MeihanLi commented on code in PR #9382:
URL: https://github.com/apache/pinot/pull/9382#discussion_r969992785


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pinot-spi/src/main/java/org/apache/pinot/spi/data/FieldSpec.java:
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@@ -536,4 +536,22 @@ public int compareTo(FieldSpec otherSpec) {
     // Sort fieldspecs based on their name
     return _name.compareTo(otherSpec._name);
   }
+
+  /***
+   * Return true if it is backward compatible with the old FieldSpec.
+   * Backward compatibility requires
+   * all other fields except DefaultNullValue and Max Length should be 
retained.
+   *
+   * @param oldFieldSpec
+   * @return
+   */
+  public boolean isBackwardCompatibleWith(FieldSpec oldFieldSpec) {
+
+    return EqualityUtils.isEqual(_name, oldFieldSpec._name)
+            && EqualityUtils.isEqual(_dataType, oldFieldSpec._dataType)
+            && EqualityUtils.isEqual(_isSingleValueField, 
oldFieldSpec._isSingleValueField)
+            && EqualityUtils.isEqual(_transformFunction, 
oldFieldSpec._transformFunction)
+            && EqualityUtils.
+            isEqual(_virtualColumnProvider, 
oldFieldSpec._virtualColumnProvider);

Review Comment:
   done, please check the third commit



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