Postgres extension explorer
Summary: A category-browsable index of all Postgres extensions supported on Neon, organized into groups such as AI/ML, analytics, geospatial, search, security, and query optimization. Navigate to individual extension docs, install instructions, or the flat alphabetical list.
Postgres extension explorer
Section titled “Postgres extension explorer”Browse supported Postgres extensions by category.
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AI / Machine Learning
Section titled “AI / Machine Learning”- pg_tiktoken: Tokenize data in Postgres using the OpenAI tiktoken library
- lakebase_vector: Scalable vector similarity search for RAG and semantic search
- pgvector: Store vector embeddings and perform vector similarity search in Postgres
Analytics
Section titled “Analytics”- pg_mooncake: Adds columnstore tables and DuckDB execution for fast analytics in Postgres.
- hll: Implements a HyperLogLog data structure as a native data type for efficient and tunable distinct value counting
- timescaledb: Enables Postgres as a time-series database for efficient storage and retrieval of time-series data
Auditing / Logging
Section titled “Auditing / Logging”- insert_username: Implements a trigger that stores the current user's name into a text field, useful for tracking who modified a particular row within a table
- moddatetime: Implements a trigger that automatically updates a timestamp column to the current timestamp whenever a row is modified
- pgrowlocks: Provides a function that shows row locking information for a specified table, useful in concurrency and deadlock debugging
- tcn: Provides a trigger function to notify listeners of changes to a table, allowing applications to respond to changes in the database
Data / Transformations
Section titled “Data / Transformations”- address_standardizer: A single-line address parser that takes an input address and normalizes it based on a set of rules
- address_standardizer_data_us: Provides data for standardizing US addresses, for use with the address_standardizer extension
- anon: Provides data masking and anonymization capabilities for protecting personally identifiable information (PII) and sensitive data in Postgres databases
- citext: Provides a case-insensitive character string type that internally calls lower when comparing values in Postgres
- cube: Implements the cube data type for representing multidimensional cubes in Postgres
- earthdistance: Provides cube-based and point-based approaches to calculating great circle distances on the surface of the Earth
- hstore: Implements an hstore data type for storing and manipulating sets of key-value pairs within a single Postgres value
- intagg: Provides an integer aggregator and enumerator for Postgres
- intarray: Offers functions and operators for manipulating and searching arrays of integers within Postgres
- isn: Implements data types for international product numbering standards: EAN13, UPC, ISBN (books), ISMN (music), and ISSN (serials)
- ltree: Provides data types for representing labels of data stored in a hierarchical tree-like structure and facilities for searching through label trees
- pg_graphql: Adds GraphQL support to Postgres, allowing you to query your database via GraphQL
- pg_hashids: Enables the generation of short, unique hash ids from integers, useful for obfuscating internal ids
- pg_jsonschema: Provides support for JSON schema validation on json and jsonb data types
- pg_uuidv7: Enables creating valid UUID Version 7 values in Postgres, enabling globally unique identifiers with temporal ordering
- pgx_ulid: A full-featured extension for generating and working with ULID (Universally Unique Lexicographically Sortable Identifiers)
- seg: Implements the seg data type for storage and manipulation of line segments or floating-point ranges, useful for geometric and scientific applications
- semver: A Postgres data type for the Semantic Version format with support for btree and hash indexing
- tablefunc: Contains functions that return tables (multiple rows), including crosstab, which can pivot row data into columns dynamically
- unaccent: A text search dictionary that removes accents from characters, simplifying text search in Postgres
- unit: Implements a data type for SI units, plus byte, for storage, manipulation, and calculation of scientific units
- uuid-ossp: Provides functions to generate universally unique identifiers (UUIDs) in Postgres, supporting various UUID standards
- wal2json: A Postgres logical decoding plugin that converts Write-Ahead Log (WAL) changes into JSON objects
- xml2: Enables XPath queries and XSLT functionality directly within Postgres, enabling XML data processing
Debugging
Section titled “Debugging”- moddatetime: Automatically updates a timestamp column to the current timestamp whenever a row is modified in Postgres
- pgrowlocks: Provides a function that shows row locking information for a specified table, which can aid in concurrency and deadlock debugging
- pgTap: A unit testing framework for Postgres, enabling sophisticated testing of database queries and functions
- plpgsql_check: Provides a linter and debugger for PL/pgSQL code, helping identify errors and optimize PL/pgSQL functions
Geospatial
Section titled “Geospatial”- cube: Implements a data type for representing multidimensional cubes in Postgres
- earthdistance: Provides cube-based and point-based approaches to calculating great circle distances on the surface of the Earth
- h3: Integrates Uber's H3 geospatial indexing system that combines the benefits of a hexagonal grid with S2's hierarchical subdivisions
- h3_postgis: A PostGIS extension for H3, enabling advanced spatial analysis and indexing
- pgrouting: Extends PostGIS/Postgres databases, providing geospatial routing and other network analysis functionality
- postgis: Extends Postgres to allow GIS (Geographic Information Systems) objects to be stored in the database, enabling spatial queries directly in SQL
- postgis_raster: Adds support for raster data to PostGIS, enabling advanced geospatial analysis on raster images
- postgis_sfcgal: Provides support for advanced 3D geometries in PostGIS, based on the SFCGAL library
- postgis_tiger_geocoder: Enables geocoding and reverse geocoding capabilities in PostGIS using TIGER/Line data
- postgis_topology: Extends PostGIS with support for topological data types and functions, facilitating the analysis of spatial relationships
Index / Table optimization
Section titled “Index / Table optimization”- bloom: Provides an index access method for Postgres based on Bloom filters
- btree_gin: Provides GIN operator classes that implement B-tree equivalent behavior
- btree_gist: Provides GiST index operator classes that implement B-tree equivalent behavior
- ip4r: Provides a range index type and functions for efficiently storing and querying IPv4 and IPv6 ranges and addresses in Postgres
- pg_partman: A partition manager extension that enables creating and managing time-based and number-based table partition sets in Postgres
- pg_prewarm: Allows manual preloading of relation data into the Postgres buffer cache, reducing access times for frequently queried tables
- pg_repack: Lets you remove bloat from tables and indexes, and optionally restore the physical order of clustered indexes
- pg_roaringbitmap: Implements Roaring Bitmaps in Postgres for efficient storage and manipulation of bit sets
- rum: Provides an access method to work with a RUM index, designed to speed up full-text searches
Metrics
Section titled “Metrics”- neon: Provides functions and views designed to gather Neon-specific metrics
- pg_stat_statements: Tracks planning and execution statistics for all SQL statements executed, aiding in performance analysis and tuning
- pgstattuple: Offers functions to show tuple-level statistics for tables, helping identify bloat and efficiency opportunities
- tsm_system_rows: Provides a table sampling method that selects a fixed number of table rows randomly
- tsm_system_time: Offers a table sampling method based on system time, enabling consistent sample data retrieval over time
Orchestration
Section titled “Orchestration”- tcn: Provides a trigger function to notify listeners of changes to a table, allowing applications to respond to changes in the database
- pg_partman: A partition manager extension that enables creating and managing time-based and number-based table partition sets in Postgres
Procedural languages
Section titled “Procedural languages”- plcoffee: Enables writing functions in CoffeeScript, a Javascript dialect with a syntax similar to Ruby
- plls: Enables writing functions in LiveScript, a Javascript dialect that serves as a more powerful successor to CoffeeScript
- plv8: Deprecated on Neon. Was a Postgres procedural language powered by V8 for JavaScript callable from SQL; use plpgsql or app-side logic instead
- plpgsql: The default procedural language for Postgres, enabling the creation of complex functions and triggers
Query optimization
Section titled “Query optimization”- hypopg: Provides the ability to create hypothetical (virtual) indexes in Postgres for performance testing
- pg_hint_plan: Allows developers to influence query plans with hints in SQL comments, improving performance and control over query execution
- online_advisor: Recommends indexes, extended statistics, and prepared statements based on your actual query workload
Scientific computing
Section titled “Scientific computing”- cube: Implements the cube data type for representing multidimensional cubes in Postgres
- rdkit: Integrates the RDKit cheminformatics toolkit with Postgres, enabling chemical informatics operations directly in the database
- seg: Implements the seg data type for storage and manipulation of line segments or floating-point intervals, useful for representing laboratory measurements
- unit: Implements a data type for SI units, plus byte, for storage, manipulation, and calculation of scientific units
Search
Section titled “Search”- citext: Provides a case-insensitive character string type that internally calls lower when comparing values in Postgres
- dict_int: Provides a text search dictionary template for indexing integer data in Postgres
- fuzzystrmatch: Provides several functions to determine similarities and distance between strings in Postgres
- lakebase_text: BM25 keyword and full-text search for Postgres, compatible with tsvector
- pg_trgm: Provides functions and operators for determining the similarity of alphanumeric text based on trigram matching, and index operator classes for fast string similarity search
- prefix: A prefix range module that supports efficient queries on text columns with prefix-based searching and matching capabilities
- unaccent: A text search dictionary that removes accents from characters, simplifying text search in Postgres
Security
Section titled “Security”- anon: Provides data masking and anonymization capabilities for protecting personally identifiable information (PII) and sensitive data in Postgres databases
- pg_session_jwt: Handle authenticated sessions through JWTs for use with RLS policies
- pgcrypto: Offers cryptographic functions, allowing for encryption and hashing of data within Postgres
- pgjwt: Implements JSON Web Tokens (JWT) in Postgres, allowing for secure token creation and verification
Tooling / Admin
Section titled “Tooling / Admin”- autoinc: Provides an autoinc() function that stores the next value of a sequence into an integer field
- hypopg: Provides the ability to create hypothetical (virtual) indexes in Postgres for performance testing
- insert_username: Automatically inserts the username of the person executing an insert operation into a specified table in Postgres
- lo: Provides support for managing large objects (LOBs) in Postgres, including a data type lo and a trigger lo_manage
- neon_utils: Provides a function for monitoring how Neon's Autoscaling feature allocates compute resources in response to workload
- pg_cron: Lets you schedule and manage periodic jobs directly in your Postgres database
- pgtap: A unit testing framework for Postgres, enabling sophisticated testing of database queries and functions
- refint: Provides functions for maintaining foreign key constraints
Remote data access
Section titled “Remote data access”- dblink: Provides functions for accessing and manipulating data in remote databases from within Postgres
- postgres_fdw: Access data in remote Postgres databases as local tables
Related docs (Extensions)
Section titled “Related docs (Extensions)”- anon
- btree_gin
- btree_gist
- citext
- cube
- dblink
- dict_int
- earthdistance
- fuzzystrmatch
- hstore
- intarray
- lakebase_text
- lakebase_tokenizer
- lakebase_vector
- ltree
- neon
- neon_utils
- online_advisor
- pgcrypto
- pgvector
- pgrag
- pg_cron
- pg_graphql
- pg_mooncake
- pg_partman
- pg_prewarm
- pg_session_jwt
- pg_stat_statements
- pg_repack
- pg_search
- pg_tiktoken
- pg_trgm
- pg_uuidv7
- pgrowlocks
- pgstattuple
- plv8
- postgis
- postgis-related
- postgres_fdw
- tablefunc
- timescaledb
- unaccent
- uuid-ossp
- wal2json
- xml2
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