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Neon•15mo ago
wise-white

Hi, I am wondering why the following sql

Hi, I am wondering why the following sql alter table statement is taking over 10 minutes and locking up our db (adding this to a table with 2.7M rows) 
ALTER TABLE public.results ADD COLUMN updated_at TIMESTAMP;
ALTER TABLE public.results ADD COLUMN updated_at TIMESTAMP;
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foreign-sapphire
foreign-sapphire•15mo ago
I had to cancel the operation after 22m of it just hanging and locking up the db how can I add this new column to our db w/o it locking up? from my understanding ALTER TABLE public.results ADD COLUMN updated_at TIMESTAMP; should be super fast and not lock up the db.

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