Author | Huasong Fu The ALTER TABLE commands are commonly used for operations like adding columns, changing the column data type, and many more. In many cases, such commands require the whole table to be rewritten while holding an exclusive lock on the table. For large tables this can

The partition hierarchy is often large and complex, and many times need hybrid table properties among different partitions. It is important to understand the recursion behavior in order to get the right partition paradigm that one would like it to be. Similar to our previous blog, this blog is