Re: Does DROP TABLE free up disk space immediately?

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Gabor Siklos <GSiklos(at)msdcapital(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Does DROP TABLE free up disk space immediately?
Date: 2006-08-09 01:32:13
Message-ID: 20060809013213.GC21312@alvh.no-ip.org
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Gabor Siklos wrote:
> Does DROP TABLE free up disk space immediately?

It frees space at COMMIT.

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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.

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