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Yup, inconsistency is a kind of data corruption, provided you expect it to be in a consistent state. The emotional value of the latter is much stronger, though
by pygy_ 11y ago
Yup, inconsistency is a kind of data corruption, provided you expect it to be in a consistent state.
The emotional value of the latter is much stronger, though, and it sounds worse to the uninitiated, which is probably why Percona folks are trying to spin it that way.
- bakhy 11y agoyou can replace the word "inconsistent" with "incorrect", and many uninitiated people will shit their pants on that too :)
- StillBored 11y agoFor me, inconsistent tends to imply a silent error, and corruption tends to imply one that is immediately noticed. I know that isn't accurate, but the tendency for it to be true, actually makes the word inconsistent upset me more than corruption. I know how to fix bad data, trying to track down a soft error that is hard to reproduce is the subject of my nightmares.