On Fri, 20 Feb 2004, Tibor wrote:

> I am using PostgreSQL 7.4.1 (only through psql)
> I know, that the command
> 
> ALTER TABLE OFFICES 
>       DROP PRIMARY KEY (CITY);
> 
> and its foreign key equivalent:
> 
> ALTER TABLE SALESREPS
>       DROP CONSTRAINT
> FOREIGN KEY (REP_OFFICE)
>       REFERENCES OFFICES;
> 
> don't work in PostgreSQL because they are not implemented. However, isn't 
> there another way of removing them?
> I also tried to drop the index associated with the primary key, but it is not 
> permitted.
> 
> Anyone with any idea?

It's an alter table:

alter table offices drop constraint constraint_name

where constraint name is usually tablename_pkey

assuming it was created the normal way, on a 7.4 box.


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