DROP TYPE IF EXISTS
Applies to ✅ Open Source Edition ✅ Express Edition ✅ Professional Edition ✅ Enterprise Edition
For idempotent execution of DDL scripts, the useful IF EXISTS clause is supported by jOOQ, and emulated using an anonymous, procedural block if possible.
// Drop a type
create.dropTypeIfExists("type").execute();
Dialect support
This example using jOOQ:
dropTypeIfExists("type")
Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:
Aurora Postgres, CockroachDB, DuckDB, H2, Oracle, Postgres, YugabyteDB
DROP TYPE IF EXISTS type
ASE, Access, Aurora MySQL, BigQuery, ClickHouse, DB2, Derby, Exasol, Firebird, HSQLDB, Hana, Informix, MariaDB, MemSQL, MySQL, Redshift, SQLDataWarehouse, SQLServer, SQLite, Snowflake, Sybase, Teradata, Trino, Vertica
/* UNSUPPORTED */
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