Re: Adding another primary key to a populated table

From: "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com>
To: Daniel Kunkel <DanielKunkel(at)BioWaves(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Adding another primary key to a populated table
Date: 2006-01-06 04:51:02
Message-ID: 20060106045102.GN43311@pervasive.com
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On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 08:08:39PM -0800, Daniel Kunkel wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm trying to add another primary key to a table populated with data and
> a number of foreign key constraints.
>
> The new column is populated with non-null data (a requirement as I
> understand it to become a valid primary key)
>
> I tried:
>
> ALTER TABLE product_price
> ADD CONSTRAINT product_price_pkey6 PRIMARY KEY
> (product_id,product_price_type_id,currency_uom_id,product_store_group_id,from_date,product_price_purpose_id);
>
> without having any luck.

What's the exact error you got?
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