UNLISTEN { notifyname | * }
Name of previously registered notify condition.
All current listen registrations for this backend are cleared.
Acknowledgement that statement has executed.
UNLISTEN is used to remove an existing NOTIFY registration. UNLISTEN cancels any existing registration of the current Postgres session as a listener on the notify condition notifyname. The special condition wildcard "*" cancels all listener registrations for the current session.
NOTIFY contains a more extensive discussion of the use of LISTEN and NOTIFY.
classname needs not to be a valid class name but can be any string valid as a name up to 32 characters long.
The backend does not complain if you UNLISTEN something you were not listening for. Each backend will automatically execute UNLISTEN * when exiting.
A restriction in some previous releases of Postgres that a classname which does not correspond to an actual table must be enclosed in double-quotes is no longer present.
postgres=> LISTEN virtual; LISTEN postgres=> NOTIFY virtual; NOTIFY ASYNC NOTIFY of 'virtual' from backend pid '12317' received
postgres=> UNLISTEN virtual; UNLISTEN postgres=> NOTIFY virtual; NOTIFY -- notice no NOTIFY event is received postgres=>
There is no UNLISTEN in SQL92.