fix: don't pass refs to DELETE #5758

Job	Run time
debug x86_64-apple-darwin	30m 25s
release x86_64-apple-darwin	20m 1s
asan aarch64-apple-darwin	28m 0s
debug aarch64-apple-darwin	8m 19s
release aarch64-apple-darwin	6m 58s
debug x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu	12m 35s
release x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu	5m 22s
release x86_64-pc-windows-msvc	13m 56s
debug aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu	20m 6s
release aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu	8m 29s
debug aarch64-linux-android	1h 4m 8s
release aarch64-linux-android	1h 15m 8s
debug x86_64-linux-android	1h 36m 48s
release x86_64-linux-android	54m 16s
	7h 24m 31s

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