Saturday, May 10, 2008

Re: [HACKERS] Setting a pre-existing index as a primary key

"Jonah H. Harris" <jonah.harris@gmail.com> writes:

> So, would anyone be averse to something like the following:
>
> ALTER TABLE blah ADD ... PRIMARY KEY (...) USING PREBUILT INDEX index_hame
>
> If the user doesn't specify CONSTRAINT constraint_name, it will
> default to current implicit behavior of col_pkey.

This is all so that the primary key shows up with a nice "PRIMARY KEY" instead
of just the unique index?

The "PREBUILT" seems unnecessary in that syntax.

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