DROP EXTENSION DROP EXTENSION 7 SQL - Language Statements DROP EXTENSION remove an extension DROP EXTENSION [ IF EXISTS ] name [, ...] [ CASCADE | RESTRICT ] DROP EXTENSION removes extensions from the database. Dropping an extension causes its component objects, and other explicitly dependent routines (see , the depends on extension action), to be dropped as well. You must own the extension to use DROP EXTENSION. IF EXISTS Do not throw an error if the extension does not exist. A notice is issued in this case. name The name of an installed extension. CASCADE Automatically drop objects that depend on the extension, and in turn all objects that depend on those objects (see ). RESTRICT This option prevents the specified extensions from being dropped if there exists non-extension-member objects that depends on any the extensions. This is the default. To remove the extension hstore from the current database: DROP EXTENSION hstore; This command will fail if any of hstore's objects are in use in the database, for example if any tables have columns of the hstore type. Add the CASCADE option to forcibly remove those dependent objects as well. DROP EXTENSION is a PostgreSQL extension.