postgresql-contrib-8.4 8.4.14-0ubuntu10.04 (amd64 binary) in ubuntu lucid
The PostgreSQL contrib package provides several additional features
for the PostgreSQL database. This version is built to work with the
server package postgresql-8.4. contrib often serves as a testbed for
features before they are adopted into PostgreSQL proper:
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adminpack - File and log manipulation routines, used by pgAdmin
btree_gist - B-Tree indexing using GiST (Generalised Search Tree)
chkpass - An auto-encrypted password datatype
cube - Multidimensiona
dblink - Functions to return results from a remote database
earthdistance - Operator for computing the distance (in miles) between
fuzzystrmatch - Levenshtein, metaphone, and soundex fuzzy string matching
hstore - Store (key, value) pairs
intagg - Integer aggregator/
_int - Index support for arrays of int4, using GiST (benchmark
isn - type extensions for ISBN, ISSN, ISMN, EAN13 product numbers
lo - Large Object maintenance
ltree - Tree-like data structures
oid2name - Maps OIDs to table names
pageinspect - Inspection of database pages
pg_buffercache - Real time queries on the shared buffer cache
pg_freespacemap- Displays the contents of the free space map (FSM)
pg_trgm - Determine the similarity of text based on trigram matching
pg_standby - Create a warm stand-by server
pgbench - TPC-B like benchmark
pgcrypto - Cryptographic functions
pgrowlocks - A function to return row locking information
pgstattuple - Returns the percentage of dead tuples in a table; this
seg - Confidence-interval datatype (GiST indexing example)
spi - PostgreSQL Server Programming Interface; 4 examples of
tablefunc - examples of functions returning tables
uuid-ossp - UUID generation functions
vacuumlo - Remove orphaned large objects
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PostgreSQL is an object-relational SQL database management system.
Details
- Package version:
- 8.4.14-0ubuntu10.04
- Status:
- Superseded
- Component:
- main
- Priority:
- Optional
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