From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Leitor de Listas <listas(at)araketu(dot)dcc(dot)ufba(dot)br> |
Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: PRIMARY KEY |
Date: | 2000-04-14 19:11:43 |
Message-ID: | 200004141911.PAA26972@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> Hi people,
>
> Does anybody happen to know how I can alter a user table to include the
> primary key? I'm using the beta4 version of Postgresql7.0, and I'm aware
> that the primary key has already been implemented. I've tried to do ALTER
> TABLE ADD CONSTRAINT PRIMARY KEY but it didn't work.
>
Well, in the pre-foreign key days, an unique not null column was the
same as primary key. Now foreign keys refer to them as special. I
don't think ALTER TABLE supports PRIMARY KEY changes, though it should.
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