Fwiw the ANY type is valid in strict tables, and does what it says. Slightly more so than in non-strict tables in fact: it will store exactly what you give it

Fwiw the ANY type is valid in strict tables, and does what it says. Slightly more so than in non-strict tables in fact: it will store exactly what you give it without trying to reinterpret it e.g. in non-strict, a quoted literal composed of digits will be parsed and stored as an integer, in strict, as a string. Strict mode also doesn’t influence the parser, so e.g. inserting a `true` in a strict table will work, because `true` is interpreted as an integer literal.