[HUDI-1549] Programmatic way to fetch earliest commit retained

• Type: New Feature
• Status: In Progress
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 0.9.0
• Component/s: cleaning, timeline-server
• Labels: query-eng sev:normal user-support-issues
• Assignee: Pratyaksh Sharma
• Reporter: sivabalan narayanan
• Created: 24/Jan/21 21:55
• Updated: 21/Dec/23 15:33

Description

For GDPR deletions, it would be nice if customers can programmatically know whats the earliest commit retained. 

More context: https://github.com/apache/hudi/issues/2135