How can you determine the primary key using SQL?

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How can you determine the primary key using SQL?

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If you have access to the SQL code which created the table the primary key can be seen easily. The primary key may be specified in one of two ways:

CREATE TABLE cia (name VARCHAR(10) PRIMARY KEY,
                 population INTEGER)

or, where the primary key is composite:

CREATE TABLE casting(movieid INTEGER,
                    actorid INTEGER,
                    PRIMARY KEY (movieid, actorid)
                    )

If this is not possible then implementation specific commands may work.

SELECT conkey
 FROM pg_constraint JOIN pg_class
  ON pg_class.oid=conrelid 
WHERE contype='p'
AND relname = 'casting'
SELECT a.owner, a.table_name, b.column_name
  FROM all_constraints a, all_cons_columns b
 WHERE a.constraint_type='P'
   AND a.constraint_name=b.constraint_name
   AND a.table_name = 'CASTING'
sp_pkeys @table_name=casting
DESCRIBE casting
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