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Yes, but that case comes up less often and isn't what I see NoSQL people complaining about ;P. (Also, when I've listed that as an explicit caveat recently, I often get corrected that they changed the ramifications of that recently, and it only sometimes has to happen, so I figured I'd just explicitly list the situations where you clearly should never have needed to rewrite the table.)

Generally, though, this is related to be able to do table changes under transaction locks: I have often enjoyed being able to, under an atomic transaction, replace a table with a view over that table, or make modifications to indexes and columns that I then rollback if there's a mistake.



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