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Support data deletion in a Fragment
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Description
Problem Statement
Support deletion of rows on a Fragment level. This capability will be used as global Dataset-level deletion or distributed execution of delete operations.
We could expect a method with a signature:
impl Fragment {
/// Returns a new Fragment representing the data being deleted.
///
/// If returns None, the full fragment is deleted.
async fn delete(&self, filter_expr: &str) -> Optional<Fragment> {
...
}
}
Action items
- Decide the on-disk mechanism for tracking deletion lazily.
- #908
- #915
- #916
- #943
- #934
- #944
- #973
- #993
Contributor guide
First steps
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- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start with the proposed Fragment::delete entry point and review the linked action items, especially the remaining #943 item, along with the completed issues listed in the description. Done means Fragment-level deletion supports the stated filter behavior and returns either a new Fragment or no Fragment when the full fragment is deleted.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- databases
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100