Re: SERIAL and Primary Key

[hubert depesz lubaczewski <depesz(at)depesz(dot)com>]

On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 03:28:11PM -0500, Mike Gould wrote:
> CREATE TABLE "fav5"."batchnumber" (
>   "batchnumberid" SERIAL NOT NULL, 
>   "processtype" SMALLINT NOT NULL, 
>   "termloc" CHAR(3) NOT NULL, 
>   "batchno" INTEGER NOT NULL
> ) WITHOUT OIDS;  
> With the above table definition, is batchnumberid by default also defined as the primary key or do I still need to define a separate Primary Key constraint?  

wouldn't it be faster to simply try it?

it will be just a simple column. you have to add primary key
separately.

depesz

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