fix: do not retain copy of chunk while indexing a new chunk in tsdb while processing delete requests #15541
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What this PR does / why we need it:
We might have new chunks created while processing delete requests, especially with line filters. The new chunks are then indexed for discoverability. The thing to note here is that TSDB index is not built incrementally and requires all the data at once to build it. This TSDB limitation caused us to batch the updates, which in this case, resulted in increased memory usage due to erroneously retaining a copy of a chunk instead of just the metadata. This PR fixes the issue by batching chunk metas instead of whole chunks.