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Well, in a different concept of how compatibility was thought of with respect to stored schemes, you could have feature flags marked as "this feature is entirely optional to understand", "this feature is required to understand", and a third case that would work here and be extremely useful "this feature is required to understand if you want to write to the database, but if you merely open it read only it is optional".



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