Re: trobles in importing dbf file

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On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 09:24:35AM +0200, giuseppe.derossi@email.it wrote:
> Hi Guys,
> I'm a newbie in Postgres and hope my mail is not off topic. Well, I'm
> migrating from Mysql to PostGree in order to use the postgis features. I've

It's Postgres or PostgreSQL, not Postgree.

> some dbf files I've to import, so I've used the utility dbf2pg.exe ( I've
> installed the version 8.1 in win xp env). Now is there a way to add
> automatically a primary key  if no, how
> can I can add it after importing the table in postgres ? In mYsql an index
> (the number or row) is automatically added as first column.
> Sorry if the question is trivial, I didn't suspect this gap.

ALTER TABLE tablename ADD PRIMARY KEY (field1, field2);
or
ALTER TABLE tablename ADD UNIQUE (field1, field2);
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