Get detailed information about database roles and their attributes.
AI agents call PostgreSQL_get_role_attributes to retrieve information from Postgres without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool retrieves metadata about PostgreSQL roles (users, groups) and their attributes (privileges, settings, membership). It performs no side effects and does not modify data or execute code. However, role attributes can include sensitive security information such as password expiration, superuser status, connection limits, and privilege grants.
From the tool's definition Tool name indicates 'get' operation on role attributes; description states 'Get detailed information about database roles and their attributes' with no modification, deletion, or execution capability mentioned.
Documented attack patterns abuse exactly the kind of access PostgreSQL_get_role_attributes gives an agent:
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway — it sits between your AI agents and Postgres, and nothing reaches the server without passing your rules. This is the rule we recommend for PostgreSQL_get_role_attributes:
{
"version": "1",
"default": "deny",
"tools": {
"PostgreSQL_get_role_attributes": {}
}
}PostgreSQL_get_role_attributes is read-only, so it stays allowed — but everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
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Get detailed information about database roles and their attributes. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Postgres MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Postgres MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for PostgreSQL_get_role_attributes: allow, deny, rate-limit, or require approval. Point your MCP client at the PolicyLayer proxy URL and the rule is enforced on every call, before it reaches Postgres. Nothing to install.
PostgreSQL_get_role_attributes is a Read tool with low risk. Read-only tools are generally safe to allow by default.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the PostgreSQL_get_role_attributes rule in your PolicyLayer policy. For example, setting max: 10 and window: 60 limits the tool to 10 calls per minute. Rate limits are tracked per agent session and reset automatically.
Set action: deny in the PolicyLayer policy for PostgreSQL_get_role_attributes. The AI agent will receive a policy violation error and cannot call the tool. You can also include a reason field to explain why the tool is blocked.
PostgreSQL_get_role_attributes is provided by the Postgres MCP server (mukul975/postgres-mcp-server). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
Start from Postgres, add the rest of your stack, and see everything your agents can call. Then put policy on all of it.
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