[HBASE-24424] Make it easy to delete all data for specify qualifiers

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: Compaction
• Assignee: Zheng Wang
• Reporter: Zheng Wang
• Created: 25/May/20 03:08
• Updated: 28/May/20 06:36

Description

We developed a great many user features that each one as a qualifier stored in a table which has only one column family, when we planed to decommission some of them, but found not easy to do.
 
My propasal is add a hint for major_compact, eg:

major_compact_delete_extra_qualifiers 'table','cf','q1','q2'

This command will delete all of the cells for q1 and q2.