On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 02:25:15PM -0400, Decibel! wrote:
> I need to add a field to a fairly large table. In the same alter statement
> I'd like to add a FK constraint on that new field. Is there any way to
> avoid the check of the table that the database is doing right now? The
> check is pointless because the newly added field is nothing but NULLs.
>
> This is version 8.1.mumble.
Have you tried making the FK constraint INITIALLY DEFERRED?
Cheers,
David.
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