Activate Extensions

Several PostgreSQL extensions are preinstalled and can be activated for your cluster. You can activate the extension by logging into your cluster and executing the following command:

create extension <EXTENSION> CASCADE;

The following table shows extensions available for PostgreSQL. Extensions marked with ✅ indicate that they are active by default. Other extensions need to be activated manually and apply to PostgreSQL clusters with version 15 and above.

Extension	Activated	Version	Description
pg_stat_statements	✅	1.10	Track execution statistics of all SQL statements executed.
intarray		1.5	Functions, operators, and index support for 1-D arrays of integers.
pg_trgm		1.6	Text similarity measurement and index searching based on trigrams.
set_user	✅	4.0.1	Similar to SET ROLE but with added logging.
timescaledb		2.14.2	Enables scalable inserts and complex queries for time-series data.
tablefunc		1.0	Functions that manipulate whole tables, including crosstab.
plpgsql	✅	1.0	PL/pgSQL procedural language.
pg_partman		5.1.0	Extension to manage partitioned tables by time or ID.
hypopg		1.4.1	Hypothetical indexes for PostgreSQL.
btree_gin		1.3	Support for indexing standard datatypes in Generalized Inverted Index (GIN).
pg_stat_kcache	✅	2.3.0	Kernel statistics gathering.
citext		1.6	Data type for case-insensitive character strings.
pgcrypto		1.3	Cryptographic functions.
earthdistance		1.1	Calculate great-circle distances on the surface of the Earth.
postgis		3.5.0	PostGIS geometry and geography spatial types and functions.
cube		1.5	Data type for multidimensional cubes.
vector		0.8	Vector data type and ivfflat and hnsw access methods.
uuid_ossp		1.1	Generate Universally Unique Identifiers (UUIDs).
hstore		1.8	Data type for storing sets of key, value.
btree_gist		1.6	Support indexing common datatypes in Generalized Search Tree (GiST).

Note: With select * from pg_available_extensions; you will see more available extensions, but only those that can be activated or used with regular user rights are listed here.