3 ms·

That command will take several hours to complete and write lock the table.

• TweedHeads 17y ago
  Nothing the fail whale can't fix ;-)
• jsonscripter 17y ago
  Why can't you just redirect the writes to a new temporary table and join the original and temporary on reads? (I'm not a database admin)
  • karanbhangui 17y ago
    I'm actually interested in this answer as well. I know of a company using a proprietary db and now that their growth has literally exploded, they're stuck with it.
    • jsonscripter 17y ago
      I wonder what literally exploding growth looks like...
    • blhack 17y ago
      http://dhawhee.blogs.com/d_hawhee/files/109_fake_tits_real_beer.m4a http://dhawhee.blogs.com/d_hawhee/files/109_fake_tits_real_b...
• Andys 17y ago
  Unless you use PostgreSQL. But then you would have had 64 bit ID by default anyway.