[HBASE-24359] Optionally ignore edits for deleted CFs for replication.

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.2.4
• Fix Version/s: 3.0.0-alpha-1, 2.3.0
• Component/s: Replication
• Release Note: Introduce a new config hbase.replication.drop.on.deleted.columnfamily, default is false. When config to true, the replication will drop the edits for columnfamily that has been deleted from the replication source and target.
• Assignee: Sun Xin
• Reporter: Sun Xin
• Due: 12/May/20
• Created: 12/May/20 09:45
• Updated: 18/Oct/20 19:20
• Resolved: 08/Jun/20 05:28

Description

Replication will be stuck after we delete CFs from both the source and the sink, if the source still has outstanding edits that now it could not get rid of. Now all replication is backed up behind these unreplicatable edits.
We should have an option to ignore edits for deleted CFs at the source.

This issue is similar to HBASE-12091

Issue Links

• is related to: HBASE-25196 Document deprecation of HConstants#REPLICATION_DROP_ON_DELETED_TABLE_KEY
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #1722
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #1855