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Turn what a system must guarantee into tables, keys and constraints — normalization judgement, nullability, foreign key behaviour, and naming that survives. Use when designing new tables, reviewing ORM models or a migration's DDL, or when a bug reduces to "the database allowed a row that should be impossible". Not for tuning a slow query, not for engine-specific syntax and features, and not for writing or running the migration that ships the change.
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# Schema design The schema is the last place a rule is still enforced. Application code, a background job, a psql session and next year's import script all write to the same tables; only the constraints apply to all of them. ## When this fires Designing new tables, adding columns to existing ones, reviewing ORM models or DDL in a migration, or when a defect traces back to the data model permitting an impossible state. It does not fire for a query that is merely slow — that is a plan problem, not a modelling one. ## Procedure 1. **Read the existing schema before proposing anything.** Get the real DDL, constraints and indexes for the tables involved — `\d+` in psql, `information_schema`, or the migration files if that is all the access you have. Note the conventions already in use: plural or singular table names, key style, timestamp columns. You are joining a schema, not starting one. 2. **Write each invariant as one sentence.** "An order belongs to exactly one customer." "A subscription has at most one active period at a time." "An email identifies at most one account." Derive these from behaviour and from what breaks when they are violated, not from the …
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Source
nahid-sparktales/agent-dispatcher · 58 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-24 · branch main
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