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<feed xml:lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><title>Recent posts to Persistence manager datatype changed</title><link href="https://forge.codesys.com/forge/talk/Engineering/thread/1ba9f538f9/" rel="alternate"/><link href="https://forge.codesys.com/forge/talk/Engineering/thread/1ba9f538f9/feed.atom" rel="self"/><id>https://forge.codesys.com/forge/talk/Engineering/thread/1ba9f538f9/</id><updated>2021-05-21T10:54:04.403000Z</updated><subtitle>Recent posts to Persistence manager datatype changed</subtitle><entry><title>Persistence manager datatype changed</title><link href="https://forge.codesys.com/forge/talk/Engineering/thread/1ba9f538f9/?limit=50#496a" rel="alternate"/><published>2021-05-21T10:54:04.403000Z</published><updated>2021-05-21T10:54:04.403000Z</updated><author><name>ludecus</name><uri>https://forge.codesys.com/u/ludecus/</uri></author><id>https://forge.codesys.comafe33088555b02fb45864c58dc9bddb3c226aff1</id><summary type="html">&lt;div class="markdown_content"&gt;&lt;p&gt;We use the Persistence Manager to store system configurations in a file. An change request requires to change the data type of a variable from boolean to short integer.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;How could we handle the data type change without an inconsistence of the file?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;An extension of the file is possible, as long as the old file is correctly interpreted. The file could also be overwritten after reading.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</summary></entry></feed>