pg_anon caught 1 of my 8 PII columns. My schema isn't in English.

pg_anon found 1 of the 8 personal-data columns in my PostgreSQL database. The one it caught was email , and only because "email" is spelled the same in Spanish and English. The other seven — nombre , apellido , telefono , direccion , fecha_nac , tarjeta_ult4 and rut — walked straight through, unmasked. pg_anon is the open TantorLabs tool that masks personal data in PostgreSQL: it scans the database, flags the sensitive columns, and dumps a masked copy. Like pg_dump , but covering the sensitive parts on the way out. Exactly what you want before handing a colleague a copy of production. So I fed it a Chilean database and watched it miss almost everything — no error, no warning. It finished successfully and handed me a dump with names and national IDs still in cleartext. What the scan actually does Two filters, in order. First it reads each column's name against a set of regexes ( ^email$ , ^phone$ , ^ssn$ …). To the columns left over, it opens the data and tries patterns on the value (an email's @ , a card's 16 digits). Whatever no filter catches passes through. The rules in the demo meta-dict it ships with are written for English schemas. Mine aren't. 1 of 8 Column Holds Stock rules email email ✅ nombre first name ❌ apellido surname ❌ telefono phone ❌ direccion address ❌ fecha_nac birth date ❌ tarjeta_ult4 card digits ❌ rut national ID ❌ email got caught by name (it's an English word) and confirmed by its @ . Everything else has a Spanish name no stock rule looks for. The rut is the clearest miss. A RUT looks like 7917183-2 : seven or eight digits, a dash, and a mod-11 check digit that can be the letter K . The only national-ID rule pg_anon ships with is ssn . It has no idea what a RUT is — and it won't know a cpf (Brazil), dni (Spain, Argentina), curp (Mexico), nif (Portugal) or aadhaar (India) either. If your schema isn't American, the defaults miss your most sensitive column. The fix: a few lines of Spanish You teach it. Column names in your language, plus a conte