Hello Kevin, Thnks for response,
Doing the alter table to add the new column was fast: ALTER TABLE table1 ADD COLUMN new_column date;
The problem is that I have to do a update in this column, and the values are going to be the a misc of others 2 columns of the table1, something like this:
update table1
set new_column = (date)
where
new_column is null;
Postgres Version: 8.3.6
Os.: Fedora Core 9
4 Gb Ram
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 2:29 PM, Kevin Grittner
<Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov> wrote:
Rafael Domiciano <
rafael.domiciano@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a large table to do update (in every tuple), the table
> (table1) has about 8 millions tuples, and I had to add a new column
> (new_column). The table1 is one of the most accessed table in my
> cluster, so I can't do a direct update 'cause almost everyone stays
> in waiting. Doing the update at night was unsuccesful, in the
> morning it was running yet, and we had to kill it.
probably not have taken all night (depending, of course, on a lot of
details you haven't provided). Killing it after running for all those
hours will have bloated your tables and indexes. (Perhaps they were
already bloated, in which case this will have made it worse.)
What version of PostgreSQL is this, on what OS?
What does a VACUUM ANALYZE VERBOSE on this table show as output?
INFO: "table1": encontrados 1572 versões de registros removíveis e 8022357 não-removíveis em 244388 páginas
DETAIL: 7101 versões de registros não vigentes não podem ser removidas ainda.
Havia 1657653 ponteiros de itens não utilizados.
62515 páginas contém espaço livre útil.
0 páginas estão completamente vazias.
CPU 9.38s/26.74u sec elapsed 27540.53 sec.
What are the last few lines of VACUUM ANALYZE VERBOSE on the whole
database?
INFO: mapeamento de espaço livre contém 152886 páginas em 907 relações
DETAIL: O total de 151280 páginas estão em uso (incluindo excesso).
151280 páginas são necessárias para encontrar todo espaço livre.
Limites atuais são: 153600 páginas, 2500 relações, utilizando 1065 kB.
If you can show us the table description and how you tried to modify
it, that would help.
-Kevin