jackye1995 commented on a change in pull request #2841:
URL: https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/2841#discussion_r714249485



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+package org.apache.iceberg.actions;
+
+import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.Set;
+import org.apache.iceberg.DeleteFile;
+import org.apache.iceberg.FileScanTask;
+import org.apache.iceberg.Table;
+
+public interface RewriteDeleteStrategy {
+
+  /**
+   * Returns the name of this rewrite deletes strategy
+   */
+  String name();
+
+  /**
+   * Returns the table being modified by this rewrite strategy
+   */
+  Table table();
+
+  /**
+   * Select the deletes to rewrite.
+   *
+   * @param dataFiles iterable of FileScanTasks for data files in a given 
partition
+   * @return iterable of original delete file to be replaced.
+   */
+  Iterable<DeleteFile> selectDeletesToRewrite(Iterable<FileScanTask> 
dataFiles);

Review comment:
       @aokolnychyi thanks for the feedback!
   
   > I think there is a third use case: simply compacting position deletes.
   
   Yes agree, that maps to the Hive minor compaction as well.
   
   > will position -> data be something we take here or in RewriteDataFiles? I 
can see it being part of the data compaction. Like if we detect that certain 
data files have too many matching delete files, we want to rewrite them.
   
   I remember I had a discussion around this with Russell when he was 
implementing bin packing. When we rewrite data files, yes position delete 
information is merged to that, but delete files are not dropped, because the 
delete file might still reference other files that are not included during 
bin-packing. We discussed the possibility for also adding that feature in the 
data compaction action, the conclusion was to have another action specifically 
for this use case to (1) not make data compaction too complicated, (2) have 
separated actions for different purposes, (3) have better SLA control for 
different actions.




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