PostgreSQL Query Catalog

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Found 1053 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
661 Not inherited CHECK constraints Find CHECK constraints that have been defined in a supertable (parent table) but not in its subtables. An entity that belongs to a subtype should also belong to its supertype. If a subtype entity satisfies some constraint, then logically it must also satisfy the constraints of the supertype as well. If CHECK constraints are not inherited, then this is not guaranteed. If you implement subtyping not merely reuse implementation in the subtables, then the subtables must have at least the same CHECK constraints as the supertable. CHECK(false) on a supertable is an appropriate CHECK constraint if one wants to prevent registering data directly to the supertable, i.e., data can only be added to the subtables. General system catalog base tables only 2025-11-07 10:11 MIT License View
662 Not inherited CHECK constraints that are recreated in the immediate subtable Find base table CHECK constraints that have been defined as NOT INHERITED but the constraint with the same Boolean expression has been defined in the immediate subtable of the table. Problem detection system catalog base tables only 2025-11-07 10:11 MIT License View
663 Not inherited CHECK constraints that cover at least one column Find CHECK constraints that cover at least one column and that have been defined in a supertable (parent table) but not in its subtables. An entity that belongs to a subtype should also belong to its supertype. If a subtype entity satisfies some constraint, then logically it must also satisfy the constraints of the supertype as well. If CHECK constraints are not inherited, then this is not guaranteed. If you implement subtyping not merely reuse implementation in the subtables, then the subtables must have at least the same CHECK constraints as the supertable. Problem detection system catalog base tables only 2025-11-07 10:11 MIT License View
664 NOT IN or <> ALL in derived tables Avoid using NOT IN or <>ALL with a non-correlated subquery in PostgreSQL because the query performance will be very poor, especially in case of large data sizes. Problem detection INFORMATION_SCHEMA+system catalog base tables 2025-11-07 10:11 MIT License View
665 NOT IN or <> ALL in routines Avoid using NOT IN or <>ALL with a non-correlated subquery in PostgreSQL because the query performance will be very poor. Problem detection INFORMATION_SCHEMA+system catalog base tables 2025-11-07 10:11 MIT License View
666 NOT NULL constraint is directly associated with a column instead of the domain of the column Find mandatory (NOT NULL) base table columns that have been defined based on the same domain but the NOT NULL constraint is associated directly with the column not to the domain. PostgreSQL CREATE DOMAIN statement documentation points out that it is possible to add NULL's to columns that have a NOT NULL domain and thus suggests to associate NOT NULL constraints with a column instead of the domain. However, this is a non-standard behavior and defeats the idea of domain as a reusable asset. The scenarios where NULLs can appear in columns with a NOT NULL domain are quite exotic and probably cannot appear in production environments. Problem detection INFORMATION_SCHEMA+system catalog base tables 2025-11-07 10:11 MIT License View
667 NOT NULL constraint via CHECK instead of NOT NULL constraint Find columns where the NOT NULL constraint has been added with the help of an explicit CHECK constraints instead of a NOT NULL constraint. One should note that internally NOT NULL constraints are treated as a kind of CHECK constraints. Nevertheless, the design should be consistent (i.e., NOT NULL is enforced with the same way in different places). Problem detection INFORMATION_SCHEMA only 2025-11-07 10:11 MIT License View
668 NOT NULL domains Find domains with NOT NULL constraints and base table columns that have been defined based on the domain. PostgreSQL CREATE DOMAIN statement documentation points out that it is possible to add NULL's to columns that have a NOT NULL domain and thus suggests to associate NOT NULL constraints with a column instead of the domain. However, this is a non-standard behavior and defeats the idea of domain as a reusable asset. The scenarios where NULLs can appear in columns with a NOT NULL domain are quite exotic and probably cannot appear in production environments. General INFORMATION_SCHEMA+system catalog base tables 2025-11-07 10:11 MIT License View
669 NOT VALID foreign key constraints Find not valid foreign key constraints. These constraints have been created so that the existing data has not been checked against the constraint. It could be deliberate in case of legacy systems that have data quality problems. However, ideally all the data in the table conforms to the constraint. Problem detection system catalog base tables only 2025-11-07 10:11 MIT License View
670 Number of columns covered with constraints For different types of constraints find the number of columns covered with constraints of such type. Sofware measure INFORMATION_SCHEMA+system catalog base tables 2025-11-07 10:11 MIT License View
671 Number of derived tables that aggregate data Find the number of derived tables that aggregate data. Sofware measure INFORMATION_SCHEMA+system catalog base tables 2025-11-07 10:11 MIT License View
672 Number of rows in base tables Find the number of rows in base tables. General system catalog base tables only 2025-11-07 10:11 MIT License View
673 Number of system-generated and user-defined constraint names by constraint type (constraints that involve more than one column) Find the number of system-generated constraint names by constraint type. Names should follow the same style. If there is a mix of system-generated and user-defined names, then the style is most probably different. Sofware measure system catalog base tables only 2025-11-07 10:11 MIT License View
674 Number of system-generated and user-defined constraint names by constraint type (constraints that involve one column) Find the number of system-generated constraint names by constraint type. Names should follow the same style. If there is a mix of system-generated and user-defined names, then the style is most probably different. Sofware measure system catalog base tables only 2025-11-07 10:11 MIT License View
675 Number of tables covered by derived tables Find the number of base tables, the number of base tables that are referred from at least one derived table (view or materialized view), the number of base tables that are referred from at least one view, and the number of base tables that are referred from at least one materialized view. If the database is used through the public database interface (virtual data layer), then, ideally, each table is referred from the subquery of at least one derived table. Sofware measure INFORMATION_SCHEMA+system catalog base tables 2025-11-07 10:11 MIT License View
676 Number of underlying tables of derived tables Find for each view or materialized view the number of tables based on which the derived table has been directly defined. These tables could be base tables or derived tables. Sofware measure INFORMATION_SCHEMA+system catalog base tables 2025-11-07 10:11 MIT License View
677 Number of used tables Find statistics about how many derived tables have how many different underlying tables. Sofware measure INFORMATION_SCHEMA+system catalog base tables 2025-11-07 10:11 MIT License View
678 Number of using views Find statistics about how many base tables have how many derived tables that use these tables. Sofware measure INFORMATION_SCHEMA+system catalog base tables 2025-11-07 10:11 MIT License View
679 Number of views with and without security barrier Find the number of views, the number of views with and without security barrier setting, and the names of views with and without the security barrier setting. Sofware measure INFORMATION_SCHEMA+system catalog base tables 2025-11-07 10:11 MIT License View
680 ON DELETE SET NULL is probably missing Find implementations of the adjacency list design pattern, where the corresponding foreign key columns are optional but the foreign key constraint does not have ON DELETE SET NULL compensating action. Implement adjacency list correctly. Problem detection system catalog base tables only 2025-11-07 10:11 MIT License View