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Re:REST and long-running jobs (2014) by geezerjay on Saturday December 01, 2018 @02:06PM (#18578284)
> Because your storage requirements would grow indefinitely as you would need to store a record for every task ever performed.

The only info that needs to be stored is the ID of the finished task. If, say, the ID is expressed as a GUID then we're talking about 4 ints or 2 longs worth of data.

Even so, these records are supposed to be garbage collected.

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