and cloned it into the original name.
>
> All in all an hours work only, but having a cleaner process would be better.
> I'll add the request to JIRA at a minimum.
>
> Dave
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>
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Subject: Re: Tricks to upgrading Sequence Files?
This is a pretty interesting question, but unfortunately there isn't an
inbuilt way in SequenceFiles itself to handle this. However, your key/value
classes can be made to handle v
This is a pretty interesting question, but unfortunately there isn't
an inbuilt way in SequenceFiles itself to handle this. However, your
key/value classes can be made to handle versioning perhaps - detecting
if what they've read is of an older time and decoding it appropriately
(while handling new
Anyone have any good tricks for upgrading a sequence file.
We maintain a sequence file like a flat file DB and the primary object in
there changed in recent development.
It's trivial to write a job to read in the sequence file, update the object,
and write it back out in the new format.