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ASF GitHub Bot commented on KAFKA-3224:
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Github user bill-warshaw closed the pull request at:
https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/1972
> Add timestamp-based log deletion policy
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> Key: KAFKA-3224
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-3224
> Project: Kafka
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Bill Warshaw
> Labels: kafka
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> One of Kafka's officially-described use cases is a distributed commit log
> (http://kafka.apache.org/documentation.html#uses_commitlog). In this case,
> for a distributed service that needed a commit log, there would be a topic
> with a single partition to guarantee log order. This service would use the
> commit log to re-sync failed nodes. Kafka is generally an excellent fit for
> such a system, but it does not expose an adequate mechanism for log cleanup
> in such a case. With a distributed commit log, data can only be deleted when
> the client application determines that it is no longer needed; this creates
> completely arbitrary ranges of time and size for messages, which the existing
> cleanup mechanisms can't handle smoothly.
> A new deletion policy based on the absolute timestamp of a message would work
> perfectly for this case. The client application will periodically update the
> minimum timestamp of messages to retain, and Kafka will delete all messages
> earlier than that timestamp using the existing log cleaner thread mechanism.
> This is based off of the work being done in KIP-32 - Add timestamps to Kafka
> message.
> h3. Initial Approach
> https://github.com/apache/kafka/compare/trunk...bill-warshaw:KAFKA-3224
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