postgresql-table-design

postgresql-table-design is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from is-bo/fullstack-forge-skill. It costs 37 tokens per session (4,005 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of postgresql-table-design, Apache-2.0.

A guide to designing and reviewing PostgreSQL database tables, including columns, relationships, constraints, and indexes. PostgreSQL is a relational database that stores structured data in tables.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when creating or reviewing schemas for users, orders, events, and other application data, especially when choosing data types, keys, constraints, or indexes.
Why use it?
It helps prevent duplicated data, invalid records, and slow queries caused by poor table design. It also covers PostgreSQL-specific behavior that can lead to 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/is-bo/fullstack-forge-skill/postgresql
Any agent
npx skills add is-bo/fullstack-forge-skill --skill postgresql
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/is-bo/fullstack-forge-skill

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,005 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 98% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00037 $0.04005
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.02003
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00801
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00400

Measured yesterday against content hash 3170aed913a5, 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 yesterday.

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

This is a copy

98% identical to postgresql-table-design — 237 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

third_party/agent-skills/wshobson-agents/content/plugins/database-design/skills/postgresql/SKILL.md · 203 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 203 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 · 203 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. yesterday First seen · 203 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A 3170aed913a5

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postgresql-table-design is a skill published in the GitHub repository is-bo/fullstack-forge-skill (2 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 4,005 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 98% identical to postgresql-table-design, differing in 237 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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