Allow attribute edits that won't corrupt data
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tylerwilding-wk commented
It is currently impossible to make edits to already installed attributes in eva. This can be problematic if an attribute is installed incorrectly since it will require either:
- A new attribute with the same name to be installed + data migration
- A new attribute with the same name to be installed + query and pullspec tweaks to look for both the new and old attribute
- Database to be wiped and the attribute to be correctly installed
While this is desirable in some cases such as a change from db.cardinality/many
to db.cardinality/one
as that would corrupt the database. However some operations should be safe, such as changing from db.cardinality/one
to db.cardinality/many
or removing :unique
. A full system wide retract should also be more or less safe.
Long story short, allow operations that should be "safe" and don't allow "unsafe" operations