mysql changing unique key to primary (mariadb)

问题

I have my table users:

+--------------------+--------------+------+-----+---------+-------+
| Field              | Type         | Null | Key | Default | Extra |
+--------------------+--------------+------+-----+---------+-------+
| userid             | varchar(30)  | YES  |     | NULL    |       |
| lname              | varchar(40)  | YES  |     | NULL    |       |
| fname              | varchar(20)  | YES  |     | NULL    |       |
| system_id          | varchar(12)  | YES  |     | NULL    |       |
+--------------------+--------------+------+-----+---------+-------+

and I want to change the system_id and the userid to be unique keys.

If I change them via ALTER TABLE users MODIFY userid varchar(30) NOT NULL UNIQUE KEY; I get:

+--------------------+--------------+------+-----+---------+-------+
| Field              | Type         | Null | Key | Default | Extra |
+--------------------+--------------+------+-----+---------+-------+
| userid             | varchar(30)  | NO   | PRI | NULL    |       |
| lname              | varchar(40)  | YES  |     | NULL    |       |
| fname              | varchar(20)  | YES  |     | NULL    |       |
| system_id          | varchar(12)  | YES  |     | NULL    |       |
+--------------------+--------------+------+-----+---------+-------+

and then if I change the system_id ALTER TABLE users MODIFY system_id varchar(30) NOT NULL UNIQUE KEY;

+--------------------+--------------+------+-----+---------+-------+
| Field              | Type         | Null | Key | Default | Extra |
+--------------------+--------------+------+-----+---------+-------+
| userid             | varchar(30)  | NO   | PRI | NULL    |       |
| lname              | varchar(40)  | YES  |     | NULL    |       |
| fname              | varchar(20)  | YES  |     | NULL    |       |
| system_id          | varchar(12)  | NO   | UNI | NULL    |       |
+--------------------+--------------+------+-----+---------+-------+

Why is MySQL changing my UNIQUE key to PRI when I never specified it to?

回答1:

"A UNIQUE index may be displayed as PRI if it cannot contain NULL values and there is no PRIMARY KEY in the table. A UNIQUE index may display as MUL if several columns form a composite UNIQUE index; although the combination of the columns is unique, each column can still hold multiple occurrences of a given value."

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/show-columns.html

Found my answer.

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47933646/mysql-changing-unique-key-to-primary-mariadb