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      "Title": "pg_kill's raw pool checkout has no `error` listener: a connection that drops mid-call takes the whole server down",
      "Excerpt": "## Context\n\n0.13.2 fixed \"the server exits when a connection it has checked out dies\" by routing checkouts through `acquireClient()` (`src/api.ts:652`), which keeps an `error` listener on the client for as long as it is out. The changelog says \"Every checkout now carries a listener for as long as it is out\" (`CHANGELOG.md:22`).\n\nOne checkout was missed. `pg_kill` calls `getPool().connect()` itself (`src/tools/admin.ts:505`) and attaches only a `notice` listener (`:510`). It is the only checkout…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/YawLabs/postgres-mcp/issues/57",
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      "Title": "pg_kill documents a permission denial as `signaled: false` plus a NOTICE; postgres raises 42501 and the tool returns an error",
      "Excerpt": "## Context\n\n`pg_kill`'s description, its output-schema comment and its handler comment all say a permission denial comes back as a *successful* response: `signaled: false`, with postgres's NOTICE in `note`. It does not. PostgreSQL **raises** (SQLSTATE `42501`) when the role may not signal the target, so `pg_kill` returns an error and `note` is never built.\n\nWhere the wrong contract is stated (`main` at a94cf1f):\n\n- `src/tools/admin.ts:453-456`, the agent-facing tool description: \"When…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/YawLabs/postgres-mcp/issues/56",
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      "Title": "POSTGRES_MCP_SANDBOX fails open: typo'd value, Node fallback, and host-less DATABASE_URL all run unsandboxed without a word",
      "Excerpt": "## Context\n\n`POSTGRES_MCP_SANDBOX=1` asks the launcher to run the server under oam's `--permission` model. Filesystem and child processes are denied, and the network is pinned to the database's `host:port` (`bin/postgres-mcp.mjs:36-43`). Four measured paths leave the operator believing they are sandboxed when they are not. In none of them does anything on stderr mention the sandbox.\n\n### 1. Any value other than exactly `1` is ignored\n\n`bin/postgres-mcp.mjs:166` - `if…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/YawLabs/postgres-mcp/issues/41",
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      "Title": "An empty POSTGRES_AUDIT_LOG or POSTGRES_AUDIT_REDACT silently reads as unset -- the failure strict parsing exists to prevent",
      "Excerpt": "## Context\n\n`src/audit.ts:18-23` explains why audit config is parsed strictly. A typo'd value must not read as \"off\", because \"a security control that quietly disables itself is worse than none\". `POSTGRES_AUDIT_REDACT=yes` is singled out as dangerous, since it would silently write full SQL.\n\nAn **empty** value slips past that rule, for both flags:\n\n- `src/audit.ts:81-82` - `const value = raw.trim().toLowerCase(); if (value === \"\") return null;`\n- `src/audit.ts:96` - `POSTGRES_AUDIT_REDACT ...…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/YawLabs/postgres-mcp/issues/40",
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      "Title": "pg_kill writes no audit line: the only tool that signals other backends is invisible to POSTGRES_AUDIT_LOG",
      "Excerpt": "## Context\n\nEvery tool's SQL reaches the audit log through one of three helpers in `src/api.ts`: `runUserQueryAudited` (`:476`), `runInternal` (`:699`), or the `withSharedClient` runner (`:771`). `pg_kill` uses none of them. It takes a raw client and queries it directly:\n\n- `src/tools/admin.ts:505` - `const client = await getPool().connect();`\n- `src/tools/admin.ts:512` - `client.query(`SELECT ${fn}($1) AS signaled`, [pid])`\n\nSo with auditing on, cancelling a query or terminating a backend…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/YawLabs/postgres-mcp/issues/39",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-09-12T22:36:51.000Z",
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