Summary:
The main challenge to make the memtable garbage collection prototype (nicknamed `mempurge`) was to not get rid of WAL files that contain unflushed (but mempurged) data. That was successfully guaranteed by not writing the VersionEdit to the MANIFEST file after a successful mempurge.
By not writing VersionEdits to the `MANIFEST` file after a succesful mempurge operation, we do not change the earliest log file number that contains unflushed data: `cfd->GetLogNumber()` (`cfd->SetLogNumber()` is only called in `VersionSet::ProcessManifestWrites`). As a result, a number of functions introduced earlier just for the mempurge operation are not obscolete/redundant. (e.g.: `FlushJob::ExtractEarliestLogFileNumber`), and this PR aims at cleaning up all these now-unnecessary functions. In particular, we no longer need to store the earliest log file number in the `MemTable` struct itself. This PR therefore also reverts the `MemTable` struct to its original form.
Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/pull/8558
Test Plan: Already included in `db_flush_test.cc`.
Reviewed By: anand1976
Differential Revision: D29764351
Pulled By: bjlemaire
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