“Type widening... are the things that don't impact. old data still reads correctly, and the old consumers would still work”
Sahil Walia · Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developers · Sahil Walia on Schema Changes and Data Migrations
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claim that type widening (e.g., int → long, float → double) is a safe migration
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