DROP VIEW(7)             PostgreSQL 16.2 Documentation            DROP VIEW(7)

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
           Do not throw an error if the view does not exist. A notice is
           issued in this case.

       name
           The name (optionally schema-qualified) of the view to remove.

       CASCADE
           Automatically drop objects that depend on the view (such as other
           views), and in turn all objects that depend on those objects (see
           Section 5.14).

       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 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))

PostgreSQL 16.2                      2024                         DROP VIEW(7)