alter_distributed_table: Use less disk space
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Description
Currently, alter_distributed_table will store the data 5 times:
- Original table
- Buckets coming out of worker_partition_query_result
- Buckets after they are transferred using fetch_intermediate_result
- Tuple stores into which read_intermediate_result reads
- New table
It may be helpful to do some intermediate clean-up to reduce the disk space requirement.
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