Other useful extensions
The extensions that we have described so far are all part of the PostgreSQL contrib package, which is shipped as part of the PostgreSQL source code. However, the packages that we have seen are not the only ones available in the PostgreSQL community. There are many more packages that allow us to do all kinds of things.
Unfortunately, this chapter is too short to dig into everything that is currently out there. The number of modules is growing day by day, and it is impossible to cover them all. Therefore, I only want to point out the ones I find the most important.
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