Confused newbie (to PG not DB's)

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#1mike
mike@bristolreccc.co.uk

I have setup a database that I am the owner of, and I am trying to setup
constraints and it doesn't seem to be working

Example

- Table: public."Invoice_Header"

-- DROP TABLE public."Invoice_Header";

CREATE TABLE public."Invoice_Header"
(
"Inv_ID" int4 NOT NULL DEFAULT nextval('public."Invoice
Header_ID_seq"'::text),
"client_ID" int2 NOT NULL,
payable_recievable varchar(5),
"date_CREATED" date,
"AMOUNT" money,
amount_paid money,
date_paid date
) WITH OIDS;

I am trying to make Inv_ID a primary key as follows

alter table Invoice_Header ADD CONSTRAINT PK_inv PRIMARY KEY (Inv_ID)

which runs without error, but nothing changes

this is from psql with PG 7.3.2

any help appreciated

#2Stephan Szabo
sszabo@megazone23.bigpanda.com
In reply to: mike (#1)
Re: Confused newbie (to PG not DB's)

On Tue, 10 Feb 2004, mike wrote:

I have setup a database that I am the owner of, and I am trying to setup
constraints and it doesn't seem to be working

Example

- Table: public."Invoice_Header"

-- DROP TABLE public."Invoice_Header";

CREATE TABLE public."Invoice_Header"
(
"Inv_ID" int4 NOT NULL DEFAULT nextval('public."Invoice
Header_ID_seq"'::text),
"client_ID" int2 NOT NULL,
payable_recievable varchar(5),
"date_CREATED" date,
"AMOUNT" money,
amount_paid money,
date_paid date
) WITH OIDS;

I am trying to make Inv_ID a primary key as follows

alter table Invoice_Header ADD CONSTRAINT PK_inv PRIMARY KEY (Inv_ID)

which runs without error, but nothing changes

Hmm, I don't have 7.3.x to test on here, but that should have errored
unless you double quoted the the table and column name in the alter table.