Schema question: multi-valued field pint vs pints

[Christopher Schultz]

All,

I have defined a schema which uses a multi-valued field with type "pint" 
and when I fetch the schema from Solr, it says the field type is "pints".

It seems if I create a field of type "pints" with "mutivalued":"false", 
I still get a multi-valued field.

Is one an alias of the other? It it better to use one or the other? What 
will Solr do if I change the definition of a pints/multi field to be 
pint/multi? Will it recognize that they are equivalent, or will it 
damage an existing index in any way? Or waste a bunch of time?

I'm writing an automated schema-update process, and it's telling me that 
my desired schema doesn't match the actual schema because of this 
difference. I'm wondering if I should take pints == multi-valued pint 
into account or if I should allow the update to proceed.

Would it be save to say that for any field-type, making it plural just 
means "this is a multi-valued field of type type-without-trailing-s"?

Thanks,
-chris