Re: Primary Keys

From: Steve Butler <sbut-is_at_seatimes.com>
Date: 1995/04/19
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950419121911.24924D-100000_at_seatimes>#1/1

On 13 Apr 1995, pconnors on BIX wrote:
> DPWCC02.OBERLE02_at_SSW.ALCOA.COM (Oberle, John F.) writes:
> >Can someone tell me the significance of the primary key
> >constraint. What are the advantages or disadvantages over
> >creating unique indexes.
 

> The primary key constraint creates a unique index, but it
> uses a system-generated name and defaults the storage and
> tablespace. For that reason, our shop is putting a standard
> in place that constraints are to have the index name
> and storage info created explicitly.

Perhaps in versions prior to 7.0.16. (There was a minor problem I ran into in 7.0.13 having to do with EXP and IMP.)

Now you can specify the storage paremeters and tablespace for the primary key constraint within the CREATE TABLE statement.

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