DISCARD

DISCARD — Discard session state

Synopsis

DISCARD { ALL | PLANS | SEQUENCES | TEMPORARY | TEMP }

Description

DISCARD releases internal resources associated with a database session. This command is useful for partially or fully resetting the session's state. There are several subcommands to release different types of resources. The DISCARD ALL variant encompasses all other forms and also resets additional state.

Parameters

PLANS

Releases all cached query plans, forcing re-planning to occur the next time the associated prepared statement is used.

SEQUENCES

Discards all cached sequence-related state, including currval()/lastval() information and any pre-allocated sequence values that have not yet been returned by nextval() (see CREATE SEQUENCE for a description of pre-allocated sequence values);

TEMPORARY or TEMP

Deletes all temporary tables created in the current session.

ALL

Releases all temporary resources associated with the current session and resets the session to its initial state. Currently, this has the same effect as executing the following sequence of statements:

SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION DEFAULT;

RESET ALL;

DEALLOCATE ALL;

CLOSE ALL;

UNLISTEN *;

SELECT pg_advisory_unlock_all();

DISCARD PLANS;

DISCARD SEQUENCES;

DISCARD TEMP;

Notes

DISCARD ALL cannot be executed inside a transaction block.