7:drop view

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      DROP VIEW - remove a view
      
      DROP VIEW name [, ...] [ CASCADE | RESTRICT ]

Contents 1 DESCRIPTION 2 PARAMETERS 3 EXAMPLES 4 COMPATIBILITY 5 RELATED 6 CATEGORY

DESCRIPTION

      DROP VIEW drops an existing view. To execute this command you must be the owner of the view.

PARAMETERS

      name   The name (optionally schema-qualified) of the view to remove.
 
      CASCADE
             Automatically drop objects that depend on the view (such as other views).
 
      RESTRICT
             Refuse to drop the view if any objects depend on it. This is the default.

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 com-
      mand.

RELATED

      CREATE VIEW [[[7:create_view|create_view(7)]]]

SQL - Language Statements 2005-11-05 DROP VIEW()

CATEGORY