Signature verification failed with 'UnknownError' error.
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100
Research direction
No repository file, test, or entry point is named. Start by reproducing installation of the PostgreSQL extension in a remote project with the reported VS Code version, then investigate the signature-verification failure; done means the extension installs successfully on the remote machine.
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Description
Describe the bug
The extension fail to install in a remote machine:
Cannot install 'PostgreSQL' extension because Visual Studio Code cannot verify the extension signature
Signature verification failed with 'UnknownError' error.
To Reproduce
Try to open a remote project.
Expected behavior
Have PostgreSQL installed.
Screenshots
VS Code version
Version: 1.137.0
Commit: 645f29cc3176500b4b5762ba887cf2a7f0ffdf2c
Date: 2026-09-08T13:43:59-07:00
Electron: 42.10.0
ElectronBuildId: 15109253
Chromium: 148.0.7778.280
Node.js: 24.18.1
V8: 14.8.178.38-electron.0
@github/copilot: 1.0.84.70.gdb75d0d
@github/copilot-sdk: 1.0.13-preview.4
OS: Darwin arm64 25.6.0
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- Stars
- 395
- Forks
- 33
- Avg merge
- 1h 46m
- Merged PRs (30d)
- 3
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