droplang1Applicationdroplangremove a PostgreSQL procedural languagedroplangdroplangconnection-optionlangnamedbnamedroplangconnection-option--list-ldbname
Description
droplang is a utility for removing an
existing programming language from a
PostgreSQL database.
droplang can drop any procedural language,
even those not supplied by the PostgreSQL> distribution.
Although backend programming languages can be removed directly using
several SQL commands, it is recommended to use
droplang because it performs a number
of checks and is much easier to use. See
for more.
Optionsdroplang accepts the following command line arguments:
langname
Specifies the name of the backend programming language to be removed.
Specifies from which database the language should be removed.
The default is to use the database with the same name as the
current system user.
Display SQL commands as they are executed.
Show a list of already installed languages in the target database.
droplang also accepts
the following command line arguments for connection parameters:
Specifies the host name of the machine on which the
server
is running. If host begins with a slash, it is used
as the directory for the Unix domain socket.
Specifies the Internet TCP/IP port or local Unix domain socket file
extension on which the server
is listening for connections.
User name to connect as.
Never issue a password prompt. If the server requires
password authentication and a password is not available by
other means such as a .pgpass file, the
connection attempt will fail. This option can be useful in
batch jobs and scripts where no user is present to enter a
password.
Force droplang to prompt for a
password before connecting to a database.
This option is never essential, since
droplang will automatically prompt
for a password if the server demands password authentication.
However, droplang will waste a
connection attempt finding out that the server wants a password.
In some cases it is worth typing EnvironmentPGDATABASEPGHOSTPGPORTPGUSER
Default connection parameters
This utility, like most other PostgreSQL> utilities,
also uses the environment variables supported by libpq>
(see ).
Diagnostics
Most error messages are self-explanatory. If not, run
droplang with the
option and see under the respective SQL command
for details. Also, any default connection settings and environment
variables used by the libpq front-end
library will apply.
Notes
Use to add a language.
Examples
To remove the language pltcl:
$ droplang pltcl dbnameSee Also