Laura Castro wrote:
>
> I'm trying to perform a massive load on a postgreSQL database
> from ODBC, but I've found that if the table contains a 'PRIMARY
> KEY' constraint, the sql-insert sentences from my program fail.
> I've also noticed that after creating the table, the ODBC driver
> (unixODBC) warnings me this way:
>
> NOTICE: CREATE TABLE/PRIMARY KEY will create implicit index for table
>
> so I think if I could `deactivate' the index before doing the massive
> load it could possibly work, but I can't find the way of deactivating
> indexes looking at the documentation. Can this be done?
Unfortunately no.
> If not, any idea
> about another suitable solution?
You can drop the index before doing the massive load and
can create a unique index with the same name after it.
The only difference is that pg_index.inidisprimary is
set to true or not.
regards,
Hiroshi Inoue
http://w2422.nsk.ne.jp/~inoue/
