PostgREST
No written verdict yet. Here is what commenters said.
Why people recommend it
“Honorable mention - https://postgrest.org/”
“We made a very functional job queue in Postgres with PostgREST. highly recommend, as the automatic REST API makes building new clients a breeze”
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“And with PostgREST [0], you can automatically convert any PostGIS table”
“Or you could use Elixir with Postgrest and not have to bold on all this wonky 3rd paid tools”
“https://github.com/PostgREST/postgrest and https://github.com/koalaman/shellcheck are some popular ones”
Caveats and dissent
“but then it gets too complicated”
Often compared with
From the makers not counted in the ranking
“On PostgREST we recently added a strict no-LLM policy”
Threads where it came up
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- PostgreSQL for Everything 1 mention
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- Redox OS has adopted a Certificate of Origin policy and a strict no-LLM policy 1 mention
- Show HN: Replacebase – library to migrate away from Supabase 1 mention
Data: postgrest.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 10
“Honorable mention - https://postgrest.org/”
“We made a very functional job queue in Postgres with PostgREST. highly recommend, as the automatic REST API makes building new clients a breeze”
“We use that exact function [1]”
“And with PostgREST [0], you can automatically convert any PostGIS table”
“Or you could use Elixir with Postgrest and not have to bold on all this wonky 3rd paid tools”
“Is this offering an alternative to https://github.com/PostgREST/postgrest or a wrapper around it?”
“PostgREST doesn't provide a replacement, rather a subset of the SQL language meant to be safe to expose to untrusted (frontend) clients.”
“Another option is to use something like PostgREST”
“https://github.com/PostgREST/postgrest and https://github.com/koalaman/shellcheck are some popular ones”
“but then it gets too complicated”