Re: Upgrade questions - Mailing list pgsql-general

From John R Pierce
Subject Re: Upgrade questions
Date
Msg-id 4F5E683C.4090507@hogranch.com
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In response to Re: Upgrade questions  (Tim Uckun <timuckun@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: Upgrade questions
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On 03/12/12 1:25 PM, Tim Uckun wrote:
> create a new bigint field.
> copy all the IDs to it.
> index it in the background
> at frequency of your choosing sync the id field to the new field to keep it up.
> at a time of your choosing set the default for the new field to be
> serial starting at max(id)
> drop the ID field
> rename the field to id

if there's other tables that have FK references to this table's ID, that
could be problematic.





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