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Installation

pgEdge Anonymizer is open-source and licensed with the PostgreSQL license. You can download pgEdge Anonymizer source code from the pgEdge repository.

Prerequisites

Before building Anonymizer, install:

  • Go 1.24 or later
  • PostgreSQL 12 or later
  • Make (optional, for using Makefile targets)

Building Anonymizer from Source

To build Anonymizer from source, clone the pgedge-anonymizer repository:

git clone https://github.com/pgedge/pgedge-anonymizer.git
cd pgedge-anonymizer

Then, use make build to build anonymizer:

make build

The make build command installs dependencies (if needed) and creates the pgedge-anonymizer binary in the /bin directory in your current directory.

When the installation completes, you can use the following command to see pgEdge Anonymizer help information:

pgedge-anonymizer help