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Practical PostgreSQL
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Practical PostgreSQL

by Joshua D. Drake, John C. Worsley
January 2002
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
640 pages
16h 39m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Drop Sequence

Removes a sequence from a database.

Synopsis

DROP SEQUENCE name [, ...]

Parameters

name

The name of the sequence you wish to permanently remove. You may drop multiple sequences by specifying their names in a comma-delimited list.

Results

DROP

The message returned when a sequence is successfully dropped.

ERROR: sequence "name" does not exist

The error returned if the specified sequence name does not exist.

Description

Use the DROP SEQUENCE command to remove a sequence number generator from a database.

Example

The following example removes a sequence named shipments_ship_id_seq from the database:

booktown=# DROP SEQUENCE shipments_ship_id_seq;
DROP
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