Excellent news. Thanks very much! 

-Timo


On 25 sep. 2013, at 21:44, Matthew Von-Maszewski wrote:

> Timo,
> 
> Your email again brought up the topic of fixing this issue within Basho's 
> leveldb.  Previously there had always been a "bigger problem" and we did not 
> worry about tombstone (delete) purging.  Today, we have all but one of the 
> "bigger problems" coded.  I therefore have created a plan to track tombstones 
> and automatically perform background compactions to purge the old data and 
> the tombstone.  
> 
> This tombstone initiated, background compaction will occur at a lower 
> priority than ingest and directory size compactions.
> 
> The current plan would only "know about" tombstones created after the new 
> code is released.  It will not magically search your entire data set to find 
> existing tombstones.  But over time, any prior tombstones found in a regular 
> compaction will lead to a grooming compaction of those tombstones.
> 
> Matthew
> 

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