> I'm quite sure that the schema change will not hurt nothing. However I have to
> say that add come column, with default value and a check on it is no to
> doable with very bigtables. Fortunately with the 8.0 you can do these tasks
> in one shot.
I've got a few 30GB tables anxiously awaiting that single alter command
that will alter in all the stuff that should have been added a long time
ago.