Adding a new field
currency with a default value of "EUR"Under BACKWARD mode, the new schema must be able to read old records. "Adding a new field currency with a default value of "EUR"" works. Old records do not have this field, so the reader fills in the default.
The other changes are rejected:
• "Adding a new field currency with no default": the reader has no value to fill in for old records.
• "Renaming total to amount": Avro sees this as removing one field and adding a new required field with no default.
• "Changing customerId from string to int": Avro cannot promote (convert) a string to an int.