Bug #1058 | Add ability to alter tables without rebuilding the table | ||
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Submitted: | 15 Aug 2003 21:04 | Modified: | 21 Aug 2003 4:40 |
Reporter: | David Jeske | Email Updates: | |
Status: | Closed | Impact on me: | |
Category: | MySQL Server | Severity: | S4 (Feature request) |
Version: | OS: | ||
Assigned to: | CPU Architecture: | Any |
[15 Aug 2003 21:04]
David Jeske
[21 Aug 2003 4:40]
Peter Zaitsev
David, Thank you for your feedback. Yes we have such "online alter table" in plans, at least for some table types. Shorter term we're planning to fix alter table not to rebuild whole table if indexes are added/dropped, which would allow to increase alter table performance dramatically.