DROP DATABASE - Removes an existing database
SYNOPSIS
DROP DATABASE name
INPUTS
name The name of an existing database to remove.
OUTPUTS
DROP DATABASE
This message is returned if the command is success
ful.
ERROR: user 'username' is not allowed to create/drop
databases
You must have the special CREATEDB privilege to
drop databases. See CREATE USER [create_user(l)].
ERROR: dropdb: cannot be executed on the template database
The template1 database cannot be removed. It's not
in your interest.
ERROR: dropdb: cannot be executed on an open database
You cannot be connected to the database your are
about to remove. Instead, you could connect to
template1 or any other database and run this com
mand again.
ERROR: dropdb: database 'name' does not exist
This message occurs if the specified database does
not exist.
ERROR: dropdb: database 'name' is not owned by you
You must be the owner of the database. Being the
owner usually means that you created it as well.
ERROR: dropdb: May not be called in a transaction block.
You must finish the transaction in progress before
you can call this command.
NOTICE: The database directory 'xxx' could not be removed.
The database was dropped (unless other error mes
sages came up), but the directory where the data is
stored could not be removed. You must delete it
manually.
DESCRIPTION
DROP DATABASE removes the catalog entries for an existing
database and deletes the directory containing the data.
user that created it).
NOTES
This command cannot be executed while connected to the
target database. Thus, it might be more convenient to use
the shell script dropdb [dropdb(1)], which is a wrapper
around this command, instead.
Refer to CREATE DATABASE [create_database(l)] for informa
tion on how to create a database.
COMPATIBILITY
SQL92
DROP DATABASE statement is a Postgres language extension;
there is no such command in SQL92.
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