May 2018
Intermediate to advanced
576 pages
30h 25m
English
Certain modules are available exactly like any other software packages that you may want to install in your server. All main Linux distributions provide packages for the most popular modules, such as PostGIS, SkyTools, procedural languages other than those distributed with the core, and so on.
Modules can sometimes be added during installation if you're using a standalone installer application; for example, the OneClick installer, or tools such as rpm, apt-get, and YaST on Linux distributions. The same procedure can also be followed after the PostgreSQL installation, when the need for a certain module arrives. We will actually describe this case, which is very common.
For example, let's say that ...