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| author | Damian Dimmich <damian@tauri-tec.com> | 2018-11-26 10:47:37 +0400 |
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| committer | Tim Graham <timograham@gmail.com> | 2018-11-26 10:13:29 -0500 |
| commit | 0d4bbd3f3387e77fd86413e8fb6be655e524e7f1 (patch) | |
| tree | e70189cef3eee258205ae166bbe7fef738aec978 /docs | |
| parent | 4e6285c490d076b6d7eb20f6163f6ecd5cd70c07 (diff) | |
[2.1.x] Updated docs for fast column creation with defaults in PostgreSQL 11.
Backport of 133e79399a0aeecaca7379dd79cc1cc3f8b5e7ae from master.
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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/topics/migrations.txt | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/docs/topics/migrations.txt b/docs/topics/migrations.txt index 4fc1fdd47e..8d68de071a 100644 --- a/docs/topics/migrations.txt +++ b/docs/topics/migrations.txt @@ -67,9 +67,10 @@ PostgreSQL ---------- PostgreSQL is the most capable of all the databases here in terms of schema -support; the only caveat is that adding columns with default values will -cause a full rewrite of the table, for a time proportional to its size. +support. +The only caveat is that prior to PostgreSQL 11, adding columns with default +values causes a full rewrite of the table, for a time proportional to its size. For this reason, it's recommended you always create new columns with ``null=True``, as this way they will be added immediately. |
