Goal Find all derived tables that join two or more tables.
Notes In the returned subquery of view/materialized view the query replaces each newline character with the line break (br) tag for the better readability in case the query result is displayed in a web browser. In the result the keyword USING is denoted with bold font.
Type General (Overview of some aspect of the database.)
License MIT License
Data Source INFORMATION_SCHEMA+system catalog
SQL Query
WITH view_defs AS (SELECT 
views.table_schema, 
views.table_name, 
'VIEW' AS type,
views.view_definition
FROM 
information_schema.views
WHERE table_schema NOT IN (SELECT schema_name
FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.schemata
WHERE schema_name<>'public' AND
schema_owner='postgres' AND schema_name IS NOT NULL)
UNION SELECT schemaname, matviewname, 'MATERIALIZED VIEW' AS type, definition
FROM pg_catalog.pg_matviews)
SELECT table_schema, table_name, type, regexp_replace(regexp_replace(view_definition,'[\r\n]','
','g'),'USING','USING','gi') AS definition FROM view_defs WHERE view_definition~*'([[:space:]]JOIN[[:space:]]|FROM[[:space:]].*,.*(WHERE|GROUP[[:space:]]+BY|ORDER[[:space:]]+BY))' ORDER BY table_schema, table_name, type;
Collections

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NameDescription
Find problems by overviewQueries that results point to different aspects of database that might have problems. A human reviewer has to decide based on the results as to whether there are problems or not .
Categories

This query is classified under the following categories:

NameDescription
Derived tablesQueries of this category provide information about the derived tables (views, materialized views), which are used to implement virtual data layer.
SyntacticsQueries of this category provide information about syntactic mistakes.