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This command is independent of the <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >DROP USER</TT > command; as such, any users within the group that you drop will not be removed from the database.</P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="R1-SQLDROPGROUP2" ></A ><H2 >Example</H2 ><P >The following example drops the <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >sales</TT > group:</P ><PRE CLASS="SCREEN" >booktown=# <TT CLASS="USERINPUT" ><B >DROP GROUP sales;</B ></TT > DROP GROUP</PRE ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A href="r26260" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A href="book1" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A href="r26357" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >DROP FUNCTION</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A href="c22759" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >DROP INDEX</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML > </div> <br /> <div id="thefineprint"> <a href="http://www.commandprompt.com/products/mammothpostgresql/"><img src="../images/powered_by_mammoth.gif" alt="Powered by Mammoth PostgreSQL" title="Powered by Mammoth PostgreSQL" border="0" /></a> <br /> Copyright © 2000-2007 Command Prompt, Inc. 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