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PGCONF NYC 2023 CLAIRE GIORDANO @[email protected] • @clairegiordano • @AzureDBPostgres • @citusdata

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Engineer Dev Manager PM Marketer Writer Open-source champion Community Lead @clairegiordano @[email protected]

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Citus = Postgres open-source extension that first got me involved with PG

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4 What is a Postgres extension?  Adds functionality to Postgres (hence: “extends” Postgres)  Not a fork  To use—install Postgres & the PG extension(s)  To enable (or disable), get familiar with CREATE EXTENSION ALTER EXTENSION DROP EXTENSION

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5 Search for a good analogy for Postgres Extensions plug & play beloved modular building toy

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6 Search for a good analogy for Postgres Extensions can you add on specialized tools to Swiss Army Knife? are extensions similar to Apps in an App Store?

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9 Extensions support authored by Dimitri Fontaine in 2011, in Postgres 9.1

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10 “Journey” for this talk about Postgres Extensions @[email protected]

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11 How to discover what Postgres extensions exist? @[email protected]

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To understand what exists, needed “mental map” of different types of PG extensions In 1<>1 with Daniel Gustafsson, explored this 1st draft set of “categories” 1. Monitoring 2. Indexing 3. Data types 4. Geospatial 5. Statistical Analysis 6. Distributed Scale 7. Connectors 8. Storage Optimizations

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But then I started to wonder... What categories is everyone else using for Postgres extensions? @[email protected]

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First place I looked for Categories: PGXN.org I found tags! Not categories. I could search! Not browse extensions.

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15 Discovered “Trunk” via Samay Sharma @ Tembo pgt.dev

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Trunk has categories for extensions! open source project pgt.dev

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Supabase’s docs about PG extensions have categories too!

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So does Crunchy Bridge!

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Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL has “categories” in docs too Citus Data types Full-text search Functions Index types Language Miscellaneous Pgvector PostGIS

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Like a dog with a tennis ball I spent wayyyyyy too much time trying to come up with “right” set of categories

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21 My search to find the “right” set of categories

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@[email protected] All models are wrong, but some are useful.” “ —George Box, statistician Dimitri Fontaine reminded me of this quote

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So I promised you a “map” of Postgres extensions

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Mind map of Categories of Postgres Extensions AI / Machine Learning Admin Migration @[email protected]

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25 Mind map of Postgres Extensions (by category) pg_cron pgtap amcheck pg_partman pgvector postgresml HLL topn postgres_fdw Citus multicorn postgis pgrouting hypopg RUM plv8 orafce pg_stat_statements pg_hint_plan pgSentinel fuzzystrmatch AI / Machine Learning Admin Migration tdigest pg_prewarm pg_surgery @[email protected]

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26 “Journey” for this talk on Amazing PG Extensions

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And will Postgres extensions save you time?

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pg_stat_statements CONTRIB tracks statistics about SQL statements how long queries took? CATEGORY Performance

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postgres_fdw CONTRIB fdw = “Foreign Data Wrapper” lots and lots of foreign data wrappers (just a few listed here) mysql_fdw mongo_fdw postgres_fdw duckdb_fdw tds_fdw oracle_fdw kafka_fdw Connectors CATEGORY mysql_fdw

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30 Concept of “Super extension” on Postgres.FM

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PostGIS store, index, & query geographic data points, lines, polygons “Super extension” CATEGORY Geo Podcast episode with Paul Ramsey & Regina Obe: “Why people care about PostGIS”

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Citus Distributed PostgreSQL “Postgres at any scale” Sharding Led by Microsoft “Super extension” CATEGORY Distributed Scale

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33 Postgres extensions enable innovation

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pgRouting adds routing network analysis Shortest Path Driving Distance Traveling Salesperson CATEGORY Geo

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pgvector open source vector similarity search has added HNSW as new index type HNSW = Hierarchical Navigable Small World (HNSW) CATEGORY AI / Machine Learning Source: Photograph by Claire Giordano from Andy Pavlo’s Keynote at PGConf NYC 2023, titled “What Goes Around Comes Around... and Around...”

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pg_cron Created/maintained by Marco Slot CATEGORY Admin “pg_cron: probably the best way to schedule jobs within PostgreSQL database” —FatDBA - - vacuum my table every night at 3am (GMT) SELECT cron.schedule( '0 3 * * *’, 'VACUUM my_table’ ); - - call a procedure every minute SELECT cron.schedule('process-new-events’, '* * * * *', 'CALL process_new_events()');

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tdigest, hll, topn approximation/”sketch” algorithms t-digest: calculate Percentiles (histograms) hll = HyperLogLog, for COUNT DISTINCT Index CATEGORY

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RUM more powerful version of GIN index for text search (or your own custom types) stores additional info per entry, e.g. timestamp CATEGORY Index

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RUM more powerful version of GIN index for text search (or your own custom types) CATEGORY Index

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CATEGORY Index hypopg hypothetical indexing try out an index for free: doesn’t cost CPU, disk, resources visible to query planner helps you find an index for slow queries

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pg_hint_plan “ —Rob Treat, statistician It’s an excellent learning tool, really good for deep dive performance work. Why? Because it gives you ability to pick and choose between different indexes—and get the execution plan without having to rebuild those indexes... The larger the data set the more valuable it is.” CATEGORY Performance

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pgsentinel a way to get what’s going on in the database over time you can look at “right now” with pg_stat_activity, but maybe something important happened 5 minutes ago? or maybe you need statistics about “what’s been happening in my database” created/maintained by Bertrand Drouvot CATEGORY Performance

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plv8 procedural language lets you run JavaScript code stored procedures, triggers Language CATEGORY

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plv8 procedural language lets you run JavaScript code stored procedures, triggers NEXT TALK: “Building a better JavaScript Postgres Language Extension” by Jerry Sievert Language CATEGORY

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orafce makes it easier to migrate from Oracle to Postgres functions, data types... mysql_fdw Migration CATEGORY

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“ —Daniel Gustafsson, Postgres hacker at Microsoft The TAP in pgTAP stands for “test anything protocol.” pgTAP enables you to write unit tests for your database—for objects, tables, & views. Developers will tell you it’s really really cool.” pgTAP CATEGORY Admin

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pg_prewarm CONTRIB useful to put pages back in cache after restarting Postgres maybe should have been in “Performance” category? Admin CATEGORY

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pg_surgery to recover from corruption beware! “unsafe by design” CATEGORY Admin

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amcheck CONTRIB checks internal consistency tables & indexes Admin CATEGORY

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pg_partman CATEGORY Admin

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pgsodium Security CATEGORY CATEGORY

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Unaccent CATEGORY Text

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fuzzystrmatch CONTRIB ”fuzzy string match” Source: pganalyze blog post: Similarity in Postgres and Rails using Trigrams Text CATEGORY pg_trgm CONTRIB “trigram”

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55 Where to get Postgres extensions? @[email protected]

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56 4 common sources for Postgres extensions... +1 to Christoph Berg, Devrim Gündüz, David Wheeler, & all PG extension creators! RPM & Debian “Contrib” (pre-bundled) RPM, Debian, etc. package PGXN Client Cloud provider (if managed service)

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57 Trust: Can I trust & rely on this extension? Trust @[email protected]

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58 Source: cs.cmu.edu. Copyright 1984 ACM. Originally published in Communications of the ACM, August 1984, Volume 27, Number 8. Copy by permission of the Association of Computing Machinery.

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59 Will more PG extensions be written in Rust? Rust Trust

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PGRX = Platform for building Rust extensions Created by Eric Ridge of ZomboDB... Used by 62 repos so far 2.7K stars

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Not only do developers love Rust—extensions that are built in Rust will benefit users too Source: Jelte Fennema talk “Postgres without SQL: Natural language queries using GPT-3 & Rust” at Citus Con: An Event for Postgres 2023. Published on YouTube.

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People to thank for inspiration & reviews Daniel Gustafsson Devrim Gündüz Dimitri Fontaine Jelte Fennema-Nio Marco Slot Melanie Plageman Nik Larin Robert Treat Samay Sharma Teresa Giacomini Thomas Munro

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@clairegiordano @[email protected] aka.ms/PathToCitusCon PGCONF NYC 2023 z