Re: Procedure for adding a column

On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 11:05, David Shadovitz wrote:
> I need to add a column to a table. This table holds several thousand
> records, has several indexes, and serves as the parent table to a few
> child tables.
>
> When I've done this in the past, it has taken quite a long time for
> the ALTER TABLE command to complete.
>
> So, what is the correct procedure for adding a column? Drop the
> indexes, add the column, and recreate the indexes?

Can you be more explicit about "quite a long time".

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