Suppress metadata matching between different results_job*.json #266
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Fixes #265.
Pull Request Description
Different results_jobX.json files can have different datatype for the same column.
This happens when some results_jobX.json have failed simulation and the datetypes in that results_jobX.json is chosen by pandas to support missing values. That means, the dtype for numeric column cannot be int (because int datatype cannot support missing value) and it will be downcast to something like float or object. But other results_jobX.json may not have any failed simulation, so the datatype can be more specific like int64. This results in metadata mismatch error when dask tries to read them those multiple dataframes into single dataframe. This PR 'fixes' the issue by suppressing this metadata verification between different dataframes returned by the delayed objects. The default behavior when meta verification is disabled is that (empirically tested) the final datatype is chosen such that it can represent the values in both of the dataframes. This behavior seems consistent with the existing behavior where we loaded everything into a single pandas dataframe.
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Update validation for project config yaml file changesUpdate existing documentation