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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.
+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.
-User documentation for each module appears in the main SGML documentation.
+User documentation for each module appears in the main SGML
+documentation.
-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,
+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 "gmake all" and "gmake
+install" in this directory; or to build and install just one selected
+module, do the same in that module's subdirectory.
- $ psql -d dbname -f module.sql
+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
+
+ CREATE EXTENSION module_name;
See the PostgreSQL documentation for more information about this
procedure.
-
-
-Index:
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-
-adminpack -
- File and log manipulation routines, used by pgAdmin
- by Dave Page <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk>
-
-auth_delay
- Add a short delay after a failed authentication attempt, to make
- brute-force attacks on database passwords a bit harder.
- by KaiGai Kohei <kaigai@ak.jp.nec.com>
-
-auto_explain -
- Log EXPLAIN output for long-running queries
- by Takahiro Itagaki <itagaki.takahiro@oss.ntt.co.jp>
-
-btree_gin -
- Support for emulating BTREE indexing in GIN
- by Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su> and Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru>
-
-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>
-
-citext -
- A case-insensitive character string datatype
- by David E. Wheeler <david@kineticode.com>
-
-cube -
- Multidimensional-cube datatype (GiST indexing example)
- by Gene Selkov, Jr. <selkovjr@mcs.anl.gov>
-
-dblink -
- Allows remote query execution
- by Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>
-
-dict_int -
- Text search dictionary template for integers
- by Sergey Karpov <karpov@sao.ru>
-
-dict_xsyn -
- Text search dictionary template for extended synonym processing
- by Sergey Karpov <karpov@sao.ru>
-
-earthdistance -
- Functions for computing distances between two points on Earth
- by Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to> and Hal Snyder <hal@vailsys.com>
-
-file_fdw
- Foreign-data wrapper for server-side CSV/TEXT files
- by Shigeru Hanada <hanada@metrosystems.co.jp>
-
-fuzzystrmatch -
- Levenshtein, metaphone, and soundex fuzzy string matching
- by Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com> and Joel Burton <jburton@scw.org>
-
-hstore -
- Module for storing (key, value) pairs
- by Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su> and Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru>
-
-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>
-
-isn -
- PostgreSQL type extensions for ISBN, ISSN, ISMN, EAN13 product numbers
- by Germán Méndez Bravo (Kronuz) <kronuz@hotmail.com>
-
-lo -
- Large Object maintenance
- by Peter Mount <peter@retep.org.uk>
-
-ltree -
- Tree-like data structures
- by Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru> and Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su>
-
-oid2name -
- Maps numeric files to table names
- by B Palmer <bpalmer@crimelabs.net>
-
-pageinspect -
- Allows inspection of database pages
- Heikki Linnakangas <heikki@enterprisedb.com>
-
-passwordcheck -
- Simple password strength checker
- Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@wien.gv.at>
-
-pg_buffercache -
- Real time queries on the shared buffer cache
- by Mark Kirkwood <markir@paradise.net.nz>
-
-pg_freespacemap -
- Displays the contents of the free space map (FSM)
- by Mark Kirkwood <markir@paradise.net.nz>
-
-pg_standby -
- Sample archive_command for warm standby operation
- by Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>
-
-pg_stat_statements -
- Track statement execution times across a whole database cluster
- by Takahiro Itagaki <itagaki.takahiro@oss.ntt.co.jp>
-
-pg_test_fsync -
- Test different wal_sync_method settings
- by Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
-
-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>
-
-pg_upgrade -
- Support for in-place upgrade between major releases of PostgreSQL
- Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> and others
-
-pgbench -
- TPC-B like benchmarking tool
- by Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@sraoss.co.jp>
-
-pgcrypto -
- Cryptographic functions
- by Marko Kreen <marko@l-t.ee>
-
-pgrowlocks -
- A function to return row locking information
- by Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@sraoss.co.jp>
-
-pgstattuple -
- Functions to return statistics about "dead" tuples and free
- space within a table
- by Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@sraoss.co.jp>
-
-seg -
- Confidence-interval datatype (GiST indexing example)
- by Gene Selkov, Jr. <selkovjr@mcs.anl.gov>
-
-sepgsql -
- External security provider using SELinux
- by KaiGai Kohei <kaigai@ak.jp.nec.com>
-
-spi -
- Various trigger functions, examples for using SPI.
-
-sslinfo -
- Functions to get information about SSL certificates
- by Victor Wagner <vitus@cryptocom.ru>
-
-start-scripts -
- Scripts for starting the server at boot time on various platforms.
-
-tablefunc -
- Examples of functions returning tables
- by Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>
-
-test_parser -
- Sample text search parser
- by Sergey Karpov <karpov@sao.ru>
-
-tsearch2 -
- Compatibility package for the pre-8.3 implementation of text search.
- Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>, based on code originally by
- Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru> and Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su>.
-
-unaccent -
- Unaccent dictionary for text search
- Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru> and Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su>.
-
-uuid-ossp -
- UUID generation functions
- by Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
-
-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>
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