXTENSION
18       (DROP_EXTENSION(7)) SQL command.
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20           Caution
21           droplang is deprecated and may be removed in a future PostgreSQL
22           release. Direct use of the DROP EXTENSION command is recommended
23           instead.
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OPTIONS

26       droplang accepts the following command line arguments:
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28       langname
29           Specifies the name of the procedural language to be removed. (This
30           name is lower-cased.)
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32       [-d] dbname, [--dbname=]dbname
33           Specifies from which database the language should be removed. The
34           default is to use the database with the same name as the current
35           system user.
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37       -e, --echo
38           Display SQL commands as they are executed.
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40       -l, --list
41           Show a list of already installed languages in the target database.
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43       -V, --version
44           Print the droplang version and exit.
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46       -?, --help
47           Show help about droplang command line arguments, and exit.
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49       droplang also accepts the following command line arguments for
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52       -h host, --host=host
53           Specifies the host name of the machine on which the server is
54           running. If host begins with a slash, it is used as the directory
55           for the Unix domain socket.
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57       -p port, --port=port
58           Specifies the Internet TCP/IP port or local Unix domain socket file
59           extension on which the server is listening for connections.
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61       -U username, --username=username
62           User name to connect as.
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64       -w, --no-password
65           Never issue a password prompt. If the server requires password
66           authentication and a password is not available by other means such
67           as a .pgpass file, the connection attempt will fail. This option
68           can be useful in batch jobs and scripts where no user is present to
69           enter a password.
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71       -W, --password
72           Force droplang to prompt for a password before connecting to a
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75           This option is never essential, since droplang will automatically
76           prompt for a password if the server demands password
77           authentication. However, droplang will waste a connection attempt
78           finding out that the server wants a password. In some cases it is
79           worth typing -W to avoid the extra connection attempt.
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ENVIRONMENT

82       PGDATABASE, PGHOST, PGPORT, PGUSER
83           Default connection parameters
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85       This utility, like most other PostgreSQL utilities, also uses the
86       environment variables supported by libpq (see Section 31.14,
87       “Environment Variables”, in the documentation).
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DIAGNOSTICS

90       Most error messages are self-explanatory. If not, run droplang with the
91       --echo option and see under the respective SQL command for details.
92       Also, any default connection settings and environment variables used by
93       the libpq front-end library will apply.
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NOTES

96       Use createlang(1) to add a language.
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EXAMPLES

99       To remove the language pltcl:
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101           $ droplang pltcl dbname
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