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Free disk space for dropped relations on commit.
authorThomas Munro <tmunro@postgresql.org>
Tue, 1 Dec 2020 00:46:27 +0000 (13:46 +1300)
committerThomas Munro <tmunro@postgresql.org>
Tue, 1 Dec 2020 01:50:41 +0000 (14:50 +1300)
commitd0bbe212209924e664a783a767e827df5b5c08d3
treecbc9059a26fe4b98d95a45dc78a6a059655afa66
parentb3d33bf598dd64c95f48111081b6672ec0dc380e
Free disk space for dropped relations on commit.

When committing a transaction that dropped a relation, we previously
truncated only the first segment file to free up disk space (the one
that won't be unlinked until the next checkpoint).

Truncate higher numbered segments too, even though we unlink them on
commit.  This frees the disk space immediately, even if other backends
have open file descriptors and might take a long time to get around to
handling shared invalidation events and closing them.  Also extend the
same behavior to the first segment, in recovery.

Back-patch to all supported releases.

Bug: #16663
Reported-by: Denis Patron <denis.patron@previnet.it>
Reviewed-by: Pavel Borisov <pashkin.elfe@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Neil Chen <carpenter.nail.cz@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: David Zhang <david.zhang@highgo.ca>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16663-fe97ccf9932fc800%40postgresql.org
src/backend/storage/smgr/md.c