PostgreSQL Extensions
Pre-installed extensions
Encore uses the encoredotdev/postgres docker image for local development, CI/CD, and for databases hosted on Encore Cloud.
The docker image ships with the following PostgreSQL extensions pre-installed and available for use (via CREATE EXTENSION):
| Extension | Version | Description |
|---|---|---|
| refint | 1.0 | functions for implementing referential integrity (obsolete) |
| pg_buffercache | 1.3 | examine the shared buffer cache |
| pg_freespacemap | 1.2 | examine the free space map (FSM) |
| plpgsql | 1.0 | PL/pgSQL procedural language |
| citext | 1.6 | data type for case-insensitive character strings |
| adminpack | 2.1 | administrative functions for PostgreSQL |
| moddatetime | 1.0 | functions for tracking last modification time |
| amcheck | 1.3 | functions for verifying relation integrity |
| seg | 1.4 | data type for representing line segments or floating-point intervals |
| pg_stat_statements | 1.10 | track planning and execution statistics of all SQL statements executed |
| pg_trgm | 1.6 | text similarity measurement and index searching based on trigrams |
| isn | 1.2 | data types for international product numbering standards |
| btree_gist | 1.7 | support for indexing common datatypes in GiST |
| intarray | 1.5 | functions, operators, and index support for 1-D arrays of integers |
| pg_surgery | 1.0 | extension to perform surgery on a damaged relation |
| uuid-ossp | 1.1 | generate universally unique identifiers (UUIDs) |
| insert_username | 1.0 | functions for tracking who changed a table |
| bloom | 1.0 | bloom access method - signature file based index |
| pgcrypto | 1.3 | cryptographic functions |
| dblink | 1.2 | connect to other PostgreSQL databases from within a database |
| tsm_system_rows | 1.0 | TABLESAMPLE method which accepts number of rows as a limit |
| pg_prewarm | 1.2 | prewarm relation data |
| old_snapshot | 1.0 | utilities in support of old_snapshot_threshold |
| pageinspect | 1.11 | inspect the contents of database pages at a low level |
| intagg | 1.1 | integer aggregator and enumerator (obsolete) |
| pg_visibility | 1.2 | examine the visibility map (VM) and page-level visibility info |
| cube | 1.5 | data type for multidimensional cubes |
| tablefunc | 1.0 | functions that manipulate whole tables, including crosstab |
| xml2 | 1.1 | XPath querying and XSLT |
| fuzzystrmatch | 1.1 | determine similarities and distance between strings |
| pg_walinspect | 1.0 | functions to inspect contents of PostgreSQL Write-Ahead Log |
| btree_gin | 1.3 | support for indexing common datatypes in GIN |
| sslinfo | 1.2 | information about SSL certificates |
| tcn | 1.0 | Triggered change notifications |
| hstore | 1.8 | data type for storing sets of (key, value) pairs |
| dict_int | 1.0 | text search dictionary template for integers |
| earthdistance | 1.1 | calculate great-circle distances on the surface of the Earth |
| file_fdw | 1.0 | foreign-data wrapper for flat file access |
| autoinc | 1.0 | functions for autoincrementing fields |
| ltree | 1.2 | data type for hierarchical tree-like structures |
| unaccent | 1.1 | text search dictionary that removes accents |
| pgrowlocks | 1.2 | show row-level locking information |
| tsm_system_time | 1.0 | TABLESAMPLE method which accepts time in milliseconds as a limit |
| dict_xsyn | 1.0 | text search dictionary template for extended synonym processing |
| pgstattuple | 1.5 | show tuple-level statistics |
| postgres_fdw | 1.1 | foreign-data wrapper for remote PostgreSQL servers |
| lo | 1.1 | Large Object maintenance |
| postgis_sfcgal-3 | 3.4.2 | PostGIS SFCGAL functions |
| address_standardizer_data_us-3 | 3.4.2 | Address Standardizer US dataset example |
| address_standardizer-3 | 3.4.2 | Used to parse an address into constituent elements. Generally used to support geocoding address normalization step. |
| postgis_topology-3 | 3.4.2 | PostGIS topology spatial types and functions |
| postgis-3 | 3.4.2 | PostGIS geometry and geography spatial types and functions |
| postgis_raster-3 | 3.4.2 | PostGIS raster types and functions |
| postgis_tiger_geocoder-3 | 3.4.2 | PostGIS tiger geocoder and reverse geocoder |
| vector | 0.7.0 | vector data type and ivfflat and hnsw access methods |
| postgis | 3.4.2 | PostGIS geometry and geography spatial types and functions |
| address_standardizer | 3.4.2 | Used to parse an address into constituent elements. Generally used to support geocoding address normalization step. |
| postgis_topology | 3.4.2 | PostGIS topology spatial types and functions |
| postgis_tiger_geocoder | 3.4.2 | PostGIS tiger geocoder and reverse geocoder |
| address_standardizer_data_us | 3.4.2 | Address Standardizer US dataset example |
| postgis_sfcgal | 3.4.2 | PostGIS SFCGAL functions |
| postgis_raster | 3.4.2 | PostGIS raster types and functions |