Tim Bell
Tim has been a system administrator and, more recently, a Python and Django developer. He has particular interests in databases, performance, and incident management. He works for Kraken Technologies Australia, part of the Octopus Energy Group.
Photo: Mark Hawkins for PyCon UK (adapted); CC BY 2.0
Session
04-23
12:05
30min
Turn back time: Converting integer fields to bigint using Django migrations at scale
Tim Bell
Do you have an IntegerField that should have been a BigIntegerField, but no time machine? Here's how we converted 32-bit integer fields to bigint on PostgreSQL at Kraken scale using Django migrations.
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