Re: How to drop a temporary view?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Vincenzo Romano <vincenzo(dot)romano(at)notorand(dot)it>
Cc: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: How to drop a temporary view?
Date: 2012-04-20 16:43:51
Message-ID: 9409.1334940231@sss.pgh.pa.us
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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

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