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by darkwater 985 days ago
Maybe this is explained somewhere in the docs but I'm lazy: how does it cope with possible performance issue in highly trafficked tables? Can you somehow control the backfill speed if it's taking up too much I/O?
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There's nothing about this in the docs :)

Backfills are done in fixed size batches to avoid taking long-lived row locks on many rows but there is nothing in place to control the overall rate of backfilling.

This would certainly be a nice feature to add soon though.