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Jingsong Lee updated FLINK-27845:
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Description:
After schema changes, for example, a column with int type to bigint type. We
should convert the data from the old type to the new type.
* What types are safe to convert? According to the implicitCastingRules in
LogicalTypeCasts.
* Where to convert? DataFileReader
* How to convert? In RecordIterator.next, we can convert old RowData to new
RowData if there is a schema change.
was:Currently we can convert the data from the old type to the new type
according to the implicitCastingRules in LogicalTypeCasts.
> Introduce Column Type Schema evolution
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> Key: FLINK-27845
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-27845
> Project: Flink
> Issue Type: Sub-task
> Components: Table Store
> Reporter: Jingsong Lee
> Priority: Minor
> Labels: pull-request-available
> Fix For: table-store-0.2.0
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> After schema changes, for example, a column with int type to bigint type. We
> should convert the data from the old type to the new type.
> * What types are safe to convert? According to the implicitCastingRules in
> LogicalTypeCasts.
> * Where to convert? DataFileReader
> * How to convert? In RecordIterator.next, we can convert old RowData to new
> RowData if there is a schema change.
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