Hello Pavel,
Sorry for the delay in my answer.
Unfortunately I don't know django.db.migrations very well and I won't be able
to help you with the details of a patch in this area.
I still think improving support for zero downtime migrations would be
worthwhile. Writing a proposition in a ticket
Hello, Aymeric
Thanks for your reply.
CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY is a big part for zero downtime migrations
support, but there are too many additional questions as should ALTER TABLE
ADD COLUMN UNIQUE splitted to CREATE INDEX and constraint creation or
should be handled FOREGN KEY, CHECK and NO
Hello Pavel,
There's an accepted ticket about CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY:
https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/21039. A concrete proposal for adding
this feature to Django would be interesting.
I'm not really sure about your two other suggestions. If you think they're
improving the PostgreSQL
Hi,
I found that django migrations don't designed for live updates on large
tables for postgres, eg. index creation doesn't use concurrently or alter
table operation can take ACCESS EXCLUSIVE lock for long time.
Before I mostly wrote custom migrations, but after one of downtime I
decided to av
