Re: is there any difference DROP PRIMARY KEY in oracle and postgres?

From: Melvin Davidson <melvin6925(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: M Tarkeshwar Rao <m(dot)tarkeshwar(dot)rao(at)ericsson(dot)com>
Cc: "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: is there any difference DROP PRIMARY KEY in oracle and postgres?
Date: 2015-11-06 04:00:18
Message-ID: CANu8FizwUEjCqOOLoJLDNX1tg5wuUuFtnLPGwHqqqzxff2nXZw@mail.gmail.com
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In PostgreSQL, there is no “DROP PRIMARY KEY”. Instead, you need to use
DROP INDEX index_name;

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/interactive/sql-dropindex.html

On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 10:52 PM, M Tarkeshwar Rao <
m(dot)tarkeshwar(dot)rao(at)ericsson(dot)com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
>
> one thing in oracle is there any difference between “DROP PRIMARY KEY”
> used directly in oracle to drop primary key, or “DROP CONSTRAINT
> CDRAUDITPOINT_pk”, as first syntax is not available in postgres and we need
> to give primary key name as constraint to delete a key. SO right now to
> delete primary key I am using second approach, so is there any difference
> between two?
>
>
>
> Regards
>
> Tarkeshwar
>
>
>

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