Svante, Not sure if I understand your suggestion correctly, but I do think that enabling retention for deleted values would make a useful addition to the "compact" policy. Otherwise some data is bound to be hanging around not used.
Guozhang, could this potentially deserve a feature request? Thanks, 2015-03-02 19:40 GMT+03:00 svante karlsson <s...@csi.se>: > Wouldn't it be rather simple to add a retention time on "deleted" items ie > keys with null value for topics that are compacted? > > The retention time would then be set to some "large" time to allow all > consumers to understand that a previous k/v is being deleted.
