The PostgreSQL contrib tree
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This subtree contains tools, modules, and examples that are not
maintained as part of the core PostgreSQL system, mainly because
they only address a limited audience or are too inelegant to be
sold as an official feature. That, however, does not preclude
their usefulness.
Each subdirectory contains a README file with information about the
module. Most items can be built with `gmake all' and installed
with `gmake install' in the usual fashion, after you have run the
`configure' script in the top-level directory. Some directories
supply new user-defined functions, operators, or types. After you
have installed the files you need to register the new entities in
the database system by running the commands in the supplied .sql
file. For example,
$ psql -d dbname -f module.sql
See the PostgreSQL documentation for more information about this
procedure.
Index:
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array -
Array iterator functions
by Massimo Dal Zotto <dz@cs.unitn.it>
cube -
Multidimensional-cube datatype (GiST indexing example)
by Gene Selkov, Jr. <selkovjr@mcs.anl.gov>
dbase -
Converts from dbase/xbase to PostgreSQL
by Ivan Baldo, lubaldo@adinet.com.uy
dblink -
Allows remote query execution
by Joe Conway, joe.conway@mail.com
earthdistance -
Operator for computing earth distance for two points
by Hal Snyder <hal@vailsys.com>
findoidjoins -
Finds the joins used by oid columns by examining the actual
values in the oid columns and row oids.
by Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
fulltextindex -
Full text indexing using triggers
by Maarten Boekhold <maartenb@dutepp0.et.tudelft.nl>
fuzzystrmatch -
Levenshtein, metaphone, and soundex fuzzy string matching
by Joe Conway <joseph.conway@home.com>, Joel Burton <jburton@scw.org>
intarray -
Index support for arrays of int4, using GiST
by Teodor Sigaev <teodor@stack.net> and Oleg Bartunov
<oleg@sai.msu.su>.
ipc_check -
Simple test script to help in configuring IPC.
FreeBSD only, for now.
isbn_issn -
PostgreSQL type extensions for ISBN (books) and ISSN (serials)
by Garrett A. Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
lo -
Large Object maintenance
by Peter Mount <peter@retep.org.uk>
mSQL-interface -
mSQL API translation library
by Aldrin Leal <aldrin@americasnet.com>
mac -
Support functions for MAC address types
by Lawrence E. Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>
miscutil -
PostgreSQL assert checking and various utility functions
by Massimo Dal Zotto <dz@cs.unitn.it>
mysql -
utility to convert MySQL schema dumps to SQL92 and PostgreSQL
by Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>
Max Rudensky <fonin@ziet.zhitomir.ua>
Valentine Danilchuk <valdan@ziet.zhitomir.ua>
noupdate -
trigger to prevent updates on single columns
oid2name -
maps numeric files to table names
by B Palmer <bpalmer@crimelabs.net>
oracle -
converts Oracle database schema to PostgreSQL
by Gilles Darold <gilles@darold.net>
pg_controldata -
Dump contents of pg_control (database master file)
by Oliver Elphick <olly@lfix.co.uk>
pg_dumplo -
Dump large objects
by Karel Zak <zakkr@zf.jcu.cz>
pg_logger -
Stdin-to-syslog gateway for PostgreSQL
by Nathan Myers <ncm@nospam.cantrip.org>
pg_resetxlog -
Reset the WAL log (pg_xlog) to recover from crash or format change
by Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
pgbench -
TPC-B like benchmarking tool
by Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii@sra.co.jp>
pgcrypto -
Cryptographic hash functions
by Marko Kreen <marko@l-t.ee>
retep -
tools to build retep tools packages
by Peter T Mount <peter@retep.org.uk>
rserv -
replication server
by Vadim B. Mikheev <vadim4o@email.com>
rtree_gist -
Support for emulating RTREE indexing in GiST
by Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su> and Teodor Sigaev <teodor@stack.net>
seg -
Confidence-interval datatype (GiST indexing example)
by Gene Selkov, Jr. <selkovjr@mcs.anl.gov>
spi -
Various trigger functions, examples for using SPI.
start-scripts -
Scripts for starting the server at boot time.
string -
C-like input/output conversion routines for strings
by Massimo Dal Zotto <dz@cs.unitn.it>
tips/apache_logging -
Getting Apache to log to PostgreSQL
by Terry Mackintosh <terry@terrym.com>
tools -
Assorted developer tools
by Massimo Dal Zotto <dz@cs.unitn.it>
unixdate -
Conversions from integer to datetime
by Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>
userlock -
User locks
by Massimo Dal Zotto <dz@cs.unitn.it>
vacuumlo -
Remove orphaned large objects
by Peter T Mount <peter@retep.org.uk>
xml -
Storing XML in PostgreSQL
by John Gray <jgray@beansindustry.co.uk>
