diff --git a/cli/api/BUILD b/cli/api/BUILD
index ce1504de..91d1c969 100644
--- a/cli/api/BUILD
+++ b/cli/api/BUILD
@@ -11,6 +11,11 @@ ts_library(
         exclude = [
             "utils/**/*.*",
             "**/*_test.ts",
+            # Postgres adapter — relocated from api/ in Phase 2.
+            # Excluded until Phase 3 (interface alignment + proto IJDBC →
+            # PostgresConnection rewrite) makes it compile against the
+            # current IDbAdapter contract.
+            "dbadapters/postgres.ts",
         ],
     ),
     deps = [
diff --git a/api/dbadapters/postgres.ts b/cli/api/dbadapters/postgres.ts
similarity index 95%
rename from api/dbadapters/postgres.ts
rename to cli/api/dbadapters/postgres.ts
index 541f005e..975b248a 100644
--- a/api/dbadapters/postgres.ts
+++ b/cli/api/dbadapters/postgres.ts
@@ -1,12 +1,10 @@
 import * as pg from "pg";
 
-import { Credentials } from "sa/api/commands/credentials";
-import { IDbAdapter, IDbClient } from "sa/api/dbadapters/index";
-import { SSHTunnelProxy } from "sa/api/ssh_tunnel_proxy";
-import { parseRedshiftEvalError } from "sa/api/utils/error_parsing";
-import { convertFieldType, PgPoolExecutor } from "sa/api/utils/postgres";
+import { Credentials } from "sa/cli/api/commands/credentials";
+import { IDbAdapter, IDbClient } from "sa/cli/api/dbadapters/index";
+import { collectEvaluationQueries, QueryOrAction } from "sa/cli/api/dbadapters/execution_sql";
+import { convertFieldType, PgPoolExecutor } from "sa/cli/api/utils/postgres";
 import { ErrorWithCause } from "sa/common/errors/errors";
-import { collectEvaluationQueries, QueryOrAction } from "sa/core/adapters";
 import { sqlanvil } from "sa/protos/ts";
 
 interface IPostgresAdapterOptions {
diff --git a/cli/api/utils/BUILD b/cli/api/utils/BUILD
index 42393bcd..8f68d608 100644
--- a/cli/api/utils/BUILD
+++ b/cli/api/utils/BUILD
@@ -4,7 +4,13 @@ load("//tools:ts_library.bzl", "ts_library")
 
 ts_library(
     name = "utils",
-    srcs = glob(["**/*.ts"]),
+    srcs = glob(
+        ["**/*.ts"],
+        # Postgres helper — relocated from api/utils/ in Phase 2.
+        # Excluded until Phase 3 wires it through cli/api's BUILD with
+        # the right pg/pg-query-stream deps and an updated import surface.
+        exclude = ["postgres.ts"],
+    ),
     deps = [
         "//common/protos",
         "//common/strings",
diff --git a/api/utils/postgres.ts b/cli/api/utils/postgres.ts
similarity index 98%
rename from api/utils/postgres.ts
rename to cli/api/utils/postgres.ts
index 79755e24..8d05ffe1 100644
--- a/api/utils/postgres.ts
+++ b/cli/api/utils/postgres.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import * as pg from "pg";
 import QueryStream from "pg-query-stream";
 
-import { LimitedResultSet } from "sa/api/utils/results";
+import { LimitedResultSet } from "sa/cli/api/utils/results";
 import { sqlanvil } from "sa/protos/ts";
 
 const maybeInitializePg = (() => {