Nessie: Prevent accidental deletion of files which are still referenced by other branches/tags #5718
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Iceberg GC functionalities like
remove_orphan_files,expire_snapshots,drop_table(withpurge=true) are not aware of the Nessie's branches and tags.So, when a user accidentally calls these on Nessie-managed tables, these GC functionalities will clean up the files which are still referenced in other branches/tags. So, blocking all the Iceberg GC operations on Nessie-managed tables by default.
Nessie will provide engine agnostic, reference-aware GC functionalities (which doesn't call these Iceberg GC functionalities internally) with CLI support for handling the GC of expired/unreferenced files of a Nessie managed table.