John, Thanks, I'll clarify my language around that.
Still hoping that there is a way to get a rough estimate of how long converting an integer column to a bigint will take. Not possible? Thanks guys, Carson On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 6:13 PM, John R Pierce <pie...@hogranch.com> wrote: > On 03/12/12 5:01 PM, Carson Gross wrote: > >> >> We are also considering sharding the table and maybe the right thing is >> to simply fix it when we do the sharding. >> > > postgres generally calls that partitioning... Sharding usually means > splitting data across multiple servers. > > > > > -- > john r pierce N 37, W 122 > santa cruz ca mid-left coast > > > -- > Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) > To make changes to your subscription: > http://www.postgresql.org/**mailpref/pgsql-general<http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general> >
