Re: Reality check on PFs created as SQL TABLEs

Yes - primary key constraint is the way - the primary key "index" is embedded in the table/PF object. 

CREATE TABLE xxxx (
  xxx ....,
  yyy ....,
  CONSTRAINT "XXXX_PK" PRIMARY KEY (xxx),
  ...
);

But you can also create unique constraints directly in the table, and it will also create indexes, that are embedded in the table/PF object and create no extra objects.

HTH
Daniel

-> https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.6.0?topic=statements-create-table


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>  Create table ......
>  Column char( 100 ) not null with default
> ......
> .....
>   Primary Key( column )
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> Subject: Reality check on PFs created as SQL TABLEs
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> Just to be sure:
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> There isn't some oddball extension to SQL that I'm not aware of, such
> that you can create a keyed PF via an SQL CREATE TABLE statement, right?
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> (I just experienced what I'd thought was a weird asymmetry when
> attempting to a LF as an SQL INDEX with a descending key; it turned out
> that I'd misspelled "DESC," and SQL was treating "DSC" as a field
> rename. You learn something new every day. This has been a fun week so far.)
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