Hacktoberfest 2026: the issues maintainers tagged for October, open and beginner-friendly. Browse Hacktoberfest issues

`delete_audit_logs_before` example passes a `table` parameter that errors on the default (RocksDB) engine

Open Beginner friendly
  • Is something wrong?
#665 0 comments 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

Maintainers usually reply within 2 days

Nobody has claimed this yet.

Assessment

Difficulty
1/5
Estimated time
Under an hour
Newbie friendliness
92/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Clearly specified
Activity status
Active
Domain
documentation

Research direction

Open reference/database/transaction.md and read the delete_audit_logs_before section, including its v5.2.0 warning. Update the example to remove the table parameter and adjust nearby prose only if it implies table scoping. Done means the documented request matches the RocksDB behavior and no copied example fails for that reason.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Description

What happens

reference/database/transaction.md documents delete_audit_logs_before with an example body that includes a table parameter:

{
	"operation": "delete_audit_logs_before",
	"schema": "dev",
	"table": "dog",
	"timestamp": 1598290282817
}

On the default storage engine (RocksDB) that request errors. dataLayer/harperBridge/ResourceBridge.ts rejects a table-scoped audit/transaction-log deletion on RocksDB with a 400: all tables in a database share one transaction log, so the operation cannot be scoped to one table. A reader who copies the documented example gets a failure.

What is already correct

The same section already carries a v5.2.0 version badge stating that the operation is unsupported with table on RocksDB. So the warning landed; the example immediately below it was never updated to match. The fix is to drop the table line from the example body (and, if the surrounding prose implies table scoping, adjust that too), not to add a new warning.

Verified

  • HarperFast/documentation origin/main at 677ad213d (2026-08-31) — badge present, example still shows "table": "dog".
  • HarperFast/harper origin/main — the RocksDB guard that makes the example fail is live and unchanged.

Searched the documentation tracker for delete_audit_logs_before, table RocksDB transaction log, and audit log across all states: no existing issue covers this.

Found by exploratory QA (finding F-310); triaged 2026-09-02.

Dominant language
MDX
Stars
9
Forks
9
Avg merge
2d 22h
Merged PRs (30d)
24

Getting set up

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

More from HarperFast/documentation

All issues in HarperFast/documentation

Similar issues

More Documentation issues

Get new issues in your inbox

A short digest of beginner-friendly GitHub issues.