Re: Upgrade questions

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 <pierce(at)hogranch(dot)com> wrote:

> On 03/12/12 5:01 PM, Carson Gross wrote:
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>> We are also considering sharding the table and maybe the right thing is
>> to simply fix it when we do the sharding.
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> postgres generally calls that partitioning... Sharding usually means
> splitting data across multiple servers.
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