On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 10:36 AM, Vincenzo Romano
<vincenzo.romano@notorand.it> wrote:
> Hi all.
> I'd like use a temporary view "to hide" a non-temp one for some queries.
> Later I'd need to drop that view in order to "revert to normal operations".
> As there is no "DROP TEMPORARY VIEW ..." I'd be forced to "CREATE OR
> REPLACE TEMPORARY VIEW ..." in order to "overwrite" the temporary one
> with the same code as the non-temporary.
> All this sounds quite complex to me. Is there a way to drop temporary
> stuff before closing the session?
> TIA.
you can do it with vanilla DROP VIEW:
postgres=# create temp view t as select 1;
CREATE VIEW
postgres=# drop view t;
DROP VIEW
merlin
