DROP TABLESPACE

Description

Deletes a tablespace.

Precautions

• Only the tablespace owner or a user granted with the DROP permission can run the DROP TABLESPACE command. The system administrator has this permission by default.
• The tablespace to be deleted should not contain any database objects. Otherwise, an error will be reported.
• DROP TABLESPACE cannot be rolled back and therefore cannot be run in transaction blocks.
• During execution of DROP TABLESPACE, database queries by other sessions using \db may fail and need to be reattempted.
• If DROP TABLESPACE fails to be executed, execute DROP TABLESPACE IF EXISTS.

Syntax

DROP TABLESPACE [ IF EXISTS ] tablespace_name;

Parameters

• IF EXISTS

  Reports a notice instead of an error if the specified tablespace does not exist.

• tablespace_name

  Specifies the name of the tablespace to be deleted.

  Value range: an existing tablespace name

Examples

See Examples in section "CREATE TABLESPACE."

Helpful Links

ALTER TABLESPACE and CREATE TABLESPACE

Suggestions

Do not delete tablespaces during transactions using DROP TABLESPACE.