Removes a database.
DROP DATABASE [IF EXISTS] <name>
DROP DATABASE
drops a database. It removes the catalog entries for the database and deletes the directory containing the data. It can only be executed by the database owner. Also, it cannot be executed while you or anyone else are connected to the target database. (Connect to postgres
or any other database to issue this command.)
Warning: DROP DATABASE
cannot be undone. Use it with care!
DROP DATABASE
cannot be executed inside a transaction block.
This command cannot be executed while connected to the target database. Thus, it might be more convenient to use the program dropdb
instead, which is a wrapper around this command.
Drop the database named testdb
:
DROP DATABASE testdb;
There is no DROP DATABASE
statement in the SQL standard.
ALTER DATABASE, CREATE DATABASE
Parent topic: SQL Command Reference