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Tom Lane 0adfa2c39d Support renaming of tablespaces, and changing the owners of
aggregates, conversions, functions, operators, operator classes,
schemas, types, and tablespaces.  Fold the existing implementations
of alter domain owner and alter database owner in with these.

Christopher Kings-Lynne
2004-06-25 21:55:59 +00:00

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<refentry id="SQL-DROPTABLESPACE">
<refmeta>
<refentrytitle id="SQL-DROPTABLESPACE-TITLE">DROP TABLESPACE</refentrytitle>
<refmiscinfo>SQL - Language Statements</refmiscinfo>
</refmeta>
<refnamediv>
<refname>DROP TABLESPACE</refname>
<refpurpose>remove a tablespace</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
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<primary>DROP TABLESPACE</primary>
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<refsynopsisdiv>
<synopsis>
DROP TABLESPACE <replaceable class="PARAMETER">tablespacename</replaceable>
</synopsis>
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<refsect1>
<title>Description</title>
<para>
<command>DROP TABLESPACE</command> removes a tablespace from the system.
</para>
<para>
A tablespace can only be dropped by its owner or a superuser.
The tablespace must be empty of all database objects before it can be
dropped. It is possible that objects in other databases may still reside
in the tablespace even if no objects in the current database are using
the tablespace.
</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>Parameters</title>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><replaceable class="PARAMETER">tablespacename</replaceable></term>
<listitem>
<para>
The name of a tablespace.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>Examples</title>
<para>
To remove tablespace <literal>mystuff</literal> from the system:
<programlisting>
DROP TABLESPACE mystuff;
</programlisting>
</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>Compatibility</title>
<para>
<command>DROP TABLESPACE</command> is a <productname>PostgreSQL</>
extension.
</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>See Also</title>
<simplelist type="inline">
<member><xref linkend="sql-createtablespace" endterm="sql-createtablespace-title"></member>
<member><xref linkend="sql-altertablespace" endterm="sql-altertablespace-title"></member>
</simplelist>
</refsect1>
</refentry>
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