<blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid #aaa; margin: 10px 0; padding: 0 10px;"><p style="white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">I have a thought that could avoid losing data. You could create a<br>new column, massage the data across to this new column, drop the<br>old column and rename it. This appears to be possible based on a<br>quick google, but I don't know level of effort. Just my 2ยข</p></blockquote><p style="white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">I cannot say about level of effort either as this is Alembic and we aren't that database knowledgeable. Doing it may be very database specific. Alembic is supposed to hide database specific stuff but it frequently does not.</p><p style="white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">The loosing data part is why the already released branch patches were abandoned. This is a breaking change to eliminate a type mismatch and not really necessary on the released branches.</p><p><a href="https://gerrit.asterisk.org/9841">View Change</a></p><ul style="list-style: none; padding: 0;"></ul><p>To view, visit <a href="https://gerrit.asterisk.org/9841">change 9841</a>. To unsubscribe, or for help writing mail filters, visit <a href="https://gerrit.asterisk.org/settings">settings</a>.</p><div itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/EmailMessage"><div itemscope itemprop="action" itemtype="http://schema.org/ViewAction"><link itemprop="url" href="https://gerrit.asterisk.org/9841"/><meta itemprop="name" content="View Change"/></div></div>
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