Query goal: | Choose a suitable data type, field size, and default value. If the default value is shorter from the character maximum length, then spaces will be added to the end of the registered value. |
Query type: | Problem detection (Each row in the result could represent a flaw in the design) |
Query reliability: | High (Few or no false-positive results) |
Query license: | MIT License |
Fixing suggestion: | Perhaps the column should have type VARCHAR. |
Data source: | INFORMATION_SCHEMA only |
SQL query: | Click on query to copy it
WITH defaults AS (SELECT c.table_schema, t.table_type, c.table_name, c.column_name, CASE WHEN column_default IS NOT NULL THEN 'COLUMN' ELSE 'DOMAIN' END AS object_type, c.data_type, c.character_maximum_length, coalesce(c.column_default, domain_default) AS def_value FROM information_schema.columns AS c LEFT JOIN information_schema.domains d ON c.domain_schema=d.domain_schema AND c.domain_name=d.domain_name INNER JOIN INFORMATION_SCHEMA.tables AS t USING (table_schema, table_name) WHERE c.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) AND c.data_type='character' AND coalesce(c.column_default, domain_default) LIKE '%::bpchar' AND (column_default IS NOT NULL OR domain_default IS NOT NULL) ORDER BY c.table_schema, c.table_name, c.ordinal_position) SELECT table_schema, table_type, table_name, column_name, character_maximum_length, data_type, def_value, object_type FROM defaults WHERE char_length(trim(substring(def_value,'[''][^'']*['']'),'''')) <character_maximum_length ORDER BY table_type, table_schema, table_name; |
Collection name | Collection description |
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Find problems about base tables | A selection of queries that return information about the data types, field sizes, default values as well as general structure of base tables. 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 . |
Category name | Category description |
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Data types | Queries of this category provide information about the data types and their usage. |
Default value | Queries of this catergory provide information about the use of default values. |
Validity and completeness | Queries of this category provide information about whether database design represents the world (domain) correctly (validity) and whether database design captures all the information about the world (domain) that is correct and relevant (completeness). |