pg_grpc
Call gRPC services directly from PostgreSQL
Get picks like this daily. Today's launch numbers, the top launches, AI and tech news, and a daily opportunity pick, straight to your inbox.
Want to reach these readers? Sponsor an issue.
HN · launched Apr 13, 2026 · 7 upvotes (top 61%) · 0 views
Niche: remote access and protocol clients · 88 launches, 9 in the last 7 days ▲ +29% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Data infrastructure
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
Visit website ↗ Source listing ↗
More like this: all 88 launches in remote access and protocol clients →
Could you build this?
No Building a PostgreSQL C extension that speaks HTTP/2 and gRPC requires deep knowledge of Postgres internals, memory contexts, and low-level network concurrency.
What it would actually take: Requires writing a PostgreSQL extension in C or Rust (pgrx) linking against gRPC Core/C++ or Tonic, carefully handling Postgres backend process architecture, signals, memory contexts (palloc), and async event loops within synchronous Postgres worker execution. Memory safety, connection pooling across transactions, and binary protobuf serialization/deserialization inside PG extensions demand deep systems programming and database internals expertise.
Discussion
1 comment analyzed.
Feature requests: Proto file and connection caching, Manual port file loading support
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 200 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #124 of 201 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 164 days after the earliest competitor.
- armeria-grpc · github · 2026-10-22 · 21 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- justPostgres · github · 2026-09-09 · 46 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- pgsync · github · 2026-10-13 · 90 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Instant GraphRAG over any Postgres database · hn · 2026-07-07 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- PgNimbus 1.0, an open-source PostgreSQL client that sends no telemetry · hn · 2026-10-07 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- pgs3 · github · 2026-10-24 · 59 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Pglayers · hn · 2026-07-01 · 40 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Pgsemantic · hn · 2026-03-25 · 18 upvotes · similarity 0.50
The niche, labels, vibe code rating and competitor comparison on this page are analysis by Nicheloom. If you use them, please credit nicheloom.com. How you may use our data.