Re: Changing the Primary Key Column

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Rich Shepard <rshepard(at)appl-ecosys(dot)com>
Cc: pdxpug(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Changing the Primary Key Column
Date: 2011-02-24 01:01:57
Message-ID: 1298509317.14800.153.camel@jd-desktop
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On Wed, 2011-02-23 at 16:43 -0800, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Feb 2011, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>
> > Uhh, no. You drop the constraint and re-add it for the second column.
>
> Josh,
>
> And if I do this, I can follow that with dropping the first column which
> no longer has any constraints? This would be the simplest and quickest
> solution.

alter table drop constraint
alter table drop column
alter table add primary key

done

>
> Rich
>
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