<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >DROP VIEW</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79"><LINK REV="MADE" HREF="mailto:pgsql-docs@postgresql.org"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PostgreSQL 8.0.11 Documentation" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="SQL Commands" HREF="sql-commands.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="DROP USER" HREF="sql-dropuser.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="END" HREF="sql-end.html"><LINK REL="STYLESHEET" TYPE="text/css" HREF="stylesheet.css"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><META NAME="creation" CONTENT="2007-02-02T03:57:22"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="REFENTRY" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="5" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" >PostgreSQL 8.0.11 Documentation</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="sql-dropuser.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="sql-dropuser.html" >Fast Backward</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="60%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="sql-end.html" >Fast Forward</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="sql-end.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="SQL-DROPVIEW" ></A >DROP VIEW</H1 ><DIV CLASS="REFNAMEDIV" ><A NAME="AEN42887" ></A ><H2 >Name</H2 >DROP VIEW -- remove a view</DIV ><A NAME="AEN42890" ></A ><DIV CLASS="REFSYNOPSISDIV" ><A NAME="AEN42892" ></A ><H2 >Synopsis</H2 ><PRE CLASS="SYNOPSIS" >DROP VIEW <TT CLASS="REPLACEABLE" ><I >name</I ></TT > [, ...] [ CASCADE | RESTRICT ]</PRE ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN42895" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 ><P > <TT CLASS="COMMAND" >DROP VIEW</TT > drops an existing view. To execute this command you must be the owner of the view. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN42899" ></A ><H2 >Parameters</H2 ><P ></P ><DIV CLASS="VARIABLELIST" ><DL ><DT ><TT CLASS="REPLACEABLE" ><I >name</I ></TT ></DT ><DD ><P > The name (optionally schema-qualified) of the view to remove. </P ></DD ><DT ><TT CLASS="LITERAL" >CASCADE</TT ></DT ><DD ><P > Automatically drop objects that depend on the view (such as other views). </P ></DD ><DT ><TT CLASS="LITERAL" >RESTRICT</TT ></DT ><DD ><P > Refuse to drop the view if any objects depend on it. This is the default. </P ></DD ></DL ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN42917" ></A ><H2 >Examples</H2 ><P > This command will remove the view called <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >kinds</TT >: </P><PRE CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING" >DROP VIEW kinds;</PRE ><P> </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN42922" ></A ><H2 >Compatibility</H2 ><P > This command conforms to the SQL standard, except that the standard only allows one view to be dropped per command. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN42925" ></A ><H2 >See Also</H2 ><A HREF="sql-createview.html" ><I >CREATE VIEW</I ></A ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="sql-dropuser.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="sql-end.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >DROP USER</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="sql-commands.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >END</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >