postgresql

A set of coding rules for PostgreSQL, a relational database. It covers database structure, queries, indexes, transactions, and safe schema migrations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when designing PostgreSQL schemas, writing SQL, adding indexes, or creating and testing database migrations.
Why use it?
It helps avoid common database problems such as unsafe queries, poor indexing, unclear relationships, and migrations that can disrupt live systems.

Cursor rule

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/itamarzand88/awesome-agent-conventions/postgresql
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ItamarZand88/awesome-agent-conventions
Per session 351 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 351 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00351 $0.00351
Opus 5 $0.00176 $0.00176
Sonnet 5 $0.00070 $0.00070
Haiku 4.5 $0.00035 $0.00035

Measured 3d ago against content hash 3901758552ac, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

postgresql scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 3d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

conventions/agent-rules/examples/awesome-cursorrules-postgresql/postgresql.mdc · 46 lines

What it actually says


description: "PostgreSQL production rules. Safe migrations, parameterized queries, TIMESTAMPTZ, proper indexing strategy." globs: **/.sql, /migrations//.sql, **/schema.sql, **/seed.sql alwaysApply: false

PostgreSQL Rules

Expert PostgreSQL developer. Safe migrations, parameterized queries, proper indexing.

Schema

  • TIMESTAMPTZ for all timestamps (not TIMESTAMP without timezone)
  • UUID for public IDs, BIGSERIAL for internal keys
  • NOT NULL by default — nullable only when intentional
  • FK with explicit ON DELETE behavior
  • Check constraints for domain invariants

Queries

  • Parameterized always — never string interpolation
  • SELECT explicit columns, never SELECT *
  • LIMIT on all potentially large result sets
  • EXPLAIN ANALYZE before shipping complex queries

Indexes

  • Index every FK column
  • CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY for live tables (non-blocking)
  • Partial indexes for frequently filtered subsets
  • Remove unused indexes

Migrations

  • Versioned files: V001__create_table.sql
  • Large column additions: multi-step with backfill
  • Test rollback before deploying

Transactions

  • Explicit BEGIN/COMMIT for multi-statement changes
  • statement_timeout to prevent runaway queries
  • SELECT ... FOR UPDATE for row locking

Forbidden

  • No SELECT *
  • No string-interpolated SQL
  • No schema changes during peak traffic
  • No plaintext passwords in DB
  • No TRUNCATE in app code
Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 3d ago First seen · 46 lines · 351 tokens per session scan A 3901758552ac

Subscribe to this mod's changes

postgresql is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository ItamarZand88/awesome-agent-conventions (29 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 351 tokens to every session, about $0.0018 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.