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[Content Bug] Conflicting info on real time aggregate defaults #3118

Open MA-MacDonald opened 7 months ago

MA-MacDonald commented 7 months ago

Describe the bug

The Hierarchical continuous aggregates page has outdated info stating "By default, all continuous aggregates use real-time aggregation"

What do the docs say now?

"By default, all continuous aggregates use real-time aggregation"

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What should the docs say?

Not sure but the paragraph should be re-written to make sense with the new default value shown on this page.

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Page affected

https://docs.timescale.com/use-timescale/latest/continuous-aggregates/hierarchical-continuous-aggregates/

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PS1TD commented 4 weeks ago

Same issue Continuous aggregates seem to be created with materialized_only to TRUE instead of FALSE which is the opposite of the behavior described on the page Workaround:

WITH
    (
        timescaledb.continuous,
        timescaledb.materialized_only = FALSE
    ) AS