On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 09:09 +0200, Luca Ferrari wrote:

> I'm just curious to know why after a drop table the disk file is emptied but 
> still existent. What is the reason why the file is not deleted immediately?

To avoid various problems the files are removed after the next
checkpoint.

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