I think it's important that it's actually documented that they can add

primary keys after the fact!

Also, we need to add regression tests for alter table / add primary key
and alter table / drop constraint.  These shouldn't be added until 7.3
tho
methinks...

Chris

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/alter_table.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/alter_table.sgml
index 29213b9..ef58e94 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/alter_table.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/alter_table.sgml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <!--
-$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/alter_table.sgml,v 1.36 2002/02/16 23:45:48 momjian Exp $
+$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/alter_table.sgml,v 1.37 2002/02/17 11:50:09 momjian Exp $
 PostgreSQL documentation
 -->
 
@@ -295,6 +295,15 @@ ALTER TABLE distributors ADD CONSTRAINT dist_id_zipcode_key UNIQUE (dist_id, zip
   </para>
  </refsect1>
 
+  <para> 
+   To add an automatically named primary key constraint to a table, noting
+   that a table can only ever have one primary key:
+   <programlisting>
+ALTER TABLE distributors ADD PRIMARY KEY (dist_id);
+   </programlisting>
+  </para>
+ </refsect1>
+
  <refsect1 id="R1-SQL-ALTERTABLE-3">
   <title>
    Compatibility