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>DROP ACCESS METHOD</H1
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>DROP ACCESS METHOD&nbsp;--&nbsp;remove an access method</DIV
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>DROP ACCESS METHOD [ IF EXISTS ] <TT
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>name</I
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> [ CASCADE | RESTRICT ]</PRE
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>   <TT
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>DROP ACCESS METHOD</TT
> removes an existing access method.
   Only superusers can drop access methods.
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><TT
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>IF EXISTS</TT
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>      Do not throw an error if the access method does not exist.
      A notice is issued in this case.
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><TT
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>name</I
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>      The name of an existing access method.
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>CASCADE</TT
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>      Automatically drop objects that depend on the access method
      (such as operator classes, operator families, and indexes),
      and in turn all objects that depend on those objects
      (see <A
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>Section 5.13</A
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>RESTRICT</TT
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>      Refuse to drop the access method if any objects depend on it.
      This is the default.
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>   Drop the access method <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>heptree</TT
>:
</P><PRE
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>DROP ACCESS METHOD heptree;</PRE
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>   <TT
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>DROP ACCESS METHOD</TT
> is a
   <SPAN
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>PostgreSQL</SPAN
> extension.
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>CREATE ACCESS METHOD</A
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