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A fast, open-source Postgres terminal written in Rust. or htop for Postgres

It works anywhere you have a standard PostgreSQL connection string.

Read-only by design: no DDL, DML, or automatic fixes.

Hi HN, I’m Alex, a longtime PostgreSQL and Rails/Go/Rust engineer.

I built pgbot because I often needed a quick explanation of what was happening inside a database without first deploying a dashboard, collector, telemetry stack, or separate database.

pgbot is an open-source 5.9 MB Go binary that connects directly to PostgreSQL and returns useful findings in seconds:

pgbot inspect — database health pgbot queries — expensive queries pgbot indexes — risky and unused indexes pgbot ask — answers for humans and agents MCP — lets coding agents inspect PostgreSQL directly

The diagnostic findings are computed deterministically in Go. They are not invented by an LLM.

pgbot is also read-only by design: it inspects the database but never applies changes. An agent can explain and prioritize the evidence, but it cannot silently modify production through pgbot.

Source: https://github.com/pgrundev/pgbot

I’d especially appreciate feedback about missing diagnostic checks, false positives, and the read-only safety model for coding agents.

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