[email protected] wrote:
When executing
"ALTER TABLE sometable ALTER COLUMN somecolumn TYPE VARCHAR(7)", the whole
table is re-written, and this rewrite takes many hours. During these hours,
all writers on this table stall, making the database effectively
unavailable.
However, in almost all cases, there is no need for such relaxing of limits
to require a table rewrite.
While this isn't a bug, it's a reasonable feature request. I've added
this to the TODO page: http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Todo#ALTER
Patches are welcome.
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Heikki Linnakangas
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com
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