| From: | Casey Deccio <casey(at)deccio(dot)net> |
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| To: | Michael Nolan <htfoot(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: alter column type |
| Date: | 2015-06-05 18:46:44 |
| Message-ID: | CAEKtLiSZaPKtkxgtr7-PqT-VzjMSgnvMPZeGQbVrJ1LaeGStWA@mail.gmail.com |
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On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 2:36 PM, Michael Nolan <htfoot(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> Probably too late for this time, but in the past when I've needed to
> redefine the type for a column, I've made a dump, edited the dump file to
> change the type and then renamed the table and reloaded it. That's usually
> several orders of magnitude faster.
>
Actually, not too late. My first ALTER is still running, and I still have
four more to go. Sigh. I had thought of this but wasn't sure how it might
compare. Thanks for the data point :)
Casey
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