Catalog of PostgreSQL queries for finding information about a PostgreSQL database and its design problems

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There are 961 queries.

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261Base tables that have no uniqueness requirement for rows whatsoeverFind base tables without any unique constraints and primary key as well as any unique index, whether it is created explicitly by a developer or automatically by the DBMS. The only legitimate reason of such a table is if it is an abstract table that is used to define common columns of subtables.Problem detectionINFORMATION_SCHEMA+system catalog base tables2022-10-21 10:16MIT License
262Base tables that have only the surrogate key and do not have any other columnDo not create unnecessary tables. If a table has cardinality 1 (one column), then most probably the values in this column should not be system generated unique values.Problem detectionINFORMATION_SCHEMA only2021-03-08 00:41MIT License
263Base tables where all the columns are optionalFind base tables where all the columns are optional, i.e., permit NULLs. In such tables can be rows with no identity value and thus indistinguishable from other rows.Problem detectionINFORMATION_SCHEMA only2021-02-25 17:30MIT License
264Base tables where all the unique columns are optionalFind the base tables where all the unique columns are optional. In such tables there can be rows without values that identify these rows. In this case there can be rows in the table where the values that should identify the row are missing.Problem detectionINFORMATION_SCHEMA+system catalog base tables2022-10-21 01:47MIT License
265Base tables where uniqueness is achieved by using only unique indexesFind base tables where uniqueness is achieved by using only unique indexes, i.e., there is at least one unique index but no uniqueness constraints (PRIMARY KEY, UNIQUE, EXCLUDE)Problem detectionINFORMATION_SCHEMA+system catalog base tables2022-10-21 01:54MIT License
266Base tables, which statistics is probably not up to dateFind base tables where statistics has not been collected at all or it has been lastly collected more than 40 days ago.Problem detectionINFORMATION_SCHEMA+system catalog base tables2021-02-25 17:30MIT License
267BOOLEAN base table and foreign table columns with a CHECK constraint that involves olnly this columnFind base table and foreign table columns with the Boolean type that has a CHECK constraint that involves only this column. Avoid unnecessary CHECK constraints. The Boolean type contains only two values and there is nothing to check. By creating a check that determines that possible values in the column are TRUE and FALSE, one duplicates the attribute constraint (column has a type). This is a form of duplication.Problem detectionINFORMATION_SCHEMA+system catalog base tables2021-02-25 17:29MIT License
268BOOLEAN base table and foreign table columns with a PRIMARY KEY, UNIQUE, or FOREIGN KEY constraint that involves olnly this columnFind base table columns with the Boolean type that has a PRIMARY KEY, UNIQUE, or FOREIGN KEY constraint that involves only this column. Avoid unnecessary constraints. It is quite improbable that there must be such constraints. For instance, a table with PRIMARY KEY () or UNIQUE () constraint can have at most two rows.Problem detectionINFORMATION_SCHEMA+system catalog base tables2022-11-03 10:46MIT License
269Boolean column for genderFind base table columns that have Boolean type and based on the column name are meant for recording data about gender.Problem detectionINFORMATION_SCHEMA only2022-04-18 00:57MIT License
270Candidate key columns that have a static default valueFind base table columns that are covered by a primary key or a unique constraint and that probably have a static default value.Problem detectionINFORMATION_SCHEMA+system catalog base tables2023-11-12 11:32MIT License
271Candidate keys where all columns have a static default valueFind base table primary key and unique constraints where all columns probably have a static default value. Candidate key columns (columns that belong to the primary key or to an unique constraints) shouldn't have static default values unless you are enforcing a rule that a table can have at most one row. The point of default values is that system assigns them automatically. There cannot be multiple rows with the same key value.Problem detectionINFORMATION_SCHEMA+system catalog base tables2023-11-12 11:33MIT License
272Cannot accommodate all the fractional seconds in case of table columnsThe precision of a timestamp type of a column must be able to accommodate all the fractional seconds of the default value of the column. Find table columns with the type timestamp without time zone(m) or timestamp with time zone(m) that have a default value LOCALTIMESTAMP(n) or CURRENT_TIMESTAMP(n) WHERE n>m.Problem detectionINFORMATION_SCHEMA only2021-02-25 17:30MIT License
273Cannot register all legal e-mail addressesFind CHECK constraints on base table or foreign table columns that contain data about e-mail addresses and apply unnecessary restrictions to the these, rejecting potentially some legal addresses. More precisely, find CHECK constraints that prevent registration of e-mail addresses with multiple @ signs.Problem detectionINFORMATION_SCHEMA+system catalog base tables2021-02-25 17:29MIT License
274Cannot register all legal personal namesFind CHECK constraints on base table or foreign table columns that contain data about personal names and apply unnecessary restrictions to the names, rejecting potentially some legal names. Find checks that prohibit a digit or require a letter A-Z.Problem detectionINFORMATION_SCHEMA+system catalog base tables2021-02-25 17:29MIT License
275Case sensitive and case insensitive uniqueness of the same simple keyFind sets of columns that have both case sensitive and case insesitive unique constraints enforced based on these columns. In case of textual columns uniqueness could be checked either in case sensitive or case insensitive way. It is a contradiction to check the uniqueneness in both ways in case of the same key.Problem detectionINFORMATION_SCHEMA+system catalog base tables2021-02-25 17:29MIT License
276CHAR columns have a default value that length is shorter from the character maximum length of the columnChoose a suitable data type, field size, and default value. If the default value is shorter from the character maximum length, then spaces will be added to the end of the registered value.Problem detectionINFORMATION_SCHEMA only2021-02-25 17:30MIT License
277CHAR or VARCHAR columns have a default value that length is longer from the character maximum length of the columnFind table columns with CHAR or VARCHAR type that have a default value that length is longer from the character maximum length of the column. Choose a suitable data type, field size, and default value. If the value is longer, then it is impossible to register it in a field, i.e., it makes registration of data impossible (except if the excessive characters are spaces).Problem detectionINFORMATION_SCHEMA only2022-10-31 10:19MIT License
278CHECK constraint cardinality is zeroWrite correct constraints. Usually the constraint expression should refer to at least one column. A domain constraint expression should refer to the stub VALUE. For instance, the constraint CHECK(1=0) that is associated with a table T would prevent adding any rows to T. The value of the Boolean expression of this constraint is always FALSE.Problem detectionINFORMATION_SCHEMA+system catalog base tables2022-04-22 17:06MIT License
279CHECK constraints that perhaps do not consider 'infinity' and '-infinity' special valuesFind check constraints of base tables that cover exactly one column where the default value of the column is special value 'infinity' or '-infinity'. Find only such constraints that probably check a range of permitted values but do not consider that one of the values might be 'infinity' or '-infinity'. Such special values belong to the types DATE, TIMESTAMP, NUMERIC, REAL, and DOUBLE PRECISION.Problem detectionINFORMATION_SCHEMA+system catalog base tables2023-11-08 19:03MIT License
280CHECK constraints that perhaps incorrectly consider 'infinity' and '-infinity' special valuesSuch special values belong to the types DATE, TIMESTAMP, NUMERIC, REAL, and DOUBLE PRECISION. No value can be bigger than infinity or smaller than -infinity. If the check constraint cheks that a value must be bigger than -infinity or smaller than infinity, then it does not restrict (almost) anything.Problem detectionINFORMATION_SCHEMA+system catalog base tables2022-12-07 20:13MIT License