Tombstone Events Discussion

[ericgreenmix]

After moving an event store to be partitioned, the prevalence of tombstone events is much more apparent in the default partition, since tombstone events don't get archived. The purpose of partitioning the event store is to help the scaling/speed in larger stores. Having the tombstone events stick around in the active partition, after they have already served their purpose for the high water mark detection, doesn't seem optimal.

Questions for discussion:

• Does archiving tombstone events provide more value than removing them entirely? I can't see much value in keeping archived tombstone events around, unless I am missing something about them.
• At what point could this process happen to the tombstone events? It clearly has to be after the High Water Mark Detection has happened and used it.