Re: CREATION OF PRIMARY KEYS - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Andy Hallam
Subject Re: CREATION OF PRIMARY KEYS
Date
Msg-id 9p9pv9$29ff$1@news.tht.net
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In response to Re: CREATION OF PRIMARY KEYS  (Szabo Zoltan <col@econet.hu>)
List pgsql-general
Thankyou, I have now resolved this issue.


"Andy Hallam" <ahm@exel.co.uk> wrote in message
news:9ovhej$1kt$1@news.tht.net...
> Very helpful that.
>
> What I meant by 'Can't find anything in the documentation' is I can't find
> anything in the documentation (i.e SYNTAX wise) on how you do this at
table
> creation.
>
> Thanks in advance to anyone with any help on this.
>
> Andy.
>
>
> "Szabo Zoltan" <col@econet.hu> wrote in message
> news:3BB337E9.7B304318@econet.hu...
> > Manual says:
> > "(But a primary key cannot be added after table creation.)"
> >
> > http://www.postgresql.org/idocs/index.php?indices-unique.html
> >
> > If you do not read manual, or do not search, probably you can't read
what
> is
> > written there ;)
> >
> > CoL
> >
> > Andy Hallam wrote:
> >
> > > Hi all.
> > >
> > > I'm trying to create a PRIMARY KEY on a table I've created but am not
> having
> > > any success.
> > >
> > > TABLE SCHEMA SQL = :
> > >
> > > CREATE TABLE X (XCOL CHAR(10))
> > >
> > > When I execute either of the below 2 ALTER TABLE commands:
> > >
> > > ALTER TABLE X ADD CONSTRAINT PK_X PRIMARY KEY (XCOL)
> > > or
> > > ALTER TABLE X ADD PRIMARY KEY (XCOL)
> > >
> > > I keep getting the following error message:
> > >
> > > ERROR: ALTER TABLE/ ADD CONSTRAINT is not implemented for that
> constraint
> > > type. (State:S1000, Native Code: 7)
> > >
> > > Can't find anything in the documentation?
> > >
> > > Any ideas ?
> > >
> > > thanks.
> > >
> > > Andy
> > > ahm@exel.co.uk
> >
> > --
> > [         Szabo Zoltan              ]
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> >
> >
>
>



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