Re: Adding and filling new column on big table - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Jonathan Blitz
Subject Re: Adding and filling new column on big table
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Msg-id 005701c683cc$7757af00$ddf71005@jonathanlaptop
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In response to Re: Adding and filling new column on big table  (Francisco Reyes <lists@stringsutils.com>)
List pgsql-performance
> > So, I have tried to run the following command. The command never
finishes
> > (I gave up after about and hour and a half!).
>
> Did you ever find what was the problem?
> Perhaps you needed to run a vacuum full on the table?

Nope.
I just gave up in the end and left it with NULL as the default value.
There were, in fact, over 2 million rows in the table rather than 1/4 of a
million so that was part of the problem.

Jonathan


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