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Status

Current state: [One of "Under Discussion", "Accepted", "Rejected"]

Discussion thread: here (<- link to https://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/flink-dev/)

JIRA: here (<- link to https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-XXXX)

Released: <Flink Version>

Please keep the discussion on the mailing list rather than commenting on the wiki (wiki discussions get unwieldy fast).

Motivation

The TRUNCATE TABLE statement is a SQL command that allows users to quickly and efficiently delete all rows from a table without dropping the table itself.  This statement is commonly used in data warehouse, where large data sets

are frequently loaded and unloaded from tables. It can improve performance by reducing the amount of time and resources required to delete large amounts of data. Also, the TRUNCATE TABLE statement can help simlify and streamling

data management tasks by eliminating the need for complex queries or data manipulation operations.  Considering the TRUNCATE TABLE statment is useful and widely-used, this FLIP is aimed to support TRUNCATE TABLE  statment in Flink.


Public Interfaces

Briefly list any new interfaces that will be introduced as part of this proposal or any existing interfaces that will be removed or changed. The purpose of this section is to concisely call out the public contract that will come along with this feature.

A public interface is any change to the following:

  • DataStream and DataSet API, including classes related to that, such as StreamExecutionEnvironment
  • Classes marked with the @Public annotation
  • On-disk binary formats, such as checkpoints/savepoints
  • User-facing scripts/command-line tools, i.e. bin/flink, Yarn scripts, Mesos scripts
  • Configuration settings
  • Exposed monitoring information


Proposed Changes

Describe the new thing you want to do in appropriate detail. This may be fairly extensive and have large subsections of its own. Or it may be a few sentences. Use judgement based on the scope of the change.

Compatibility, Deprecation, and Migration Plan

  • What impact (if any) will there be on existing users? 
  • If we are changing behavior how will we phase out the older behavior? 
  • If we need special migration tools, describe them here.
  • When will we remove the existing behavior?

Test Plan

Describe in few sentences how the FLIP will be tested. We are mostly interested in system tests (since unit-tests are specific to implementation details). How will we know that the implementation works as expected? How will we know nothing broke?

Rejected Alternatives

If there are alternative ways of accomplishing the same thing, what were they? The purpose of this section is to motivate why the design is the way it is and not some other way.

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