The Importance of Open Source Posgus Extensions

Nikolay and Michael discuss Postgres extensions — what they are, how they affect your decisions around Postgres, and some things to keep in mind when using them.
 
Here are links to a few things we mentioned: 

• Extensions (docs) https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/external-extensions.html 
• Extension (pgPedia) https://pgpedia.info/e/extension.html 
• pgvector https://github.com/pgvector/pgvector 
• PL/Rust https://github.com/tcdi/plrust
• ZomboDB https://github.com/zombodb/zombodb 
• Why is Postgres popular episode https://postgres.fm/episodes/why-is-postgres-popular 
• Citus https://github.com/citusdata/citus
• TimescaleDB https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb 
• OrioleDB https://github.com/orioledb/orioledb
• PostGIS https://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/ 
• “There’s an extension for that” (tweet from Robert Treat) https://twitter.com/robtreat2/status/1665735485883314178  
• RDS supported extensions https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/PostgreSQLReleaseNotes/postgresql-extensions.html 
• RUM https://github.com/postgrespro/rum 
• pg_repack https://github.com/reorg/pg_repack 
• PGXN https://pgxn.org/ 
• pgTrunk by CoreDB https://pgtrunk.io/ 
• Dbdev by Supabase https://supabase.com/blog/dbdev 
• StackGres https://github.com/ongres/stackgres
• pg_tle by AWS https://github.com/aws/pg_tle 
• Modern Postgres monitoring (slides from Nikolay’s tutorial) https://twitter.com/samokhvalov/status/1664686535562625034 
• Awesome Postgres https://github.com/dhamaniasad/awesome-postgres 

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