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<p>Yes, I would like that but I'm not sure how to do it. How about adding an additional table that holds a schema version? This would allow us to create better error reporting and also to write automatic migrations in the future.</p>
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<p>I'd be in favour of this going forwards, but I'm not sure it's the best option for <strong>this</strong> issue. Looking at the schema, we have the column <code>tags text[]</code> with node tags. We don't need this information, and flat nodes doesn't have it. If we dropped that column it would break compatibility (and save space).</p>

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