Thread: Drop table wildcard

Drop table wildcard

From

Danny Aldham

Date:

15 May 2001, 00:58:32

I am working with some software that creates a lot of temporary tables
to store query returns. So after a few weeks I have over 200 tables
named tmp_123_some_number_etc . Is there a way from psql for me to
drop all the tables with names beginning with tmp_ ?
Thanks

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Re: Drop table wildcard

From

Tom Lane

Date:

15 May 2001, 01:36:01

Danny Aldham <danny@lennon.postino.com> writes:
> I am working with some software that creates a lot of temporary tables
> to store query returns. So after a few weeks I have over 200 tables
> named tmp_123_some_number_etc . Is there a way from psql for me to
> drop all the tables with names beginning with tmp_ ?

Why don't you make it create the tables as TEMP tables to begin with?
Then they'll go away by themselves.

            regards, tom lane