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 5.15).

       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))