Pg 15.4
I'm dropping the large table "bar" in a test database, and it's taking a long time. Thus, I thought I'd watch it deleting files.
To my surprise, though, the files that store the index are growing. What's up with that?
foo=# select * from pg_class where oid = 41533;
-[ RECORD 1 ]-------+----------
oid | 41533
relname | i_bar_su1
relnamespace | 2200
$ pwd
/var/lib/pgsql/15/data/base/16482
$ la -aFl 41533*
-rw------- 1 postgres postgres 1073741824 2023-11-16 11:15:06 41533
-rw------- 1 postgres postgres 189792256 2023-11-16 11:24:15 41533.1
Five minutes later, 41533.1 is 4.3MB larger.
$ dir 41533*
-rw------- 1 postgres postgres 1073741824 2023-11-16 11:15:06 41533
-rw------- 1 postgres postgres 194101248 2023-11-16 11:29:44 41533.1