TimeWindowCompactionStrategy (TWCS) tables are known for being used explicitly for time-series workloads. In particular, most of the time users should specify a default_time_to_live during table creation to ensure data is expired such as in a sliding window. Failure to do so may create unbounded windows - which - depending on the compaction window chosen, may introduce severe latency and operational problems, due to unbounded window growth.
However, there may be some use cases which explicitly ingest data by using the `USING TTL` keyword, which effectively has the same effect. Therefore, we can not simply forbid table creations without a default_time_to_live explicitly set to any value other than 0.
The new restrict_twcs_without_default_ttl option has three values: "true", "false", and "warn":
We default to "warn", which will notify the user of the consequences when creating a TWCS table without a default_time_to_live value set. However, users are encouraged to switch it to "true", as - ideally - a default_time_to_live value should always be expected to prevent applications failing to ingest data against the database ommitting the `USING TTL` keyword.
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