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by jabkobob 5401 days ago
I have contributed a little bit to Sequel Pro, and I'm a bit familiar with the codebase. Adding support for PostgreSQL is not trivial, a lot of MySQL is hardcoded into the user interface. There have always been many requests for PostgreSQL compatibility, but it would require A LOT of refactoring.

(Disclaimer: I haven't been involved much with SP for almost a year now, so possibly there has been progress in that time)
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stu 5399 days ago
As one of the current Sequel Pro developers I can backup jabkobob on this one, it's not an easy task. It's not that we're ignoring the requests we get to add support for PostgreSQL or any other database system for that matter, it's simply a matter of time, of which most of the core devs don't have just now. We have a lot of plans around this area (as well as others) for the app, but it's going to take time.

Thanks for everyone's support.

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