This appendix and the next one contain information on the optional components found in the contrib directory of the PostgreSQL distribution. These include porting tools, analysis utilities, and plug-in features that are not part of the core PostgreSQL system. They are separate 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. This appendix covers extensions and other server plug-in module libraries found in contrib. covers utility programs. When building from the source distribution, these optional components are not built automatically, unless you build the "world" target (see ). You can build and install all of them by running: make make install in the contrib directory of a configured source tree; or to build and install just one selected module, do the same in that module's subdirectory. Many of the modules have regression tests, which can be executed by running: make check before installation or make installcheck once you have a PostgreSQL server running. If you are using a pre-packaged version of PostgreSQL, these components are typically made available as a separate subpackage, such as postgresql-contrib. Many components supply new user-defined functions, operators, or types, packaged as extensions. To make use of one of these extensions, after you have installed the code you need to register the new SQL objects in the database system. This is done by executing a command. In a fresh database, you can simply do CREATE EXTENSION extension_name; This command registers the new SQL objects in the current database only, so you need to run it in every database in which you want the extension's facilities to be available. Alternatively, run it in database template1 so that the extension will be copied into subsequently-created databases by default. For all extensions, the CREATE EXTENSION command must be run by a database superuser, unless the extension is considered trusted. Trusted extensions can be run by any user who has CREATE privilege on the current database. Extensions that are trusted are identified as such in the sections that follow. Generally, trusted extensions are ones that cannot provide access to outside-the-database functionality. The following extensions are trusted in a default installation: Many extensions allow you to install their objects in a schema of your choice. To do that, add SCHEMA schema_name to the CREATE EXTENSION command. By default, the objects will be placed in your current creation target schema, which in turn defaults to public. Note, however, that some of these components are not extensions in this sense, but are loaded into the server in some other way, for instance by way of . See the documentation of each component for details. &amcheck; &auth-delay; &auto-explain; &basebackup-to-shell; &basic-archive; &bloom; &btree-gin; &btree-gist; &citext; &cube; &dblink; &dict-int; &dict-xsyn; &earthdistance; &file-fdw; &fuzzystrmatch; &hstore; &intagg; &intarray; &isn; &lo; <ree; &pageinspect; &passwordcheck; &pgbuffercache; &pgcrypto; &pgfreespacemap; &pgprewarm; &pgrowlocks; &pgstatstatements; &pgstattuple; &pgsurgery; &pgtrgm; &pgvisibility; &pgwalinspect; &postgres-fdw; &seg; &sepgsql; &contrib-spi; &sslinfo; &tablefunc; &tcn; &test-decoding; &tsm-system-rows; &tsm-system-time; &unaccent; &uuid-ossp; &xml2; This appendix and the previous one contain information regarding the modules that can be found in the contrib directory of the PostgreSQL distribution. See for more information about the contrib section in general and server extensions and plug-ins found in contrib specifically. This appendix covers utility programs found in contrib. Once installed, either from source or a packaging system, they are found in the bin directory of the PostgreSQL installation and can be used like any other program. This section covers PostgreSQL client applications in contrib. They can be run from anywhere, independent of where the database server resides. See also for information about client applications that are part of the core PostgreSQL distribution. &oid2name; &vacuumlo; Some applications run on the PostgreSQL server itself. Currently, no such applications are included in the contrib directory. See also for information about server applications that are part of the core PostgreSQL distribution.