Ahhh, that's what I was missing... thank-you. (just launched, we'll see how that one goes).
On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 3:48 PM, Elliot <yields.falseh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2013-11-21 15:40, Joey Quinn wrote: > >> I have a table (5 columns) with approximately 670 million rows. It has >> had an index (unique) on an inet column from the beginning. Today I added a >> primary key constraint based on the same column thinking that since it >> already had an index, this would be a relatively quick operation. That does >> not appear to be case. It has gone into a "not responding" status for an >> hour or so now. As a point of reference, I'm using 9.3 on a 64 bit Windows >> Server 2008 (32 GB ram) and inserts so far have taken 6 1/2 - 7 minutes for >> each batch of 16.7 million rows. >> >> Other than not creating the primary key at the beginning, did I do >> anything wrong? and can I reasonably expect the current operation to finish? >> >> Joey >> >> I'm guessing you're creating the primary key without designating your > current unique index as the index to use for the constraint. > Mark your column as not null if it isn't already then do an "alter table > table-name add primary key using index whatever-the-name-of-your- > extant-unique-index-is". > Otherwise you're building another separate index for that constraint, > which you don't need to do. > >
