[HBASE-5268] Add delete column prefix delete marker

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Component/s: Client, regionserver
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Lars Hofhansl
• Created: 24/Jan/12 05:43
• Updated: 12/Jun/22 20:12
• Resolved: 28/Jan/12 05:23

Description

This is another part missing in the "wide row challenge".
Currently entire families of a row can be deleted or individual columns or versions.
There is no facility to mark multiple columns for deletion by column prefix.

Turns out that be achieve with very little code (it's possible that I missed some of the new delete bloom filter code, so please review this thoroughly). I'll attach a patch soon, just working on some tests now.