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pg_redact: Content-aware PII redaction with Jev, enforced in Postgres
A Neon blog post introducing pg_redact, a demo support inbox that uses the Jev classification model to label PII candidate spans and stores them as JSONB beside each message body. It defines two SQL functions, pii_sensitivity() and redact(), which rank PII types and mask spans above a viewer role's clearance.
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Provides a working pattern for enforcing content-level redaction inside PostgreSQL with SQL functions and role clearances rather than masking only in application code.
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