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How are you giving AI agents access to postgress?

A Hacker News user asks how to give AI agents access to PostgreSQL, weighing the risks of letting an LLM generate SQL against defining deterministic guard operations for both reads and writes.

read1 min views47 publishedJul 17, 2026

I mean we can either let llm generate sql but that's risky right or should we do defined operations?

I mean for both reads and write.

But whether it's llm generate or we define we have to do the manual work of writing determistic guards right...

Comments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48949955](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48949955)

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