Graham,
Well, it's 2018 and new version of Photomechanic and no hint of this Database I have heard about since I started using Photomechaninc some 15 years ago.
I looked over your posts since you've joined our forums. They range from complaining about features that exist (crops compatible with ACR/Photoshop/Lightroom) or a lack of an iPad version of PM, or a timeline for our Catalog feature that predates any announcement of such a feature in PM.
Catalog is progressing nicely. You can expect it this year. iPad/iPhone/Android PM is not in development and will not happen unless we can find some talented engineers that want to make it a reality.
Focus points are also not on the list of features that we're working on.
I hope this covers all of your concerns.
-Kirk