DROP VIEW

Section: SQL Commands (7)
Updated: 2012-08-14
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NAME

DROP VIEW - remove a view

SYNOPSIS

DROP VIEW [ IF EXISTS ] name [, ...] [ CASCADE | RESTRICT ]

DESCRIPTION

DROP VIEW drops an existing view. To execute this command you must be the owner of the view.

PARAMETERS

IF EXISTS: Do not throw an error if the view does not exist. A notice is issued in this case.
name: The name (optionally schema-qualified) of the view to remove.
CASCADE: Automatically drop objects that depend on the view (such as other views).
RESTRICT: Refuse to drop the view if any objects depend on it. This is the default.

EXAMPLES

This command will remove the view called kinds:

DROP VIEW kinds;

COMPATIBILITY

This command conforms to the SQL standard, except that the standard only allows one view to be dropped per command, and apart from the IF EXISTS option, which is a PostgreSQL extension.

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