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retentionPolicy delete fails against S3-compatible storage with limited Multi-Object Delete support (NetApp ONTAP) #1049

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Our retention policy enforcement fails on every cycle against a NetApp ONTAP S3 backend:

"Could not delete backup 20260623T104935: An error occurred (AccessDenied) when calling the DeleteObjects operation: Access Denied"

We isolated the cause: barman-cloud-backup-delete uses the S3 Multi-Object Delete (bulk) API. A single aws s3api delete-object on the same key with the same credentials succeeds, but aws s3api delete-objects (bulk) on the identical key fails with AccessDenied, even with a correctly scoped bucket policy. This appears to be a known limitation of some non-AWS S3 implementations (similar reports: cloudnative-pg/barman-cloud#149 against MinIO).

barman-cloud-backup-delete already supports --batch-size, which set to 1 avoids the bulk delete path entirely and fixes it. However, the ObjectStore CRD has no way to pass extra args to the delete/retention command - additionalCommandArgs only exists for backup, restore, and WAL archive/restore.

Request: expose a field (e.g. deleteAdditionalCommandArgs) that gets passed to barman-cloud-backup-delete, so --batch-size (and similar flags) can be configured for retention enforcement, same as the other operations already support.

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