DROP PACKAGE

Purpose

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

Note: Do not use this statement to remove a single object from a package. Instead, re-create the package without the object using the CREATE PACKAGE and CREATE PACKAGE BODY statements with the OR REPLACE clause.

See Also: CREATE PACKAGE

Prerequisites

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

Syntax

Keywords and Parameters

BODY

Specify BODY to drop only the body of the package. If you omit this clause, Oracle drops both the body and specification of the package.

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

schema

Specify the schema containing the package. If you omit schema, Oracle assumes the package is in your own schema.

package

Specify the name of the package to be dropped.

Oracle invalidates any local objects that depend on the package specification. If you subsequently reference one of these objects, Oracle 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, Oracle disassociates the statistics types with the FORCE clause and drops any user-defined statistics collected with the statistics types.

See Also: Oracle8i Concepts for information on how Oracle maintains dependencies among schema objects, including remote objects ASSOCIATE STATISTICS and DISASSOCIATE STATISTICS

Example

DROP PACKAGE Example

The following statement drops the specification and body of the banking package, invalidating all objects that depend on the specification:

DROP PACKAGE banking;