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describe phoenix table to find primary key

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Master Guru

I created a phoenix table with 100 columns. I forgot what the primary key for the table. The primary key was build with at least 5 to 6 columns, can't say for sure. Any easy way to have phoenix tell me what the primary key is on a table?

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Expert Contributor

The `SYSTEM.CATLOG` table contains a column called `KEY_SEQ`. If this contains an integer, it's a key column. E.g.

SELECT column_name FROM system.catalog WHERE table_name = '{{ your table name }}' AND key_seq IS NOT NULL;

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Cloudera Employee

You can try :

0: jdbc:phoenix:> !primarykeys $TABLE_NAME
+------------+--------------+-------------+------------------------+----------+----------+--------------+------------+------------+-+
| TABLE_CAT  | TABLE_SCHEM  | TABLE_NAME  |      COLUMN_NAME       | KEY_SEQ  | PK_NAME  | ASC_OR_DESC  | DATA_TYPE  | TYPE_NAME  | |
+------------+--------------+-------------+------------------------+----------+----------+--------------+------------+------------+-+
|            | $SCHEMA      | $TABLE      | col1                   | 1        | PK       | A            | 12         | VARCHAR    | |
|            | $SCHEMA      | $TABLE      | col2                   | 2        | PK       | A            | 12         | VARCHAR    | |
+------------+--------------+-------------+------------------------+----------+----------+--------------+------------+------------+-+

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Explorer

This doesn't work 

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Community Manager

@Sunny93 as this is an older post, you would have a better chance of receiving a resolution by starting a new thread. This will also be an opportunity to provide details specific to your environment that could aid others in assisting you with a more accurate answer to your question. You can link this thread as a reference in your new post.



Regards,

Vidya Sargur,
Community Manager


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