We have a postgres table which is a range partitions on a timestamp column having total size ~3TB holding a total ~5billion rows spanning across ~150 daily partitions and there are ~140+columns in the table. Also this table is a child to another partition table. And we have partition creation handled through pg_partman extension on this table.
We have a requirement of modifying the existing column lengths as below . So doing it directly through a single alter command will probably scan and rewrite the whole table which may take hours of run time.
So trying to understand from experts what is the best possible way to tackle such changes in postgres database? And if any side effects we may see considering this table being child to another one and also dependency with pg_partman extension.
two of the columns from varchar(20) to numeric(3) one of the columns from varchar(20) to varchar(2) one of the columns from Number(10,2) to Numeric(8,2)
