Last month, @modelcontextprotocol/server-postgres was downloaded 312,391 times. The month before that, 301,440. November 2025 it was 100,059. Installs have tripled in five months and they're still climbing. The package is archived. Anthropic moved it into a repo called servers-archived and told you, in big letters, not to use it in production. The npm command still works. The dev community keeps reaching for it. So who's installing it, and why? What the server is If you've never used it: @modelcontextprotocol/server-postgres is a small Model Context Protocol server that lets a model (Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, anything that speaks MCP) read your Postgres database. You give it a connection string. It exposes one tool called query that runs read-only SQL, plus a resource for each table's schema so the model knows what columns exist. It's the official one. Anthropic published it. It's the first hit on Google for "postgres mcp server" and the first answer ChatGPT will give you if you ask.…