@yawlabs/postgres-mcp 0.11.0 → 0.11.2

package/CHANGELOG.md

@@ -7,6 +7,37 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+## [0.11.2] - 2026-08-23
+
+### Fixed
+- **The launcher no longer dies with a raw stack trace when `spawn` fails.** Node throws synchronously rather than emitting `error` for some unexecutable targets — notably a `.cmd`/`.bat` on Windows — and the `error` listener is registered *after* the `spawn` call, so it could never observe that throw. Both failure modes now route through one handler.
+- **Windows `PATH` discovery accepts `oam.exe` only**, instead of walking every `PATHEXT` entry and returning an `oam.cmd` Node cannot execute. A skipped shim is still **named** in the diagnostic, so an npm-style install no longer reports as "no oam binary was found".
+- **A failing in-process fallback no longer escapes as an unhandled rejection.** `void runInProcess()` discarded the promise, replacing the launcher's own diagnostic with a raw stack trace.
+- **Diagnostics that precede `process.exit` are written synchronously.** stderr is async for TTYs and pipes on Windows, so the exit could truncate them. They route through one helper that also handles short writes and macOS `EAGAIN` on a non-blocking piped stderr.
+- Removed a literal backspace byte (`U+0008`) from the runtime-discovery comment, which made git treat the file as binary so its diff could not be reviewed.
+- **An oam that cannot be *run* is no longer reported as an *outdated* one.** The version probe returns null for several distinct causes — not executable, wrong architecture, a shim Node refuses, deleted since the stat, unparseable `--version` output — and every one produced "older than oam 0.9.0 … run `oam self-update`", pointing at the single cause it definitely was not. The two cases now carry separate wording and remedies, and the outdated message reports the version actually detected.
+
+## [0.11.1] - 2026-08-23
+
+### Fixed
+- **Windows: the launcher no longer hard-kills the server on the first Ctrl-C.** There are no POSIX signals on Windows — `child.kill(sig)` ignores the name and calls `TerminateProcess`, an immediate hard kill (verified: a child with a `SIGTERM` handler never runs it and dies with `code=null`). The launcher forwarded anyway, on the stated assumption that this was a "no-op on Windows", so it aborted the graceful shutdown the console's own Ctrl-C had just started and skipped the server's `process.on("exit")` cleanup. The console already delivers the event to the whole process group, so on Windows the launcher now forwards nothing.
+- **A wedged server no longer leaves the launcher hanging.** Forwarding was gated on `child.killed`, which records only that `kill()` was *called* — never that the child is gone — so every signal after the first was swallowed and there was no escape hatch. Escalation is now armed by a timer on the first signal: one press is enough, and a child still alive after a 2s grace window is killed. Using a timer rather than counting signals also stops the ordinary supervisor sequence (`SIGINT` then `SIGTERM` milliseconds apart) from being misread as impatience.
+
+### Documentation
+
+- **The README now carries a "What's new in 0.11.0" section.** The three
+  breaking changes lived only in this file, where someone upgrading from
+  0.10.x is unlikely to look before their first failing call -- and the
+  stats-envelope change fails at the call site rather than at install time,
+  since `data` becomes an object where it used to be an array.
+- **Both WSL scripts and the README document the `MSYS_NO_PATHCONV=1` prefix
+  they require when invoked from Git Bash on Windows.** Without it, Git Bash
+  rewrites the `/mnt/c/...` argument into the Git install prefix before
+  `wsl.exe` sees it, and the script exits "No such file or directory" having
+  run no tests at all. Piping either script into `tail`/`head` is also called
+  out, because the pipeline's exit status is the last command's -- so a red
+  matrix reports success.
+
 ## [0.11.0] - 2026-08-23
 
 ### Added

package/README.md

@@ -11,6 +11,23 @@ Built and maintained by [Yaw Labs](https://yaw.sh).
 
 One click adds this to your local Yaw MCP config so it's available in every Yaw Terminal session. Or install manually below.
 
+## What's new in 0.11.0
+
+PostgreSQL 18 support, a new I/O observability tool, and version-gated catalog queries. Full detail in the [CHANGELOG](CHANGELOG.md).
+
+**Three breaking changes if you are upgrading from 0.10.x:**
+
+1. **`pg_seq_scan_tables`, `pg_unused_indexes` and `pg_top_queries` return an envelope, not a bare row array.** Read `data.rows` where you used to read `data`. The envelope carries `stats_reset`, because a cumulative scan count means nothing without knowing when the counters were last reset -- if that happened an hour ago, every index looks unused, which is how a load-bearing index gets dropped.
+2. **`pg_explain` with `analyze: true` now emits `BUFFERS`**, matching what PostgreSQL 18 does server-side. Plans get longer; pass `buffers: false` for the old output.
+3. **Node 22 is the floor.** Node 20 reached end of life.
+
+**Worth knowing even if you are not upgrading yet:**
+
+- `pg_describe_table` now flags generated and identity columns. Previously a generated column's expression surfaced as `default_value` with nothing marking it, so an agent read the column as optional-with-a-default and wrote an `INSERT` that PostgreSQL rejects.
+- New `pg_io_stats` exposes `pg_stat_io` (PG16+) plus in-flight async I/O from `pg_aios` and the active `io_method` (PG18+).
+- `pg_advisor` checks multixact wraparound alongside transaction-ID wraparound. A lock-heavy workload can exhaust multixacts while `relfrozenxid` still looks healthy.
+- Every version-dependent column is gated on `server_version_num`, so older servers get a thinner answer rather than an error.
+
 ## Backstory
 
 Anthropic's reference Postgres MCP server, `@modelcontextprotocol/server-postgres`, was [archived in May 2025](https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/servers-archived/tree/main/src/postgres) and [marked deprecated on npm](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@modelcontextprotocol/server-postgres) in July 2025. Anthropic has not shipped a replacement. Despite the deprecation, the last published version (v0.6.2) is still pulled ~20,000 times per week - a lot of agents are pointed at an unmaintained package.

package/bin/postgres-mcp.mjs

@@ -97,13 +97,16 @@ function findOam() {
 
   // 2. PATH. Resolved manually rather than by spawning `which`/`where`, which
   //    would cost a subprocess on every launch just to decide whether to spawn.
-  const pathExt = isWin ? (process.env.PATHEXT ?? ".EXE").split(";").filter(Boolean) : [""];
+  // Windows: `.exe` ONLY -- deliberately narrower than PATHEXT. Node refuses to
+  // run a .cmd/.bat through execFile/spawn without `shell: true` (EINVAL, and
+  // for spawn it throws SYNCHRONOUSLY rather than emitting 'error'), so walking
+  // the full PATHEXT list would hand back a path this launcher cannot execute.
+  // Discovery has to agree with execution. A skipped shim is still reported --
+  // see findOamShim.
   for (const dir of (process.env.PATH ?? "").split(delimiter)) {
     if (!dir) continue;
-    for (const ext of isWin ? pathExt : [""]) {
-      const candidate = join(dir, isWin ? `oam${ext.toLowerCase()}` : "oam");
-      if (existsSync(candidate)) return candidate;
-    }
+    const candidate = join(dir, exe);
+    if (existsSync(candidate)) return candidate;
   }
 
   // 3. The per-user locations oamjs.org's installers write to. Checked because
@@ -193,8 +196,61 @@ function sandboxFlags() {
   return flags;
 }
 
+/**
+ * Write a diagnostic to stderr synchronously, so a following process.exit
+ * cannot truncate it.
+ *
+ * Not a bare writeSync: that call can short-write (it returns a byte count) and
+ * on macOS it can throw EAGAIN, because Node makes a piped stderr non-blocking
+ * there rather than blocking the write. Loop over the remaining bytes, and if
+ * stderr turns out to be unusable give up quietly -- failing to print a
+ * diagnostic is not worth crashing a stdio server over.
+ */
+async function errSync(message) {
+  const { writeSync } = await import("node:fs");
+  const buf = Buffer.from(message);
+  let off = 0;
+  for (let attempts = 0; off < buf.length && attempts < 1000; attempts++) {
+    try {
+      off += writeSync(2, buf, off, buf.length - off);
+    } catch (err) {
+      if (err?.code !== "EAGAIN") return;
+      // Pipe is full and the reader has not drained yet -- retry.
+    }
+  }
+}
+
+/**
+ * An oam-named .cmd/.bat on PATH: a real install in a shape this launcher
+ * cannot spawn. Reported rather than ignored, because "no oam binary was found"
+ * reads as "install oam" -- the one thing that will not help. Windows only;
+ * there is no such shim concept on POSIX.
+ */
+function findOamShim() {
+  if (!isWin) return null;
+  for (const dir of (process.env.PATH ?? "").split(delimiter)) {
+    if (!dir) continue;
+    for (const ext of [".cmd", ".bat"]) {
+      const candidate = join(dir, `oam${ext}`);
+      if (existsSync(candidate)) return candidate;
+    }
+  }
+  return null;
+}
+
 /** Run the server in THIS process. The zero-overhead fallback. */
 async function runInProcess() {
+  // A server may gate its bootstrap on being the process ENTRY POINT --
+  // `import.meta.url === pathToFileURL(process.argv[1]).href` -- so that its own
+  // test file can import the module for unit tests without connecting a stdio
+  // transport. Importing the server here would leave argv[1] pointing at THIS
+  // launcher, the guard would read false, and the server would load but never
+  // serve: the MCP handshake just hangs.
+  //
+  // Point argv[1] at the server first, so the in-process path is
+  // indistinguishable from having executed the file directly. The spawn path
+  // needs no equivalent -- there argv[1] is already the server.
+  process.argv[1] = SERVER_ENTRY;
   await import(SERVER_URL.href);
 }
 
@@ -204,8 +260,21 @@ if (mode === "node") {
   await runInProcess();
 } else {
   const oam = findOam();
+  // Read the version ONCE, and only when discovery found something: the
+  // gate below has to tell "too old" apart from "could not be read at all",
+  // and re-probing inside the branch would cost a second subprocess.
+  const found = oam ? oamVersion(oam) : null;
 
   if (!oam) {
+    // An oam-named .cmd/.bat on PATH is a real install in a shape this
+    // launcher cannot spawn. Naming it turns "no oam binary was found" --
+    // which reads as "install oam", the one thing that will not help --
+    // into something the user can act on.
+    const oamShim = findOamShim();
+    const shimNote = oamShim
+      ? `Found ${oamShim}, but Node cannot execute a .cmd/.bat directly.\n` +
+        "Install the native oam binary, or point OAM_BIN at one.\n"
+      : "";
     if (mode === "oam") {
       // Explicitly demanded, so this is a real misconfiguration -- do not
       // silently do something else. writeSync because stderr is async for
@@ -213,77 +282,154 @@ if (mode === "node") {
       const { writeSync } = await import("node:fs");
       writeSync(
         2,
-        "postgres-mcp: POSTGRES_MCP_RUNTIME=oam but no oam binary was found.\n" +
+        "postgres-mcp: POSTGRES_MCP_RUNTIME=oam but no runnable oam binary was found.\n" + shimNote +
           "Install from https://oamjs.org, set OAM_BIN=/path/to/oam, or use POSTGRES_MCP_RUNTIME=node.\n",
       );
       process.exit(1);
     }
+    // auto: falling back is correct, but silence is how someone never learns
+    // their oam install is a shape this launcher skips.
+    if (oamShim) await errSync(`postgres-mcp: ${shimNote}Using Node instead.\n`);
     await runInProcess();
-  } else if (!atLeast(oamVersion(oam), OAM_MIN)) {
-    // Discovery itself stays stat-only; this is the first subprocess, and it
-    // runs only once we have already decided to spawn oam anyway. Measured 26ms
-    // median (n=12, windows-arm64), paid once per MCP session.
+  } else if (!atLeast(found, OAM_MIN)) {
     const min = OAM_MIN.join(".");
+    // Two different causes reach this branch and they need different
+    // remedies. `found === null` is NOT "old": oamVersion returns null when
+    // the binary could not be run at all (not executable, wrong arch, a
+    // .cmd/.bat Node refuses, deleted between the stat and the probe) or
+    // when its --version output did not parse. Telling that user to
+    // `oam self-update` sends them after the one cause it definitely is not.
+    const detail = found
+      ? `${oam} is oam ${found.join(".")}, older than ${min}`
+      : `${oam} could not be run, or did not report a version this launcher understands`;
+    const remedy = found
+      ? "Run \`oam self-update\`, or use POSTGRES_MCP_RUNTIME=node.\n"
+      : "Check that it is an executable oam binary for this platform, or use POSTGRES_MCP_RUNTIME=node.\n";
     if (mode === "oam") {
-      const { writeSync } = await import("node:fs");
-      writeSync(
-        2,
-        `postgres-mcp: POSTGRES_MCP_RUNTIME=oam but ${oam} is older than oam ${min}.\n` +
-          `Run \`oam self-update\`, or use POSTGRES_MCP_RUNTIME=node.\n`,
-      );
+      await errSync(`postgres-mcp: POSTGRES_MCP_RUNTIME=oam but ${detail}.\n${remedy}`);
       process.exit(1);
     }
-    // auto: an old oam is a reason to prefer Node, not to fail. Say so, because
-    // a silent downgrade is how someone keeps running an oam they meant to
-    // update. stderr is safe -- MCP frames travel on stdout.
-    process.stderr.write(`postgres-mcp: oam at ${oam} is older than ${min}; using Node instead.\n`);
+    // auto: neither cause is worth failing over -- prefer Node. Say so,
+    // because a silent downgrade is how someone keeps running an oam they
+    // meant to update, or never learns their oam is unexecutable.
+    await errSync(`postgres-mcp: ${detail}; using Node instead.\n`);
     await runInProcess();
   } else {
     // `--` separates oam's own flags from the script's argv. Everything after
     // it lands in process.argv for the server, so `postgres-mcp version` and
     // any host-supplied flags survive the hop unchanged.
-    const child = spawn(oam, [...sandboxFlags(), "run", SERVER_ENTRY, "--", ...process.argv.slice(2)], {
-      // inherit keeps the SAME fds, so MCP's newline-delimited JSON framing on
-      // stdin/stdout is untouched and the host's stdin-close still reaches the
-      // server's shutdown path.
-      stdio: "inherit",
-      env: process.env,
-      windowsHide: true,
-    });
-
-    // If oam cannot be executed at all (deleted between the stat and the
-    // spawn, wrong arch, permission), fall back rather than failing the whole
-    // server. `spawned` guards against falling back AFTER the child has begun
-    // running, which would double-start the server.
-    let spawned = false;
-    child.on("spawn", () => {
-      spawned = true;
-    });
-    child.on("error", (err) => {
-      if (spawned) return;
+    // Every "oam could not be executed" outcome lands here: the synchronous
+    // throw from spawn() and the async 'error' event mean the same thing and
+    // must degrade the same way, so the handling lives in one place.
+    // errSync rather than process.stderr.write because stderr is async for
+    // TTYs and pipes on Windows and the process.exit below truncates pending
+    // writes.
+    const launchFailed = async (err) => {
       if (mode === "oam") {
-        process.stderr.write(`postgres-mcp: failed to launch oam (${err.message})\n`);
+        await errSync(`postgres-mcp: failed to launch oam (${err?.message ?? err})\n`);
         process.exit(1);
       }
-      void runInProcess();
-    });
+      await runInProcess();
+    };
+
+    // ONE reporter shared by both launchFailed call sites, so the sync-throw
+    // path and the 'error'-event path cannot drift apart. Either can reject:
+    // runInProcess() is a bare import() that rejects when dist/index.js is
+    // missing, and at ESM top level an unhandled rejection is an uncaught
+    // exception -- the exact failure this handling exists to prevent.
+    const fallbackFailed = (e) => {
+      process.stderr.write(`postgres-mcp: fallback to Node failed (${e?.message ?? e})\n`);
+      process.exitCode = 1;
+    };
 
-    // Forward termination so the server's own SIGINT/SIGTERM cleanup (pool
-    // drain) runs in the child instead of the child being orphaned. Signals
-    // are a no-op on Windows but harmless to register.
-    for (const sig of ["SIGINT", "SIGTERM"]) {
-      process.on(sig, () => {
-        if (!child.killed) child.kill(sig);
+    let child = null;
+    try {
+      child = spawn(oam, [...sandboxFlags(), "run", SERVER_ENTRY, "--", ...process.argv.slice(2)], {
+        // inherit keeps the SAME fds, so MCP's newline-delimited JSON framing on
+        // stdin/stdout is untouched and the host's stdin-close still reaches the
+        // server's shutdown path.
+        stdio: "inherit",
+        env: process.env,
+        windowsHide: true,
       });
+    } catch (err) {
+      // spawn() THROWS for some failures instead of emitting 'error', and the
+      // 'error' listener is registered AFTER this call, so it can never observe
+      // one -- an uncaught throw here kills the launcher with a raw stack trace
+      // instead of falling back to Node.
+      await launchFailed(err).catch(fallbackFailed);
     }
 
-    child.on("exit", (code, signal) => {
-      // Mirror the child's fate: a signal death becomes 128+n so callers see a
-      // conventional shell exit status rather than a bare 0.
-      if (signal) {
-        process.exit(128 + (constants.signals[signal] ?? 15));
+    if (child) {
+
+      // If oam cannot be executed at all (deleted between the stat and the
+      // spawn, wrong arch, permission), fall back rather than failing the whole
+      // server. `spawned` guards against falling back AFTER the child has begun
+      // running, which would double-start the server.
+      let spawned = false;
+      child.on("spawn", () => {
+        spawned = true;
+      });
+      child.on("error", (err) => {
+        if (spawned) return;
+        // Handle the rejection instead of discarding it: a failing in-process
+        // fallback would otherwise escape as an unhandled rejection, replacing
+        // this launcher's diagnostic with a raw stack trace.
+        launchFailed(err).catch(fallbackFailed);
+      });
+
+      // Forward termination so the server's own shutdown path runs in the child
+      // rather than the child being orphaned.
+      //
+      // Registering ANY handler for these suppresses Node's default
+      // terminate-on-signal, so the parent's exit has to be arranged explicitly.
+      // `child.killed` only records that kill() was CALLED, never that the child
+      // is gone, so gating on it swallows every signal after the first and wedges
+      // the launcher with no escape hatch.
+      //
+      // Escalation is driven by a TIMER, not by counting signals. Counting is
+      // ambiguous: a supervisor routinely sends SIGINT then SIGTERM milliseconds
+      // apart, and a terminal Ctrl-C reaches the whole process group, so reading
+      // "a second signal" as impatience hard-kills a child that is already
+      // shutting down cleanly. A timer makes the count irrelevant -- ONE press is
+      // enough, and a wedged child dies on schedule. setTimeout is monotonic, so
+      // a wall-clock step cannot mis-gate the window either.
+      //
+      // POSIX vs Windows, and why we do NOT forward on Windows.
+      // On POSIX child.kill(sig) delivers a real, catchable signal, so forwarding
+      // is what lets the child run its shutdown. On Windows there are no POSIX
+      // signals: child.kill IGNORES the name and calls TerminateProcess -- an
+      // immediate hard kill (verified: a child with a SIGTERM handler never runs
+      // it and dies with code=null, signal=SIGTERM). Forwarding there ABORTS the
+      // graceful shutdown the console's own Ctrl-C just started, skipping the
+      // child's process.on("exit") cleanup. The console has already notified the
+      // child, so on Windows the timer below is the only kill we issue.
+      const ESCALATE_AFTER_MS = 2000;
+      let escalation = null;
+      for (const sig of ["SIGINT", "SIGTERM"]) {
+        process.on(sig, () => {
+          // No try/catch: kill() on an already-exited child returns false, it does
+          // not throw. It throws only for a signal the platform does not know,
+          // which SIGINT/SIGTERM/SIGKILL never are.
+          if (!isWin) child.kill(sig);
+          if (escalation) return; // already counting down; further signals are noise
+          escalation = setTimeout(() => {
+            // Still here after its grace window. Stop waiting on it.
+            child.kill("SIGKILL");
+            process.exit(128 + (constants.signals[sig] ?? 15));
+          }, ESCALATE_AFTER_MS);
+        });
       }
-      process.exit(code ?? 0);
-    });
+
+      child.on("exit", (code, signal) => {
+        if (escalation) clearTimeout(escalation);
+        // Mirror the child's fate: a signal death becomes 128+n so callers see a
+        // conventional shell exit status rather than a bare 0.
+        if (signal) {
+          process.exit(128 + (constants.signals[signal] ?? 15));
+        }
+        process.exit(code ?? 0);
+      });
+    }
   }
 }

package/dist/index.js

@@ -39017,7 +39017,7 @@ function compareVersions(a, b) {
 }
 
 // src/index.ts
-var version2 = true ? "0.11.0" : await readPackageVersion();
+var version2 = true ? "0.11.2" : await readPackageVersion();
 var subcommand = process.argv[2];
 if (subcommand === "version" || subcommand === "--version") {
   console.log(version2);

package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@yawlabs/postgres-mcp",
-  "version": "0.11.0",
+  "version": "0.11.2",
   "mcpName": "io.github.YawLabs/postgres-mcp",
   "description": "PostgreSQL MCP server - query, schema introspection, explain, and health checks for AI assistants",
   "license": "MIT",