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## UNLISTEN

UNLISTEN — stop listening for a notification

## Synopsis

```
UNLISTEN { channel | * }

```

## Description

`UNLISTEN` is used to remove an existing registration for `NOTIFY` events. `UNLISTEN` cancels any existing registration of the current PostgreSQL session as a listener on the notification channel named *`channel`*. The special wildcard `*` cancels all listener registrations for the current session.

[NOTIFY](sql-notify.html) contains a more extensive discussion of the use of `LISTEN` and `NOTIFY`.

## Parameters

*`channel`*

 Name of a notification channel (any identifier).

`*`

 All current listen registrations for this session are cleared.

## Notes

 You can unlisten something you were not listening for; no warning or error will appear.

 At the end of each session, `UNLISTEN *` is automatically executed.

 A transaction that has executed `UNLISTEN` cannot be prepared for two-phase commit.

## Examples

 To make a registration:

```
LISTEN virtual;
NOTIFY virtual;
Asynchronous notification "virtual" received from server process with PID 8448.

```

 Once `UNLISTEN` has been executed, further `NOTIFY` messages will be ignored:

```
UNLISTEN virtual;
NOTIFY virtual;
-- no NOTIFY event is received

```

## Compatibility

 There is no `UNLISTEN` command in the SQL standard.

## See Also

[LISTEN](sql-listen.html), [NOTIFY](sql-notify.html)

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