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+exports.up = function (knex) {
+    return knex("monitor").whereNull("json_path_operator").update("json_path_operator", "==");
+};
+exports.down = function (knex) {
+    // changing the json_path_operator back to null for all "==" is not possible anymore
+    // we have lost the context which fields have been set explicitely in >= v2.0 and which would need to be reverted
+};