Re: naming a primary key possible?

From: Ow Mun Heng <Ow(dot)Mun(dot)Heng(at)wdc(dot)com>
To: Erik Jones <erik(at)myemma(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: naming a primary key possible?
Date: 2007-08-28 02:46:55
Message-ID: 1188269215.3046.15.camel@neuromancer.home.net
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On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 21:03 -0500, Erik Jones wrote:
> On Aug 27, 2007, at 8:50 PM, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
>
> > Is it possible to name a primary key (composite) primary key rather
> > than have pg default to table_name_pkey??
> >
> > I tried something like
> >
> > primary key pkey_table_short_form_name (a,b,c)
> >
> Give this a shot:
>
> CONTRAINT pkey_table_short_form_name PRIMARY KEY (a,b,c)
>
> That's not really clear from the top of the CREATE TABLE docs but
> there's an example at the bottom that shows it.

This definitely works..
Thanks..

Indexes:
"trd_pkey" PRIMARY KEY, btree (trd_pkey)

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