Warning
This feature has been removed and its controlling variable innodb_lazy_drop_table has been deprecated from Percona Server 5.5.30-30.2. Feature has been removed because the upstream DROP TABLE implementation has been improved.
When innodb_file_per_table is set to 1, doing a DROP TABLE can take a long time on servers with a large buffer pool, even on an empty InnoDB table. This is because InnoDB has to scan through the buffer pool to purge pages that belong to the corresponding tablespace. Furthermore, no other queries can start while that scan is in progress.
This feature allows you to do “background table drop”.
5.5.10-20.1Feature added.5.5.30-30.2Feature deprecated.
innodb_lazy_drop_table¶| Command Line: | Yes |
|---|---|
| Config File: | Yes |
| Scope: | Global |
| Dynamic: | Yes |
| Variable Type: | BOOL |
| Default Value: | FALSE |
| Range: | TRUE/FALSE |
When this option is ON, XtraDB optimizes that process by only marking the pages corresponding to the tablespace being deleted. It defers the actual work of evicting those pages until it needs to find some free pages in the buffer pool.
When this option is OFF, the usual behavior for dropping tables is in effect.
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