Goal A Boolean parameter may be used to determine what task to fulfill. In this case the routine has multiple tasks and does not satisfy the separation of concerns principle.
Notes Refers to the column pg_proc.prokind and thus works starting from PostgreSQL 11. There could be Boolean parameters for other reasons than being flag parameters. There could be multiple routines with the same name but with different parameters in the same schema (overloading). Thus, for the unique identification of the routine it is necessary to present also its parameters in addition to the schema name and routine name. The query does not consider the routines that are a part of an extension. In the returned body of routine 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.
Type Problem detection (Each row in the result could represent a flaw in the design)
Reliability Low (Many false-positive results)
License MIT (opens in new tab)
Fixing Suggestion Get rid of the flag parameters by dropping the original routine and creating multiple routines, each of which has a more specific task.
Data Source INFORMATION_SCHEMA+system catalog
SQL Query
SELECT 
  pg_namespace.nspname AS routine_schema, 
  pg_proc.proname AS routine_name, 
   pg_get_function_identity_arguments(pg_proc.oid) AS parameters,
  CASE WHEN pg_proc.prokind='f' THEN 'FUNCTION'
  WHEN pg_proc.prokind='p' THEN 'PROCEDURE'
  WHEN pg_proc.prokind='w' THEN 'WINDOW FUNCTION' END AS routine_type,
 regexp_replace(regexp_replace(pg_get_functiondef(pg_proc.oid),'<','&lt','g'),'[\r\n]','<br>','g')  AS routine_src
FROM 
  pg_catalog.pg_proc, 
  pg_catalog.pg_namespace
WHERE 
  pg_proc.pronamespace = pg_namespace.oid 
  AND pg_proc.prokind<>'a'
  AND pg_proc.proname NOT IN ('f_assume_you_must_use_files', 'f_check_format_comma_separated_list', 'f_check_password', 'f_default_value_with_no_match') 
  AND EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM
 information_schema.parameters AS p
 WHERE p.specific_schema=pg_namespace.nspname AND
regexp_replace(specific_name,'_[0-9]*$','')=pg_proc.proname AND p.data_type='boolean') 
AND pg_get_functiondef(pg_proc.oid)~*'([[:space:]]IF[[:space:]]|[[:space:]]CASE.*[[:space:]]WHEN.*[[:space:]]THEN.*[[:space:]]ELSE.*[[:space:]]END)' 
AND pg_namespace.nspname NOT IN (SELECT schema_name
FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.schemata
WHERE schema_name<>'public' AND
schema_owner='postgres' AND schema_name IS NOT NULL) 
AND NOT EXISTS (SELECT 1
FROM pg_catalog.pg_depend d 
WHERE EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM pg_catalog.pg_extension e WHERE d.refobjid=e.oid) AND
d.objid=pg_proc.oid)
ORDER BY routine_schema, routine_name, parameters;

Categories

This query is classified under the following categories:

Comfortability of database evolution

Queries of this category provide information about the means that influence database evolution.

Does not work in some earlier PostgreSQL version

Queries of this category provide information that was not available in some earlier PostgreSQL version

User-defined routines

Queries of this category provide information about the user-defined routines

NameDescription
Comfortability of database evolutionQueries of this category provide information about the means that influence database evolution.
Does not work in some earlier PostgreSQL versionQueries of this category provide information that was not available in some earlier PostgreSQL version
User-defined routinesQueries of this category provide information about the user-defined routines

Further reading and related materials:

The corresponding code smells in case of cleaning code are "F3: Flag Arguments" and "G15: Selector Arguments". (Robert C. Martin, Clean Code)
Reference
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_concerns
The corresponding code smells in case of cleaning code are "F3: Flag Arguments" and "G15: Selector Arguments". (Robert C. Martin, Clean Code)