From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: marie.tuite@edisonaffiliates.com
Cc: Pgsql-Sql@Postgresql. Org <pgsql-sql@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: drop constraint primary key
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2002 13:09:38 -0400
Message-ID: <10247.1033664978@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <IGELKLINGDMODABPOOFEOEKNCIAA.marie.tuite@edisonaffiliates.com>
References: <IGELKLINGDMODABPOOFEOEKNCIAA.marie.tuite@edisonaffiliates.com>
"Marie G. Tuite" <marie.tuite@edisonaffiliates.com> writes:
> Running above, am trying to drop the primary key, but get the follwing
> error.
> project=# alter table class_teacher_rlt drop constraint
> class_teacher_rlt_pkey restrict;
> ERROR: ALTER TABLE / DROP CONSTRAINT: class_teacher_rlt_pkey does not exist
In 7.2 DROP CONSTRAINT only works for CHECK-type constraints; you'll
have to drop the underlying index directly to get rid of a
primary-key-type constraint.
7.3 does allow DROP CONSTRAINT for this.
regards, tom lane
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