# safegres
Pure-Postgres Row-Level Security auditor. No app framework required. Drop it on any PostgreSQL database and get a structured report on grants, RLS enforcement, policy coverage, and risky SQL policy patterns.
safegres audits Row-Level Security from inside Postgres. It checks whether tables with grants are protected by RLS, whether policies actually cover the granted operations, and whether policy bodies contain risky patterns like permissive `true` checks, volatile functions, or role/session-based bypass logic.
```bash
npm install -g safegres
# Standard libpq env vars (PGHOST, PGPORT, PGUSER, PGPASSWORD, PGDATABASE)
export PGHOST=localhost PGUSER=postgres PGPASSWORD=password PGDATABASE=mydb
safegres audit
```
Per-field overrides (`--host`, `--port`, `--user`, `--password`, `--database`) and a full `--connection ` flag are also supported. See `safegres audit --help`.
## What it checks
| Code | Severity | Category | Check |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| A1 | critical | flags | RLS enabled but **0 policies** (effectively deny-all) |
| A2 | high | flags | Grants exist on a table with **RLS disabled** |
| A3 | medium | flags | RLS enabled but **`FORCE ROW LEVEL SECURITY` not set** (table owner bypass) |
| A4 | high | coverage | INSERT / UPDATE / DELETE grant with **no covering policy** for that verb |
| A5 | medium | coverage | SELECT grant with **no policy** (silent empty result) |
| A6 | info | coverage | UPDATE has `USING` but **no `WITH CHECK`** (row-smuggling surface) |
| A7 | high | anti-pattern | Trivially-permissive policy (`USING (true)` / `WITH CHECK (true)`) |
| P1 | high | anti-pattern | Policy body calls a **VOLATILE function** (per-row evaluation) |
| P5 | high | anti-pattern | Policy body references **`session_user`** / `current_user` / `pg_has_role(...)` |
Coverage is aggregated `(table, role) โ { hasUsing, hasWithCheck }` across every applicable permissive policy (FOR ALL + PUBLIC-role policies considered). Roles with `BYPASSRLS` are suppressed.
## Library use
```ts
import { Client } from 'pg';
import { getPgEnvOptions } from 'pg-env';
import { audit, renderPretty } from 'safegres';
const client = new Client(getPgEnvOptions());
await client.connect();
const report = await audit(client, {
excludeSchemas: ['my_private_schema']
});
console.log(renderPretty(report));
console.log(`${report.findings.length} findings`);
```
---
## Education and Tutorials
1. ๐ [Quickstart: Getting Up and Running](https://constructive.io/learn/quickstart)
Get started with modular databases in minutes. Install prerequisites and deploy your first module.
2. ๐ฆ [Modular PostgreSQL Development with Database Packages](https://constructive.io/learn/modular-postgres)
Learn to organize PostgreSQL projects with pgpm workspaces and reusable database modules.
3. โ๏ธ [Authoring Database Changes](https://constructive.io/learn/authoring-database-changes)
Master the workflow for adding, organizing, and managing database changes with pgpm.
4. ๐งช [End-to-End PostgreSQL Testing with TypeScript](https://constructive.io/learn/e2e-postgres-testing)
Master end-to-end PostgreSQL testing with ephemeral databases, RLS testing, and CI/CD automation.
5. โก [Supabase Testing](https://constructive.io/learn/supabase)
Use TypeScript-first tools to test Supabase projects with realistic RLS, policies, and auth contexts.
6. ๐ง [Drizzle ORM Testing](https://constructive.io/learn/drizzle-testing)
Run full-stack tests with Drizzle ORM, including database setup, teardown, and RLS enforcement.
7. ๐ง [Troubleshooting](https://constructive.io/learn/troubleshooting)
Common issues and solutions for pgpm, PostgreSQL, and testing.
## Related Constructive Tooling
### ๐ฆ Package Management
* [pgpm](https://github.com/constructive-io/constructive/tree/main/pgpm/pgpm): **๐ฅ๏ธ PostgreSQL Package Manager** for modular Postgres development. Works with database workspaces, scaffolding, migrations, seeding, and installing database packages.
### ๐งช Testing
* [pgsql-test](https://github.com/constructive-io/constructive/tree/main/postgres/pgsql-test): **๐ Isolated testing environments** with per-test transaction rollbacksโideal for integration tests, complex migrations, and RLS simulation.
* [pgsql-seed](https://github.com/constructive-io/constructive/tree/main/postgres/pgsql-seed): **๐ฑ PostgreSQL seeding utilities** for CSV, JSON, SQL data loading, and pgpm deployment.
* [supabase-test](https://github.com/constructive-io/constructive/tree/main/postgres/supabase-test): **๐งช Supabase-native test harness** preconfigured for the local Supabase stackโper-test rollbacks, JWT/role context helpers, and CI/GitHub Actions ready.
* [graphile-test](https://github.com/constructive-io/constructive/tree/main/graphile/graphile-test): **๐ Authentication mocking** for Graphile-focused test helpers and emulating row-level security contexts.
* [pg-query-context](https://github.com/constructive-io/constructive/tree/main/postgres/pg-query-context): **๐ Session context injection** to add session-local context (e.g., `SET LOCAL`) into queriesโideal for setting `role`, `jwt.claims`, and other session settings.
### ๐ง Parsing & AST
* [pgsql-parser](https://www.npmjs.com/package/pgsql-parser): **๐ SQL conversion engine** that interprets and converts PostgreSQL syntax.
* [libpg-query-node](https://www.npmjs.com/package/libpg-query): **๐ Node.js bindings** for `libpg_query`, converting SQL into parse trees.
* [pg-proto-parser](https://www.npmjs.com/package/pg-proto-parser): **๐ฆ Protobuf parser** for parsing PostgreSQL Protocol Buffers definitions to generate TypeScript interfaces, utility functions, and JSON mappings for enums.
* [@pgsql/enums](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@pgsql/enums): **๐ท๏ธ TypeScript enums** for PostgreSQL AST for safe and ergonomic parsing logic.
* [@pgsql/types](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@pgsql/types): **๐ Type definitions** for PostgreSQL AST nodes in TypeScript.
* [@pgsql/utils](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@pgsql/utils): **๐ ๏ธ AST utilities** for constructing and transforming PostgreSQL syntax trees.
### ๐ Documentation & Skills
* [constructive-skills](https://github.com/constructive-io/constructive-skills): **๐ Platform documentation and AI agent skills** โ feature catalog, blueprint reference, SDK guides (i18n, billing, limits, events, uploads, security, entities, search, AI), and deployment guides.
Install skills for AI coding agents:
```bash
# All platform skills (security, blueprints, codegen, billing, etc.)
npx skills add constructive-io/constructive-skills
# Individual repo skills (pgpm, testing, CLI, search, etc.)
npx skills add https://github.com/constructive-io/constructive --skill pgpm
npx skills add https://github.com/constructive-io/constructive --skill constructive-testing
```
## Credits
**๐ Built by the [Constructive](https://constructive.io) team โ creators of modular Postgres tooling for secure, composable backends. If you like our work, contribute on [GitHub](https://github.com/constructive-io).**
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