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by functional_test 4621 days ago
Generally I'd only have at most 2 formats at once while you converted the older records to the new format. You're right that there's no sense in keeping around a dozen versions but there are a lot of business cases for having two versions of a schema active at once. For example, if you can't bring down your application to convert everything mid-day and instead want to do an incremental conversion.