Pglens
27 read-only PostgreSQL tools for AI agents via MCP
Details
- External ID
- 47564620
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Pglens
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- March 29, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 13
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.6660516605166051
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- ai agent infrastructure and tooling
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- postgresql tools for ai agents
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server wrapping standard PostgreSQL system catalog and information_schema queries into 27 read-only tool definitions.
Discussion
9 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Most Postgres MCP servers, Other query tools that expose basic list_tables
Concerns raised: No cost-based gate to block expensive query plans automatically, Full sequential scans on large tables not prevented, Context window bloat from internal/system tables
Feature requests: Custom schema white-listing to hide internal/system tables, Cost/complexity guardrail to block bad query plans automatically
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 2022 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #573 of 2023 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 151 days after the earliest competitor.
- Enterprise Postgres for AI and more, from prototype to production · hn · 2026-09-28 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.67
- Sqlsure · hn · 2026-07-11 · 43 upvotes · similarity 0.67
- Mu · hn · 2026-08-02 · 52 upvotes · similarity 0.67
- jevql · github · 2026-09-18 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- AgentSearch · hn · 2026-04-23 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- Selvedge · hn · 2026-05-08 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- Reusable MCP Playbooks for AI Agents · hn · 2025-10-31 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- SentinelGate · hn · 2026-03-26 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.63
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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