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Reduce coordinator memory growth in citus_move_shard_placement#8652
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[WIP] Fix memory usage in citus_move_shard_placement()
Reduce coordinator memory growth in Jul 8, 2026
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DESCRIPTION: Bound coordinator memory use during shard moves with many colocations
citus_move_shard_placement()could retain large per-shard DDL structures on the coordinator, causing memory to climb dramatically for large colocated move sets (as in the attached WSS graph). This change makes the block-writes transfer path release transient allocations per shard instead of accumulating them for the full operation.What changed
localContextduring shard table recreation loop, so DDL/list allocations are freed each iteration.ShardCommandListbuffering of attach/FK DDL across all shards.Illustrative change