Installing and Using PostgreSQL Extensions

Explore how PostgreSQL extensions improve database functionality by adding SQL objects and features. Understand the installation process, including package dependencies, enabling extensions with SQL, and how to verify available extensions in your PostgreSQL instance.

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Enable the extension
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Listing the extensions
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PostgreSQL extensions live in a given database, even when their deployment includes shared object libraries that are usually system-wide. Depending on your operating system, a shared object might be a .so, .dll, or .dylib file.

Enable the extension

Once the support files for an extension are deployed at the right place on your operating system, we can type the following SQL command to enable the trigram extension in the current database we’re connected to:

create extension pg_trgm;

Installing the support files for an ...