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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 00:22:01 +0000 (13:22 +1300)
commitfd3a75d820a4fee3e25b699f1ccc043469afc55c
treee219d8c25788fe91259d7b6a5eb4bc521b3a4093
parenta095e04f63a47ef02ec98577cc1fc4e4542e5ddd
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