Why ALTER TABLE Still Takes Down Production Postgres in 2026

If you’ve run PostgreSQL in production long enough, you’ve either caused this incident or watched someone else cause it: a Friday afternoon schema change, a table with tens of millions of rows, and a ALTER TABLE statement that looked completely harmless in a staging environment with 200 rows. Then p

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Why ALTER TABLE Still Takes Down Production Postgres in 2026

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