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Exporting to a relational db is beside the point. You can very easily just export a CSV file and double click it in DB Browser and have something working. Or you could export the XML document and write a quick importer for it. But genuinely what benefit does it provide other than allowing me to hack at my unencrypted db with sql statements? All the benefits that I was referring to are for daily usage of a KeePass client, not for a one off export.

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But genuinely what benefit does it provide other than allowing me to hack at my unencrypted db with sql statements?

None at all. That is why I am saying it should be entirely optional so most people can just ignore it and those wanting the alternate schema can get their feature request fulfilled.

I've glanced over the article - I think using SQLCypher makes sense if it benefits Keepass project internally, meaning makes it easier to implement new features or fix bugs.

I do not see how it would benefits end users in any significant way. Sure, you can look inside the database, how many people need that?

Dumping the database to CSV is not a good backup, schema changes over time, what was dumped from one version of the app would not work for importing into another version if schema changes. Backup it needs a versioned schema format, which would actually look like KDBX format if implemented in XML :-)

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