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“I intended this to be an integer but it could really be anything” is not very useful.

• poidos 3mo ago
  Sure it is. If you encounter something that’s not an int, that could be a signal you have a bug in your writers. Or in the source of the data. That’s useful information compared to “oh, I have some ints and some strings, that’s ANY, everything is ok.”
  • FridgeSeal 3mo ago
    > If you encounter something that’s not an int, that could be a signal you have a bug in your writers Which, is something you could have caught before it got written at all if you had your db enforcing your types.
  • nvdc 3mo ago
    i have no idea why this would be preferable to failing immediately on write