Whether this row represents a finished question — one no further attempt can change while the
source address is unchanged.
success is obvious. The other case is an address that genuinely cannot be geocoded, which is
just as settled: re-asking produces the same nothing, at the cost of a write, a provider call
and another write, per record, per pass, forever.
A plain failed is NOT settled — that is a transient API error, and retrying it is the retry
job's whole purpose.
Whether this row represents a finished question — one no further attempt can change while the source address is unchanged.
successis obvious. The other case is an address that genuinely cannot be geocoded, which is just as settled: re-asking produces the same nothing, at the cost of a write, a provider call and another write, per record, per pass, forever.A plain
failedis NOT settled — that is a transient API error, and retrying it is the retry job's whole purpose.