On Aug 25, 2009, at 3:25 PM, Carol Walter wrote:

This may be a silly question but I don't see any place where the documentation explicitly addresses whether or not you can designate a particular column as a primary key after the table is created. I used the "create table as " syntax to create a table with the same columns as an original table, but I want to rename id column, make it a serial, and designate it as a primary key. Is it possible to do this? I've tried a number of things to do this and none of them have worked.


See this document: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/sql-altertable.html

for example: ALTER TABLE distributors ADD PRIMARY KEY (dist_id);

Also checkout pgAdmin III....

Ries

Carol

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