On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 02:25:15PM -0400, Decibel! wrote: > I need to add a field to a fairly large table. In the same alter statement > I'd like to add a FK constraint on that new field. Is there any way to > avoid the check of the table that the database is doing right now? The > check is pointless because the newly added field is nothing but NULLs. > > This is version 8.1.mumble. Have you tried making the FK constraint INITIALLY DEFERRED? Cheers, David. -- David Fetter <david@xxxxxxxxxx> http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter Skype: davidfetter XMPP: david.fetter@xxxxxxxxx Remember to vote! Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate
