Re: When the locially dropped column is also physically dropped - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Jim Nasby wrote:
> On Apr 27, 2007, at 12:35 PM, Gregory Stark wrote:
>> The column won't be dropped physically until you execute one of the 
>> commands
>> that rewrites the table entirely. "CLUSTER" and "ALTER TABLE ALTER 
>> column TYPE
>> type" are the two popular ones.
> 
> UPDATE SET field1 = field1; would also work, right?

Well, yes, except that it will bloat the table. If you wanted to 
physically drop the column to save space, you're not going to be happy 
with that.

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