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Jane Chan commented on FLINK-27708: ----------------------------------- Hi, [~complone] thanks for your interest in this ticket. However, the community encourages the contributor to have a consensus on the implementation and being an assignee before issuing a PR. You can take [https://developer.aliyun.com/article/774862] for a practical reference. > Add background compaction task for append-only table when ingesting. > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: FLINK-27708 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-27708 > Project: Flink > Issue Type: Sub-task > Reporter: Zheng Hu > Priority: Major > Labels: pull-request-available > Fix For: table-store-0.2.0 > > > We could still execute compaction task to merge small files in the background > for append-only table. > This compaction is just to avoid a lot of small files. > Its purpose is similar to that of filesystem compaction: > https://nightlies.apache.org/flink/flink-docs-master/docs/connectors/table/filesystem/#file-compaction -- This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.20.7#820007)