alt Hacker NewsTry doing that on a “real” DB with hundreds of millions of rows too. Anything more than adding a column is a massive risk, especially once you’ve started sharding.
Try doing that on a “real” DB with hundreds of millions of rows too. Anything more than adding a column is a massive risk, especially once you’ve started sharding.
Yes it might be risky. But most schema evolution changes can be done with no or minimal downtime even if you have to do then in multiple steps. When is a simple ALTER going to be totally unacetable if youare using Sqlite?