Supported PostgreSQL Extensions

PostgreSQL is an open source, object-relational database built with a focus on extensibility, data integrity, and speed. Its concurrency support makes it fully ACID-compliant, and it supports dynamic loading and catalog-driven operations to let users customize its data types, functions, and more.


To expand the functionality of your PostgreSQL cluster, you can use extensions, which are bundled packages of SQL objects.

Install, Upgrade, or Disable Extensions

You can install supported extensions with psql’s CREATE EXTENSION command:

CREATE EXTENSION <extension-name>;

You can upgrade extensions to their latest version with psql’s ALTER EXTENSION command:

ALTER EXTENSION <extension-name> UPDATE;

You can disable extensions with psql’s DROP EXTENSION command:

DROP EXTENSION <extension-name>;

To see a list of extensions currently installed, use the following command:

\dx

Supported Extensions

DigitalOcean PostgreSQL Managed Databases supports the following extensions. This list is current as of the Validated date on this page.

You can also see a list of available extensions from the psql’s command line, use the following command:

SELECT * FROM pg_available_extensions;

You can request support for an extension on ideas.digitalocean.com by either voting for an existing request or adding a new idea for Managed Databases.

Extension Name Description
address_standardizer Used to parse an address into constituent elements. Generally used to support geocoding address normalization step
address_standardizer_data_us Address Standardizer US dataset example
bloom Bloom access method - signature file based index
btree_gin Support for indexing common datatypes in GIN
btree_gist Support for indexing common datatypes in GiST
chkpass Data type for auto-encrypted passwords
citext Data type for case-insensitive character strings
cube Data type for multidimensional cubes
dblink Connect to other PostgreSQL databases from within a database
dict_int Text search dictionary template for integers
earthdistance Calculate great-circle distances on the surface of the Earth
fuzzystrmatch Determine similarities and distance between strings
hll Algorithm for the count-distinct problem, approximating the number of distinct elements in a multiset
hstore Data type for storing sets of (key
intagg Integer aggregator and enumerator (obsolete)
intarray Functions
isn Data types for international product numbering standards
ltree Data type for hierarchical tree-like structures
pg_buffercache Examine the shared buffer cache
pg_cron Job scheduler for PostgreSQL
pg_partman (PostgreSQL 10 only) Extension to manage partitioned tables by time or ID
pg_prometheus (PostgreSQL 10-12) Prometheus metrics for PostgreSQL. The pg_prometheus extension has been sunset by Timescale in favor of promscale and is not supported for PostgreSQL 13.
pg_repack Reorganize tables in PostgreSQL databases with minimal locks
pg_stat_statements Track execution statistics of all SQL statements executed
pg_trgm Text similarity measurement and index searching based on trigrams
pgcrypto Cryptographic functions
pgrouting pgRouting Extension
pgrowlocks Show row-level locking information
pgstattuple Show tuple-level statistics
plcoffee PL/CoffeeScript (v8) trusted procedural language
plls PL/LiveScript (v8) trusted procedural language
plperl PL/Perl procedural language
plperlu PL/PerlU untrusted procedural language
plpgsql PL/pgSQL procedural language
plv8 (PostgreSQL 10 only) PL/JavaScript (v8) trusted procedural language
postgis PostGIS geometry
postgis_legacy Legacy functions for PostGIS
postgis_sfcgal PostGIS SFCGAL functions
postgis_tiger_geocoder PostGIS tiger geocoder and reverse geocoder
postgis_topology PostGIS topology spatial types and functions
postgres_fdw Foreign-data wrapper for remote PostgreSQL servers
rum RUM index access method
sslinfo Information about SSL certificates
tablefunc Functions that manipulate whole tables
timescaledb Enables scalable inserts and complex queries for time-series data
tsearch2 Provides backwards-compatible text search functionality
tsm_system_rows TABLESAMPLE method which accepts number of rows as a limit
unaccent Text search dictionary that removes accents
unit SI units extension
uuid-ossp Generate universally unique identifiers (UUIDs)
wal2json Logical decoding extensio