Postgres Best Practices

A solid reference for keeping your Postgres work clean and performant. Covers the fundamentals you actually need: schema design patterns, indexing strategies, query optimization techniques, and migration practices. The kind of skill that's most useful when you're about to make a decision you might regret later, like choosing between JSONB and a normalized table structure, or wondering why your query is crawling. It won't make you a database expert overnight, but it'll save you from common mistakes and give you a framework for thinking through database decisions systematically instead of guessing.

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last updated: Aug 21, 2026

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$ npx -y skills add neondatabase/postgres-skills --skill postgres-best-practices --agent claude-code

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Postgres Best Practices

Guidelines and best practices for working with Postgres, covering schema design, indexing, query optimization, and common pitfalls.

Supported Versions

This skill covers PostgreSQL 14 through 18. Version-specific features are tagged (e.g., [PG15+], [PG18+]); environment-dependent examples identify required privileges, extensions, or multi-node setup.

PostgreSQL provides 5 years of support per major version. Always run the latest minor release.