Re: to drop a 30GB database. is it slow? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From James Cradock
Subject Re: to drop a 30GB database. is it slow?
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Msg-id 2c6a8188bcc42e25d33fd4430df0e78a@me3.com
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In response to Re: to drop a 30GB database. is it slow?  (Douglas McNaught <doug@mcnaught.org>)
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On Sep 30, 2005, at 8:21 AM, Douglas McNaught wrote:

>> so, what if simply dropping the table does not recover the disk-space?
>
> It will.  Each table is stored in its own set of disk files, and when
> the table is dropped those files are simply deleted.

This is normally true. Vacuuming the database the table (or index) was
dropped from may free up disk space too.

Jim

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