What
A store.postgres_url setting for the gateway now fails with an explanatory error when it contains either of these:
- a comma-separated list of hosts, which is not supported
- a password with special characters
Why
People running the gateway get an error that says what to fix.
Names in the bundlestore.postgres_url
The entry above is what we published on the day. These lines were added later, as Anthropic's own pages caught up, and they sit beside the original rather than replacing it.
Confirmed since
Anthropic's documentation has since written up store.postgres_url, on Claude apps gateway deployment and operations.
* **Address**: `store.postgres_url` takes one host. If the database has several nodes, use the address in front of them, such as your managed service's endpoint, a load balancer, or a virtual IP. Set a [readiness grace period](#readiness-g…claude-apps-gateway-deploy see the edit
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Anthropic's documentation agrees
Anthropic's documentation has since written up store.postgres_url, on Claude apps gateway deployment and operations.
Anthropic's release notes agree
Fixed the Claude apps gateway exiting with a bare "Invalid URL" when store.postgres_url can't be parsed; the error now names the setting and…