dropView

Drops an existing view.

Note: Liquibase supports views, but does not support materialized views.

Available attributes

Name Description Required for Supports Since
catalogName

Name of the catalog

all 3.0
ifExists Appends IF EXISTS to the DROP VIEW statement. If ifExists=true, the view is only dropped if it already exists, but the migration continues even if the view does not exist. If ifExists=false and the view does not exist, the database returns an error. Default: false.   all except oracle, firebird 4.19.0
schemaName

Name of the schema

all
viewName

Name of the view

all all

Examples

<databaseChangeLog
    xmlns="http://www.liquibase.org/xml/ns/dbchangelog"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xmlns:ext="http://www.liquibase.org/xml/ns/dbchangelog-ext"
    xmlns:pro="http://www.liquibase.org/xml/ns/pro"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.liquibase.org/xml/ns/dbchangelog
        http://www.liquibase.org/xml/ns/dbchangelog/dbchangelog-latest.xsd
        http://www.liquibase.org/xml/ns/dbchangelog-ext http://www.liquibase.org/xml/ns/dbchangelog/dbchangelog-ext.xsd
        http://www.liquibase.org/xml/ns/pro http://www.liquibase.org/xml/ns/pro/liquibase-pro-latest.xsd">

    <changeSet  author="liquibase-docs"  id="dropView-example">
        <dropView  catalogName="cat"
            ifExists="true"
            schemaName="public"
            viewName="v_person"/>
    </changeSet>

</databaseChangeLog>
databaseChangeLog:
-  changeSet:
    id:  dropView-example
    author:  liquibase-docs
    changes:
    -  dropView:
        catalogName:  cat
        ifExists:  true
        schemaName:  public
        viewName:  v_person
{
    "databaseChangeLog": [
        {
            "changeSet": {
                "id": "dropView-example",
                "author": "liquibase-docs",
                "changes": [
                    {
                        "dropView": {
                            "catalogName": "cat",
                            "ifExists": "true",
                            "schemaName": "public",
                            "viewName": "v_person"
                        }
                    }
                ]
            }
        }
    ]
}
--liquibase formatted sql

--changeset liquibase-docs:dropView-example
DROP  VIEW  cat.v_person;

Database support

Database Notes Auto Rollback
DB2/LUW Supported No
DB2/z Supported No
Derby Supported No
Firebird Supported No
H2 Supported No
HyperSQL Supported No
INGRES Supported No
Informix Supported No
MariaDB Supported No
MySQL Supported No
Oracle Supported No
PostgreSQL Supported No
Snowflake Supported No
SQL Server Supported No
SQLite Supported No
Sybase Supported No
Sybase Anywhere Supported No