Re: How to drop a temporary view?

2012/4/20 Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>:
> Vincenzo Romano <vincenzo(dot)romano(at)notorand(dot)it> writes:
>> 2012/4/20 Vincenzo Romano <vincenzo(dot)romano(at)notorand(dot)it>:
>>> 2012/4/20 Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)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

... WHEN OTHERS THEN NULL

should be pretty safe to DROP a VIEW!