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  • Committer: Bazaar Package Importer
  • Author(s): Martin Pitt
  • Date: 2011-05-11 10:41:53 UTC
  • Revision ID: james.westby@ubuntu.com-20110511104153-psbh2o58553fv1m0
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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
 
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<HTML
 
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><HEAD
 
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><TITLE
 
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>DROP VIEW</TITLE
 
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NAME="GENERATOR"
 
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CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79"><LINK
 
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REV="MADE"
 
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HREF="mailto:pgsql-docs@postgresql.org"><LINK
 
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REL="HOME"
 
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TITLE="PostgreSQL 9.1beta1 Documentation"
 
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HREF="index.html"><LINK
 
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REL="UP"
 
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TITLE="SQL Commands"
 
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HREF="sql-commands.html"><LINK
 
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REL="PREVIOUS"
 
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TITLE="DROP USER MAPPING"
 
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HREF="sql-dropusermapping.html"><LINK
 
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REL="NEXT"
 
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CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><META
 
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NAME="creation"
 
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CONTENT="2011-04-27T21:20:33"></HEAD
 
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><TABLE
 
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><TR
 
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><A
 
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>PostgreSQL 9.1beta1 Documentation</A
 
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><A
 
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TITLE="DROP USER MAPPING"
 
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HREF="sql-dropusermapping.html"
 
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>Prev</A
 
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HREF="sql-dropusermapping.html"
 
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>Fast Backward</A
 
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NAME="SQL-DROPVIEW"
 
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>DROP VIEW</H1
 
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CLASS="REFNAMEDIV"
 
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><A
 
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NAME="AEN71747"
 
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></A
 
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>Name</H2
 
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>DROP VIEW&nbsp;--&nbsp;remove a view</DIV
 
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CLASS="REFSYNOPSISDIV"
 
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>Synopsis</H2
 
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><PRE
 
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CLASS="SYNOPSIS"
 
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>DROP VIEW [ IF EXISTS ] <TT
 
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><I
 
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>name</I
 
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> [, ...] [ CASCADE | RESTRICT ]</PRE
 
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>Description</H2
 
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>   <TT
 
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CLASS="COMMAND"
 
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>DROP VIEW</TT
 
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> drops an existing view.  To execute
 
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   this command you must be the owner of the view.
 
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>Parameters</H2
 
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CLASS="VARIABLELIST"
 
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><DL
 
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>IF EXISTS</TT
 
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>      Do not throw an error if the view does not exist. A notice is issued
 
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>      The name (optionally schema-qualified) of the view to remove.
 
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>      Automatically drop objects that depend on the view (such as
 
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>      Refuse to drop the view if any objects depend on it.  This is
 
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>   This command will remove the view called <TT
 
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>Compatibility</H2
 
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>   This command conforms to the SQL standard, except that the standard only
 
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><A
 
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>ALTER VIEW</A
 
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>CREATE VIEW</A
 
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