Обсуждение: Problem with Altering a table column
Version 9.5
OS Centos 6 running on a VM
I have a large table (over 100Gb including indexes)
The machine is slow
I have issued and alter column against the following;
price_id | integer | not null default nextval('bet.price_price_id_seq'::regclass) | plain | |
As;
ALTER TABLE bet.price ALTER COLUMN price_id TYPE bigint;
The process has taken a very long time, I know that it is rebuilding the table and a lot of temp files have been created, deleted etc
It now seems to have gone quiet (no temp disk files etc), it still seems to be clicking up CPU
- Is there a final part of the process where it may just be doing validation etc?
- Is it safe to terminate the process?
Many thanks
Doug Reed
dougreed765@yahoo.com
07973-132664
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Douglas Reed <dougreed765@yahoo.com> writes:
> I have issued and alter column against the following;
> price_id | integer | not null default nextval('bet.price_price_id_seq'::regclass) |
plain | |
> ALTER TABLE bet.price ALTER COLUMN price_id TYPE bigint;
> The process has taken a very long time, I know that it is rebuilding the table and a lot of temp files have been
created,deleted etc
> It now seems to have gone quiet (no temp disk files etc), it still seems to be clicking up CPU
> - Is there a final part of the process where it may just be doing validation etc?
Foreign key revalidation maybe ... does this column participate in any
foreign keys?
> - Is it safe to terminate the process?
Yeah, but you'd lose all the work done so far.
regards, tom lane