MCPg

A production-grade Model Context Protocol server for PostgreSQL — letting AI agents safely inspect, query, operate, and tune a Postgres database.*

Status: v0.5.0 released; trunk at 114 MCP tools. Beyond v0.5.0's surface (NL→SQL via Anthropic / OpenAI / Gemini, per-request SET ROLE multi-tenancy, server-side cursors, hybrid vector+FTS search, TimescaleDB wrappers, HTTP bearer-token auth, Prometheus /metrics, RLS testing, FK cascade graphs, and the rest of the Tier-A/B/C shortlist), trunk adds **Apache AGE graph

• Cypher** (six new tools — list_graphs, describe_graph, create_graph, drop_graph, run_cypher, generate_graph_diagram), read-replica routing (MCPG_REPLICA_URLS round-robins read-only queries across replicas with degraded-replica detection and primary fallback), and OIDC / JWT bearer-token validation (MCPG_AUTH_MODE=oidc swaps the static token for full JWT validation against an OIDC issuer's JWKS, with optional role-claim mapping that composes with the tenancy driver). CI matrix runs the integration suite against PostgreSQL 14, 15, 16, 17, and 18. See docs/cookbook.md for common agent recipes, docs/tour.md for the tool tour, CHANGELOG.md and docs/PROGRESS.md for detail.

Quick start

git clone https://github.com/devopam/MCPg && cd MCPg
uv sync
MCPG_DATABASE_URL=postgresql://localhost/mydb uv run mcpg

See the Installation Guide and User Guide to get started.

Goals

• Safe by default — read-only access mode, every SQL statement parsed and validated; no string-interpolated queries.
• Broad scope — both an application data access layer and a database operations toolkit (health checks, index tuning, EXPLAIN analysis), gated by an access mode.
• Test-driven — every feature backed by tests against a real Postgres (PG 14–17 in CI).
• Production-ready — connection pooling, scalability, multi-tenancy, thorough documentation.

Capability surface

• Catalog introspection — schemas, tables, columns, indexes, constraints, views, functions, triggers, sequences, partitions, policies, roles, grants, enums, domains, composite types, foreign-data wrappers, foreign servers, foreign tables, user mappings, publications, subscriptions, foreign keys, extensions, generated columns.
• Visualisation — generate_schema_diagram (Mermaid ER) + generate_fk_cascade_graph (Mermaid blast-radius graph of ON DELETE / ON UPDATE CASCADE FKs) + generate_graph_diagram (Mermaid view of an Apache AGE property graph).
• Structural diff — compare_schemas returns a typed diff between two schemas; validate_migration re-runs a candidate against a transient sample of real rows so failures the diff misses (NOT NULL on existing NULLs, CHECK violations, type narrowings) surface before apply.
• Query intelligence — run_select, run_select_parallel, explain_query, analyze_query_plan, why_is_this_slow, recommend_indexes, analyze_workload, check_database_health, detect_n_plus_one.
• NL → SQL — translate_nl_to_sql (Anthropic / OpenAI / Gemini via MCPG_NL2SQL_PROVIDER). Generated SQL passes through the same SafeSqlDriver allowlist as run_select before execution.
• Server-side cursors — open_cursor / fetch_cursor / close_cursor / list_cursors for pageable reads over millions of rows; each cursor holds a dedicated connection so long-lived cursors can't starve the main pool.
• Search — fuzzy_search (trigram), full_text_search, vector_search + vector_range_search + hybrid_search (pgvector + FTS via reciprocal-rank fusion), geo_search (PostGIS k-NN).
• Apache AGE graph + Cypher — list_graphs, describe_graph, run_cypher, create_graph, drop_graph, generate_graph_diagram. Write tools gated under MCPG_ALLOW_DDL.
• Composite + advisor tools — summarize_table (one-call snapshot), find_unused_objects, find_sensitive_columns (PII heuristic), lint_naming_conventions, test_rls_for_role (debug RLS as a target role), list_locks, find_blocking_chains, read_pg_stat_io (PG16+), generate_test_data (synthetic INSERT generator).
• Live ops & maintenance (gated) — list_active_queries, run_maintenance (VACUUM/ANALYZE), cancel_query, terminate_backend, run_write, run_ddl, enable_extension.
• Data movement — export_query / export_table (in-process CSV/JSON), dump_database / restore_database (subprocess gate), import_csv / import_json (COPY FROM STDIN + parametrised executemany), copy_table_between_databases (cross-DB pipeline).
• Event streams (gated) — subscribe_channel / poll_notifications / unsubscribe_channel / list_notification_subscriptions bridge PostgreSQL LISTEN / NOTIFY into the MCP tool-poll model.
• Staged migrations (gated) — prepare_migration clones a target schema into a shadow, applies the candidate SQL there, and surfaces the structural diff for review; validate_migration applies the candidate to a transient shadow with sample data; complete_migration / cancel_migration / list_pending_migrations round out the workflow.
• TimescaleDB hypertables (gated) — list_hypertables, list_chunks, create_hypertable, add_compression_policy, add_retention_policy. Degrade to available=false when the extension isn't installed.
• ORM bridges — eight read-only catalog → DSL exporters: generate_prisma_schema, generate_drizzle_schema, generate_sqlalchemy_models, generate_sqlc_schema, generate_diesel_schema, generate_jooq_config, generate_ent_schemas, generate_ecto_schemas.
• Observability — Prometheus /metrics endpoint on the HTTP transport + get_metrics_exposition MCP tool for stdio. Three series: mcpg_tool_calls_total{tool,status} (counter), mcpg_tool_duration_seconds_* (histogram).
• HTTP auth — MCPG_HTTP_AUTH_TOKEN for static bearer (default MCPG_AUTH_MODE=static); MCPG_AUTH_MODE=oidc for full JWT validation against an OIDC issuer's JWKS, with optional MCPG_OIDC_ROLE_CLAIM → PG role mapping.
• Multi-tenancy via SET ROLE — MCPG_DEFAULT_ROLE (static) and the X-MCPG-Role HTTP header drive a tenant driver that wraps every query in BEGIN ... SET LOCAL ROLE "<role>" ... so one MCPg process can serve N tenants from a single pool.
• Read-replica routing — MCPG_REPLICA_URLS round-robins force_readonly queries across replicas with degraded-replica detection + primary fallback; list_replicas reports per-replica health.

Documentation

• docs/installation.md — Installation Guide
• docs/user-guide.md — User Guide
• docs/tour.md — compact tool tour (start here for discovery)
• docs/cookbook.md — practical agent recipes (start here for common workflows)
• docs/tools.md — reference for every MCP tool
• docs/architecture.md — Architecture Document
• docs/security.md — threat model and security controls
• docs/scaling.md — scaling characteristics and tuning
• docs/adr/ — architecture decision records
• PLAN.md — master plan and phased roadmap
• docs/PROGRESS.md — live progress tracker (resume point)
• CONTRIBUTING.md — development setup and workflow
• CHANGELOG.md — release notes
• docs/release-notes-0.5.0.md — v0.5.0 release summary
• docs/release-notes-0.4.0.md — v0.4.0 release summary
• docs/release-notes-0.3.0.md — v0.3.0 release summary

License

MIT — see LICENSE. The vendored SQL-safety kernel at src/mcpg/_vendor/sql/ is also MIT-licensed; see NOTICE for provenance.

* : While best intent has been put to make it production grade, it is still a developmental project and is expected to have issues. Please refer to License Terms for details on indemnity.