May 2018
Intermediate to advanced
576 pages
30h 25m
English
The PostgreSQL Extension Network, PGXN for short, is a website (http://pgxn.org) launched in late 2010 with the purpose of providing a central distribution system for open source PostgreSQL extension libraries. Anybody can register and upload their own module, packaged as an extension archive. The website allows browsing available extensions and their versions, either via a search interface or from a directory of packages and usernames.
The simple way is to use a command-line utility called pgxnclient. It can be easily installed in most systems; see the PGXN website for how to do so. Its purpose is to interact with PGXN and take care of administrative tasks, such as browsing available extensions, downloading the ...