[JulianD]

I understand your sarcastic tone and let me tell you it's not my intention to criticize the author's work. I know his work because I used to be his customer. I haven't seen the source code to even understand how it works and I don't plan to do it.

My point is that not everyone has super fast arrays of hard disks to modify a big table in a reasonable amount of time. I'm sure there are other ways to approach the same solution. Saddly I don't have the time to do it right now.

My mysql server has spent over an hour altering that table. That's my point. There's nothing wrong in altering a table but the post table as well as the attachment table or the search table are usually very big tables on big forums. I think it's something to care about when developing the mod.

Any way, I'm not killing the alter table process. I'm sure it's a great product and I want to see it for my self. But I'm not even done installing it and I'm already thinking about the nightmare when I have to uninstall it in the future.