benbjohnson/postlite

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1228 stars · 37 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Postlite is a Go network proxy that exposes remote SQLite databases over the Postgres wire protocol, translating Postgres frontend messages into SQLite transactions and back. It also mirrors the pg_catalog via virtual tables so standard Postgres GUI tools and clients can connect to SQLite files.

Use cases

• connect psql or a Postgres GUI tool to a remote SQLite database
• administer SQLite databases over the network using Postgres clients
• run queries against SQLite files through the standard Postgres port 5432
• browse remote SQLite data with database management tools

When to choose

• you need to use Postgres-based GUI tools or psql against remote SQLite files
• you want a lightweight proxy without converting your databases to Postgres

When to avoid

• you need a maintained or production-ready solution (the project is explicitly unmaintained)
• you need full Postgres feature support rather than basic wire-protocol translation
• you only access SQLite locally and don't need network access

Facets

service · maturity abandoned

proxy database http-server databases developer-tools self-hosted windows cross-platform cli go postgres-wire-protocol sqlite network-proxy proof-of-concept unmaintained linux macos

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