On Feb 29, 2008, at 2:28 PM, 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?


No, you need to add the PRIMARY KEY bit which means you can also drop the NOT NULL bit for that field.

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