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(A bit )off topic - chatGPT managed to infer your email address based on this comment. Required some hints though - most likely due to my lack of experience (first try). I was curious to see how it can improve indexing in general.

I once used FDW to synchronize Microsoft SQL server DB with PostreSQL, after setting up, It was just a matter of a single UPDATE to sync quite complex data across systems. It isn’t a perfect way, but given there was no public interface in MS SQL backed application it was a pretty effective solution.

I know it doesn't matter to some developers out there, but for me, the only thing left is the ability to add a column after another one. Even if it's only logical order, it's easier for me to read a table structure when fields are ordered nicely.

This really looks very nice!

After defining 3 tables with related records, some thoughts:

- Trying to enter some records, I pressed space in the checkbox column, "zoom view" appeared instead of changing the value (enter changes the value), I understand that this is a convention in your system, but what's the point of the zoome checkbox? :)

- Detail view shows checkbox columns, as checkbox - name and another value-changing checkbox below, waste of space - record with 4 column takes almost all modal window.

- Changing value of checkbox with enter, disallows submitting detail view, so there is no submit, but then I cannot simply discard changes made in the detail view, when I press ESC - data still changes. To revert changes, I had to press ctrl-z several times.

- I noticed that of the entered characters changed to ?, I'm not shure how cannot replicate it, but entering some strange character, and clicking around does the trick.

- I think you should consider adding standard spreadsheet/browser keyboard shortcuts: F2, alt+down.

- Make page up / page down work.

- Adding related record, could automatically open new detail window - creating unnamed row seem pointless.

Good luck!

As a Total Commander addict, I cannot believe some is still copying files using drag and drop, manually selecting files etc. There are some alternatives for a Mac as well.

As far as remapping goes, I've remapped my right ctrl to delete. I delete a lot, and reaching to the far right corner of the keyboard was a pain.