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pgfake

Deterministic data masking for PostgreSQL.

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Details

External ID
1406658744
Source
GITHUB
Company
—
Product
pgfake
Website domain
pgfake.dev
Launched
Oct. 6, 2026
Cohort
—
Upvotes
33
Upvotes percentile
0.60
Tags
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Enrichment

Niche
database and data quality tools
Vertical
Horizontal
Function
Compliance & governance
Audience
Developer
AI stance
Not AI
Project type
Hobby / open-source project
Normalized one-liner
deterministic data masking for postgresql
Manually corrected
False

Could you build this?

Partial The basic concept of pseudorandom substitution is simple, but building a robust, deterministic, referentially intact PostgreSQL masking tool requires deep database engine and schema-dependency knowledge.

What it would actually take: Requires deep PostgreSQL internals knowledge and database engineering. Architecture involves parsing Postgres schemas, foreign keys, and constraints, then generating deterministic pseudorandom substitutions via cryptographic PRNG seeds while preserving referential integrity, data types, and nullability across complex relational graphs.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one — 1632 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #545 of 1633 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 340 days after the earliest competitor.

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