PgExtAssure
pre-admission security evidence for PostgreSQL extensions
Details
- External ID
- 49397454
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- PgExtAssure
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Aug. 22, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.12634408602150538
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- security exploits and system hacking tools
- Vertical
- Security
- Function
- Compliance & governance
- Audience
- B2B
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- security vetting for postgres extensions
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial Creating a CLI tool to run static checks on Postgres extension C/Rust code is feasible, but providing rigorous pre-admission security evidence requires deep knowledge of Postgres internals and binary sandboxing.
What it would actually take: The system requires a security evaluation pipeline utilizing static analysis (AST/LLVM passes), dynamic analysis, and symbol table auditing specifically targeted at PostgreSQL's server programming interface (SPI) and background worker hooks. The hard part is reliably detecting unsafe memory operations, unauthorized syscalls, and privilege escalation vulnerabilities within C or Rust extension binaries before runtime. It requires deep security engineering expertise in PostgreSQL internal memory contexts and binary static analysis.
Discussion
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Competitors
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Attention rank: #301 of 379 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 295 days after the earliest competitor.
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