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From: Walter Hurry <walterhurry@lavabit.com>
Subject: Re: Drop Schema from Postgres
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2012 18:50:15 +0000 (UTC)
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On Thu, 05 Jan 2012 10:22:59 -0600, Kevin Grittner wrote:

> Tripura <k_tripura@hotmail.com> wrote:
>  
>> I am trying to drop a schema by writing the following line
>> 
>> DROP SCHEMA "xxx" IF EXISTS
>  
> The syntax requires:
>    DROP SCHEMA IF EXISTS "xxx";
>  
>> I have two issues here -
>> 1> I am not sure how to specify the db from which the schema should be
>> deleted
>  
> You connect to a particular database.  All operations are against that
> database.
>  
>> 2> I am getting the following error message  -- "DROP: command not
>> found"
>  
> Perhaps you should try this in an interactive session and paste the
> actual error lines.  I get this:
>  
> ERROR:  syntax error at or near "IF"
> LINE 1: DROP SCHEMA "xxx" IF EXISTS;

He's not even in psql