Re: [GENERAL] pg-dump -- primary Key

On Sun, Jul 25, 1999 at 03:13:39PM +1000, Chris Bitmead wrote:
> Dan Wilson wrote:
>
> > Yes, I am aware that the primary key does not really mean anything except
> > implicitly making it a unique key, but it's supposed to be there for
> > compatibility and it's not even in the dump.
>
> Someone mentioned recently that primary key enforces nulls as unique
> whereas unique index doesn't.
>

Actually, I belive it enforces NOT NULL on primary keys, which it also
dumps in the pg_dump output.

Ross
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