This metric represents the number of foreign keys in a base table.
Notes
The query returns information about all the base tables, even those that do not have foreign key constraints. In the latter case the number would be 0.
Type
Sofware measure (Numeric values (software measures) about the database)
SELECT A.table_schema, A.table_name, Count(B.table_name) AS number_of_foreign_keys
FROM information_schema.tables A
LEFT JOIN
(SELECT table_schema, table_name
FROM information_schema.table_constraints
WHERE constraint_type = 'FOREIGN KEY'
) B USING (table_schema, table_name)
INNER JOIN information_schema.schemata C
ON A.table_schema=C.schema_name
WHERE A.table_type='BASE TABLE'
AND (A.table_schema = 'public' OR C.schema_owner<>'postgres')
GROUP BY A.table_schema, A.table_name
ORDER BY Count(B.table_name) DESC, A.table_schema, A.table_name;
Collections
This query belongs to the following collections:
Name
Description
Find problems by overview
Queries 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 .
Find quick numeric overview of the database
Queries that return numeric values showing mostly the number of different types of database objects in the database
Categories
This query is classified under the following categories:
Name
Description
Comfortability of database evolution
Queries of this category provide information about the means that influence database evolution.
Relationships between tables
Queries of this category provide information about how database tables are connected to each other and whether such connections have been explicitly defined and whether it has been done correctly.
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Reference
Piattini, M., Calero, C., Sahraoui, H. A., & Lounis, H. (2001). Object-relational database metrics. L'Objet, 7(4), 477-496.