https://github.com/rustprooflabs/pgfaker
Postgres extension to provide fake data for test databases, performance testing, and other demo purposes.
https://github.com/rustprooflabs/pgfaker
Last synced: 4 months ago
JSON representation
Postgres extension to provide fake data for test databases, performance testing, and other demo purposes.
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/rustprooflabs/pgfaker
- Owner: rustprooflabs
- License: mit
- Created: 2023-05-27T23:02:21.000Z (about 3 years ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2024-03-22T00:22:49.000Z (about 2 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-10-07T22:40:02.849Z (8 months ago)
- Language: Shell
- Size: 10.7 KB
- Stars: 5
- Watchers: 1
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
-
Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
Awesome Lists containing this project
README
# PgFaker
Postgres extension to provide fake data for test databases, performance testing,
and other demo purposes.
The `pgfaker` extension is built using the Rust
[pgrx framework](https://github.com/tcdi/pgrx).
## Getting started
```sql
CREATE EXTENSION pgfaker;
```
```sql
SELECT pgfaker.company(), pgfaker.person_first_name(), pgfaker.person_last_name(),
pgfaker.person_prefix(), pgfaker.person_suffix(), pgfaker.email(),
pgfaker.phone(),
pgfaker.slogan(), pgfaker.username(), pgfaker.domain()
;
```
```bash
┌─[ RECORD 1 ]──────┬─────────────────────────────┐
│ company │ Jacobson-Wyman │
│ person_first_name │ Adell │
│ person_last_name │ Treutel │
│ person_prefix │ Mr. │
│ person_suffix │ Jr. │
│ email │ mwhite6@glover.net │
│ phone │ (907) 125-0407 │
│ slogan │ Configurable scalable users │
│ username │ dwalker │
│ domain │ weissnat.name │
└───────────────────┴─────────────────────────────┘
```
## Creating installer for your system
Currently no pre-packaged installers are available. The following steps walk through
creating a package on a typical Ubuntu based system with Postgres 14.
These steps assume cargo pgrx is already installed.
The `fpm` step requires the `fpm` Ruby gem.
```bash
sudo apt install ruby-rubygems
sudo gem i fpm
```
> Timing note: `cargo pgrx package` takes ~ 2 minutes on my main dev machine.
```bash
cargo pgrx package --pg-config /usr/lib/postgresql/15/bin/pg_config
cd target/release/pgfaker-pg15/
find ./ -name "*.so" -exec strip {} \;
OUTFILE=pgfaker.deb
rm ${OUTFILE} || true
fpm \
-s dir \
-t deb -n pgfaker \
-v 0.0.1 \
--deb-no-default-config-files \
-p ${OUTFILE} \
-a amd64 \
.
sudo dpkg -i --force-overwrite ./pgfaker.deb
```