`Postgres.new`: browser Postgres sandbox with AI control

A full Postgres sandbox now runs entirely in the browser with PGlite, and the LLM gets unrestricted DB access to retry SQL until it works. Useful as a zero-setup playground for schema, SQL, CSV, charts, and lightweight RAG flows before deploying anything.

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PGlite shrinks Postgres-in-WASM from roughly 30MB to under 3MB, which changes browser startup and shareability.
The LLM can run back-to-back SQL with full permissions and use Postgres errors as feedback, so natural-language tasks complete more reliably than one-shot query generation.
CSV upload creates tables automatically, then the same session can query them in plain English and generate charts with editable colors.
pgvector works in-browser, and embeddings are generated locally with transformers.js, making small RAG demos possible without external infra.
A read-only deployment path via pg-gateway and S3 is next, which opens a clean handoff from local browser sandbox to sharable Postgres endpoints.

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`Postgres.new`: browser Postgres sandbox with AI control

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