Primary Key Problems

From: Phill Kenoyer <pgsql(at)c0de(dot)net>
To: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Primary Key Problems
Date: 2001-12-08 01:44:34
Message-ID: 20011208014433.GA2913@c0de.net
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Here is a good one. I have three fields set for my primary key. Now I
thought that a primary key was unique, and dups can not be inserted.

CREATE TABLE "inventory" (
"stock" character varying(50) NOT NULL,
"inventory_type" character varying(20) DEFAULT 'unknown' NOT NULL,
"client_id" integer NOT NULL,
[...]
Constraint "inventory_pkey"
Primary Key ("stock", "inventory_type", "client_id")
);

and I insert into the db and get dups.

client_id | stock | inventory_type
-----------+-------+----------------
81 | 2001 | new
81 | 2001 | new
81 | 2003 | new
81 | 2005 | new
81 | 2006 | new
81 | 2006 | new
81 | 2008 | new
81 | 2008 | new

Why did I get dups in my data?

PostgreSQL 7.1.3 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC 2.95.4

Thanks.

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