| Seq nr | Name | Goal | Type | Data source | Last update▼ | License | ... |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 681 | Enumerated types with zero or one value | Fidn enumerated types with zero or one value. Type is a named finite set of values. The empty set is a set. A set with one value is a set. Thus, types with zero or one value are legal. In practical terms each type, usually, should contain at least two values. | Problem detection | INFORMATION_SCHEMA+system catalog base tables | 2021-02-25 17:30 | MIT License | |
| 682 | Exclude constraint instead of simple UNIQUE | Find exclude constraints that implement a simple UNIQUE constraint. The checking might be slower compared to UNIQUE constraint. | Problem detection | system catalog base tables only | 2021-02-25 17:30 | MIT License | |
| 683 | Extension routines that execution privilege has been granted to PUBLIC | Know the privileges that users have in your system. Probably all the database users do not need these privileges. | Problem detection | INFORMATION_SCHEMA+system catalog base tables | 2021-02-25 17:30 | MIT License | |
| 684 | Foreign key column has a default value that is not present in the parent table | Find foreign key columns that have a default value that is not present in the parent table. Identify default values that cause violations of the referential constraints. | Problem detection | INFORMATION_SCHEMA+system catalog base tables | 2021-02-25 17:30 | MIT License | |
| 685 | Foreign key columns that have no index | Find foreign key columns that do not have an index. Foreign key columns are often used for performing join operations. It is useful to index such columns. | Problem detection | INFORMATION_SCHEMA+system catalog base tables | 2021-02-25 17:30 | MIT License | |
| 686 | Foreign key constraint references to the columns of a UNIQUE constraint not to the columns of the PRIMARY KEY constraint | Find foreign key constraints that reference to a UNIQUE constraint columns not to the PRIMARY KEY constraint columns. This is legal in SQL. However, a tradition is to refer to the primary key columns. If most of the foreign keys refer to the primary key columns, then it raises a question as to whether this kind of design decision has a good reason in a particular case or whether it is an inconsistency. | Problem detection | system catalog base tables only | 2021-02-25 17:30 | MIT License | |
| 687 | Foreign key constraint references to the columns of a UNIQUE constraint not to the columns of the PRIMARY KEY constraint while the referenced table has the primary key | Find foreign key constraints that reference to a UNIQUE constraint columns not to the PRIMARY KEY constraint columns while at the same time the referenced table does have the primary key. This is legal in SQL. However, a tradition is to refer to the primary key columns. If most of the foreign keys refer to the primary key columns, then it raises a question as to whether this kind of design decision has a good reason in a particular case or whether it is an inconsistency. | Problem detection | system catalog base tables only | 2021-02-25 17:30 | MIT License | |
| 688 | Foreign key refers to a table that has at least one subtable in the inheritance hierarchy | Find foreign key constraints that refer to a base table that has at least one subtable in the inheritance hierarchy. Rows of the subtable do not belong to the supertable in terms of checking the referential integrity. Let us assume that there is a table T with a subtable Tsub. Let us also assume that table B has a foreign key that refers to the table T. If a row is inserted into Tsub, then this row cannot be referenced from B. | Problem detection | system catalog base tables only | 2021-02-25 17:30 | MIT License | |
| 689 | Function Upper or Lower is used in an index on a non-textual column | Find function-based indexes that are based on function Upper or Lower but have been defined on a non-textual column. Such indexes support case insensitive search but in case of non-textual columns this does not have a meaning. | Problem detection | system catalog base tables only | 2021-02-25 17:30 | MIT License | |
| 690 | Generated stored base table columns duplicates another column in the table | Find generated stored columns in PostgreSQL base tables that duplicate other columns in the table. | Problem detection | INFORMATION_SCHEMA only | 2021-02-25 17:30 | MIT License | |
| 691 | Gratuitous context in the names of parameters | Find routine parameter names that contain the routine name. Names of routine parameters shouldn't contain the name of the routine. It makes the names too long. A routine cannot have two parameters with the same name. | Problem detection | INFORMATION_SCHEMA+system catalog base tables | 2021-02-25 17:30 | MIT License | |
| 692 | Gratuitous context in the names of schema objects | Find schema objects that name starts with the schema name and then has at least one more symbol. "Shorter names are generally better than longer ones, so long as they are clear. Add no more context to a name than is necessary" (Robert C. Martin, Clean Code) Shema is a namespace. There cannot be in the same schema two schema objects that belong to the same name class and have the same name. | Problem detection | system catalog base tables only | 2021-02-25 17:30 | MIT License | |
| 693 | Identical indexes | Find indexes that are identical, i.e., have the same properties, including uniqueness. The query considers all types of indexes, including indexes that have been automatically created to support a constraint and function-based indexes. | Problem detection | system catalog base tables only | 2021-02-25 17:30 | MIT License | |
| 694 | Inconsistency (code vs. id) of naming foreign key and referenced candidate key columns | Naming of foreign key and referenced candidate key columns should be consistent. It cannot be so that in one table a value is labeled "id" like some surrogate key value and in another it "turns" into human-usable "code" or vice versa. An example: Person(person_id, name) Primary Key (person_id) E_mail_address(e_mail_address_id, person_code, address) Primary Key (e_mail_address_id) Foreign key (person_code) References Person (person_id) | Problem detection | system catalog base tables only | 2021-02-25 17:30 | MIT License | |
| 695 | Inconsistent chain of relationships in terms of using ON UPDATE CASCADE | In case of a chain of relationships between tables (where the primary key and the foreign key have the same columns) the use of ON UPDATE CASCADE should be consistent - either all the involved foreign keys have ON UPDATE CASCADE compensating action or none of these have it. For instance, in the next example there is inconsistency, because if one changes the person_code in table Person, then the modification does not succeed because it does not cascade to the table Product. It is unclear as to whether it should be possible to change the person_code or not. Person (person_code, surname) Primary key (person_code) Worker(person_code) Primary key (person_code) Foreign key (person_code) References Person (person_code) ON UPDATE CASCADE Product(product_code, registrator) Primary key (product_code) Foreign key (registrator) References Worker (person_code) ON UPDATE NO ACTION | Problem detection | system catalog base tables only | 2021-02-25 17:30 | MIT License | |
| 696 | Inconsistent data type usage in case of registering a symbol | Find whether the database uses both CHAR(1) and VARCHAR(1) columns to register a single symbol. | Problem detection | INFORMATION_SCHEMA only | 2021-02-25 17:30 | MIT License | |
| 697 | Input parameters that names do not follow the convention to start with _ or p_ | For the sake of making code better understandable follow naming conventions. | Problem detection | INFORMATION_SCHEMA+system catalog base tables | 2021-02-25 17:30 | MIT License | |
| 698 | Insufficient number of user-defined base tables | There must be at least n (seven in this case) user-defined base tables in the database. | Problem detection | INFORMATION_SCHEMA only | 2021-02-25 17:30 | MIT License | |
| 699 | Insufficient number of user-defined domains | There must be at least n (one in this case) user-defined domains in the database each of that must be used in case of at least two columns of base tables. | Problem detection | INFORMATION_SCHEMA only | 2021-02-25 17:30 | MIT License | |
| 700 | Insufficient number of user-defined foreign tables | There must be at least n (two in this case) user-defined foreign tables in the database. | Problem detection | INFORMATION_SCHEMA only | 2021-02-25 17:30 | MIT License |