MySQL的alter table查询非常慢

为什么要花一个多小时来更新这个表以添加一列？这张桌子有15排.它有两个索引和一个主键.ALTER TABLE查询已处于"复制到tmp TABLE"状态1小时15分钟.

ALTER TABLE `frugg`.`item_catalog_map` 
ADD COLUMN `conversion_url` TEXT NULL DEFAULT NULL

表:

mysql> describe item_catalog_map;
+------------------------+---------------+------+-----+---------+-------+
| Field                  | Type          | Null | Key | Default | Extra |
+------------------------+---------------+------+-----+---------+-------+
| catalog_unique_item_id | varchar(255)  | NO   | PRI | NULL    |       |
| catalog_id             | int(11)       | YES  | MUL | NULL    |       |
| item_id                | int(11)       | YES  | MUL | NULL    |       |
| price                  | decimal(10,2) | YES  |     | 0.00    |       |
+------------------------+---------------+------+-----+---------+-------+

mysql> show index from item_catalog_map;
+------------------+------------+----------------------+--------------+------------------------+-----------+-------------+----------+--------+------+------------+---------+
| Table            | Non_unique | Key_name             | Seq_in_index | Column_name            | Collation | Cardinality | Sub_part | Packed | Null | Index_type | Comment |
+------------------+------------+----------------------+--------------+------------------------+-----------+-------------+----------+--------+------+------------+---------+
| item_catalog_map |          0 | PRIMARY              |            1 | catalog_unique_item_id | A         |    15485115 |     NULL | NULL   |      | BTREE      |         |
| item_catalog_map |          1 | IDX_ACD6184FCC3C66FC |            1 | catalog_id             | A         |          18 |     NULL | NULL   | YES  | BTREE      |         |
| item_catalog_map |          1 | IDX_ACD6184F126F525E |            1 | item_id                | A         |    15485115 |     NULL | NULL   | YES  | BTREE      |         |
+------------------+------------+----------------------+--------------+------------------------+-----------+-------------+----------+--------+------+------------+---------+