Re: Changing primary keys

First, you'll have to describe the table or fire up pgAdmin to get the
constraint's name. The default is usually "tablename_pkey".

ALTER TABLE "house" DROP CONSTRAINT "house_pkey";
ALTER TABLE "house" ADD CONSTRAINT "house_pkey" PRIMARY KEY
("house_id");

Beware: PostgreSQL will yell at you if the new key has duplicates and
will not create the constraint. PostgreSQL will also probably yell at
you if you try to drop a constraint which is the target of a foreign key
constraint in another table.

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Brandon Aiken
CS/IT Systems Engineer
-----Original Message-----
From: pgsql-novice-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org
[mailto:pgsql-novice-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] On Behalf Of Carol Cheung
Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2006 3:55 PM
To: pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: [NOVICE] Changing primary keys

Hi,

The table 'house' was created with the below code (partial)

CREATE TABLE house (
house_id bigserial unique not null,
phone bigint not null,
address varchar(75) not null,
primary key(phone, address)
);

My question is how can I switch the primary key from (phone, address) to

house_id, now that the table is created and records have been inserted.

Thanks,
C

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