Re: SERIAL and Primary Key - Mailing list pgsql-general

From hubert depesz lubaczewski
Subject Re: SERIAL and Primary Key
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Msg-id 20080229205643.GA11301@depesz.com
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In response to SERIAL and Primary Key  ("Mike Gould" <mgould@allcoast.net>)
List pgsql-general
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 03:28:11PM -0500, Mike Gould wrote:
> CREATE TABLE "fav5"."batchnumber" (
>   "batchnumberid" SERIAL NOT NULL,
>   "processtype" SMALLINT NOT NULL,
>   "termloc" CHAR(3) NOT NULL,
>   "batchno" INTEGER NOT NULL
> ) WITHOUT OIDS;
> With the above table definition, is batchnumberid by default also defined as the primary key or do I still need to
definea separate Primary Key constraint?   

wouldn't it be faster to simply try it?

it will be just a simple column. you have to add primary key
separately.

depesz

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