Title: WordPress and PostgreSQL?
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# WordPress and PostgreSQL?

 *  [auxillary](https://wordpress.org/support/users/auxillary/)
 * (@auxillary)
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-and-postgresql/)
 * Hi there, this is just a very quick question (as I couldn’t find an answer). 
   Is it possible to run WordPress with PostgreSQL instead of MySQL database?
 * TIA,
 * Eric

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 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-and-postgresql/#post-641193)
 * Not really. MySQL is it.
 * Resources:
    [http://www.nabble.com/Porting-Wordpress-to-PostgreSQL-t1311490i20.html](http://www.nabble.com/Porting-Wordpress-to-PostgreSQL-t1311490i20.html)
 *  [jnagyjr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jnagyjr/)
 * (@jnagyjr)
 * [17 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-and-postgresql/#post-641585)
 * With the [current direction](http://www.infoworld.com/archives/emailPrint.jsp?R=printThis&A=/article/08/04/17/MySQL-reserves-features-for-paying-customers_1.html)
   that Sun is taking with MySQL, perhaps its time to change that.

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