postgresql
Design PostgreSQL Schemas With Best Practices
PostgreSQL schema design can fail when data types, constraints, indexes, and migrations lack workload context. This skill turns entities, access patterns, and scale targets into PostgreSQL-specific design guidance.
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Using "postgresql". I need user and order tables with status tracking and reporting queries.
Expected outcome:
- A normalized users table with a stable identity key and unique email handling.
- An orders table with status checks, monetary precision, timestamps, and foreign key support.
- Indexes for user lookups, created time reports, and safe parent row updates.
Using "postgresql". Review my plan to store product attributes in JSONB.
Expected outcome:
- Guidance on when JSONB is appropriate and when regular columns are safer.
- Index choices for containment, key existence, scalar range filters, and generated columns.
- Constraint ideas that keep flexible attributes within expected shapes.
Using "postgresql". Plan a large event table with retention and tenant isolation.
Expected outcome:
- A partitioning approach based on time and retention operations.
- Row-level security considerations for tenant access control.
- Index and migration advice that limits write overhead and release risk.
Security Audit
SafeStatic analysis flagged Markdown backticks, SQL examples, and PostgreSQL terms as command execution and reconnaissance. Manual review found documentation-only schema guidance with no executable scripts, network access, prompt injection, or exfiltration intent.
Risk Factors
⚙️ External commands (85)
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Why this variant is first
sickn33-postgresql
2026-08-21
2025emma-postgresql
2026-08-21
Skillstore Score
Why this score Evidence Confidence: HighWhat You Can Build
Design a Feature Schema
Plan tables, keys, constraints, and indexes for a new PostgreSQL feature before implementation starts.
Review a Production Migration
Check schema changes for locking, rewrite, indexing, and rollback risks before a release.
Model Scalable Data Storage
Choose JSONB, partitioning, RLS, and extension patterns for growing data products.
Try These Prompts
Use the PostgreSQL skill to design tables for this feature. Entities are [entities]. Common queries are [queries]. Expected scale is [scale].
Review this PostgreSQL table plan for data type, nullability, key, and constraint choices. Call out changes that improve correctness and maintainability.
Given these PostgreSQL queries and table sizes, recommend indexes and explain each tradeoff. Include composite, partial, expression, GIN, GiST, or BRIN options when useful.
Audit this PostgreSQL migration plan for locking, rewrites, data backfill, RLS, partitioning, and rollback risk. Suggest a safer deployment sequence.
Best Practices
- Provide real access patterns, row counts, write rates, and retention needs before asking for design advice.
- Validate generated schema ideas with migrations, staging data, and PostgreSQL query plans.
- Prefer explicit constraints and indexes that match actual application behavior.
Avoid
- Do not copy example tables without adapting names, constraints, and indexes to your workload.
- Do not use JSONB as a replacement for core relational modeling.
- Do not run destructive DDL in production without backups, tests, and rollback planning.