timescaledb really needed?

[zetaab]

I can see that from config file it is possible to disable timeseries and timescaledb. Is that true? does codecov work without that? Is there information about what kind of features we will lose if we are not using timescaledb? Or is the setup just slower? What is purpose of timescaledb in architecture?

[trent-codecov]

The primary mention of this in our docs is the changelog where we introduced it.

Timescale powers our flags feature. Example from Sentry repo

With timescale disabled, the flags tab will be disabled. All other functionality will continue to work.