RE: possible to have a primary key with a bitmap indx?

A bitmap index is for a low cardinality column, so I doubt it would be a good idea to use it to enforce a primary key.

Stephane Paquette
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is it possible to have a primary key that is enforced with a bitmap index?

if so what is the syntax?

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