On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 4:47 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
>> I think we could easily improve that by having it look something like
>> this instead:
>
>> Table "public.test2"
>> Column | Type | Modifiers
>> --------+---------+-----------
>> a | integer | PK
>> b | integer | PK
>> Indexes:
>> "test2_pkey" PRIMARY KEY, btree (a, b)
>
> Spelling out "primary key" would seem to be more in keeping with existing
> entries in that column, eg we have "not null" not "NN".
>
> I think this is a sensible proposal for a single-column PK, but am less
> sure that it makes sense for multi-col. The modifiers column is
> intended to describe column constraints; which a multi-col PK is not,
> by definition.
Yeah, IIRC, MySQL shows PRI for each column of a multi-column primary
key, and I think it's horribly confusing. I wouldn't even be in favor
of doing this just for the single-column case, on the grounds that it
makes the single and multiple column cases asymmetrical. IMO, the \d
output has too many bells and whistles already; the last thing we
should do is add more.
...Robert