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Tables are created after the database they pertain is opened and destroyed before the database is closed. Though they generally function as in-memory associative arrays, the references made between them and the database requires the database operations to be observed.
Tables referred by the current transaction cannot be destroyed if the transaction is to be closed.
Empty tables are not stored on disk. Purging all data from a stored table removes all references of the table, including settings.