[thelist] Updating a BIG table with a few indexes...

[Tris]

ALTER TABLE table1 ADD INDEX (fieldName), ADDINDEX (fieldName) .........

with 8 million records...

On 05/09/07, Matt Warden <mwarden at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/5/07, Tris <beertastic at gmail.com> wrote:
> > We have 8 million records on our users table.
> >
> > We want to add 8 indexes to 7 of the 17 columns. we have 2 already...
> > to do so is taking 9+ hours...
> >
> > is there an easy (well, quick way) to change a table structure,
> > without taking so long?
>
> Definitely should not be taking that long. How exactly are you adding
> these indexes? What kind of indexes are they?
>
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