[sridca]

> The idea is to provide a very neat json api to talk to postgres with a permissions model.

Just today I was looking for something like this! Any chance I can use only this json API service (using Heroku Postgres) without having to use the rest of Hasura?

[arkhamist]

We have considered this. We really liked what heroku did with their postgres service, especially the 'followers' feature. Considering hasura's core principle is not to reinvent things, we really want this integration to happen. However there are few technical challenges before this becomes a realistic option.

1. hasura-db requires few custom extensions (written in c) to be installed into postgres which is not possible in heroku's postgres.

2. hasura-db also makes some assumptions about authentication which is handled by the hasura platform.