PG-Capture
Infrastructure
change data capture
SHOW HN2025
How HN took it
2 positive, 5 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 2 critical, out of 10 comments about the project. Thread score +0.04.
Idea: 2 for, 1 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Idea of turning Postgres triggers into queue events is appealing
From 2 comments
Thanks for sharing, even though I don't use Algolia or Elastic but I love the idea of tracking Postgres Triggers and sending it to the queue and sending wherever you need it.…
srameshc on HNThis looks awesome, was hoping for an easier way to use debezium for event capture and will try it
nylonstrung on HN
Objections
Documentation is very early
From 1 comment
Looks pretty promising, would be great to see some more documentation around pushing data out to elastic, etc. Small nit, the GitHub link at the bottom of the page leads to…
dark_ph0enix on HN
Full reindex and ETL design concerns about joins on production database
From 1 comment
There are many ways to do ETL (extract, transform, load). Probably if your transform function is a no-op, you are doing it wrong though (see below for why). Extract and load are…
jillesvangurp on HN
package.json license field inconsistent with added MIT license
From 1 comment
The package.json still says ISC.
LorenzoGood on HN
Requests
More documentation on pushing data to Elastic
From 1 comment
Looks pretty promising, would be great to see some more documentation around pushing data out to elastic, etc. Small nit, the GitHub link at the bottom of the page leads to…
dark_ph0enix on HN
Comparison with existing tools like PGSync
From 2 comments
Hi, congrats on the show HN. Is it possible for you to Provide some comparison of this tool against other existing tools that can sync Postgres to Elastic or other third-party…
wanderingmind on HNHow does this compare to PGSync? (https://pgsync.com/)
ahnick on HN
Add a license to the repo
From 1 comment
Please don't forget to add a license to your GH repo as I doubt very seriously the "license" field in package.json is authoritative, and doubly so since I think that's one of the…
mdaniel on HN
Questions
Does it work with Prisma?
From 1 comment
Does this work out of the box with Prisma?
cuuupid on HN
What is used for search currently?
From 1 comment
What do you use for search then? Out of curiosity.
MarekDlugos on HN
Alternatives named
PGSync
From 1 comment
How does this compare to PGSync? (https://pgsync.com/)
ahnick on HN
Debezium
From 1 comment
Thanks for sharing, even though I don't use Algolia or Elastic but I love the idea of tracking Postgres Triggers and sending it to the queue and sending wherever you need it.…
srameshc on HN