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Use this skill when designing or reviewing a PostgreSQL-specific schema. Covers best-practices, data types, indexing, constraints, performance patterns, and advanced features

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PostgreSQL Table Design

When to Use

  • Designing a new PostgreSQL schema, or reviewing one before it ships.
  • Choosing column types, keys, constraints, or indexes for PostgreSQL specifically.
  • Deciding whether and how to partition a large table, or how to store semi-structured data.
  • Planning a schema change on a live database without downtime.

The rules and decision points for a PostgreSQL schema. The full data-type catalog, workload patterns (update-heavy, insert-heavy, upsert, schema evolution), extensions, JSONB indexing, and worked DDL examples are in references/details.md; open it when a section below points there.

Core Rules

  • Define a PRIMARY KEY for reference tables (users, orders, etc.). Not always needed for time-series/event/log data. When used, prefer BIGINT GENERATED ALWAYS AS IDENTITY; use UUID only when global uniqueness/opacity is needed.
  • Normalize first (to 3NF) to eliminate data redundancy and update anomalies; denormalize only for measured, high-ROI reads where join performance is proven problematic.
  • Add NOT NULL everywhere it is semantically required; use DEFAULTs for common values.
  • Create indexes for access paths you actually query: PK/unique (auto), FK columns (manual!), frequent filters/sorts, and join keys.
  • Prefer TIMESTAMPTZ for event time; NUMERIC for money; TEXT for strings; BIGINT for integers; DOUBLE PRECISION for floats (or NUMERIC for exact decimal arithmetic).

PostgreSQL Gotchas

  • Identifiers: unquoted → lowercased. Avoid quoted/mixed-case names; use snake_case.
  • Unique + NULLs: UNIQUE allows multiple NULLs. Use UNIQUE NULLS NOT DISTINCT (...) (PG15+) to restrict to one NULL.
  • FK indexes: PostgreSQL does not auto-index FK columns. Add them.
  • No silent coercions: length/precision overflows error out (no truncation). Inserting 999 into NUMERIC(2,0) fails, unlike databases that silently truncate or round.
  • Sequences/identity have gaps (normal; don't "fix"). Rollbacks, crashes, and concurrent transactions leave gaps (1, 2, 5, 6...).
  • Heap storage: no clustered PK by default; CLUSTER is a one-off reorganization, not maintained on later inserts.
  • MVCC: updates/deletes leave dead tuples; vacuum handles them—design to avoid hot wide-row churn.

Data Types

  • IDs: BIGINT GENERATED ALWAYS AS IDENTITY; UUID for distributed or opaque IDs, generated with uuidv7() (PG18+) or gen_random_uuid().
  • Numbers: BIGINT unless storage is critical; DOUBLE PRECISION over REAL; NUMERIC(p,s) for money and exact decimals.
  • Strings: TEXT, with CHECK (LENGTH(col) <= n) when a limit is needed; BYTEA for binary. Case-insensitive lookups: expression index on LOWER(col), or CITEXT when a constraint must be case-insensitive.
  • Time: TIMESTAMPTZ, DATE, INTERVAL. now() is transaction start; clock_timestamp() is wall clock.
  • Booleans: BOOLEAN NOT NULL unless tri-state is required.
  • Enums: CREATE TYPE ... AS ENUM only for small, stable sets; evolving business values get TEXT + CHECK or a lookup table.
  • JSONB over JSON, indexed with GIN, for optional/semi-structured attributes only.
  • Arrays, ranges, network, geometric, full-text, domain, composite, and vector types, plus TOAST storage and collation control: see references/details.md.

Types to avoid

AvoidUse instead
timestamp (without time zone)timestamptz
char(n), varchar(n)text (+ CHECK on length if needed)
moneynumeric
timetztimestamptz
timestamptz(0) or any precisiontimestamptz
serialgenerated always as identity

Constraints

  • PK: implicit UNIQUE + NOT NULL; creates a B-tree index.
  • FK: specify ON DELETE/UPDATE (CASCADE, RESTRICT, SET NULL, SET DEFAULT). Index the referencing column. Use DEFERRABLE INITIALLY DEFERRED for circular dependencies checked at commit.
  • UNIQUE: creates a B-tree index; allows multiple NULLs unless NULLS NOT DISTINCT (PG15+). Prefer NULLS NOT DISTINCT unless duplicate NULLs are wanted.
  • CHECK: row-local; NULL passes (three-valued logic). Combine with NOT NULL: price NUMERIC NOT NULL CHECK (price > 0).
  • EXCLUDE: prevents overlaps with operators, e.g. EXCLUDE USING gist (room_id WITH =, booking_period WITH &&) stops double-booking. Needs a GiST-capable type.

Indexing

  • B-tree: default for equality/range (=, <, >, BETWEEN, ORDER BY).
  • Composite: leftmost-prefix rule (WHERE a = ? AND b > ? uses (a,b); WHERE b = ? does not). Most selective columns first.
  • Covering: CREATE INDEX ON tbl (id) INCLUDE (name, email) for index-only scans.
  • Partial: hot subsets, CREATE INDEX ON tbl (user_id) WHERE status = 'active'.
  • Expression: CREATE INDEX ON tbl (LOWER(email)); the query must use the same expression.
  • GIN: JSONB containment/existence, arrays, full-text search. GiST: ranges, geometry, exclusion constraints.
  • BRIN: large, naturally ordered data (time-series) at minimal storage cost; effective when disk order correlates with the indexed column.

Partitioning

  • Use for large tables (>100M rows) whose queries consistently filter on the partition key, or where maintenance (pruning, bulk replacement) follows a key.
  • RANGE for time-series (PARTITION BY RANGE (created_at); TimescaleDB automates it with retention and compression), LIST for discrete values, HASH for even distribution without a natural key.
  • Constraint exclusion: the planner prunes partitions through their CHECK constraints; declarative partitioning (PG10+) creates them for you.
  • Prefer declarative partitioning or hypertables. Do NOT use table inheritance.
  • Limitations: no global UNIQUE constraints—include the partition key in PK/UNIQUE. FKs from partitioned tables need PG11+, FKs referencing a partitioned table need PG12+; on older versions, use triggers.

Examples

CREATE TABLE users (
  user_id BIGINT GENERATED ALWAYS AS IDENTITY PRIMARY KEY,
  email TEXT NOT NULL UNIQUE,
  name TEXT NOT NULL,
  created_at TIMESTAMPTZ NOT NULL DEFAULT now()
);
CREATE UNIQUE INDEX ON users (LOWER(email));
CREATE INDEX ON users (created_at);
CREATE TABLE orders (
  order_id BIGINT GENERATED ALWAYS AS IDENTITY PRIMARY KEY,
  user_id BIGINT NOT NULL REFERENCES users(user_id),
  status TEXT NOT NULL DEFAULT 'PENDING' CHECK (status IN ('PENDING','PAID','CANCELED')),
  total NUMERIC(10,2) NOT NULL CHECK (total > 0),
  created_at TIMESTAMPTZ NOT NULL DEFAULT now()
);
CREATE INDEX ON orders (user_id);
CREATE INDEX ON orders (created_at);
-- JSONB attributes with a generated, indexable scalar
CREATE TABLE profiles (
  user_id BIGINT PRIMARY KEY REFERENCES users(user_id),
  attrs JSONB NOT NULL DEFAULT '{}',
  theme TEXT GENERATED ALWAYS AS (attrs->>'theme') STORED
);
CREATE INDEX profiles_attrs_gin ON profiles USING GIN (attrs);

Going deeper

references/details.md holds the material this file only names:

  • The full data-type catalog: TOAST storage, collations, arrays, ranges, network, geometric, text search, domains, composites, vectors.
  • Table types (TEMPORARY, UNLOGGED) and row-level security.
  • Constraint and index notes, and partitioning DDL for RANGE, LIST, and HASH.
  • Workload patterns: update-heavy, insert-heavy, upsert design, safe schema evolution.
  • Generated columns and extensions (pg_trgm, citext, timescaledb, postgis, pgvector, and more).
  • JSONB indexing strategies, including jsonb_path_ops and extracted B-tree columns.

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