diff --git a/phpBB/includes/search/fulltext_sphinx.php b/phpBB/includes/search/fulltext_sphinx.php
index d82a56c6f4..76caf9ae8c 100644
--- a/phpBB/includes/search/fulltext_sphinx.php
+++ b/phpBB/includes/search/fulltext_sphinx.php
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ class phpbb_search_fulltext_sphinx
 	*/
 	function init()
 	{
-		if ($this->db->sql_layer != 'mysql' && $this->db->sql_layer != 'mysql4' && $this->db->sql_layer != 'mysqli')
+		if ($this->db->sql_layer != 'mysql' && $this->db->sql_layer != 'mysql4' && $this->db->sql_layer != 'mysqli' && $this->db->sql_layer != 'postgres')
 		{
 			return $this->user->lang['FULLTEXT_SPHINX_WRONG_DATABASE'];
 		}
diff --git a/phpBB/language/en/acp/search.php b/phpBB/language/en/acp/search.php
index 970d9cd41b..4aa9c89cde 100644
--- a/phpBB/language/en/acp/search.php
+++ b/phpBB/language/en/acp/search.php
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ $lang = array_merge($lang, array(
 	'FULLTEXT_SPHINX_MAIN_POSTS'			=> 'Number of posts in main index',
 	'FULLTEXT_SPHINX_PORT'					=> 'Sphinx search deamon port',
 	'FULLTEXT_SPHINX_PORT_EXPLAIN'			=> 'Port on which the sphinx search deamon on localhost listens. Leave empty to use the default 3312',
-	'FULLTEXT_SPHINX_WRONG_DATABASE'		=> 'The sphinx plugin for phpBB currently only supports MySQL',
+	'FULLTEXT_SPHINX_WRONG_DATABASE'		=> 'The sphinx search for phpBB supports MySQL and PostgreSQL only.',
 	'FULLTEXT_SPHINX_STOPWORDS_FILE'		=> 'Stopwords activated',
 	'FULLTEXT_SPHINX_STOPWORDS_FILE_EXPLAIN'	=> 'You can place a file called sphinx_stopwords.txt containing one word in each line in your config directory. If this file is present these words will be excluded from the indexing process.',
 	'FULLTEXT_SPHINX_CONFIG_FILE'			=> 'Sphinx config file',