Footgun - delete a whole mess of tables by wildcard, with cascade. Obviously this will blow up in your face at some point.

readme.md

Footgun

PostgreSQL function to delete a batch of tables at once, including by wildcard. Beware.

Usage

SELECT footgun('schema', 'tablename');

footgun.sql

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION footgun(IN _schema TEXT, IN _parttionbase TEXT) 
RETURNS void 
LANGUAGE plpgsql
AS
$$
DECLARE
    row     record;
BEGIN
    FOR row IN 
        SELECT
            table_schema,
            table_name
        FROM
            information_schema.tables
        WHERE
            table_type = 'BASE TABLE'
        AND
            table_schema = _schema
        AND
            table_name ILIKE (_parttionbase || '%')
    LOOP
        EXECUTE 'DROP TABLE ' || quote_ident(row.table_schema) || '.' || quote_ident(row.table_name) || ' CASCADE';
        RAISE INFO 'Dropped table: %', quote_ident(row.table_schema) || '.' || quote_ident(row.table_name);
    END LOOP;
END;
$$;