| 601 | Perhaps a routine does not have a real task | Find the routines where the only action is to return an argument value, a constant value, NULL or return the value of OLD or NEW variable in case of trigger functions. | Problem detection | INFORMATION_SCHEMA+system catalog base tables | 2021-11-05 12:09 | MIT License | |
| 602 | Perhaps a state machine is implemented with Boolean columns | Find implementations of state machines that uses a set of one or more Boolean columns. These columns could have the type Boolean or could probably (based on the column name and non-participation in a foreign key) contain values that represent truth values. | Problem detection | INFORMATION_SCHEMA+system catalog base tables | 2023-11-09 13:22 | MIT License | |
| 603 | Perhaps a state machine is implemented with timestamp columns | Find implementations of state machines that uses a set of columns with a timestamp type. | Problem detection | INFORMATION_SCHEMA only | 2021-03-26 21:04 | MIT License | |
| 604 | Perhaps a too generic foreign key column name | Find the names of foreign key columns that are too generic. The expressive names of table columns allow database users better and more quickly understand the meaning of data in the database. A person could participate in a process or be associated with an object due to different reasons. Thus, foreign key column names like isik_id, person_id, tootaja_id, worker_id etc. are too generic. The name should refer (also) to the reason why the person is connected. | Problem detection | system catalog base tables only | 2023-03-15 18:27 | MIT License | |
| 605 | Perhaps a too long name, which has been automatically shortened | Find names (identifiers) of user-defined database objects that are 63 bytes long. This is the longest permitted length of identifiers if the default value of the NAMEDATALEN parameter has not been changed. PostgreSQL shortens too long identifiers automatically. Automatic code modification could break it somewhere. | Problem detection | INFORMATION_SCHEMA+system catalog base tables | 2023-03-17 10:05 | MIT License | |
| 606 | Perhaps a too long PL/pgSQL routine | A large routine may have multiple tasks that should be split between multiple routines, each of which has a more focused task. Find the PL/pgSQL routines where the number of physical lines of code is bigger than 20. | Problem detection | INFORMATION_SCHEMA+system catalog base tables | 2024-01-04 16:38 | MIT License | |
| 607 | Perhaps a too long SQL routine | A large routine may have multiple tasks that should be split between multiple routines that have a more focused task. Find the SQL routines where the number of statements (logical lines of code) is bigger than 5. | Problem detection | INFORMATION_SCHEMA+system catalog base tables | 2024-01-04 16:39 | MIT License | |
| 608 | Perhaps a too simplified state machine | Find base table columns with Boolean type that name refers to the possibility that these are used to register as to whether an entity is currently in active state or not. Find the base tables that have exactly one Boolean column. During the system design one should find all the possible states of an entity type that influence the behavior of the information system. Data as to whether an entity is in one of these states should be in the database. Having only two states - active/inactive - is sometimes a too big simplification. | Problem detection | INFORMATION_SCHEMA only | 2021-03-27 03:08 | MIT License | |
| 609 | Perhaps a unneccessary surrogate key | Find base tables that have the primary key that is not a surrogate key and an alternate key that is a surrogate key. Perhaps the surrogate key column is not needed. | Problem detection | INFORMATION_SCHEMA+system catalog base tables | 2021-03-07 20:59 | MIT License | |
| 610 | Perhaps brackets are missing in a regular expression that uses OR logical operation | Find regular expressions where choice between alternatives has no brackets. Thus, instead of '(a|b|c)' there is 'a|b|c'. An example: '^a|b|c$' -permits in the string symbol "|" but '^(a|b|c)$' does not permit in the string symbol "|". | Problem detection | INFORMATION_SCHEMA+system catalog base tables | 2023-11-09 20:22 | MIT License | |
| 611 | Perhaps check constraint names contain incorrect or unnecessary words | Find names of check constraints (either associated with a base table or a domain) that names contain words that are not needed in the name. For instance, constraints cannot ensure the correctness of data and thus the word correct should not be used in the names. Words like "valid" or phrases like "follows_rules" are just noise because all the constraint ensure that the registered data values are valid and follow certain rules. | Problem detection | INFORMATION_SCHEMA+system catalog base tables | 2023-10-06 14:10 | MIT License | |
| 612 | Perhaps checking of file extension is incorrect | Find check constraints of tables that use a regular expression to check as to whether a registered string ends with an appropriate file extension. However, the expression does not put the dot sign into the square brackets nor does have the escape character \before it, i.e., it is interpreted as a single character not as the dot sign in the expression. In regular expressions the dot (.) matches any single character except the newline character. | Problem detection | INFORMATION_SCHEMA only | 2023-11-08 15:29 | MIT License | |
| 613 | Perhaps Count(*) is wrongly used | Find user-defined routines and derived tables (views/materialized views) that have a subquery that invokes Count aggregate function like this - Count(*), uses outer join, and grouping. In case of grouping you do not want to get an answer that an empty group contains one member. | Problem detection | INFORMATION_SCHEMA+system catalog base tables | 2021-10-25 16:40 | MIT License | |
| 614 | Perhaps default value 'infinity' is missing | Find optional base table columns that have a timestamp type and do not have a default value. | Problem detection | INFORMATION_SCHEMA only | 2023-11-12 11:52 | MIT License | |
| 615 | Perhaps duplicate check of empty strings (ver 2) | Find columns that have a check that prevents the empty string in the column but there is already another check on the column that enforces the constraint. | Problem detection | INFORMATION_SCHEMA+system catalog base tables | 2021-12-20 11:30 | MIT License | |
| 616 | Perhaps excessive privileges to use base tables | Find excessive privileges to use base tabes (for others than the owner of the base table). The excessive privileges are all that are not SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE. | Problem detection | INFORMATION_SCHEMA+system catalog base tables | 2021-02-25 17:29 | MIT License | |
| 617 | Perhaps excessive privileges to use views | Find non-SELECT privileges to use views (for others than the owner of the view). Perhaps there should be only the privilege to make queries (SELECT statements based on the views) and data modification takes place by using routines. REFERENCES and TRIGGER privileges are definitely not needed. | Problem detection | INFORMATION_SCHEMA+system catalog base tables | 2021-02-25 17:29 | MIT License | |
| 618 | 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 | 2023-12-10 17:11 | MIT License | |
| 619 | Perhaps incorrect check of permitted timestamp values | Find base table columns with a timestamp type and a simple check constraint that checks as to whether the timestamp values are within an appropriate range of values. Find constraints where the check of the upper bound of the range is perhaps incorrect. | Problem detection | INFORMATION_SCHEMA+system catalog base tables | 2023-11-09 10:27 | MIT License | |
| 620 | Perhaps incorrect column name (based on default values) | Find columns of base tables that have the default value CURRENT_USER or SESSION_USER but the name of the column does not refer to the fact that it contains usernames. | Problem detection | INFORMATION_SCHEMA only | 2024-01-01 12:14 | MIT License | |