April 2015
Intermediate to advanced
504 pages
11h 41m
English
In the last two recipes, we showed you how to install external modules in PostgreSQL to augment its capabilities. Actually, the last recipe came in two variants, depending on whether we can use the newly introduced extension infrastructure.
In this recipe, we will show you some more capabilities offered by the extension infrastructure. Everything here applies only to PostgreSQL version 9.1 and later.
You only need to ensure that your PostgreSQL version is 9.1 or later.
First, we list all available extensions:
postgres=# \x on Expanded display is on. postgres=# SELECT * postgres-# FROM pg_available_extensions postgres-# ORDER BY name; -[ RECORD 1 ]-----+-------------------------------------------------- ...