Should onlyExternal use a different default?

[sicking]

As things are defined right now, there's a slight risk that pages will not know about onlyExternal and do their own filtering, which would be less performant than using onlyExternal.

So if we switch to onlyExternal defaulting to true (or, more likely, switch its name to includeInternal and keep the default as false), there's a greater chance that developers will write code that has best performance.

However, it'd also be really annoying if essentially everyone has to override the default. So if we think that it's going to be far more common to want to be notified about same-connection changes, then we should probably leave things as-is.

Do we have a sense for what will be the most common behavior?

[dmurph]

This is a great question. Personally, I would hook my UI up to just the database all the time, so I would want onlyExternal to be false, but I'm also not a frontend developer. I'll ask around to potential users to see what their most common use-case is.