On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 03:22:40PM -0500, Guy Rouillier <guyr@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote a message of 37 lines which said: > "The primary key constraint specifies that a column or columns of a > table may contain only unique (non-duplicate), nonnull values. > Technically, PRIMARY KEY is merely a combination of UNIQUE and NOT > NULL" > > Primary key columns cannot contain null values. I read the above also. It is perfectly clear for primary key on one column. But it does not apply to primary keys containing a group of columns. In that case (my case), columns do not have to be UNIQUE. But they have to be NOT NULL, which puzzles me. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly