[jira] [Resolved] (HBASE-878) cell purge feature

["Harsh J (Resolved) (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-878?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Harsh J resolved HBASE-878.
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    Resolution: Won't Fix

This is tricky to do since (I believe) you can't know when the deletion is really done. I think a delete should just mean delete. Like in any other FS/DB/System.

HBASE-848 should help a bit in achieving something but recovering cells shouldn't be a regular part of something HTable carries.

A 'trash' for cells may make sense though, but we can pursue that on a new JIRA if needed (so far, its not?)
                
> cell purge feature
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>                 Key: HBASE-878
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-878
>             Project: HBase
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: regionserver
>    Affects Versions: 0.2.0
>            Reporter: Michael Bieniosek
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> Sometimes cells get inserted by accident, and we want to delete them so that the cells behind them become visible.  "delete" just inserts a deleted cell at a newer timestamp, which makes the entire column disappear; but in some cases it's preferable to make the next newest value the current value.

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