On 11/9/05, Andrus <eetasoft@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> CREATE TABLE foo ( bar CHAR(10) PRIMARY KEY);
> >>
> >> Cluster locale is non-C. Database encoding is UTF-8. Postgres vers is 8.1
>
> >Do this instead:
>
> >CREATE TABLE foo ( bar CHAR(10) NOT NULL );
> >CREATE UNIQUE INDEX foo_bar ON foo(bar char_pattern_ops);
>
> Martijn,
>
> Thank you. I have CHAR columns and need a primary key also. So I tried the
> code
>
> CREATE TABLE foo ( bar CHAR(10) NOT NULL );
> CREATE UNIQUE INDEX foo_bar ON foo(bar bpchar_pattern_ops);
> ALTER TABLE foo ADD PRIMARY KEY (bar);
>
> I found that adding primary key creates another index.
>
> How to create primary key without duplicate index on bar column ?
>
> Andrus.
>
>
you can't.
postgresql implements primary keys creating unique indexes and not
null constraints on the pk columns.
--
Atentamente,
Jaime Casanova
(DBA: DataBase Aniquilator ;)
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