PostgreSQL Query Catalog

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Found 1041 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
801 Registration/modification time is not automatically set Find columns of base tables that name and type suggest that the column should contain the row registration time or last modify time but the column does not have a default value. Problem detection INFORMATION_SCHEMA only 2025-11-07 10:11 MIT License View
802 Registration/modification time is not mandatory Find columns that contain registration or modification time but are optional. Problem detection INFORMATION_SCHEMA only 2025-11-07 10:11 MIT License View
803 Regular expression with possibly a LIKE pattern Find expressions that use a regular expression with a like predicate pattern. Problem detection INFORMATION_SCHEMA+system catalog base tables 2025-11-07 10:11 MIT License View
804 Routine body has keywords that are not in uppercase Keywords in uppercase improve readability. Problem detection INFORMATION_SCHEMA+system catalog base tables 2025-11-07 10:11 MIT License View
805 Routine body only in uppercase Uppercase means screaming and having code entirely in uppercase makes its reading more difficult. On the other hand, it would be a good idea to have keywords in uppercase. Find routines that body contains a SQL data manipulation statement (which shouldn't be entirely in uppercase) but still the body is completely in uppercase. Problem detection INFORMATION_SCHEMA+system catalog base tables 2025-11-07 10:11 MIT License View
806 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
807 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
808 Routines with INSERT statements that are sensitive towards the order of columns INSERT statements shouldn't be sensitive towards the order of columns. If one changes the order of columns in a table then these statements must be rewritten. Otherwise the code will not work or works incorrectly. Problem detection INFORMATION_SCHEMA+system catalog base tables 2025-11-07 10:11 MIT License View
809 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
810 Routines with the same name and parameters in different schemas Find user-defined routines with the same name and parameters (including the order of parameters) in different schemas. General INFORMATION_SCHEMA+system catalog base tables 2025-11-07 10:11 MIT License View
811 Routines with type casting Make sure that your parameters have appropriate types in order to avoid unnecessary type casting. General INFORMATION_SCHEMA+system catalog base tables 2025-11-07 10:11 MIT License View
812 ROW level BEFORE DELETE and INSTEAD OF DELETE triggers that procedures refer to the row variable NEW Do not write incorrect code. Variable NEW: "Data type RECORD; variable holding the new database row for INSERT/UPDATE operations in row-level triggers. This variable is null in statement-level triggers and for DELETE operations." (PostgreSQL documentation) Problem detection INFORMATION_SCHEMA+system catalog base tables 2025-11-07 10:11 MIT License View
813 ROW level BEFORE INSERT and INSTEAD OF INSERT triggers that procedures refer to the row variable OLD Do not write incorrect code. Variable OLD: "Data type RECORD; variable holding the old database row for UPDATE/DELETE operations in row-level triggers. This variable is null in statement-level triggers and for INSERT operations." (PostgreSQL documentation) Problem detection INFORMATION_SCHEMA+system catalog base tables 2025-11-07 10:11 MIT License View
814 ROW level BEFORE triggers that do not return a row if a check succeeds Find ROW level BEFORE triggers that check a condition based on other rows, raise an exception but do not return the row if the condition check succeeds, i.e., exception is not raised. Problem detection INFORMATION_SCHEMA+system catalog base tables 2025-11-07 10:11 MIT License View
815 ROW level BEFORE triggers with RAISE EXCEPTION but without RETURN NULL Although RAISE EXCEPTION stops the execution it would be a good style to still return. In this case the return should bring back NULL, i.e., the row will not be processed further Problem detection INFORMATION_SCHEMA+system catalog base tables 2025-11-07 10:11 MIT License View
816 ROW level BEFORE UPDATE triggers that do not return the new row Find row level BEFORE UPDATE triggers that do not return the new row version. Exclude triggers that raise WARNING/EXCEPTION. Problem detection INFORMATION_SCHEMA+system catalog base tables 2025-11-07 10:11 MIT License View
817 Rules with the same name in different schemas Find rule names that are used in a database in more than one schema. Different things should have different names. But here different rules have the same name. Also make sure that this is not a duplication. General system catalog base tables only 2025-11-07 10:11 MIT License View
818 Rules with the same name within the same schema Find names of rules that are used within the same schema more than once. Give different triggers different names. Problem detection system catalog base tables only 2025-11-07 10:11 MIT License View
819 search_path should not be between quotation marks Write security definer functions securely. Give to the DBMS correctly information about the sequence of schemas that constitute the search path. You shouldn't write search path value between quotation marks or apostrophes. Thus, instead of writing SET search_path = "public, pg_temp"; or SET search_path = 'public, pg_temp'; you should write SET search_path = public, pg_temp; Problem detection INFORMATION_SCHEMA+system catalog base tables 2025-11-07 10:11 MIT License View
820 SECURITY DEFINER procedures cannot end transactions You cannot use COMMIT and ROLLBACK in a SECURITY DEFINER procedure. Procedures appeared in PostgreSQL 11. Problem detection INFORMATION_SCHEMA+system catalog base tables 2025-11-07 10:11 MIT License View