loquisgon commented on code in PR #12392:
URL: https://github.com/apache/druid/pull/12392#discussion_r847612982


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server/src/main/java/org/apache/druid/server/coordinator/duty/CompactSegments.java:
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@@ -426,6 +426,17 @@ private CoordinatorStats doRun(
         if (config.getIoConfig() != null) {
           dropExisting = config.getIoConfig().isDropExisting();
         }
+        // force dropExisting to true if dropExisting is not set,
+        // dropExistingis false,
+        // or all segments to compact are tombstones.
+        // Otherwise, auto-compaction will cycle indefinitely since segments 
won't be compacted and their
+        // compaction state won't be set

Review Comment:
   I will fix this in next commit. I have been thinking a little, not a lot, 
and it seems to me, at first sight, that auto-compaction should not track 
whether a segment was compacted in its payload. Somehow auto-compaction ought 
to reason about current state of segments and decide to compact them based on 
that state not whether they were compacted recently or not (i.e. this segment 
is tiny and there are other sibling segments in this time chunk that could be 
compacted together). But since state about compaction is saved in the segment 
payload and this state is needed to make the decision to compact we have to be 
able to save this state for all segments considered for auto-compaction and 
thus we need to force `dropExisting` to be able to compact those tombstones in 
this case. The current semantics though should not change (that is , drop will 
not drop any segments with data that was not already overshadowed by existing 
tombstones). Previously there were only tombstones in this interva
 l and after this there will be only tombstones as well (albeit with different 
segment granularity).



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