Re: Downgradability

[Benedict]

I don’t think there’s anything about a new format that requires a version bump, but I could be missing something. We have to have a switch to enable tries already don’t we? I’m pretty sure we haven’t talked about switching the default format? On 23 Feb 2023, at 12:12, Henrik Ingo <henrik.i...@datastax.com> wrote:  On Thu, Feb 23, 2023 at 11:57 AM Benedict <bened...@apache.org> wrote: Can somebody explain to me why this is being fought tooth and nail, when the work involved is absolutely minimal? I don't know how each individual has been thinking about this, but it seems to me just looking at all the tasks that at least the introduction of tries is a major format change anyway - since it's the whole point - and therefore people working on other tasks may have assumed the format is changing anyway and therefore something like a switch (is this what is referred to as the C-8110 solution?) will take care of it for everyone. I'm not sure there's consensus that such a switch is a sufficient resolution to this discussion, but if there were such a consensus, the next question would be whether the patches that are otherwise ready now can merge, or whether they will all be blocked waiting for the compatibility solution first. And possibly better testing, etc. Letting them merge would be justified by the desire to have more frequent and smaller increments of work merged into trunk... well, I'm not going to repeat everything from that discussion but the same pro's and con's apply. henrik  -- Henrik Ingo c. +358 40 569 7354  w. www.datastax.com