EXPLAIN does not appear to work on ALTER TABLE statements: => EXPLAIN ALTER TABLE "foo" ALTER COLUMN "bar" SET NOT NULL; ERROR: syntax error at or near "ALTER" LINE 1: explain ALTER TABLE "foo" ALTER COLUMN "bar" SET NOT NULL; ^ Zev On 02/25/2014 01:56 PM, Sameer Kumar wrote:
I think index should help. Why don't you try it out and check the explain plan of it? If you are planning to break it down as below: 1. ALTER TABLE "foo" ADD COLUMN "bar" boolean; 2. UPDATE foo SET bar = False; -- Done in batches 3. ALTER TABLE "foo" ALTER COLUMN "bar" SET DEFAULT False; 4. ALTER TABLE "foo" ALTER COLUMN "bar" SET NOT NULL; I would suggest on interchanging operation 2 and 3 in sequence
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