DROP_MATERIALIZED_VIEW(7pg17)

💅 DROP_MATERIALIZED_VIEW 💅

okay bestie, welcome to page DROP_MATERIALIZED_VIEW(7) from the PostgreSQL 17.11 Documentation — yes, the whole manual, and yes, we're gonna get through it together 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

DROP_MATERIALIZED_VIEW — literally just removes a materialized view. that's it. that's the whole vibe. bye bestie 👋

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

DROP MATERIALIZED VIEW [ IF EXISTS ] name [, ...] [ CASCADE | RESTRICT ]

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

DROP MATERIALIZED VIEW drops a materialized view that already exists. simple as that, no cap.

one thing though — to run this command you MUST be the owner of the materialized view. it's giving "you can't sit with us" energy, but honestly? fair. 👑

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🦋 PARAMETERS 🦋

• IF EXISTS — do not throw an error if the materialized view doesn't exist. instead a notice gets issued. so like, it's very "no worries if not" of it 😌
• name — the name of the materialized view you're removing. it's optionally schema-qualified, so you can be all cute and specific about it if you want 🎀
• CASCADE — automatically drops objects that depend on the materialized view (think other materialized views, or regular views, y'know the fam), and then in turn all the objects that depend on those objects. see Section 5.15. it's giving chain reaction, main character energy, everyone goes down together 💀
• RESTRICT — refuses to drop the materialized view if any objects depend on it. this one is the default, so it's already the vibe unless you say otherwise 🧚

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⭐ EXAMPLES ⭐

this command will remove the materialized view called order_summary:

DROP MATERIALIZED VIEW order_summary;

ate. no crumbs. 🔥

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🌈 COMPATIBILITY 🌈

DROP MATERIALIZED VIEW is a PostgreSQL extension. iykyk 🦋

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW (CREATE_MATERIALIZED_VIEW(7))
• ALTER MATERIALIZED VIEW (ALTER_MATERIALIZED_VIEW(7))
• REFRESH MATERIALIZED VIEW (REFRESH_MATERIALIZED_VIEW(7))

go read the whole friend group, they're all linked 💖

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ngl, if you're dropping stuff with CASCADE just remember it takes the whole squad with it. RESTRICT is the default for a reason, bestie 🙈

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