difference in INDEX's - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Brian
Subject difference in INDEX's
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.3.96.980704185248.6836A-100000@mercury.shreve.net
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List pgsql-general
Is there a difference in doing:

foo        int PRIMARY KEY

and

CREATE INDEX idx1 on table (foo);


does both do the same thing (create an index)? is one faster or preffered
over the other?


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