# dryrun MCP Server

PostgreSQL schema intelligence from a committed snapshot. No connection, no credentials.

**Publisher claimed.** No tool list reported, and Pod has not connected to this server.

## Status

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## Connect

Published as `@boringsql/dryrun` on npm. Runs locally.

## Known issues

**7 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team.** Issues filed by the project's own owners, members and collaborators are excluded — those are release checklists and internal refactors, not things that will go wrong for you. Showing 5.

### Most discussed

### validate_query returns valid: true for format() placeholders inside RAISE EXCEPTION

## Summary

`validate_query` currently reports `valid: true` for a PL/pgSQL block that should fail at runtime because `format()` has more `%s` placeholders than arguments inside a `RAISE EXCEPTION` expression.

I hit this while evaluating dryrun v0.8.0 as a migration-safety guardrail. This is reproducible through the MCP `validate_query` tool once a schema is loaded.

## Minimal repro

Run dryrun MCP with any loaded schema, then call `validate_query` with:

```sql
DO $$
BEGIN
  RAISE EXCEPTION '

[Read the thread](https://github.com/boringSQL/dryrun/issues/32) · 2026-05-28 · open · external user · 1 comment

### Backend support for multiple databases

Projects might work with more than 1 database. DryRun needs to be extended to allow

- [x]  storage of multiple streams
- [x] figure out how to effectively work with multiple databases in CLI
- [ ] add multiple database support to MCP mode

[Read the thread](https://github.com/boringSQL/dryrun/issues/4) · 2026-04-29 · closed · 1 comment

### No MCP tool to use production database connection

As part of security story, DryRun MCP must not require at any time connection to production database.

[Read the thread](https://github.com/boringSQL/dryrun/issues/24) · 2026-05-24 · open · 0 comments

### capture-time schema filtering (--schema flag and [capture] config)

Problem

All capture commands (dump-schema, init, snapshot take, snapshot activity) introspect every user schema in the database. There's no way to restrict capture to specific schemas.

Our use case: we have a schema with no PII and a public schema containing personal data (emails, names). We want to use dryrun's offline MCP capabilities but can't commit the snapshot to our repo because it includes public schema objects.

Post-load filtering exists in MCP tools (schema parameter on list_tables,

[Read the thread](https://github.com/boringSQL/dryrun/issues/22) · 2026-05-19 · open · external user · 0 comments

### Allow refresh of snapshots without restart of MCP server

Right now MCP via `HistoryStore::get_annotated()` reads from ~/.dryrun/history.db once, fills in memory cache and is never refreshed. Said memory cache is going to be quite large.

Requirements:
- updated snapshots should be automatically detected (as CLI might update it behind the scene)
- most likely drop the cache (might be worth only for thousands of DB objects large databases)

[Read the thread](https://github.com/boringSQL/dryrun/issues/10) · 2026-05-02 · open · 0 comments

[See all 7 reports Pod holds for dryrun](/mcp/dryrun/issues).

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