pg_snakeoil

Overview

MIXED 3rd Party Extension: pg_snakeoil : The PostgreSQL Antivirus

Information

• Extension ID: 7170
• Extension Name: pg_snakeoil
• Package Name: pg_snakeoil
• Category: SEC
• License: PostgreSQL
• Website: https://github.com/credativ/pg_snakeoil
• Language: C
• Extra Tags: N/A
• Comment:

Metadata

• Latest Version: 1
• Postgres Support: 17,16,15,14,13
• Need Load: Explicit Loading Required
• Need DDL: Dd not need CREATE EXTENSION DDL
• Relocatable: Can not install to arbitrary schema
• Trusted: Untrusted, Require Superuser to Create
• Schemas: N/A
• Requires: N/A

RPM / DEB

• RPM Repo: PIGSTY
• RPM Name: pg_snakeoil_$v*
• RPM Ver : 1
• RPM Deps: N/A
• DEB Repo: PGDG
• DEB Name: postgresql-$v-snakeoil
• DEB Ver : 1
• DEB Deps: N/A

Packages

Installation

Install pg_snakeoil via the pig CLI tool:

pig ext install pg_snakeoil

Install pg_snakeoil via Pigsty playbook:

./pgsql.yml -t pg_extension -e '{"pg_extensions": ["pg_snakeoil"]}' # -l <cls>

Install pg_snakeoil RPM from YUM repo directly:

dnf install pg_snakeoil_17*;
dnf install pg_snakeoil_16*;
dnf install pg_snakeoil_15*;
dnf install pg_snakeoil_14*;
dnf install pg_snakeoil_13*;

Install pg_snakeoil DEB from APT repo directly:

apt install postgresql-17-snakeoil;
apt install postgresql-16-snakeoil;
apt install postgresql-15-snakeoil;
apt install postgresql-14-snakeoil;
apt install postgresql-13-snakeoil;

Extension pg_snakeoil has to be added to shared_preload_libraries

shared_preload_libraries = 'pg_snakeoil'; # add to pg cluster config

Extension %s does not need CREATE EXTENSION command