What happens if you kill a long-running alter query?

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Published on 2010-04-28T17:47:54Z Indexed on 2010/04/28 19:57 UTC
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What happens if you kill a long-running alter query? Will the alter query simply revert? How long could that take (as a proportion of the time it has already been running)?

What if that query is being replicated onto another server? Will killing the process on the other server revert the original server's alter query?

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