# DROP_VIEW - remove a view - man(7) - [phpMan]

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## 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)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/ALTERVIEW/7/markdown)), CREATE VIEW ([**CREATE_VIEW**(7)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/CREATEVIEW/7/markdown))

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