Uninstalling an E-Maj extension from a database

To uninstall E-Maj from a database, the user must log on this database with psql, as a superuser.

If the drop of the emaj_adm and emaj_viewer roles is desirable, rights on them given to other roles must be previously deleted, using REVOKE SQL verbs.

REVOKE emaj_adm FROM <role.or.roles.list>;
REVOKE emaj_viewer FROM <role.or.roles.list>;

If these emaj_adm and emaj_viewer roles own access rights on other application objects, these rights must be suppressed too, before starting the uninstall operation.

Allthough E-Maj is usualy installed with a CREATE EXTENSION statement, it cannot be uninstalled with a simple DROP EXTENSION statement. An event trigger blocks such a statement.

To uninstall E-Maj, just execute the emaj_uninstall.sql delivered script.

\i <emaj_directory>/emaj_uninstall.sql

This script performs the following steps:

  • it executes the cleaning functions created by demo or test scripts, if they exist,

  • it stops the tables groups in LOGGING state, if any,

  • it drops the tables groups, removing in particular the triggers on application tables,

  • it drops the extension and the main emaj schema,

  • it drops roles emaj_adm and emaj_viewer if they are not linked to any objects in the current database or in other databases of the instance.

The uninstallation script execution displays:

$ psql ... -f sql/emaj_uninstall.sql
>>> Starting E-Maj uninstallation procedure...
SET
psql:sql/emaj_uninstall.sql:203: WARNING:  emaj_uninstall: emaj_adm and emaj_viewer roles have been dropped.
DO
SET
>>> E-maj successfully uninstalled from this database