Hi, The documentation about DROP COLUMN is a bit unclear: | The DROP COLUMN form does not physically remove the column, but simply | makes it invisible to SQL operations. Subsequent insert and update | operations in the table will store a null value for the column. Thus, | dropping a column is quick but it will not immediately reduce the on-disk | size of your table, as the space occupied by the dropped column is not | reclaimed. The space will be reclaimed over time as existing rows are | updated. "subsequent ... will store a null value" would imply that deleted columns will still take some place, while "the space will be reclaimed ..." would suggest that new rows (insert or updates in mvcc) don't have the deleted column anymore - I'm not quite sure how to interpret this. What is pg doing? chees -- vbi -- featured product: PostgreSQL - http://postgresql.org
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