Was the table inaccessible during these 4 days? Or is mysql able to 
still write to the table while it's being altered?

Christian.

At 12:08 Uhr -0700 9.5.2001, David J. Potter wrote:
>occur very fast.  We use both Windows and Linux.  Adding a column is the
>only action that is slow (it took 4 days once to add a column)

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