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Free disk space for dropped relations on commit.
authorThomas Munro <tmunro@postgresql.org>
Tue, 1 Dec 2020 00:21:03 +0000 (13:21 +1300)
committerThomas Munro <tmunro@postgresql.org>
Tue, 1 Dec 2020 00:37:00 +0000 (13:37 +1300)
commit50f338574242be955c79ed0b3e193ce3ff4cd5eb
tree6d6619d3f1570aac4dd7c1b67d67309a0687b0e2
parentb2603f16ad7531a5e09b1f38a0b4382a946a139f
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