postgresql-table-design

postgresql-table-design is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from BidingCC/BuildingAI. It costs 31 tokens per session (4,158 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide to designing tables for PostgreSQL, a database system that stores information in related tables. It covers columns, data types, rules that protect data and indexes that speed up searches.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps choose types, primary keys, foreign keys, required fields, defaults, unique constraints, indexes and time or money representations.
Why use it?
It helps avoid duplicated data, invalid values and slow queries when creating a database schema. It also explains PostgreSQL-specific behaviors that can cause unexpected results.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/bidingcc/buildingai/postgresql-table-design
Any agent
npx skills add BidingCC/BuildingAI --skill postgresql-table-design
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/BidingCC/BuildingAI

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 31 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,158 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
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 $0.00031 $0.04158
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.02079
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00832
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00416

Measured 4d ago against content hash e9106c7b7f3a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

postgresql-table-design 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 4d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

8 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

skills/postgresql-table-design/SKILL.md · 298 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 298 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

PostgreSQL Table Design

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. Premature denormalization creates maintenance burden.
  • Add NOT NULL everywhere it’s 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 integer values, DOUBLE PRECISION for floats (or NUMERIC for exact decimal arithmetic).

PostgreSQL “Gotchas”

  • Identifiers: unquoted → lowercased. Avoid quoted/mixed-case names. Convention: use snake_case for table/column names.
  • 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). Example: inserting 999 into NUMERIC(2,0) fails with error, unlike some databases that silently truncate or round.
  • Sequences/identity have gaps (normal; don't "fix"). Rollbacks, crashes, and concurrent transactions create gaps in ID sequences (1, 2, 5, 6...). This is expected behavior—don't try to make IDs consecutive.
  • Heap storage: no clustered PK by default (unlike SQL Server/MySQL InnoDB); CLUSTER is one-off reorganization, not maintained on subsequent inserts. Row order on disk is insertion order unless explicitly clustered.
  • MVCC: updates/deletes leave dead tuples; vacuum handles them—design to avoid hot wide-row churn.

Read the full file on GitHub · 298 lines

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. 4d ago First seen · 298 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A e9106c7b7f3a

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postgresql-table-design is a skill published in the GitHub repository BidingCC/BuildingAI (1,875 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 4,158 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.

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