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Re:MCP is a fad by h33t-l4x0r on Friday January 09, 2026 @06:20AM (#46552679)
Doesn't that require a complete lack of concern on the part of the postgres side? I feel like I'm missing something in terms of why anyone would even ever allow that.
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Re:MCP is a fad by apothegm on Friday January 09, 2026 @06:35AM (#46552776)
With a read only account, with access only to certain safe tables and views, for querying.
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Re:MCP is a fad by ACCount37 on Friday January 09, 2026 @06:44AM (#46552837)
In the same way giving an LLM shell access requires a complete lack of concern.

You can give an LLM a shell into a container sandbox with basically nothing in it, or root shell on a live production server, or anything in between. Same goes for how much database access you want to give an LLM with your MCP shims.

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Re:MCP is a fad by kobalsky on Friday January 09, 2026 @09:57AM (#46554537)
you can ask the LLM for an adhoc report. it can look at the schema, run the queries and give you the results. of course you can just give it read access.
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