How are files of tables/indexes/etc deleting?

From: Иван Фролков <ifrol2001(at)mail(dot)ru>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: How are files of tables/indexes/etc deleting?
Date: 2016-04-19 12:37:43
Message-ID: 1461069463.457872901@f409.i.mail.ru
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When I drop a table, the file which contains real data will be deleted, but only when I will commit transaction. It seems like such job must do vacuum, but I cannot locate the code which does the real job. Could anybody explain in details how it works?

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