Extend your PostgreSQL: The world of PostgreSQL extensions

Extension concept is a big feature of PostgreSQL and users can add interesting capabilities to their database instances using them.

In this talk I will cover these topics:

• How it started: "Contrib"
• Introduction of extension concept
• Challenges around extensions: Distribution and packaging
• Developing an extension: Anything can happen?
• Maintenance of existing extensions
• Favourite extensions: Data from users