Re: How to drop a temporary view? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: How to drop a temporary view?
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Msg-id 9409.1334940231@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: How to drop a temporary view?  (Vincenzo Romano <vincenzo.romano@notorand.it>)
Responses Re: How to drop a temporary view?  (Vincenzo Romano <vincenzo.romano@notorand.it>)
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Vincenzo Romano <vincenzo.romano@notorand.it> writes:
> 2012/4/20 Vincenzo Romano <vincenzo.romano@notorand.it>:
>> 2012/4/20 Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>:
>>> You might be able to use "DROP VIEW pg_temp.foo", which will either
>>> drop a temp view of your own session or throw an error if there is none.

> It works only if you have created at least one temporary object.
> Until that the pg_temp "meta schema" doesn't resolve to a real schema
> and the exception is thrown!

I didn't say *which* error would get thrown ;-).  If you are checking
that you'd need to be prepared for both cases.

            regards, tom lane

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