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by sundbry 968 days ago
This is one nice property of Apache Iceberg (a data lake format, built on top of Parquet). The schemas in the data are evolvable, and require both a name and a field ID to identify the field. The names are changeable, but the ID's are immutable, so you can remove a field, and add a new field by the same name, having a different type.