Re: Updating a large table

2017-12-23 Thread Tomas Vondra
On 12/22/2017 05:46 PM, Timokhin Maxim wrote: > > Hello! We have a large table 11GB ( about 37 million records ) and we > need to alter a table - add a new column with default values is > false. Also 'NOT NULL' is required. > > So, first I've done: > > ALTER TABLE clusters ALTER COLUMN "is_paid"

Re: Updating a large table

2017-12-23 Thread salah jubeh
Hello, Does the tale have foreign keys, if not you could create another table may be unlogged and then do the changes you want via INSERT ... SELECT; and finally convert the unlogged table to logged table.  In addition to that there are several ways to increase data writing performance for exam