Re: View and primary key

From: Stephan Szabo <sszabo(at)megazone23(dot)bigpanda(dot)com>
To: Adrian Klaver <aklaver(at)attbi(dot)com>
Cc: <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: View and primary key
Date: 2002-11-22 15:39:11
Message-ID: 20021122073731.W11910-100000@megazone23.bigpanda.com
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On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, Adrian Klaver wrote:

> I have set up a view with rules for insert,update and delete. I would like to
> be able to use this view from OpenOffice, however it will not allow editing
> of a table without a primary key. I cannot create a primary key because
> Postgresql says the column does not have a NOT NULL constraint. This column
> in the underlying table is NOT NULL. Is there a way to create a primary key
> on a view?

I don't think so at this time. Even if you got past that, I think the
index creation would fail saying that the view wasn't a table.

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