DROP EVENT TRIGGER

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DROP EVENT TRIGGER

remove an event trigger

    DROP EVENT TRIGGER [ IF EXISTS ] name [ CASCADE | RESTRICT ]

## Description

`DROP EVENT TRIGGER` removes an existing event trigger. To execute this command, the current user must be the owner of the event trigger.

## Parameters

`IF EXISTS`

- Do not throw an error if the event trigger does not exist. A notice is issued in this case.

`name`

- The name of the event trigger to remove.

`CASCADE`

- Automatically drop objects that depend on the trigger, and in turn all objects that depend on those objects (see ddl-depend).

`RESTRICT`

- Refuse to drop the trigger if any objects depend on it. This is the default.

## Examples

Destroy the trigger `snitch`:

    DROP EVENT TRIGGER snitch;

## Compatibility

There is no `DROP EVENT TRIGGER` statement in the SQL standard.

## See Also

- sql-createeventtrigger
- sql-altereventtrigger