[Qgis-user] [Qgis-psc] QEP426: Demotion of DB Manager plugin to community plugin

[Tim Sutton]

Thanks Nyall and so long to the DB Manager, it has been a great component
of QGIS all these years, glad to have all of its functionality implemented
in core now!

Regards

Tim

On Mon, Jun 8, 2026 at 9:59 PM Nyall Dawson via QGIS-PSC <
qgis-psc at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:

> Hi lists,
>
> I've just submitted QEP426: "Demotion of DB Manager plugin to community
> plugin" (https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/pull/385)
>
> Historically, the DB Manager plugin was a critical component of the QGIS
> ecosystem, providing essential database administration and querying
> capabilities. However, over the 3.x development cycle, the direction of
> QGIS shifted toward integrating all database related functionality into the
> Browser Panel. This provides a better user experience, by exposing database
> tools alongside other layer and connection management tools. The
> browser-based functionality is all designed around generic, heavily tested
> connection APIs, which are also used by many other areas of QGIS. In
> contrast, the DB Manager plugin contains all its own logic and code for
> handling database integration, with extremely minimal (almost non-existent)
> test coverage.
>
> As of QGIS 4.2, the core functionality of the DB Manager has been fully
> ported to the built-in Browser Panel. Users can natively manage schemas,
> create and delete tables, manage fields, and execute SQL queries directly
> within the core interface. Maintaining the DB Manager plugin as a core
> component now duplicates this functionality, bloating the codebase and
> creating unnecessary maintenance overhead for core developers.
>
> This QEP proposes that DB Manager is demoted to a 3rd party, community
> maintained plugin, and describes the plan to implement this change.
> The full proposal and plan is available at
> https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/pull/385 for
> discussion.
>
> Please don't reply to this email -- replies should be commented on the QEP
> itself to keep discussion centralised.
>
> Nyall
>
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