DROP COLLATION

Removes a previously defined collation.

Synopsis

DROP COLLATION [ IF EXISTS ] <name> [ CASCADE | RESTRICT ]

IF EXISTS : Do not throw an error if the collation does not exist. A notice is issued in this case.

name : The name of the collation. The collation name can be schema-qualified.

CASCADE : Automatically drop objects that depend on the collation.

RESTRICT : Refuse to drop the collation if any objects depend on it. This is the default.

DROP COLLATION removes a previously defined collation. To be able to drop a collation, you must own the collation.

To drop the collation named german:

DROP COLLATION german;

The DROP COLLATION command conforms to the SQL standard, apart from the IF EXISTS option, which is a LightDB-A Database extension.