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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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  <refentrytitle id="SQL-DROPSEQUENCE-TITLE">DROP SEQUENCE</refentrytitle>
 
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  <refmiscinfo>SQL - Language Statements</refmiscinfo>
 
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  <refname>DROP SEQUENCE</refname>
 
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  <refpurpose>remove a sequence</refpurpose>
 
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  <primary>DROP SEQUENCE</primary>
 
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DROP SEQUENCE <replaceable class="PARAMETER">name</replaceable> [, ...] [ CASCADE | RESTRICT ]
 
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  <title>Description</title>
 
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   <command>DROP SEQUENCE</command> removes sequence number generators.
 
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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 a sequence.
 
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    <term><literal>CASCADE</literal></term>
 
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      Automatically drop objects that depend on the sequence.
 
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    <term><literal>RESTRICT</literal></term>
 
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      Refuse to drop the sequence if any objects depend on it.  This
 
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  <title>Examples</title>
 
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   To remove the sequence <literal>serial</literal>:
 
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DROP SEQUENCE serial;
 
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   <command>DROP SEQUENCE</command> conforms with
 
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   <acronym>SQL:2003</acronym>, except that the standard only allows one
 
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   sequence to be dropped per command. 
 
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  <title>See Also</title>
 
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