Re: drop constraint primary key
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: marie.tuite@edisonaffiliates.com
Cc: "Pgsql-Sql@Postgresql. Org" <pgsql-sql@postgresql.org>
Date: 2002-10-03T17:09:38Z
Lists: pgsql-sql
"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