The PostgreSQL contrib tree
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This subtree contains porting tools, analysis utilities, and plug-in
features that are not part of the core PostgreSQL system, mainly because
they address a limited audience or are too experimental to be part of
the main source tree. This 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. In these cases, 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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adddepend -
Add object dependency information to pre-7.3 objects.
by Rod Taylor <rbt@rbt.ca>
btree_gist -
Support for emulating BTREE indexing in GiST
by Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su> and Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru>
chkpass -
An auto-encrypted password datatype
by D'Arcy J.M. Cain <darcy@druid.net>
cube -
Multidimensional-cube datatype (GiST indexing example)
by Gene Selkov, Jr. <selkovjr@mcs.anl.gov>
dbase -
Converts from dbase/xbase to PostgreSQL
by Maarten.Boekhold <Maarten.Boekhold@reuters.com>,
Frank Koormann <fkoorman@usf.uni-osnabrueck.de>,
Ivan Baldo <lubaldo@adinet.com.uy>
dblink -
Allows remote query execution
by Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>
dbmirror -
Replication server
by Steven Singer <ssinger@navtechinc.com>
earthdistance -
Operator for computing earth distance for two points
by Hal Snyder <hal@vailsys.com>
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 <mail@joeconway.com>, Joel Burton <jburton@scw.org>
intagg -
Integer aggregator
by mlw <markw@mohawksoft.com>
intarray -
Index support for arrays of int4, using GiST
by Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru> and Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su>
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>
ltree -
Tree-like data structures
by Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru> and Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su>
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>
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_buffercache -
Real time queries on the shared buffer cache
by Mark Kirkwood <markir@paradise.net.nz>
pg_trgm -
Functions for determining the similarity of text based on trigram
matching.
by Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su> and Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru>
pgbench -
TPC-B like benchmarking tool
by Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii@sra.co.jp>
pgcrypto -
Cryptographic functions
by Marko Kreen <marko@l-t.ee>
pgstattuple -
A function to return statistics about "dead" tuples and free
space within a table
by Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii@sra.co.jp>
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.
tablefunc -
Examples of functions returning tables
by Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>
tips -
Getting Apache to log to PostgreSQL
by Terry Mackintosh <terry@terrym.com>
tsearch2 -
Full-text-index support using GiST
by Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru> and Oleg Bartunov
<oleg@sai.msu.su>.
userlock -
User locks
by Massimo Dal Zotto <dz@cs.unitn.it>
vacuumlo -
Remove orphaned large objects
by Peter T Mount <peter@retep.org.uk>
xml2 -
Storing XML in PostgreSQL
by John Gray <jgray@azuli.co.uk>
