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  • Committer: alvherre
  • Date: 2005-12-16 21:24:52 UTC
  • Revision ID: svn-v4:db760fc0-0f08-0410-9d63-cc6633f64896:trunk:1
Initial import of the REL8_0_3 sources from the Pgsql CVS repository.

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<refentry id="SQL-DROPAGGREGATE">
 
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 <refmeta>
 
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  <refentrytitle id="SQL-DROPAGGREGATE-TITLE">DROP AGGREGATE</refentrytitle>
 
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  <refmiscinfo>SQL - Language Statements</refmiscinfo>
 
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  <refname>DROP AGGREGATE</refname>
 
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  <refpurpose>remove an aggregate function</refpurpose>
 
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  <primary>DROP AGGREGATE</primary>
 
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<synopsis>
 
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DROP AGGREGATE <replaceable class="PARAMETER">name</replaceable> ( <replaceable class="PARAMETER">type</replaceable> ) [ CASCADE | RESTRICT ]
 
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  <title>Description</title>
 
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  <para>
 
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   <command>DROP AGGREGATE</command> will delete an existing
 
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   aggregate function. To execute this command the current
 
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   user must be the owner of the aggregate function.
 
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  <title>Parameters</title>
 
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    <term><replaceable class="parameter">name</replaceable></term>
 
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      The name (optionally schema-qualified) of an existing aggregate function.
 
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    <term><replaceable class="parameter">type</replaceable></term>
 
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      The argument data type of the aggregate function, or
 
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      <literal>*</literal> if the function accepts any data type.
 
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    <term><literal>CASCADE</literal></term>
 
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      Automatically drop objects that depend on the aggregate function.
 
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    <term><literal>RESTRICT</literal></term>
 
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      Refuse to drop the aggregate function if any objects depend on
 
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      it.  This is the default.
 
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  <title>Examples</title>
 
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   To remove the aggregate function <literal>myavg</literal> for type
 
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DROP AGGREGATE myavg(integer);
 
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  <title>Compatibility</title>
 
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   There is no <command>DROP AGGREGATE</command> statement in the SQL
 
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  <title>See Also</title>
 
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   <member><xref linkend="sql-alteraggregate" endterm="sql-alteraggregate-title"></member>
 
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   <member><xref linkend="sql-createaggregate" endterm="sql-createaggregate-title"></member>
 
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