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The PostgreSQL contrib tree
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This subtree contains porting tools, analysis utilities, and plug-in
-features that are not part of the core PostgreSQL system, mainly because
-they address a limited audience or are too experimental to be part of
-the main source tree. This does not preclude their usefulness.
-
-Each subdirectory contains a README file with information about the
-module. Most items can be built with `gmake all' and installed with
-`gmake install' in the usual fashion, after you have run the `configure'
-script in the top-level directory. Some directories supply new
-user-defined functions, operators, or types. In these cases, after you have
-installed the files you need to register the new entities in the database
-system by running the commands in the supplied .sql file. For example,
-
- $ psql -d dbname -f module.sql
-
-See the PostgreSQL documentation for more information about this
-procedure.
-
-
-Index:
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-
-adddepend -
- Add object dependency information to pre-7.3 objects.
- by Rod Taylor <rbt@rbt.ca>
-
-btree_gist -
- Support for emulating BTREE indexing in GiST
- by Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su> and Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru>
-
-chkpass -
- An auto-encrypted password datatype
- by D'Arcy J.M. Cain <darcy@druid.net>
-
-cube -
- Multidimensional-cube datatype (GiST indexing example)
- by Gene Selkov, Jr. <selkovjr@mcs.anl.gov>
-
-dbase -
- Converts from dbase/xbase to PostgreSQL
- by Maarten.Boekhold <Maarten.Boekhold@reuters.com>,
- Frank Koormann <fkoorman@usf.uni-osnabrueck.de>,
- Ivan Baldo <lubaldo@adinet.com.uy>
-
-dblink -
- Allows remote query execution
- by Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>
-
-dbmirror -
- Replication server
- by Steven Singer <ssinger@navtechinc.com>
-
-dbsize -
- Reports database and table disk space
- by Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
-
-earthdistance -
- Operator for computing earth distance for two points
- by Hal Snyder <hal@vailsys.com>
-
-fulltextindex -
- Full text indexing using triggers
- by Maarten Boekhold <maartenb@dutepp0.et.tudelft.nl>
-
-fuzzystrmatch -
- Levenshtein, metaphone, and soundex fuzzy string matching
- by Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>, Joel Burton <jburton@scw.org>
-
-intagg -
- Integer aggregator
- by mlw <markw@mohawksoft.com>
-
-intarray -
- Index support for arrays of int4, using GiST
- by Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru> and Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su>
+features that are not part of the core PostgreSQL system, mainly
+because they address a limited audience or are too experimental to be
+part of the main source tree. This does not preclude their
+usefulness.
-isbn_issn -
- PostgreSQL type extensions for ISBN (books) and ISSN (serials)
- by Garrett A. Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
+User documentation for each module appears in the main SGML
+documentation.
-lo -
- Large Object maintenance
- by Peter Mount <peter@retep.org.uk>
+When building from the source distribution, these modules are not
+built automatically, unless you build the "world" target. You can
+also build and install them all by running "make all" and "make
+install" in this directory; or to build and install just one selected
+module, do the same in that module's subdirectory.
-ltree -
- Tree-like data structures
- by Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru> and Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su>
+Some directories supply new user-defined functions, operators, or
+types. To make use of one of these modules, after you have installed
+the code you need to register the new SQL objects in the database
+system by executing a CREATE EXTENSION command. In a fresh database,
+you can simply do
-mSQL-interface -
- mSQL API translation library
- by Aldrin Leal <aldrin@americasnet.com>
+ CREATE EXTENSION module_name;
-mac -
- Support functions for MAC address types
- by Lawrence E. Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>
-
-oid2name -
- Maps numeric files to table names
- by B Palmer <bpalmer@crimelabs.net>
-
-oracle -
- Converts Oracle database schema to PostgreSQL
- by Gilles Darold <gilles@darold.net>
-
-pg_autovacuum -
- Automatically performs vacuum
- by Matthew T. O'Connor <matthew@zeut.net>
-
-pg_buffercache -
- Real time queries on the shared buffer cache
- by Mark Kirkwood <markir@paradise.net.nz>
-
-pg_trgm -
- Functions for determining the similarity of text based on trigram
- matching.
- by Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su> and Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru>
-
-pgbench -
- TPC-B like benchmarking tool
- by Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii@sra.co.jp>
-
-pgcrypto -
- Cryptographic functions
- by Marko Kreen <marko@l-t.ee>
-
-pgstattuple -
- A function to return statistics about "dead" tuples and free
- space within a table
- by Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii@sra.co.jp>
-
-reindexdb -
- Reindexes a database
- by Shaun Thomas <sthomas@townnews.com>
-
-rtree_gist -
- Support for emulating RTREE indexing in GiST
- by Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su> and Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru>
-
-seg -
- Confidence-interval datatype (GiST indexing example)
- by Gene Selkov, Jr. <selkovjr@mcs.anl.gov>
-
-spi -
- Various trigger functions, examples for using SPI.
-
-start-scripts -
- Scripts for starting the server at boot time.
-
-tablefunc -
- Examples of functions returning tables
- by Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>
-
-tips/apache_logging -
- Getting Apache to log to PostgreSQL
- by Terry Mackintosh <terry@terrym.com>
-
-tsearch2 -
- Full-text-index support using GiST
- by Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru> and Oleg Bartunov
- <oleg@sai.msu.su>.
-
-userlock -
- User locks
- by Massimo Dal Zotto <dz@cs.unitn.it>
-
-vacuumlo -
- Remove orphaned large objects
- by Peter T Mount <peter@retep.org.uk>
-
-xml2 -
- Storing XML in PostgreSQL
- by John Gray <jgray@azuli.co.uk>
+See the PostgreSQL documentation for more information about this
+procedure.
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