All, I'm adding a column in postgres 8.3 with the syntax: alter table images add column "saveState" varchar(1) default '0'; It takes a good solid 20 minutes to add this column to a table with ~ 14,000 entries. Why so long? Is there a way to speed that up? The table has ~ 50 columns. Thanks, Eric -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general