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what's the difference between prefect checkpointing and targets? from my understanding targets could be used to save task output and if the task is called again it will use the cached state, checkpointing does the same so what is the key difference?

Checkpointing is to recover from a flow run when you click the restart button. Target is caching that will take effect from flow run to flow run, but the checkpoints will not be used in the next flow run by default

<@U01QEJ9PP53> Thanks for the clarification, I'm  looking around and found a config parameter under
`prefect.flows.eager_edge_validation`  may you please explain what is that?

No i can’t lol….first time seeing that let me take a look

I really can’t provide any more info on that beyond the <https://github.com/PrefectHQ/prefect/blob/master/src/prefect/config.toml#L119-L122|docstring> but i have never seen anyone have to toggle it so i guess we don’t validate