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

name

CASCADE

RESTRICT

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.

SEE ALSO

ALTER VIEW (ALTER_VIEW(7)), CREATE VIEW (CREATE_VIEW(7))