Base table columns for recording geographic coordinates (based on column names)

Query goal:

Find base table columns that are according to the name meant for recording coordinates.

Query type:

General (Overview of some aspect of the database.)

Query license:

MIT License

Data source:

INFORMATION_SCHEMA only

SQL query:

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SELECT table_schema, table_name, column_name, data_type
FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.columns
WHERE column_name~*'(pikkuskr|laiuskr|pikkus_kr|laius_kr|koordin|latitude|longitude|coord)' AND 
(table_schema, table_name) IN (SELECT table_schema, table_name
FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.tables WHERE table_type='BASE TABLE') AND 
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)
ORDER BY table_schema, table_name, ordinal_position;

Collections where the query belongs to

Collection name	Collection 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 .

Collection name

Collection 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 .

Categories where the query belongs to

Category name	Category description
Data types	Queries of this category provide information about the data types and their usage.
Result quality depends on names	Queries of this category use names (for instance, column names) to try to guess the meaning of a database object. Thus, the goodness of names determines the number of false positive and false negative results.

Category name

Category description

Data types

Queries of this category provide information about the data types and their usage.

Result quality depends on names

Queries of this category use names (for instance, column names) to try to guess the meaning of a database object. Thus, the goodness of names determines the number of false positive and false negative results.

Reference materials for further reading

Reference
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6665894/what-is-the-best-way-to-store-geographic-coordinate-data-in-a-database
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1023229/spatial-data-in-postgresql

Reference

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6665894/what-is-the-best-way-to-store-geographic-coordinate-data-in-a-database

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1023229/spatial-data-in-postgresql