Re: Finding the primary key of tables

From: John R Pierce <pierce(at)hogranch(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Finding the primary key of tables
Date: 2010-08-03 19:30:10
Message-ID: 4C586E42.4060009@hogranch.com
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On 08/03/10 12:13 PM, George Silva wrote:
> Hello guys,
>
> I'm building a function which needs to know what is the primary key of
> a certain table (all in pgplsql).
>
> I was using select * from information_schema.key_column_usage where
> table_schema='foo' and table_name = 'aaa'; but that will give me
> multiple results in case of additional keys in the table.

the primary key index is called tablename_pkey ... afaik, this is the
only thing that makes it special, otherwise, its just another index with
a unique constraint.

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