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Add a warning to retention documentation regarding the possibility of database corruption (#13497)

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@ -849,7 +849,11 @@ which are older than the room's maximum retention period. Synapse will also
filter events received over federation so that events that should have been
purged are ignored and not stored again.
The message retention policies feature is disabled by default.
The message retention policies feature is disabled by default. Please be advised
that enabling this feature carries some risk. There are known bugs with the implementation
which can cause database corruption. Setting retention to delete older history
is less risky than deleting newer history but in general caution is advised when enabling this
experimental feature. You can read more about this feature [here](../../message_retention_policies.md).
This setting has the following sub-options:
* `default_policy`: Default retention policy. If set, Synapse will apply it to rooms that lack the