Re: Setting a pre-existing index as a primary key

From: "Jonah H(dot) Harris" <jonah(dot)harris(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Gregory Stark" <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Bruce Momjian" <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Setting a pre-existing index as a primary key
Date: 2008-05-10 21:44:34
Message-ID: 36e682920805101444l632ee2a2g5c6cc85ed4b8292a@mail.gmail.com
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Yes, I just think PREBUILT conveys the meaning of the command more
appropriately. I could care less though.

On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 5:35 PM, Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
> "Jonah H. Harris" <jonah(dot)harris(at)gmail(dot)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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> Gregory Stark
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