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From Douglas McNaught
Subject Re: to drop a 30GB database. is it slow?
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In response to Re: to drop a 30GB database. is it slow?  (Gábor Farkas <gabor@nekomancer.net>)
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Gábor Farkas <gabor@nekomancer.net> writes:

> 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.

-Doug

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