@YannK: yes, it is a very misleading name for the command given its behavior to a degree, even more so if there is no intent to ever implement a compaction method. However, if it was intended to implement a compaction at a later time, then it does make sense as it is likely doing something similar to what a typical database does or say what email clients do, where it flags the record for deletion so that it does not display, and then when compaction is executed,
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