Re: ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN fast default

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(dot)dunstan(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, David Rowley <david(dot)rowley(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN fast default
Date: 2018-02-20 06:42:58
Message-ID: 20180220064258.pq4k5gz63prnz6a4@alap3.anarazel.de
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Hi,

On 2018-02-17 00:23:40 +0100, Tomas Vondra wrote:
> Anyway, I consider the performance to be OK. But perhaps Andres could
> comment on this too, as he requested the benchmarks.

My performance concerns were less about CREATE TABLE related things than
about analytics workloads or such, where deforming is the primary
bottleneck. I think it should be ok, but doing a before/after tpc-h of
scale 5-10 or so wouldn't be a bad thing to verify.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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