DROP PACKAGE Statement

The DROP PACKAGE statement drops a stored package from the database. This statement drops the body and specification of a package.

Topics:

• Prerequisites

• Syntax

• Semantics

• Example

• Related Topics

Prerequisites

The package must be in your own schema or you must have the DROP ANY PROCEDURE system privilege.

Syntax

drop_package::=

Semantics

BODY

Drops only the body of the package. If you omit this clause, then the database drops both the body and specification of the package.

When you drop only the body of a package but not its specification, the database does not invalidate dependent objects. However, you cannot call a procedure or stored function declared in the package specification until you re-create the package body.

schema

The name of the schema containing the package. The default is your own schema.

package

The name of the package to be dropped.

The database invalidates any local objects that depend on the package specification. If you subsequently reference one of these objects, then the database tries to recompile the object and returns an error if you have not re-created the dropped package.

If any statistics types are associated with the package, then the database disassociates the statistics types with the FORCE clause and drops any user-defined statistics collected with the statistics types.

Example

Dropping a Package: Example This statement drops the specification and body of the emp_mgmt package, which was created in "Creating a Package Body: Example", invalidating all objects that depend on the specification:

DROP PACKAGE emp_mgmt; 

Related Topics

• "ALTER PACKAGE Statement"

• "CREATE PACKAGE Statement"

• "CREATE PACKAGE BODY Statement"