Gábor Farkas <gabor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match