Re: How to drop a temporary view?

Vincenzo Romano <vincenzo.romano@notorand.it> writes:
> 2012/4/20 Vincenzo Romano <vincenzo.romano@notorand.it>:
>> 2012/4/20 Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.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