Summary:
We found that the behavior of CompactionFilter::IgnoreSnapshots() = false isn't
what we have expected. We thought that snapshot will always be preserved.
However, we just realized that, if no snapshot is created while compaction
starts, and a snapshot is created after that, the data seen from the snapshot
can successfully be dropped by the compaction. This creates a strange behavior
to the feature, which is hard to explain. Like what is documented in code
comment, this feature is not very useful with snapshot anyway. The decision
is to deprecate the feature.
We keep the function to avoid to break users code. However, we will fail
compactions if false is returned.
Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/pull/4954
Differential Revision: D13981900
Pulled By: siying
fbshipit-source-id: 2db8c2c3865acd86a28dca625945d1481b1d1e36