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From: Alviro Iskandar Setiawan <alviro.iskandar@gnuweeb.org>
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2022 17:06:32 +0700
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Subject: Re: [RFC] GNU/Weeb Financial Transaction Record Design
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On Wed, Jun 15, 2022 at 5:03 PM Ammar Faizi <ammarfaizi2@gnuweeb.org> wrote:
> On 6/15/22 5:00 PM, Alviro Iskandar Setiawan wrote:
> >>    2) How do we maintain a new field in the future if we ever add more?
> >
> > Maybe just make them be an empty string. Appending an empty string
> > won't change the hash because it doesn't change anything. For example,
> > we create a new field x, make it nullable, if it's NULL then when
> > we're validating the old records that don't have this field just treat
> > it as an empty string, it won't change the hash, so it's backward
> > compatible.
>
> Not sure how will it look like. I am looking forward to the patchset then.

Yeeeeeeh, just sit and wait for my patchset, you can comment later on :p

tq

-- Viro