Re: How to drop a temporary view?

Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com> writes:
> On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 10:51 AM, Vincenzo Romano
> <vincenzo.romano@notorand.it> wrote:
>> Ok. That works. How can I know if there's a temporary view with the
>> same name in my session?

> well, arguably you should already know somehow.  but if you don't,
> query information_schema.views for a table_name with a table_schema
> LIKE 'pg_temp%'.

Not sure that is safe --- won't the info schema also show temp views
of other sessions?

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.

            regards, tom lane