# io.github.pgEdge/postgres-mcp MCP Server

Enterprise PostgreSQL MCP server with NL queries, hybrid search (pgvector+BM25), and web UI

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## Status

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## Connect

Published as `ghcr.io/pgedge/postgres-mcp:latest` on oci. Runs locally.

## Known issues

**62 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 12.

### Most discussed

### Need some help to setup a pgedge postgres MCP Server

Hi,

I am trying to set up your MCP Server but it does not seem to start properly.
I do not have enough logs to tell me whats wrong

Here is the log I can get:

```bash
pgedge-postgres-mcp  | Starting pgEdge Natural Language Agent...
pgedge-postgres-mcp  | Data directory: /var/lib/pgedge/mcp-server
pgedge-postgres-mcp  | Starting MCP server
pgedge-postgres-mcp  | Connected to database: xxx_reader@xxx:5432/xxx
pgedge-postgres-mcp  | Authentication: DISABLED
pgedge-postgres-mcp  | Starting MCP ser

[Read the thread](https://github.com/pgEdge/pgedge-postgres-mcp/issues/145) · 2026-05-06 · closed · external user · 4 comments

### Add multi-host connection support for high availability and failover

## Summary

Add support for libpq multi-host connection strings, enabling automatic failover and read-write routing across multiple PostgreSQL servers.

## Motivation

Production PostgreSQL deployments commonly use streaming replication with multiple nodes. The MCP server currently accepts a single host and port per database connection, requiring users to point at a single server with no failover capability. Adding multi-host support lets pgx try each configured host in order and connect to whic

[Read the thread](https://github.com/pgEdge/pgedge-postgres-mcp/issues/96) · 2026-03-10 · closed · outside contributor · 11 comments

### Server should not exit when one of multiple configured databases is unreachable at startup

**Describe the bug**

When multiple databases are configured, the MCP server attempts to connect to all of them at startup. If any single database is unreachable (network issue, VPN not connected, temporary outage), the entire server exits with an error. This makes the server unusable in environments where not all databases are always accessible.

**To Reproduce**

1. Configure multiple databases, where one is temporarily unreachable:
```yaml
databases:
  - name: "local_db"
    host: "localhost"

[Read the thread](https://github.com/pgEdge/pgedge-postgres-mcp/issues/82) · 2026-02-25 · closed · external user · 4 comments

### `default_transaction_read_only` startup parameter breaks connections through PgBouncer/HAProxy

**Describe the bug**

The MCP server sends `default_transaction_read_only` as a PostgreSQL startup parameter when connecting to databases, even when `allow_writes: true` is configured. This causes connections through PgBouncer or HAProxy (in transaction/statement pooling mode) to fail, as these proxies do not support this startup parameter.

**Error message:**
```
ERROR: Failed to connect to database: unable to ping database: failed to connect to
`user=user_admin database=delivery_db`: 10.246.0.

[Read the thread](https://github.com/pgEdge/pgedge-postgres-mcp/issues/81) · 2026-02-25 · closed · external user · 3 comments

### Need a script and clear "quick start" documentation for running the MCP server standalone

There are scripts and getting started instructions for running the MCP with both the web and CLI clients, but not standalone.   Maybe the quick start should be titled something like "Running the MCP server with other clients and agents".

[Read the thread](https://github.com/pgEdge/pgedge-postgres-mcp/issues/80) · 2026-02-25 · closed · outside contributor · 4 comments

### Most recent

### pgedge-postgres-mcp server reports MCP protocol version 2024-11-05, incompatible with Streamable HTTP-only clients (e.g., OpenAI Codex)

The MCP server's initialize response always returns "protocolVersion": "2024-11-05", regardless of what protocol version the client requests. Confirmed via direct initialize calls:

- Cloud endpoint (server v1.0.0): reports 2024-11-05
- Upgraded staging test build (server v1.1.0-beta1): also reports 2024-11-05

So this isn't fixed by the version upgrade already in progress, it's present in every build tested so far.

Why it matters: "Streamable HTTP" as an MCP transport was introduced in protoco

[Read the thread](https://github.com/pgEdge/pgedge-postgres-mcp/issues/277) · 2026-08-24 · closed · outside contributor · 1 comment

### Default knowledgebase config in RPM ships enabled with invalid path

The default postgres-mcp.yaml shipped with the pgedge-postgres-mcp RPM package has the knowledgebase feature enabled with a hardcoded path that does not exist:

```
knowledgebase:
  enabled: true
  database_path: /usr/share/pgedge/pgedge-ai-kb/kb.db
```
The actual KB database filename is provider and model specific. For example:

```
kb-openai-text-embedding-3-small.db
kb-gemini-gemini-embedding-001.db
```
The file kb.db is never created by any package, so the server starts with a broken knowle

[Read the thread](https://github.com/pgEdge/pgedge-postgres-mcp/issues/272) · 2026-08-17 · closed · outside contributor · 1 comment

### GET /api/user/info panics on a nil UserStore when HTTP auth is disabled

## Summary

`GET /api/user/info` with any `Authorization: Bearer <token>` header panics with a nil pointer dereference when the server is started with HTTP auth disabled (`-no-auth`, or any config with `http.auth.enabled: false`).

## Steps to reproduce

```
./bin/pgedge-postgres-mcp -http -addr localhost:8080 -no-auth -debug
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer anything" http://localhost:8080/api/user/info
```

Server log shows:

```
panic: runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer derefer

[Read the thread](https://github.com/pgEdge/pgedge-postgres-mcp/issues/269) · 2026-08-13 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

### Feature request: metadata-only trace mode (no query text or results)

**Context:** drydock (pgEdge Cloud's multi-tenant platform) wants a per-token/per-user audit trail for MCP tool calls — "which bearer token ran this query, when, did it succeed." The existing `trace_file` / `-trace-file` mechanism already logs exactly that shape of event (session ID, token hash, tool name, duration, success/failure), which is why it looked like the right fit at first.

**The problem:** `LogToolCall`/`LogToolResult` currently also serialize the full tool arguments and full tool r

[Read the thread](https://github.com/pgEdge/pgedge-postgres-mcp/issues/262) · 2026-08-12 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

### Simple deployment mode writes the database password to a plain-text, overly-readable file

**Priority:** Low

One deployment mode (multi-database setup via environment variables, not the mode our main hosted deployments use) writes a config file that contains a real database password in plain text, and that file ends up more widely readable than it needs to be.

This does not affect our main hosted deployments, which deliver the password a safer way. It only matters for anyone using the simpler, environment-variable-driven deployment mode.

[Read the thread](https://github.com/pgEdge/pgedge-postgres-mcp/issues/261) · 2026-08-12 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

### Query results aren't actually capped, despite the safety limit

**Priority:** High

The query tool is supposed to cap results at 1,000 rows for safety. It doesn't.

If a query happens to contain the word "limit" or "offset" anywhere in the text — even in an unrelated phrase like "credit limit" — the tool wrongly assumes a cap is already in place and returns the whole table instead of the requested number of rows.

Confirmed with a real test: asked for 5 rows back, got 387 instead.

There's also a related issue where the tool can tell the user the wrong page 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/pgEdge/pgedge-postgres-mcp/issues/260) · 2026-08-12 · closed · outside contributor · 1 comment

### Web client does not support MCP 2026-07-28 protocol

The server already supports both the old and new MCP protocols, but the web client is stuck on the old one. It always sends the legacy initialize handshake with protocolVersion: 2024-11-05 and never includes the modern protocol headers. The only way to test the 2026-07-28 path right now is through curl.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Open the GUI and check the browser Network tab
2. All requests to /mcp/v1 use the old handshake with protocolVersion: 2024-11-05
3. No MCP-Protocol-Version header is pres

[Read the thread](https://github.com/pgEdge/pgedge-postgres-mcp/issues/259) · 2026-08-12 · closed · outside contributor · 1 comment

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