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How long does it take you to do a schema change?
by spudlyo 3y ago
How long does it take you to do a schema change?
- hu3 3y agoBig MySQL deployments typically use pauseless online schema changes tooling like gh-ost: https://planetscale.com/docs/learn/online-schema-change-tools-comparison#trigger-based-vs-triggerless https://planetscale.com/docs/learn/online-schema-change-tool...
- mh- 3y agoThis is what we do. So "how long" is a difficult thing to put a number on, since you're intentionally throttling it to avoid impacting the database's performance (or building up slave lag).