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Hi,

I am writing a JDBC table editor, and the non-standard handling of primary key by InstantDB is 
causing me some real grief. I know this topic has been discussed many times before, and the 
stock reply is that InstantDB has always allowed non-unique PK "to be able to import data 
from databases which do not enforce PK uniqueness". I have worked in the SQL database 
business for over 15 years and InstantDB is the first one I have struck that allows non-unique 
PK. Surely unique PK should be the default, with a configuration setting to allow non-unique 
where it is really needed.

My specific problem is with the DatabaseMetaData getPrimaryKeys(...) method. The clear 
intention of this method is to identify primary keys as unique constraints. Even if the SQL 
syntax remains in its current form, I would really appreciate the semantics of the 
getPrimaryKeys(...) method changing to include only unique primary keys.

Cheers,
Peter Yuill

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