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Re: Adding and filling new column on big table



> > So, I have tried to run the following command. The command never
finishes
> > (I gave up after about and hour and a half!).
> 
> Did you ever find what was the problem?
> Perhaps you needed to run a vacuum full on the table?

Nope.
I just gave up in the end and left it with NULL as the default value.
There were, in fact, over 2 million rows in the table rather than 1/4 of a
million so that was part of the problem.

Jonathan
 

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