How to get primary key of table?

Question

Is there a way to get the name of primary key field from mysql-database? For example:

I have a table like this:

+----+------+
| id | name |
+----+---         


        

Answer 1

MySQL has a SQL query "SHOW INDEX FROM" which returns the indexes from a table. For eg. - the following query will show all the indexes for the products table:-

SHOW INDEXES FROM products \G

It returns a table with type, column_name, Key_name, etc. and displays output with all indexes and primary keys as -

*************************** 1. row ***************************
        Table: products
   Non_unique: 0
     Key_name: PRIMARY
 Seq_in_index: 1
  Column_name: product_id
    Collation: A
  Cardinality: 0
     Sub_part: NULL
       Packed: NULL
         Null: 
   Index_type: BTREE
      Comment: 
Index_comment: 

To just display primary key from the table use :-

SHOW INDEXES FROM table_name WHERE Key_name = 'PRIMARY'