PostgreSQL Query Catalog

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Found 1040 queries.

  • All the queries about database objects contain a subcondition to exclude from the result information about the system catalog.
  • Although the statements use SQL constructs (common table expressions; NOT in subqueries) that could cause performance problems in case of large datasets it shouldn't be a problem in case of relatively small amount of data, which is in the system catalog of a database.
  • Statistics about the catalog content and project home in GitHub that has additional information.

# Name Goal ▲ Type Data source Last update License
521 Duplicate specification of character classes Find regular expressions where within the same specification of a character class the character class alnum as well as 0-9, \d, A-Z, or a-z has been defined. Problem detection INFORMATION_SCHEMA+system catalog base tables 2025-11-07 10:11 MIT License View
522 Grantable roles Find roles that a member can grant to others, i.e., the role has been granted with ADMIN OPTION. The number of privileges that can be passed on should be as small as possible. Problem detection system catalog base tables only 2025-11-07 10:11 MIT License View
523 Perhaps the type of a parameter should be BOOLEAN (based on parameter names) Find routine parameters that based on the name seem to hold truth values. Find parameters that name starts with "is_" or "has_" or "can_" or "on_" and that do not have Boolean type. Problem detection INFORMATION_SCHEMA+system catalog base tables 2025-11-07 10:11 MIT License View
524 Grantable routine privileges Find routine privileges that the carrier of the privilege can in turn grant to others, i.e., the privileges have been given WITH GRANT OPTION. The number of privileges that can be passed on should be as small as possible. Problem detection INFORMATION_SCHEMA+system catalog base tables 2025-11-07 10:11 MIT License View
525 Routines without an action Find routines that body does not contain any action. Problem detection INFORMATION_SCHEMA+system catalog base tables 2025-11-07 10:11 MIT License View
526 Sorting rows based on random values in routines without limiting rows Find routines that contain a statement that sorts rows based on random values but do not limit the number of rows. This is unnecessary because without sorting the rows are returned in a unspecified order. Sorting based on random values is a computationally expensive operation. Problem detection INFORMATION_SCHEMA+system catalog base tables 2025-11-07 10:11 MIT License View
527 Sorting rows based on random values in routines Find routines that contain a statement that sorts rows based on random values. This can be used to find a random subset of rows. It is a computationally expensive operation. Problem detection INFORMATION_SCHEMA+system catalog base tables 2025-11-07 10:11 MIT License View
528 User-defined routines that use xmin hidden column Find routines that contain a UPDATE or a DELETE statement that search condition refers to the xmin column. If one uses optimistic approach for dealing with the concurrent modifications of data, then xmin values should be presented by views and used in routines that modify or delete rows. General INFORMATION_SCHEMA+system catalog base tables 2025-11-07 10:11 MIT License View
529 Polymorphic routines Find routines that have a parameter (input or output) that can have values from different types. This parameter has one of the PostgreSQL polymorphic types. The set of polymorphic types in PostgreSQL is a proper subset of its pseudo-types. The use of such a parameter allows a single routine definition to operate on many different data types, with the specific data type(s) being determined by the data types actually passed to it in a particular call. General INFORMATION_SCHEMA+system catalog base tables 2025-11-07 10:11 MIT License View
530 User-defined routines with dynamic SQL that are potential targets of the SQL injection attack Find routines that have at least one input parameter, use dynamic SQL but do not escape the input arguments at all. Problem detection INFORMATION_SCHEMA+system catalog base tables 2025-11-07 10:11 MIT License View
531 Meaningless terms in routines Find routines that subquery contains terms "foo", "bar", "foobar", or "baz". Problem detection INFORMATION_SCHEMA+system catalog base tables 2025-11-07 10:11 MIT License View
532 User-defined routines with dynamic SQL Find routines that use dynamic SQL. Make sure that dynamic SQL is indeed needed, i.e., the task cannot be solved with static SQL. Make sure that the routine is protected against attacks that use SQL injection method. General INFORMATION_SCHEMA+system catalog base tables 2025-11-07 10:11 MIT License View
533 Perhaps inconsistent use of temporal functions Find routines that use temporal functions CURRENT_TIMESTAMP, LOCALTIMESTAMP, or now() that is inconsistent with the default values of the columns that are used by the routine, e.g., function uses a column with the default value LOCALTIMESTAMP but the routine uses function CURRENT_TIMESTAMP or now(). Problem detection INFORMATION_SCHEMA+system catalog base tables 2025-11-07 10:11 MIT License View
534 Something is still to do in routines Find routines where comments contain TODO phrase. Problem detection INFORMATION_SCHEMA+system catalog base tables 2025-11-07 10:11 MIT License View
535 Do not refer to the table schema in the references to columns Find routines where in SELECT or UPDATE statements references to columns are prefixed with references to the table schema. Referring to schema in this context bloats the code. Problem detection INFORMATION_SCHEMA+system catalog base tables 2025-11-07 10:11 MIT License View
536 Routine body with ordering the query result based on positional references Find routines where the query result is sorted based on the column number in the SELECT clause. Such query is sensitive towards changing the order of columns in the SELECT clause, i.e., if one changes the order of columns in the SELECT clause, then one must change the numbers in the ORDER BY clause as well, otherwise the query will produce undesired order of rows. Problem detection INFORMATION_SCHEMA+system catalog base tables 2025-11-07 10:11 MIT License View
537 Routines that can be invoked with a variable number of arguments Find routines with a VARIADIC parameter. These are routines that take as input an undefined number of arguments where the argument that is an undefined number are all of the same type and are the last input arguments. General INFORMATION_SCHEMA+system catalog base tables 2025-11-07 10:11 MIT License View
538 Prefer Polymorphism to If/Else or Switch/Case Find routines with IF/ELSE or SWITCH/CASE statements. If your routine has a multipart IF/CASE statement, then perhaps it has multiple tasks and it violates the separation of concerns and single responsibilities principles. Problem detection INFORMATION_SCHEMA+system catalog base tables 2025-11-07 10:11 MIT License View
539 Prefer Polymorphism to If/Else or Switch/Case (2) Find routines with multiple raise exception commands. Perhaps it has multiple tasks and it violates the separation of concerns and single responsibilities principles. Problem detection INFORMATION_SCHEMA+system catalog base tables 2025-11-07 10:11 MIT License View
540 Perhaps updating of modification time is missing Find routines with SQL-standard body that seem to update data in a table that has a column for modification time but the routine does not seem to update the modification time while updating the row and the table does not seem to have an UPDATE trigger that changes the modification time. Problem detection INFORMATION_SCHEMA+system catalog base tables 2025-11-07 10:11 MIT License View