pREST in 10 Minutes: Docker Compose to REST API to MCP Endpoint
Run pREST v2.4.2 with Docker Compose, query a Postgres table over REST, turn on JWT auth and a table ACL, add a bound custom query and call /_mcp.
Everything tagged REST API, newest first.
Run pREST v2.4.2 with Docker Compose, query a Postgres table over REST, turn on JWT auth and a table ACL, add a bound custom query and call /_mcp.
pREST is an open-source Go server that turns PostgreSQL into a REST API and a read-only MCP endpoint. Every v2 release, the advisories, and where to start.
pREST and PostgREST both turn PostgreSQL into a REST API. PostgREST is Haskell and RLS-first; pREST is Go with config ACL, multi-database routing and MCP.
pREST v2.1.0 MCP server exposes read-only PostgreSQL queries over HTTP — connect from Cursor, Claude Desktop, or curl with permission-aware ACL and no separate MCP process.
pREST v2 is a Go PostgreSQL REST API with multi-database registry in v2.0.0 GA and a read-only MCP server in v2.1.0 — permission-aware Postgres queries for agents and API clients.