title: Connecting Excel 2016 to Postgres
body: <p>I am trying to have Postgres show as one of the data connection in Excel 2016. Following <a href="https://support.office.com/en-ie/article/Connect-to-a-PostgreSQL-database-Power-Query-bf941e52-066f-4911-a41f-2493c39e69e4" rel="noreferrer">MS Office instructions</a> I installed Ngpsql data provider. I used msi for installation so according to the instructions provided in the wizard the dlls were registered in GAC and the provider was registered in machine.config (I checked - the entry is there).
  Yet Postgres is still not showing as an option in Excel > Data > New Query > From Database list.
  Searching the web shows old out of date discussions. Developers of of Ngpsql direct questions to Stack Overflow. So please help.</p>