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dropView

Last updated: August 12, 2026

Last updated: March 25, 2026

Drops an existing view. Liquibase supports views, but does not support materialized views.

Known issue: The Liquibase dropView change type is not compatible for Snowflake users in Liquibase Secure 5.1 using YAML or JSON change type formats. This does not affect XML change types at all. If you’re connecting to a Snowflake database, Liquibase automatically detects you are using the Snowflake dropView change type and breaks backwards compatibility with the Liquibase dropView change type. We recommend upgrading to Liquibase Secure 5.1.1 to use createView with YAML and JSON change type formats successfully.

Run dropView

To run this Change Type, follow these steps:

Add the Change Type to your changeset, as shown in the examples on this page.
Specify any required attributes. Use the table on this page to see which ones your database requires.
Deploy your changeset by running the update command:liquibase update

Available attributes

Name	Description	Required for	Supports	Since
`catalogName`	Name of the catalog		all	3.0
`ifExists`	Appends `IF EXISTS` to the `DROP VIEW s`tatement. If `ifExists=true`, the view is only dropped if it already exists, but the migration continues even if the view does not exist. If `ifExists=false` and the view does not exist, the database returns an error. Default: `false.`		all except oracle, firebird	4.19.0
`schemaName`	Name of the schema		all
`viewName`	Name of the view

Database support

Database	Notes	Auto Rollback
DB2/LUW	Supported	No
DB2/z	Supported	No
Derby	Supported	No
Firebird	Supported	No
Google BigQuery	Supported	No
H2	Supported	No
HyperSQL	Supported	No
INGRES	Supported	No
Informix	Supported	No
MariaDB	Supported	No
MySQL	Supported	No
Oracle	Supported	No
PostgreSQL	Supported	No
Snowflake	Supported	No
SQL Server	Supported	No
SQLite	Supported	No
Sybase	Supported	No
Sybase Anywhere	Supported	No

dropView examples

--liquibase formatted sql

--changeset liquibase-docs:dropView-example
DROP  VIEW  cat.v_person;

databaseChangeLog:
-  changeSet:
    id:  dropView-example
    author:  liquibase-docs
    changes:
    -  dropView:
        catalogName:  cat
        ifExists:  true
        schemaName:  public
        viewName:  v_person

{
    "databaseChangeLog": [
        {
            "changeSet": {
                "id": "dropView-example",
                "author": "liquibase-docs",
                "changes": [
                    {
                        "dropView": {
                            "catalogName": "cat",
                            "ifExists": "true",
                            "schemaName": "public",
                            "viewName": "v_person"
                        }
                    }
                ]
            }
        }
    ]
}

<databaseChangeLog
    xmlns="http://www.liquibase.org/xml/ns/dbchangelog"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xmlns:ext="http://www.liquibase.org/xml/ns/dbchangelog-ext"
    xmlns:pro="http://www.liquibase.org/xml/ns/pro"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.liquibase.org/xml/ns/dbchangelog
        http://www.liquibase.org/xml/ns/dbchangelog/dbchangelog-latest.xsd
        http://www.liquibase.org/xml/ns/dbchangelog-ext
        http://www.liquibase.org/xml/ns/dbchangelog/dbchangelog-ext.xsd
        http://www.liquibase.org/xml/ns/pro
        http://www.liquibase.org/xml/ns/pro/liquibase-pro-latest.xsd">

    <changeSet  author="liquibase-docs"  id="dropView-example">
        <dropView  catalogName="cat"
            ifExists="true"
            schemaName="public"
            viewName="v_person"/>
    </changeSet>

</databaseChangeLog>

--liquibase formatted sql

--changeset liquibase-docs:dropView-example
DROP  VIEW  cat.v_person;

databaseChangeLog:
-  changeSet:
    id:  dropView-example
    author:  liquibase-docs
    changes:
    -  dropView:
        catalogName:  cat
        ifExists:  true
        schemaName:  public
        viewName:  v_person

{
    "databaseChangeLog": [
        {
            "changeSet": {
                "id": "dropView-example",
                "author": "liquibase-docs",
                "changes": [
                    {
                        "dropView": {
                            "catalogName": "cat",
                            "ifExists": "true",
                            "schemaName": "public",
                            "viewName": "v_person"
                        }
                    }
                ]
            }
        }
    ]
}

<databaseChangeLog
    xmlns="http://www.liquibase.org/xml/ns/dbchangelog"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xmlns:ext="http://www.liquibase.org/xml/ns/dbchangelog-ext"
    xmlns:pro="http://www.liquibase.org/xml/ns/pro"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.liquibase.org/xml/ns/dbchangelog
        http://www.liquibase.org/xml/ns/dbchangelog/dbchangelog-latest.xsd
        http://www.liquibase.org/xml/ns/dbchangelog-ext
        http://www.liquibase.org/xml/ns/dbchangelog/dbchangelog-ext.xsd
        http://www.liquibase.org/xml/ns/pro
        http://www.liquibase.org/xml/ns/pro/liquibase-pro-latest.xsd">

    <changeSet  author="liquibase-docs"  id="dropView-example">
        <dropView  catalogName="cat"
            ifExists="true"
            schemaName="public"
            viewName="v_person"/>
    </changeSet>

</databaseChangeLog>

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