| Goal | Find constraints that are perhaps badly named. Table names help us to ensure the uniqueness of the names within a schema and make the names more expressive and user-friendly. |
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| Notes | The query considers only locally-defined constraints, i.e., constraints that are not inherited. The query considers a possibility that underscores (_) in the table name have been removed from the constraint/index name. |
| Type | Problem detection (Each row in the result could represent a flaw in the design) |
| Reliability | Medium (Medium number of false-positive results) |
| License | MIT (opens in new tab) |
| Fixing Suggestion | Use the table name in the constraint names and index names. A problem is that by default a PostgreSQL identifier may be at most 63 bytes long. Thus, in case of long table names one may have to shorten the name in the constraint or index names. It is important to do this consistently. Do not shorten the table name. |
| Data Source | system catalog only |
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Collections
This query belongs to the following collections:
Find problems about names
A selection of queries that return information about the names of database objects. Contains all the types of queries - problem detection, software measure, and general overview.
Find problems automatically
Queries, that results point to problems in the database. Each query in the collection produces an initial assessment. However, a human reviewer has the final say as to whether there is a problem or not .
| Name | Description |
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| Find problems about names | A selection of queries that return information about the names of database objects. Contains all the types of queries - problem detection, software measure, and general overview. |
| Find problems automatically | Queries, that results point to problems in the database. Each query in the collection produces an initial assessment. However, a human reviewer has the final say as to whether there is a problem or not . |
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.
Naming
Queries of this category provide information about the style of naming.
| Name | Description |
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| Comfortability of database evolution | Queries of this category provide information about the means that influence database evolution. |
| Naming | Queries of this category provide information about the style of naming. |
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