| Goal | Find user-defined routines that possibly use incorrect name of a system-defined function (currenttimestamp (correct is current_timestamp), currentdate (correct is current_date), currenttime (correct is current_time), local_time (correct is localtime), local_timestamp (correct is localtimestamp),localdate (there is no such function),local_date (there is no such function), sessionuser (correct is session_user), ucase (correct is upper), lcase (correct is lower)). The problem can arise only if the routine uses dynamic SQL. In case of static SQL the DBMS checks the SQL statemen at the creation time and finds out that for instance, SELECT Count(*) AS cnt FROM Emp WHERE hiredate<=currentdate; is incorrect statement because currentdate is not a function name and there is no column currentdate in the table Emp. |
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| Notes | Refers to the column pg_proc.prokind and thus works starting from PostgreSQL 11. 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. Names like currenttimestamp could be column or table names. In this case the query returns false positive results. |
| 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 | Use correct function names. |
| Data Source | INFORMATION_SCHEMA+system catalog |
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Categories
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Does not work in some earlier PostgreSQL version
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Syntactics
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System-defined functions
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User-defined routines
Queries of this category provide information about the user-defined routines
| Name | Description |
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| Does not work in some earlier PostgreSQL version | Queries of this category provide information that was not available in some earlier PostgreSQL version |
| Syntactics | Queries of this category provide information about syntactic mistakes. |
| System-defined functions | Queries of this category provide information about the use of system-defined functions. |
| User-defined routines | Queries of this category provide information about the user-defined routines |