This is a puzzle: I'm creating a small table that will have a single column primary key, and a foreign key referencing another table. Here's the SQL: CREATE TABLE dogs ( dog_id SERIAL CONSTRAINT ix_dogs_pk PRIMARY KEY, owner_id SERIAL CONSTRAINT ix_dogs_1 REFERENCES owners ON DELETE CASCADE, name TEXT ); When I run this in psql 7.1, I get: NOTICE: CREATE TABLE will create implicit sequence 'dogs_dog_id_seq' for SERIAL column 'dogs.dog_id' NOTICE: CREATE TABLE will create implicit sequence 'dogs_owner_id_seq' for SERIAL column 'dogs.owner_id' NOTICE: CREATE TABLE/PRIMARY KEY will create implicit index 'ix_dogs_pk' for table 'dogs' NOTICE: CREATE TABLE/UNIQUE will create implicit index 'dogs_owner_id_key' for table 'dogs' NOTICE: CREATE TABLE will create implicit trigger(s) for FOREIGN KEY check(s) CREATE Why is Postgresql creating a unique index for 'dogs_owner_id_key'? I don't want that column to be unique! -- Jeff Boes vox 616.226.9550 Database Engineer fax 616.349.9076 Nexcerpt, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://www.postgresql.org/search.mpl