Re: Table column rename takes FOREVER: why?

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Jan 22), sinisa@stripped said:
> Rob McMillin writes:
>  > Why does a simple column rename take forever? I'm running 3.22.30.
> 
> It should not last long, provided your table is not large. 
> 
> Alter's are done so that entire table is copied and changed.

Could a column rename be optimized so that only the .frm file is
modified?

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@stripped