Re: Adding another primary key to a populated table - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Daniel Kunkel
Subject Re: Adding another primary key to a populated table
Date
Msg-id 1136563146.3321.150.camel@A64
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In response to Re: Adding another primary key to a populated table  (Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone.bigpanda.com>)
Responses Re: Adding another primary key to a populated table
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Hi

Thank you for taking time to give that a try.

I'm currently running 7.3.10.



On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 07:50 -0800, Stephan Szabo wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, Daniel Kunkel wrote:
>
> > It makes sense that I can't have more than 1 primary key.
> >
> > Postgres was trying to create another primary key instead of modify the
> > existing primary key.
> >
> > So...
> >
> > As I understand it, a table does not always have to have a primary key
> > defined.
> >
> > Would it work to first delete/drop the primary key, then recreate the
> > primary key on all 6 columns.
> >
> > ALTER TABLE product_price DROP CONSTRAINT  product_price_pkey;
> >
> > I tried this, but it doesn't seem to work...  If I look at the table
> > from pgAdmin, it is still there, reindexable, I can't add a new primary
> > key, etc.  But if I try to run the above command twice, it says it's
> > already been removed.
>
> What version are you using?  The above sort of thing seems to work for me
> on my 8.2 devel machine (in a small test, including recreating the key)
> and I had thought it should on 8.1 as well.
>
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