Re: About primary keys.

From: Tim Andersen <timander37(at)yahoo(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: About primary keys.
Date: 2003-08-15 21:32:38
Message-ID: 20030815213238.17559.qmail@web10006.mail.yahoo.com
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I looked in the info.c on line 2891 of the
psqlodbc-7.2.5 to find this SQL logic (courtesy of Tom
Lane)
select ta.attname, ia.attnum
from pg_attribute ta, pg_attribute ia, pg_class c,
pg_index i, pg_namespace n
where c.oid = i.indrelid
AND n.oid = c.relnamespace
AND i.indisprimary = 't'
AND ia.attrelid = i.indexrelid
AND ta.attrelid = i.indrelid
AND ta.attnum = i.indkey[ia.attnum-1];

The above SQL retrieves each and every column in the
database that is a part of a complex primary key.
I need to join this to a list of all of the columns in
the database so I can have the primary key indicator.

Here's another variation of the above SQL that shows
schema, table, column, colum_num, and a primary key
indicator:

select pg_tables.schemaname, pg_tables.tablename,
ta.attname, ia.attnum, i.indisprimary
from pg_attribute ta, pg_attribute ia, pg_class c,
pg_index i, pg_namespace n , pg_tables
where c.oid = i.indrelid
AND n.oid = c.relnamespace
AND i.indisprimary = 't'
AND ia.attrelid = i.indexrelid
AND ta.attrelid = i.indrelid
AND ta.attnum = i.indkey[ia.attnum-1]
AND pg_tables.tablename = c.relname;

so, shouldn't there be an easy way to retrieve all of
the columns for all tables with a primary key
indicator using this strategy?

If creating another view will simplify syntax, that's
fine too.

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